University of Utah Center for Medical Innovation I-Corp Site

这个i-Corps网站位于犹他大学医疗创新中心，增强并建立了他们在医疗器械创新、商业化和创业方面的现有专业知识。犹他大学医学创新中心(CMI)是工程学院、犹他大学健康科学中心、大卫·埃克尔斯商学院和技术和风险投资商业化计划之间的合作成果。他们的活动是一项综合活动，支持教师和学生的专业发展，发展医疗器械创业方面的多学科教育计划，并有可能通过学生和教师创新的商业化来改善国家医疗保健服务。i-Corps网站将帮助弥合差距，并加强基于大学的创新向商业化的转化。这将使犹他大学能够扩大他们的创新计划，为教师和学生创新团队提供更有影响力的资源，并改善对潜在和代表不足的参与者的招聘，增强i-Corps计划和地区商业部门创业团队的多样性。犹他大学i-Corps Site Grant将使大学医学创新中心能够通过创业教育、指导和种子赠款资金，促进和加速学生和教师创新的开发和商业化，以帮助弥合早期原型开发和商业化之间的差距。这些创业团队将通过早期产品开发将他们的创新研究想法转化为完全商业化，从而促进地区经济增长和创造就业机会。该网站的合作网络包括犹他大学的项目，这些项目支持代表不足的学生和教师团体，这些团体提供必要的支持和资源，帮助代表不足的团体蓬勃发展并参与这一进程。

This I-Corps Site, at the University of Utah Center for Medical Innovation, enhances and builds upon their existing expertise in medical device innovation, commercialization and entrepreneurship. The Center for Medical Innovation (CMI) at the University of Utah developed as a collaborative effort between The College of Engineering, The University of Utah Health Sciences Center, The David Eccles School of Business and The Technology and Venture Commercialization Program. Their's is an integrated activity that supports faculty and student professional development, develops multi-disciplinary educational programs in medical device entrepreneurship and has the potential to improve national healthcare delivery through commercialization of student and faculty innovations.The I-Corps Site will help bridge gaps and enhance the translation of University-based Innovations to commercialization. This will allow the University of Utah to expand their innovation programs, provide more impactful resources to faculty and student innovation teams and improve recruitment of prospective and under-represented participants enhancing the diversity of entrepreneurial teams in the I-Corps program and regional commercial sector. The University of Utah I-Corps Site Grant will enable the University Center for Medical Innovation to facilitate and accelerate the development and commercialization of student and faculty innovations through entrepreneurial education, mentorship and seed grant funding to help bridge the gap between early prototype development and commercialization. These entrepreneurial teams will translate their innovative research ideas through early stage product development into full commercialization resulting in regional economic growth and job creation. This Site's partnership network includes University of Utah programs that support underrepresented student and faculty groups that offer the support and resources needed to help underrepresented groups thrive and participate in the process.