I-Corps Sites: BYU I-Corps Site

智力价值：这个项目来自杨百翰大学，创建了一个i-Corps网站。nsf Innovation Corps(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。一个典型的i-Corps站点的资金约为每年10万美元，最长可达三年。网站资金被学术机构用来催化团队(金额从1,000美元到3,000美元不等)，这些团队的技术概念可能是商业化的候选者。工地团队的组成模仿i-Corps团队的组成，工地的教育分享i-Corps课程的原则。在这些网站的支持和指导下，团队将第一手学习创业知识，并探索将他们的想法、设备、流程或其他智力活动转化为市场。i-Corps网站还加强当地和地区的创新，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贡献。杨百翰大学i-Corps网站通过提供资金鼓励更多的技术商业化活动，为学生和教职员工提供服务。通过这个项目，杨百翰大学i-Corps网站汇集并建立了杨百翰大学三所不同学院和两个主要创业单位的成功项目：罗林斯创业与技术中心(CET)和技术转移办公室(TTO)。CET主要解决学生创业问题，TTO主要解决教师技术商业化需求。通过提供特别有针对性的商业化资金，i-Corps网站项目搭建了吸引和刺激教师和学生创业活动的桥梁。每年约有30个团队获得i-Corps资金，以探索杨百翰大学的技术商业化机会。预期成果包括(1)形成以学生为主要参与者的初创企业，(2)创建适合向种子期投资者展示的规模计划，(3)比亚迪学生更多地参与教职员工创造的知识产权的商业化，以及(4)女性和代表性不足的参与者更多地参与比亚迪学生创业活动。更广泛的影响：该项目通过研究以大学为中心的技术商业化过程中的最佳实践，学习如何更好地激励杨百翰大学的学生和教职员工参与这些过程，并跟踪学生团队中的弱点，以了解如何最好地将学生的能量和创造力与教职员工的专业知识和外部指导相结合，从而促进知识的进步。通过让学生团队参与技术商业化进程，从而建立可扩展的新企业，该项目将直接创造更大的经济活动，特别是在美国西部山区之间。这将导致就业增加，以及经济活动增加的其他正常结果。该项目还将接触到女性和代表性不足的参与者，从而增加杨百翰大学生态系统内参与创业活动的学生的多样性。作为i-Corps网站，CET举办一年一度的国际商业模式大赛的协同活动将获得更大的知名度，从而促进i-Corps计划的总体目标，向全国各地的年轻企业家灌输客户发展和相关的精益启动原则。

Intellectual Merit:This project, from Brigham Young University, creates an I-Corps Site.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. A typical I-Corps Site is funded for approximately $100,000 per year for up to three years. The Site funding is used to by academic institutions to catalyze teams (with amounts ranging from $1,000 to $3,000) whose technology concepts are likely candidates for commercialization. The make-up of teams at the Sites is modeled after the composition of I-Corps Teams, and education at the Sites shares the principles of the I-Corps Curriculum. With the support and mentorship of the Sites, the teams will learn first-hand about entrepreneurship and explore the transition of their ideas, devices, processes or other intellectual activities into the marketplace.I-Corps Sites also strengthen innovation locally and regionally and contribute to the National Innovation Network of mentors, researchers, entrepreneurs and investors.The Brigham Young University I-Corps Site serves students and faculty members by providing funds to encourage greater technology commercialization activity. Through this project, the BYU I-Corps Site brings together and builds on successful programs in three diverse colleges and two major entrepreneurial units at BYU: the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (CET), and the Technology Transfer Office (TTO). The CET primarily addresses student entrepreneurship and the TTO primarily addresses faculty technology commercialization needs. By providing specifically targeted commercialization funds, this I-Corps Site program builds bridges that attract and stimulate both faculty and student entrepreneurial activity. Approximately 30 teams each year receive I-Corps funds to explore technology commercialization opportunities at BYU. Expected outcomes include (1) formation of startup ventures with students as major players, (2) creation of scaling plans suitable for presentation to seed-stage investors, (3) increased participation by BYU students in the commercialization of faculty-generated IP, and (4) increased participation of women and underrepresented participants in BYU student entrepreneurship activities. Broader Impacts:This program advances knowledge by studying best practices in university-centered technology commercialization processes, learning how to better incentivize students and faculty at BYU to participate in these processes, and tracking weaknesses in student teams to learn how best to blend student energy and creativity with faculty expertise and external mentoring. By engaging student teams in the technology commercialization process, so they build scalable new ventures, this program will directly create greater economic activity, particularly in the inter-mountain west region of the USA. This will result in increased job creation along with the other normal outcomes of increased economic activity. This program will also reach out to women and underrepresented participants, thus increasing the diversity of students involved in entrepreneurial activities within the BYU ecosystem. As an I-Corps Site, the CET's synergistic activity of holding the annual International Business Model Competition will gain greater visibility and thus promote the overall goals of the I-Corps programs to inculcate customer development and related lean launch principles in young entrepreneurs across the country.