I-Corps Sites: University of Pittsburgh - Advancing Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Opportunity Commercialization

这是一个在匹兹堡大学创建I-Corps网站的项目。NSF Innovation Corps（I-Corps）网站是由NSF资助的实体，在大学中建立，其目的是培养和支持多个本地团队将其技术概念转化为市场。网站提供基础设施，建议，资源，网络机会，培训和适度的资金，使团体能够将他们的工作转移到市场或成为I-Corps团队申请人。I-Corps网站还加强地方和区域的创新，并为导师、研究人员、企业家和投资者组成的国家创新网络作出贡献，该项目旨在通过匹兹堡大学创新研究所指导建立一个I-Corps网站，提高皮特的创业能力。该奖项建立在大学努力在整个组织中灌输创新和创业精神的基础上。皮特I-Corps的主要目标包括以下内容：-通过教育，培训和推广到目前商业化进程中代表性不足的学科和个人，增加具有创业精神的个人的数量;-加强最近部署的商业化进程，重点是补充实验室的可行创新，并采取关键步骤将其推向市场;和-改善与区域创业生态系统的联系，以加强将皮特机会融入当地早期环境和匹兹堡以外的类似网络。皮特风险投资是一个新的多步骤计划，在创新研究所创建，以提供体验式学习计划，提高皮特发现的商业成果率。这是一个精益的发射台，吸引教师，学生和当地导师在想法发现和创业，作为将概念转化为产品的一种手段。通过I-Corps计划提供的支持，Pitt Ventures将通过关注在当前创新活动中代表性不足的学科和个人来加强。通过这种推广，商业化的大学创新的广度将增加，因为其管道将包含来自更广泛的个人群体的更多样化的机会。 鉴于皮特收集的资源和机会，皮特I-Corps将发挥重要作用，加强创业生态系统在中西部地区提供更多的发明为该地区的工作。通过加强与这个网络的参与，大学将更好地利用该地区的一套能力，可以帮助皮特的想法转化为市场产品。因此，拟议的I-Corps努力将帮助大学更有效地将其创新者构想的知识价值转化为通过商业化实现的经济价值。最终结果是创造更多新的就业机会，增加地方投资，促进经济增长，更多有益于社会的产品进入市场。

This is a project that creates an I-Corps Site at the University of Pittsburgh. NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Sites are NSF-funded entities established at universities whose purpose is to nurture and support multiple, local teams to transition their technology concepts into the marketplace. Sites provide infrastructure, advice, resources, networking opportunities, training and modest funding to enable groups to transition their work into the marketplace or into becoming I-Corps Team applicants. I-Corps Sites also strengthen innovation locally and regionally and contribute to the National Innovation Network of mentors, researchers, entrepreneurs and investors.This project aims to further Pitt's entrepreneurial competencies by creating an I-Corps site directed through the University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute. This award builds on University efforts to instill innovation and entrepreneurship across the entire organization.The main objectives of Pitt I-Corps include the following:-Increase the number of entrepreneurial minded individuals by education, training and outreach to disciplines and individuals underrepresented in current commercialization processes;-Enhance a recently deployed commercialization process focused on supplementing viable innovations from the laboratory with key steps required to move them to the market; and-Improve connection to the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem for enhanced integration of Pitt opportunities into the local early-stage environment and similar networks beyond Pittsburgh.Pitt Ventures is a new multi-step program that was created in the Innovation Institute to provide an experiential learning program enhancing the rate of commercial outcomes of Pitt discoveries. It is a lean launchpad engaging faculty, students, and local mentors in idea discovery and entrepreneurship as a means of turning concepts into products.Through support provided in an I-Corps program, Pitt Ventures will be enhanced through a focus on disciplines and individuals that have been underrepresented in current innovation activities. With this outreach, the breadth of commercialized University innovations will be increased as its pipeline will contain a more diversified set of opportunities from a broader group of individuals. Given Pitt's collection of resources and opportunities, Pitt I-Corps will play an important role in strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Mid-West by providing more inventions for the region to work on. Through enhanced engagement with this network, the University will be better positioned to utilize the set of capabilities resident in the region that can help to convert Pitt ideas to marketed products. As such, the proposed I-Corps effort will aid the University in more effectively converting intellectual value conceived by its innovators into economic value realized through commercialization. The end result is more new job creation, increased local investment, enhanced economic growth and more products benefiting society reaching the market.