I-Corps Node: Upstate NY Alliance for Entrepreneurial Innovation

康奈尔大学的这个项目将在纽约州北部启动一个新的I-Corps节点。I-Corps纽约节点将康奈尔大学作为牵头机构，罗切斯特大学和罗切斯特理工学院（RIT）作为合作机构。该项目将提高在包括纽约州北部在内的东北部高校组建技术创业团队的速度、数量和成功率。这个新的节点将采用Node网络中目前的最佳实践，为学术发明家发展一个商业导师网络，在研究中推广精益启动平台原则，并在该地区扩大创业教育。Node评估小组将使用迭代评估和重新设计工作，以确保实现经济发展、教育和劳动力发展成果。该节点的研究人员、教师、导师和机构将为加强国家创新网络带来新的想法和工具。该项目将促进每年在多个地区的I-Corps项目中纳入I-Corps参与者，特别是代表性不足的少数民族、妇女和残疾人。与RIT的国家聋人技术研究所合作，该研究所是美国最大的聋人和重听人工程项目，该节点将鼓励这个未被充分代表的群体在全国范围内参与。项目将以展示活动结束，以宣传团队及其在区域创新方面的成功。该项目将利用学术锚机构的高度集中来改善奄奄一息的区域经济。纽约州北部的学术机构在研发方面的支出超过23亿美元，在全国各州的研究支出中排名第八。I-Corps代表了在这个拥有巨大资产的国家的一部分发展新的创新经济的投资。

This project by Cornell University will launch a new I-Corps Node centered in Upstate New York. I-Corps NY Node brings together Cornell University as the lead institution, the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) as partner institutions. This project will increase the velocity, volume, and success rate of technology startup teams forming in the colleges and universities in the Northeast, including Upstate NY. This new Node will adopt current best-practices in the Node network to grow a network of business mentors for academic inventors, promote lean launchpad principles in research, and expand entrepreneurship education around the region. The Node evaluation team will use iterative evaluation and redesign efforts to ensure the achievement of economic development, education, and workforce development outcomes. The researchers, instructors, mentors, and institutions in this Node will bring new ideas and tools to strengthen the National Innovation Network.This project will foster the inclusion of I-Corps participants, particularly underrepresented minorities, women, and the disabled in multiple regional I-Corps programs each year. In partnership with RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf, the Nation's largest engineering program for the deaf and hard of hearing, the Node will encourage nationwide participation from this underrepresented group. Programs will conclude with showcase events to publicize the teams and their success in regional innovation. This project will leverage a high concentration of academic anchor institutions to improve a moribund regional economy. Upstate NY academic institutions spend over $2.3bn on R&D, an amount that ranks eighth nationwide in state research spending. I-Corps represents an investment in growing a new innovation economy in a part of the country with tremendous assets to build upon and expand.