University of Utah Center for Medical Innovation I-Corp Site

这个I-Corps网站位于犹他州大学医学创新中心，增强并建立在他们在医疗器械创新，商业化和创业方面的现有专业知识基础上。犹他州大学的医学创新中心（CMI）是由工程学院、犹他州大学健康科学中心、大卫埃克尔斯商学院和技术与风险商业化项目共同开发的。I-Corps是一个综合性的活动，支持教师和学生的专业发展，开发医疗器械创业方面的多学科教育项目，并有可能通过学生和教师创新的商业化来改善国家医疗保健服务。I-Corps网站将有助于弥合差距，并加强大学创新的商业化转化。这将使犹他州大学能够扩大其创新项目，为教师和学生创新团队提供更有影响力的资源，并改善潜在和代表性不足的参与者的招聘，提高I-Corps计划和区域商业部门创业团队的多样性。犹他州大学I-Corps Site Grant将使大学医学创新中心能够通过创业教育，指导和种子资助资金促进和加速学生和教师创新的开发和商业化，以帮助弥合早期原型开发和商业化之间的差距。这些创业团队将通过早期产品开发将他们的创新研究理念转化为全面的商业化，从而促进区域经济增长和创造就业机会。本网站的合作伙伴关系网络包括犹他州的计划，支持代表性不足的学生和教师团体，提供所需的支持和资源，帮助代表性不足的群体茁壮成长，并参与这一进程的大学。

This I-Corps Site, at the University of Utah Center for Medical Innovation, enhances and builds upon their existing expertise in medical device innovation, commercialization and entrepreneurship. The Center for Medical Innovation (CMI) at the University of Utah developed as a collaborative effort between The College of Engineering, The University of Utah Health Sciences Center, The David Eccles School of Business and The Technology and Venture Commercialization Program. Their's is an integrated activity that supports faculty and student professional development, develops multi-disciplinary educational programs in medical device entrepreneurship and has the potential to improve national healthcare delivery through commercialization of student and faculty innovations.The I-Corps Site will help bridge gaps and enhance the translation of University-based Innovations to commercialization. This will allow the University of Utah to expand their innovation programs, provide more impactful resources to faculty and student innovation teams and improve recruitment of prospective and under-represented participants enhancing the diversity of entrepreneurial teams in the I-Corps program and regional commercial sector. The University of Utah I-Corps Site Grant will enable the University Center for Medical Innovation to facilitate and accelerate the development and commercialization of student and faculty innovations through entrepreneurial education, mentorship and seed grant funding to help bridge the gap between early prototype development and commercialization. These entrepreneurial teams will translate their innovative research ideas through early stage product development into full commercialization resulting in regional economic growth and job creation. This Site's partnership network includes University of Utah programs that support underrepresented student and faculty groups that offer the support and resources needed to help underrepresented groups thrive and participate in the process.