I-Corps Node: New England Regional Innovation Node (NERIN)

I-Corps节点项目的更广泛影响是开发项目和资源，加速将基础研究转化为实际应用，从而改善社会福祉，提高美国的经济竞争力。这些活动还将导致学术界、工业界和其他方面在国家范围内加强伙伴关系。该节点将积极努力使妇女、代表性不足的少数民族和残疾人以及来自不同经济区域和背景的个人参与所有活动和项目。Node研究将调查利用商业和行业导师以及各种交互方法来指导研究人员探索其技术的商业化。节点编制的培训和材料、吸取的经验教训和研究结果将在整个区域和全国范围内广泛分享和传播。这个I-Corps节点项目将在整个新英格兰的研究型大学提供I-Corps培训项目，与学术合作伙伴建立一个大型的区域讲师库。支持并与地区I-Corps站点合作，以加强他们的项目，确定并协助潜在的新I-Corps站点，并研究评估I-Corps团队组成的方法和替代指导模式。该节点将探索具有创造性和潜在变革性的概念，并在整个区域和国家创新网络广泛传播研究成果、经验教训、新内容和培训材料。该节点将为国家I-Corps团队项目建立和协调来自该地区不断增长和强大的团队管道。它将为这些团队在完成团队计划后继续前进提供额外的支持和培养。这个项目将使麻省理工学院能够接触和影响新英格兰地区的研究人员，根据他们基于基础研究的想法采取行动，并开始探索将他们的发明和发现推向市场。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。

The broader impacts of this I-Corps Node project are to develop programs and resources that will accelerate the translation of fundamental research to practical applications that will improve the well-being of society and increase the economic competitiveness of the United States. These activities will also result in increased partnerships between academia, industry, and others on a national scale. The Node will actively work to engage the participation of women, underrepresented minorities and persons with disabilities, as well as individuals from diverse economic regions and backgrounds, in all activities and programs. The Node research will investigate utilization of business and industry mentors and various methods of interaction to guide researchers exploring commercialization of their technologies. The training and materials developed by the Node, lessons learned, and the research findings will be shared and disseminated widely across the region and nationally. This I-Corps Node project will deliver I-Corps training programs at research universities throughout New England, build a large regional instructor pool with individuals from its academic partners., support and collaborate with regional I-Corps Sites to enhance their programs, identify and assist potential new I-Corps Sites, and investigate methods of assessing I-Corps team composition and alternative models of mentoring. The Node will explore creative and potentially transformative concepts and widely disseminate findings, lessons learned, new content and training materials across the region and the national innovation network. The Node will build and coordinate a growing and robust pipeline of teams from across the region for the National I-Corps Team program. It will provide additional support and nurturing for those teams to continue to advance after completing the team program. This project will enable MIT to reach and influence researchers across New England, to act upon their ideas based upon basic research and initiate the exploration of getting their inventions and discoveries to the marketplace.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.