I-Corps Sites: Type II - University of Minnesota Innovation Site

I-Corps 站点：II 型 - 明尼苏达大学创新站点

• 批准号: 1829156
• 负责人: Mostafa Kaveh
• 金额: $ 16万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1829156&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Sites; Type; II; University

This project, from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, extends this institution's NSF I-Corps Site for scale up to their next phase of support for innovation and entrepreneurship.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. Since June 2014, the University of Minnesota (UMN) Innovation Corps (MIN-Corps) program provided infrastructure, resources, networking opportunities, training, and NSF-supported project funding to UMN students, faculty, and staff pursuing commercialization. As of December 31, 2017, MIN-Corps had hosted over 1,000 participants - more than half of whom were women - in its courses, seminars, or outreach events. Over 180 innovation teams trained with MIN-Corps, leading to seven participants in the national I-Corps Teams program, 12 licenses of UMN intellectual property, and a dozen startups and other continuing projects that have received over $8 million in commercialization grants and/or investor funding. The primary goals for the next funding cycle are to increase the quantity and quality of technology commercialization across UMN, increase program participation and commercialization activity by women and under-represented minorities, extend programming to UMN campuses in under-resourced communities outside the Twin Cities, and contribute to the vitality of the Midwest and national technology entrepreneurship and commercialization ecosystem.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目来自明尼苏达大学双城分校，扩展了该机构的 NSF I-Corps 站点，以扩大其对创新和创业的下一阶段的支持。创新军团 (I-Corps) 站点是由 NSF 资助的在大学建立的实体，其目的是培养和支持多个本地团队，将其技术概念转化为市场。网站提供基础设施、建议、资源、交流机会、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、企业家和投资者组成的国家创新网络做出贡献。自 2014 年 6 月以来，明尼苏达大学 (UMN) 创新军团 (MIN-Corps) 计划为追求商业化的明尼苏达大学学生、教职员工提供基础设施、资源、网络机会、培训和 NSF 支持的项目资金。截至 2017 年 12 月 31 日，MIN-Corps 已接待了 1,000 多名参与者（其中一半以上是女性）参加其课程、研讨会或外展活动。超过 180 个创新团队接受了 MIN-Corps 的培训，其中有 7 名参与者参与了国家 I-Corps Teams 计划、12 个 UMN 知识产权许可证，以及十几家初创公司和其他持续项目，这些项目已获得超过 800 万美元的商业化赠款和/或投资者资金。下一个资助周期的主要目标是提高整个 UMN 技术商业化的数量和质量，增加女性和代表性不足的少数族裔的项目参与和商业化活动，将项目扩展到双城以外资源贫乏社区的 UMN 校园，并为中西部和国家技术创业和商业化生态系统的活力做出贡献。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被视为 值得通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。