Type I: Innovation Binghamton I-Corps Site

该项目来自宾厄姆顿大学，在该机构创建了一个NSF i-Corps站点。NSF创新团队(i-Corps)站点是由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。I-Corps网站还加强了当地和地区的创新，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了贡献。宾厄姆顿i-Corps网站加强了宾厄姆顿大学的生态系统。通过将现有的创新支持计划和技术转让与创业和企业孵化服务相结合，对源自教师研究、学生创造力和社区创新者的技术进行商业可行性评估。经验丰富的技术转移专业人员、驻扎在宾厄姆顿面向行业中心的技术专家、在职创业和财务顾问招募团队并将有前途的团队提升到项目中。创业和工程教师、常驻企业家(EIR)以及社区教练和导师刺激思维和团队建设，指导创新者通过理论和实践，最终做出是否通过的决定。通过严格的遴选过程和实践培训，拥有客户验证、技术和制造可行的产品和服务的团队在大学、当地企业和资助者以及i-Corps地区和全国节点的进一步支持下，继续进行商业化。这一过程造就了一支不断增长的企业家队伍，他们不断创新，建立企业，指导和投资他人，并全面为创业生态系统充电，使宾厄姆顿和大学成为企业家、投资者和初创公司的中心。宾厄姆顿i-Corps网站旨在通过提供一种实用、可实现的方法来产生围绕技术建立的可持续新企业，从而改变大学教职员工和学生以及社区成员和领导人的思维方式。展示这条前进的道路，在大学、当地企业、专业服务和投资者社区、行业和政府之间建立了积极和强大的关系。在学术界-私营部门-政府之间产生信任和互动的连锁反应远远超出了团队通过该项目的范围，并传播了一个由新推出的项目驱动和补充的自我维持的创业生态系统。此外，通过将企业家和内部企业家聚集在一起，该网站计划模糊了大企业和小企业、制造业和服务业、学术界和私营部门之间的界限，并通过新企业刺激人们朝着创造价值和创造就业的共同目标努力。公司的成功创办激励了宾厄姆顿大学的研究人员、学生和毕业生，并向人们灌输了对宾厄姆顿创造财富和实现就业的前景的乐观态度，无论他们的职业生涯将把他们带到全国各地。

This project, from Binghamton University, creates an NSF I-Corps Site at this institution.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 Binghamton I-Corps Site strengthens the ecosystem at Binghamton University. By integrating existing innovation support programs and technology transfer with entrepreneurship and business incubation services, technologies stemming from faculty research, student ingenuity, and community innovators are evaluated for commercial viability. Experienced technology transfer professionals, technical experts resident in Binghamton's industry-facing centers, and on-staff entrepreneurship and financial advisers recruit teams and promote promising teams into the program.Entrepreneurship and engineering faculty, entrepreneurs-in-residence (EIRs), and community coaches and mentors stimulate ideation and team building, and guide the innovators through theory and practice, and, ultimately, the go / no-go decision. By virtue of a rigorous selection process and hands-on training, the teams with customer-validated, technology- and manufacturing-feasible products and services proceed with commercialization with further support from the university, local businesses, and funders, as well as the I-Corps regional and national nodes. The process creates a growing cadre of entrepreneurs who continue to innovate, build businesses, mentor and invest in others, and overall recharge the entrepreneurial ecosystem, making Binghamton and the University a hub for entrepreneurs, investors, and start-up companies.The Binghamton I-Corps Site is meant to transform the mindset of University faculty, staff and students, as well as that of community members and leaders by providing a practical, achievable approach to generating new, sustainable ventures built around technologies. Demonstrating this path forward creates positive and powerful relationships between universities, the local business, professional services and investor communities, industry, and government. Generating trust and interactions between academia-private sector-government has ripple effects far beyond the teams going through the program, and propagate a self-sustaining, entrepreneurial ecosystem driven and replenished by new launches. Furthermore, by bringing together entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, this Site program blurs lines separating big and small business, manufacturing and service industries, academia and the private sector, and spurs efforts towards the common goal of value and job creation through new ventures. Successful launches of companies inspire Binghamton University researchers, students and graduates, and instill optimism about the prospects for creating wealth and fulfilling jobs in Binghamton, or wherever their careers take them throughout the nation.