I-Corps Sites: Type I - University of Texas at El Paso I-Corps Site for Innovation

I-Corps 站点：I 型 - 德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校 I-Corps 创新站点

• 批准号: 1829257
• 负责人: Thomas Boland
• 金额: $ 25.5万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 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 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1829257&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Sites; Type; University; Texas

With this project, the University of Texas at El Paso establishes an Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Site through its Mike Loya Center for Innovation and Commerce and bridges the Colleges of Business Administration and Engineering. 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 UTEP I-Corps Site, in close collaboration with the University's Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) and Entrepreneurship Community of Practice (ECop), fosters and accelerates transition of customer-driven research into the commercial world. This UTEP I-Corps Site reinforces local and regional innovation and contributes to a regional/national pool of professional mentors, professionally trained entrepreneurs and customer-driven innovators. The site provides researchers with a critical component of validation that helps them propel their innovations out of UTEP's labs and into regional and national commercial activities. This I-Corps Site, located in a Hispanic-serving institution, synergizes innovation, research commercialization and new business creation across the region served by the university.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.

在这个项目中，德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校通过其迈克·洛亚创新和商业中心建立了一个创新队（I-Corps）站点，并与工商管理学院和工程学院建立了联系。创新团队（I-Corps）站点是nsf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。UTEP I-Corps网站与大学技术商业化办公室（OTC）和创业实践社区（ECop）密切合作，促进并加速了客户驱动研究向商业世界的转变。这个UTEP I-Corps网站加强了当地和区域的创新，并为地区/国家的专业导师、受过专业培训的企业家和客户驱动的创新者做出了贡献。该网站为研究人员提供了验证的关键组成部分，帮助他们将创新从UTEP的实验室推向地区和国家的商业活动。这个I-Corps站点位于一个为西班牙裔服务的机构中，在大学服务的整个地区协同创新，研究商业化和新的商业创造。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。