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

I-Corps 节点：新英格兰区域创新节点 (NERIN)

• 批准号: 1832931
• 负责人: Cynthia Barnhart
• 金额: $ 420万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832931&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Node; New; England; Regional

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.

这个I-Corps节点项目的更广泛的影响是开发计划和资源，加速基础研究转化为实际应用，改善社会福祉，提高美国的经济竞争力。这些活动还将在全国范围内加强学术界、工业界和其他方面之间的伙伴关系。 该节点将积极努力，让妇女、代表性不足的少数群体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方案。节点研究将调查商业和行业导师的利用情况以及各种互动方法，以指导研究人员探索其技术的商业化。该联络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国家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培训计划，与来自学术合作伙伴的个人建立一个大型区域教师库。支持并与区域I-Corps站点合作，以加强其计划，识别并协助潜在的新I-Corps站点，并调查评估I-Corps团队组成的方法和替代的指导模式。 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结果、经验教训、新内容和培训材料。该节点将建立和协调一个不断增长的和强大的管道的团队来自整个地区的国家I军团团队计划。它将为这些团队提供额外的支持和培养，以便在完成团队计划后继续前进。该项目将使麻省理工学院能够接触和影响整个新英格兰的研究人员，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NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估来支持。