I-Corps Sites: Bridging the Gap: Dartmouth's I-Corps Site for Translating Science and Technology Discoveries to Value

I-Corps 网站：弥合差距：达特茅斯的 I-Corps 网站将科学技术发现转化为价值

• 批准号: 1547927
• 负责人: Tillman Gerngross
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-02-01 至 2023-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1547927&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Sites; Bridging; Gap; Dartmouth

This project, from Dartmouth College, creates an Innovation 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. I-Corps Sites also strengthen innovation locally and regionally and contribute to the National Innovation Network of mentors, researchers, entrepreneurs and investors.Dartmouth's I-Corps Site provides intensive entrepreneurial training following the Lean LaunchPad curriculum and resources for customer discovery and market need analysis to 90-112 teams of students, faculty, researchers, and mentors. The program bridges campus wide research in science, engineering, medicine, and student projects, all of which can lead to potential innovations - with Dartmouth's suite of entrepreneurial services offered through its Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer (OETT). The intellectual merit of Dartmouth's I-Corps Site is the creation of a consistent curriculum that helps scientists, engineers, and students frame their discoveries in the context of how they can be used outside of the academic institution. The program helps a nascent entrepreneurs to place their discovery into one of three categories: continued academic exploration, pursuit of its use within the market discovered through program participation, or reevaluation with the intent of determining whether a market and need exists in a completely different area. The objective of the Dartmouth I-Corps Site is to engage and equip more students and researchers at all levels - undergraduate, graduate, post-doctoral, and faculty - to move their discoveries out of academia and into the marketplace. Dartmouth I-Corps Lean LaunchPad workshops are held twice annually during Dartmouth's interim periods in December and June. Using the workshops as a springboard and seed funding from the grant, teams perform customer discovery, form a value proposition, and determine market need and size beginning with the workshop and for a three-month period following the workshop. After completing the program, participants are prepared to either rethink their discovery or move forward with commercialization. If a team concludes that a discovery has commercial value, the team will be well positioned to take advantage of the support of the OETT, the NSF I-Corps program, Dartmouth's alumni support network, local angel investors, and other organizations.Broader Impacts: The broader impacts of this program lie in its objective to create a campus environment that fosters innovation and produces graduates who understand and can engage in defining value and identifying need as they launch their careers. Dartmouth's enrollment of underrepresented minorities and women in its undergraduate and graduate STEM programs significantly exceed national averages; women represent 42% and 48%, respectively, of the current senior and junior engineering classes, and 30% of declared Computer Science majors. Sciences consistently enroll approximately 50% women. The engineering school's first-of-its-kind Ph.D. Innovation program, established in 2008, has graduated 30% women or underrepresented minorities. Feeders into Dartmouth's I-Corps Sites program come from courses and research laboratories from across Dartmouth's college of Arts & Sciences and three professional schools and all levels and engage these traditionally underrepresented populations in innovation as a natural outcome of the project activities. In order to broaden impact to the years beyond the I-Corps grant, investigators will use project outcomes to seek alumni support for offering of the Site curriculum and seed funding programs semi-annually.

这个项目来自达特茅斯学院，创建了一个创新团队网站。NSF创新团队（I-Corps）网站是在大学建立的NSF资助实体，其目的是培养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团队申请人。I-Corps站点还加强本地和区域创新，并为导师，研究人员，企业家和投资者的国家创新网络做出贡献。达特茅斯的I-Corps站点根据精益LaunchPad课程和客户发现和市场需求分析资源为90-112个学生，教师，研究人员和导师团队提供密集的创业培训。 该计划连接了科学，工程，医学和学生项目的校园范围内的研究，所有这些都可以导致潜在的创新-达特茅斯的创业服务套件通过其创业和技术转让办公室（OETT）提供。达特茅斯的I-Corps网站的智力价值在于创建了一个一致的课程，帮助科学家、工程师和学生在如何在学术机构之外使用的背景下构建他们的发现。该计划帮助新生企业家将他们的发现分为三类：持续的学术探索，通过参与计划发现的市场内的使用，或重新评估，以确定市场和需求是否存在于完全不同的领域。达特茅斯I-Corps网站的目标是吸引和装备更多的学生和各级研究人员-本科生，研究生，博士后和教师-将他们的发现从学术界转移到市场。达特茅斯I-Corps Lean LaunchPad研讨会每年在达特茅斯的12月和6月的过渡期间举行两次。 利用研讨会作为跳板和赠款的种子资金，团队进行客户发现，形成价值主张，并确定市场需求和规模，从研讨会开始，并在研讨会后的三个月内。完成该计划后，参与者准备重新考虑他们的发现或推进商业化。如果一个团队认为某项发现具有商业价值，那么该团队将能够充分利用OETT、NSF I-Corps计划、达特茅斯校友支持网络、当地天使投资者和其他组织的支持。该计划的更广泛的影响在于其目标是创造一个校园环境，促进创新，培养理解并能够参与定义的毕业生在他们开始职业生涯时，重视并确定他们的需求。达特茅斯的本科和研究生STEM课程中代表性不足的少数民族和女性的入学率大大超过了全国平均水平;女性分别占当前高级和初级工程课程的42%和48%，占申报的计算机科学专业的30%。科学始终招收约50%的妇女。工程学院的第一位博士创新计划，成立于2008年，已经毕业30%的妇女或代表性不足的少数民族。达特茅斯的I-Corps网站计划的参与者来自达特茅斯艺术科学学院和三所专业学校的课程和研究实验室，并将这些传统上代表性不足的人群作为项目活动的自然结果。为了扩大影响到I-Corps赠款之后的几年，研究人员将利用项目成果寻求校友支持，以提供网站课程和种子资金计划，每半年一次。