I-Corps Sites: University of Pittsburgh - Advancing Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Opportunity Commercialization

这是一个在匹兹堡大学创建i-Corps站点的项目。NSF创新团队(i-Corps)网站是由NSF资助的实体，成立于大学，其目的是培育和支持多个本地团队，将他们的技术概念转化为市场。网站提供基础设施、建议、资源、网络机会、培训和适度的资金，使团体能够将他们的工作转移到市场或成为i-Corps团队的申请者。I-Corps网站还加强了当地和地区的创新，并为由导师、研究人员、企业家和投资者组成的国家创新网络做出了贡献。该项目旨在通过创建一个由匹兹堡大学创新研究所指导的i-Corps网站来促进皮特大学的创业能力。该奖项建立在大学在整个组织中灌输创新和创业精神的努力基础上。PITT I-Corps的主要目标包括：-通过教育、培训和向在当前商业化进程中代表性较低的学科和个人推广，增加有创业意识的个人的数量；-加强最近部署的商业化进程，重点是通过将实验室的可行创新推向市场所需的关键步骤来补充这些创新；以及-改善与地区创业生态系统的连接，以加强PIT机会与当地早期环境和匹兹堡以外的类似网络的整合。PITT Ventures是创新研究所创建的一个新的多步骤计划，旨在提供体验式学习计划，提高PIT发现的商业成果的比率。它是一个精益的发射台，吸引教职员工、学生和当地导师参与创意发现和创业，作为将概念转化为产品的一种手段。通过i-Corps计划提供的支持，PITT Ventures将通过关注在当前创新活动中代表性不足的学科和个人而得到加强。通过这种扩展，商业化大学创新的广度将会增加，因为它的管道将包含来自更广泛的个人群体的更多样化的一系列机会。鉴于皮特的资源和机会，皮特i-Corps将通过为该地区提供更多发明来加强中西部的创业生态系统，发挥重要作用。通过加强与这一网络的接触，该大学将更好地利用该地区的一系列能力，这些能力可以帮助将PIT的想法转化为市场产品。因此，拟议的i-Corps努力将有助于大学更有效地将其创新者构思的智力价值转化为通过商业化实现的经济价值。最终结果是创造更多新的就业机会，增加地方投资，促进经济增长，并将更多惠及社会的产品推向市场。

This is a project that creates an I-Corps Site at the University of Pittsburgh. NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Sites are NSF-funded entities established at universities whose purpose is to nurture and support multiple, local teams to transition their technology concepts into the marketplace. Sites provide infrastructure, advice, resources, networking opportunities, training and modest funding to enable groups to transition their work into the marketplace or into becoming I-Corps Team applicants. I-Corps Sites also strengthen innovation locally and regionally and contribute to the National Innovation Network of mentors, researchers, entrepreneurs and investors.This project aims to further Pitt's entrepreneurial competencies by creating an I-Corps site directed through the University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute. This award builds on University efforts to instill innovation and entrepreneurship across the entire organization.The main objectives of Pitt I-Corps include the following:-Increase the number of entrepreneurial minded individuals by education, training and outreach to disciplines and individuals underrepresented in current commercialization processes;-Enhance a recently deployed commercialization process focused on supplementing viable innovations from the laboratory with key steps required to move them to the market; and-Improve connection to the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem for enhanced integration of Pitt opportunities into the local early-stage environment and similar networks beyond Pittsburgh.Pitt Ventures is a new multi-step program that was created in the Innovation Institute to provide an experiential learning program enhancing the rate of commercial outcomes of Pitt discoveries. It is a lean launchpad engaging faculty, students, and local mentors in idea discovery and entrepreneurship as a means of turning concepts into products.Through support provided in an I-Corps program, Pitt Ventures will be enhanced through a focus on disciplines and individuals that have been underrepresented in current innovation activities. With this outreach, the breadth of commercialized University innovations will be increased as its pipeline will contain a more diversified set of opportunities from a broader group of individuals. Given Pitt's collection of resources and opportunities, Pitt I-Corps will play an important role in strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Mid-West by providing more inventions for the region to work on. Through enhanced engagement with this network, the University will be better positioned to utilize the set of capabilities resident in the region that can help to convert Pitt ideas to marketed products. As such, the proposed I-Corps effort will aid the University in more effectively converting intellectual value conceived by its innovators into economic value realized through commercialization. The end result is more new job creation, increased local investment, enhanced economic growth and more products benefiting society reaching the market.