I-Corps EAGER: Piloting and Evaluating a new Life Sciences Curriculum for I-Corps Training

I-Corps EAGER：试点和评估新的 I-Corps 培训生命科学课程

• 批准号: 1450542
• 负责人: Philip Weilerstein
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1450542&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; EAGER; Piloting; Evaluating; new

The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) will build upon its scale-up of the I-Corps program for National Science Foundation (NSF) funded PIs and use EAGER funds to pilot and evaluate the efficacy of a new I-Corps curriculum for researchers in the life sciences. The project will study the potential for leveraging NSF?s National Innovation Network to help support the training of SBIR PIs funded by NSF and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The proposed EAGER project has two goals: to design new content for a syllabus and manage the delivery of a ten-week Life Sciences curriculum to scientists and engineers; and to conduct evaluation studies that refine the I-Corps curriculum during delivery and assess its value and potential for broader implementation among NSF/NIH grantees. The proposed training will enable researchers to avoid many of the pitfalls that commonly cause start-up enterprises to fail, thus accelerating the commercialization of new technologies and discoveries that benefit society. In order for the U.S. to realize the nascent potential of its investments in basic research and remain a world leader in STEM innovation, researchers need formal training that helps them evaluate whether their discoveries and inventions can realistically be translated into applications and eventual commercialization.

国家大学生发明者和创新者联盟（NCIIA）将在扩大国家科学基金会（NSF）资助的PI的I-Corps计划的基础上，利用EAGER资金对生命科学研究人员的新I-Corps课程进行试点和评估。该项目将研究利用NSF？的国家创新网络，以帮助支持由NSF和美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）资助的SBIR PI的培训。拟议的EAGER项目有两个目标：为教学大纲设计新的内容，并管理向科学家和工程师提供为期十周的生命科学课程;并进行评估研究，在交付过程中完善I-Corps课程，并评估其价值和潜力，以便在NSF/NIH受赠者中更广泛地实施。拟议中的培训将使研究人员能够避免许多通常导致初创企业失败的陷阱，从而加快有利于社会的新技术和发现的商业化。为了使美国实现其在基础研究方面的投资的新生潜力，并保持STEM创新的世界领先地位，研究人员需要正式的培训，以帮助他们评估他们的发现和发明是否可以实际转化为应用并最终商业化。