Type I: University of South Alabama Collaborative Research for Entrepreneurial Activities, Training, and Education (CREATE) Center

这个项目来自美国南阿拉巴马大学，位于莫比尔，创建了一个NSF I-Corps站点。美国国家科学基金会创新队（I-Corps）站点是由美国国家科学基金会资助的实体，建立在大学里，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化为市场或成为I-Corps团队的申请人。I-Corps站点还加强地方和区域创新，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。美国移动网站设在最近成立的CREATE中心，在研究创新办公室。莫比尔地区的经济正在增长，以制造业和一些stem产业集群（航空、钢铁、海事造船、能源、化工、交通和技术）为特色。美国网站可能会产生广泛的区域影响，特别是考虑到该机构参与了一些社区活动，如“创业周末”和“少数族裔企业加速器”，通过不断成功地重复商业化技术、企业劳动力发展和就业活动，产生重大的商业和社会影响。美国网站本身被设计为一个社区资产，由四个不同的移动机构组成，包括：一个新兴的研究型大学（美国）；以非洲裔美国人为主的社区学院；南浸信会大学；还有拥有200年历史的耶稣会学院。在这个I-Corp网站上组建的团队将包括来自不同机构的学生和导师。此外，将商学院学生和技术作家放在团队中可能提供一个独特的机会来观察“最佳实践”。目前没有在其他地方应用。

This project, from the University of South Alabama (USA), in Mobile, creates an NSF 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. I-Corps Sites also strengthen innovation locally and regionally and contribute to the National Innovation Network of mentors, researchers, entrepreneurs and investors.The USA-Mobile Site is housed in the recently established CREATE Center, in the Office of Research Innovation. The Mobile region's economy is growing and features manufacturing and industries in a number of STEM-rich clusters (Aviation, Steel, Maritime & Shipbuilding, Energy, Chemical, Transportation, and Technology). The USA Site is likely to have broad regional impacts, particularly given this institution's involvement in several community activities such as Start-Up Weekend and a Minority Business Accelerator, leading to significant commercial and societal impact with increased successful iterations of commercialized technology, entrepreneurial work force development and employment activities. The USA Site itself is designed as a community asset made up of four, diverse Mobile institutions including: an emerging research university (USA); a primarily African-American community college; a Southern Baptist university; and, a 200 year-old Jesuit College. Teams formed at this I-Corp Site will include diversity of students and mentors across institutions. In addition, placing business students and technical writers on teams may provide a unique opportunity to observe ?best-practices? that are not currently being applied elsewhere.