Polsky Prototyping Fund

这个i-Corps网站位于芝加哥大学波尔斯基创业与创新中心，涉及五个校园范围的项目：新创业挑战赛、大学新创业挑战赛、全球新创业挑战赛、社交新创业挑战赛和移动应用程序挑战赛(与芝加哥大学科技和信息技术服务公司合作提供)。作为校园创新计划的一部分，该中心将与阿贡国家实验室、芝加哥大学计算研究所、医学中心和分子工程研究所密切合作，以新技术和基于用途的创新为基础构思和创办公司。来自i-Corps网站的资金将支持公司发展的早期关键阶段的原型或概念验证，提供符合波尔斯基精益创业方法论的资金，该方法论强调创新思维、快速迭代、市场测试以及重新设计或重新定位的灵活性。特别是，SITES赠款使计算研究所和分子工程学院、医学中心以及整个物理科学的教职员工和学生能够教授和使用这种方法。随着越来越多的公司从阿贡、计算研究所、医学中心和分子工程公司推出，该中心的创业文化将变得更加明显和容易获得，并在教职员工和学生中灌输创业心态。波尔斯基中心在将技术转化到市场上导致多家公司创建方面有着良好的记录。Site奖将扩大那些展示出最有希望的想法的数量，这些想法可以快速且廉价地(以美元和机会成本)进行测试。该网站将有助于芝加哥创新网络的发展，在这个网络中，学术界、企业、政府、投资者和慈善团体合作，基于网络和网络效应为经济做出贡献。芝加哥的网站将是与该市合作应对教育、医疗保健和机会方面的城市挑战的关键组成部分。芝加哥大学是芝加哥南区最大的雇主。通过他们的创业活动，该机构寻求改变芝加哥南区居民的经济潜力，并为这一服务不足的地区创造新的产业和财富。

This I-Corps Site, at the University of Chicago's Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, involves five campus-wide programs: the New Venture Challenge, College New Venture Challenge, Global New Venture Challenge, Social New Venture Challenge, and a Mobile App Challenge (offered in partnership with UChicagoTech and Information Technology Services). And, as part of a campus-wide innovation initiative, the Center will be working closely with Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago Computation Institute, Medical Center, and Institute for Molecular Engineering to ideate and start companies based on novel technologies and use-based innovation. Funding from this I-Corps Site will support prototyping or proof-of-concept at an early, critical stage of company development, providing funding in line with Polsky's lean start-up methodology that stresses innovative thinking, rapid iteration, market-testing, and flexibility in redesign or repositioning. In particular, the Sites grant enables teaching and employing of this methodology with faculty and students in the Computation Institute and Molecular Engineering, in the Medical Center, and throughout the Physical Sciences. With a growing roster of companies being launched out of Argonne, the Computation Institute, the Medical Center, and Molecular Engineering, the Center's entrepreneurial culture will be made more visible and accessible, and instill an entrepreneurial mindset among faculty and students.The Polsky Center has a strong track record of transitioning technology into the marketplace leading to the creation of multiple companies. The Site award will expand the number of ideas that can be tested quickly and inexpensively (in dollars and opportunity cost) for those that show the greatest promise. This Site will contribute to the growth of the Chicago innovation network where academia, corporations, government, the investor and the philanthropic communities collaborate to contribute to economies based on networks and network effects. The Chicago Site will be a critical component of working with the city to address the urban challenges of education, healthcare, and opportunity. The University of Chicago is the largest employer on Chicago's South Side. Through their entrepreneurial activities, the institution seeks to change the economic potential for residents on Chicago's South Side and to create new industry and wealth for this underserved part of the city.