NSF I-Corps Hub (Track 1): Desert and Pacific Region

NSF I-Corps 中心（轨道 1）：沙漠和太平洋地区

• 批准号: 2229385
• 负责人: Nancy Gonzales
• 金额: $ 1500万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2027-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2229385&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Corps; Hub; Track; Desert

The broader impact/commercial potential of this NSF I-Corps Hubs project is the development of a partnership spanning five states, from the Desert region of the West to the Pacific, to increase economic competitiveness and societal benefit through advancing university-developed, deep technology ventures to local, regional, and national markets. This deliberate partnering of small, medium, and large institutions is predicated on institutional alignment, combining emerging and mature cultures of innovation, and reciprocal eagerness to collaborate to strengthen innovation capacity. The Hub provides access to a rich network of innovation practices and resources to diverse communities of innovators while reducing participation barriers for both experienced and less experienced institutions. In addition, the Hub increases capacity for innovation development by expanding conventional geographies of innovation to disconnected areas that are typically outside of venture development hubs and connects them to more experienced and resource-rich areas. The Hub shares know-how, resources, and connections to provide I-Corps training virtually and in multiple formats. The regional training is designed to address skills and knowledge gaps to accelerate and sustain deep technology ventures across the region. The Hub leverages a diverse, pooled network of mentors and industry experts to reduce time and risk in the creation of new ventures. Also, the Hub is responsive to securing national defense, building on NSF’s investments in cybersecurity, novel materials, and advanced analytics, by specifically identifying, addressing, and supporting dual-use technologies.This I-Corps Desert and Pacific Region Hub project is based on the development of a network that advances and deepens the regenerative innovation capacity of the partnering institutions, providing meaningful experiential development opportunities for faculty, researchers, students, and collaborators through direct entrepreneurial engagements and skills development. The Hub facilitates intentional group learning through a deeply networked community of practice, including I-Corps instructors, mentors, administrators, faculty, and students ideally positioned to collectively support the academic community in translating research into deep technology ventures, regardless of location. The Hub also seeks to diminish disadvantages, such as the lack of mature assets equal to those in historically advantaged and resource-rich locales. This Hub provides quality and flexibility, while enabling participating institutions to incorporate structured entrepreneurial training and support in a proven online method. Building on a body of scholarship, a network focused on developing the entrepreneurial mindset, additive and agile innovation, curricular adaptations, organizational and infrastructure support including distributed mentor models and shared customer databases, and the utilization of innovative tools, the Hub advances entrepreneurial programming and research to inform I-Corps practice, illuminate national trends, and influence organizational and national policy.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NSF I-Corps枢纽项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是发展跨越五个州的伙伴关系，从西部沙漠地区到太平洋，通过将大学开发的深度技术企业推进到当地、区域和国家市场，提高经济竞争力和社会效益。这种小型、中型和大型机构的合作是基于机构一致性，结合新兴和成熟的创新文化，以及相互渴望合作以加强创新能力。该中心为不同的创新者社区提供了丰富的创新实践和资源网络，同时减少了经验丰富和经验不足的机构的参与障碍。此外，通过将传统的创新区域扩展到通常位于风险开发中心之外的偏远地区，并将这些地区与经验更丰富、资源更丰富的地区联系起来，该中心提高了创新发展的能力。该中心共享专有技术、资源和联系，以多种形式提供虚拟的I-Corps培训。该区域培训旨在解决技能和知识差距，以加速和维持整个区域的深度技术企业。该中心利用多样化的、汇集的导师和行业专家网络来减少创建新企业的时间和风险。此外，该中心还致力于确保国防安全，建立在NSF在网络安全、新材料和高级分析方面的投资基础上，具体识别、处理和支持军民两用技术。这个I-Corps沙漠和太平洋地区中心项目是基于一个网络的发展，该网络可以推进和深化合作机构的再生创新能力，通过直接的创业参与和技能发展，为教师、研究人员、学生和合作者提供有意义的体验发展机会。该中心通过一个深度网络化的实践社区促进有意的小组学习，包括I-Corps的讲师、导师、管理人员、教师和学生，他们理想地定位于集体支持学术界将研究转化为深度技术企业，而不受地理位置的限制。该中心还寻求减少劣势，例如缺乏与历史优势和资源丰富地区相同的成熟资产。该中心提供高质量和灵活性，同时使参与机构能够将结构化的创业培训和支持纳入经过验证的在线方法。该中心建立在一个学术机构、一个专注于发展创业思维、附加性和敏捷创新、课程调整、组织和基础设施支持（包括分布式导师模型和共享客户数据库）以及创新工具利用的网络之上，推动创业规划和研究，为I-Corps实践提供信息，阐明国家趋势，并影响组织和国家政策。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。