I-Corps Sites: Purdue's Innovation Pipeline

知识价值：该项目在普渡大学创建了一个I-Corps网站。NSF创新团队（I-Corps）网站是在大学建立的NSF资助实体，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站点还加强地方和区域创新，并为导师，研究人员，企业家和投资者的国家创新网络做出贡献。该项目的总体目标是扩大普渡大学的创新生态系统。该网站通过开发教师，博士后和研究生的商业化和创业技能，通过普渡大学的伯顿D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship（BDMCE）和他们的Foundry项目。这些活动得到了主要研究人员和导师的支持，他们帮助建立和支持生物医学技术和工程技术领域的I-Corps小组。普渡大学的目标？s站点包括：1）通过BDMCE的Foundry提供支持，提高I-Corps Site团队的客户开发活动水平; 2）通过I-Corps Site团队在几个特定领域的精益LaunchPad课程中的支持，培养生命科学/医疗保健、工程技术和管理领域研究生的商业化和创业技能;和3）通过评估和评价更好地了解大学支持的商业化团队的特点、动机和需求通过每年让30多个团队积极地通过铸造厂的流程，该项目的成果将包括活动和知识的增加，这将影响普渡大学的创新生态系统。此外，这可能导致BDMCE支持的最终产品的质量和数量的提高。参与该项目的教师也将通过持续参与这个I-Corps项目来增加他们作为导师、研究人员和创新者的经验。通过支持多个技术/市场领域的创业团队，普渡大学可能会进一步理解和编纂的过程和活动，是适当的商业化每一项技术-和那些不是-并为全球企业家精神的知识体系做出贡献。该项目的评估结果以及它们将支持的学术文章将帮助普渡大学和其他大学更好地了解支持学生领导的团队的最佳实践。此外，根据他们的总体目标，普渡大学I-Corps网站将有助于确保更多的研究造福社会。

Intellectual Merit:This project creates an I-Corps Site at Purdue University.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.The overall goal of this project is to expand Purdue's innovation ecosystem. This Site increases the number of successful commercialization projects by developing the commercialization and entrepreneurial skills of faculty, postdocs, and graduate students through the resources and infrastructure provided by Purdue's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship (BDMCE) and their Foundry program. These activities are supported through the involvement of key researchers and mentors who help create and support I-Corps teams in the areas of biomedical technology and engineering technologies. The objectives of Purdue?s Sites include: 1) Increase the level of customer development activity by I-Corps Site teams by providing support through the BDMCE's Foundry; 2) Develop the commercialization and entrepreneurial skills of graduate students in life sciences/health care, engineering technologies and management through the support of I-Corps Site teams in several domain-specific Lean LaunchPad courses; and 3) Build a better understanding of the characteristics, motivations, and needs of university-supported commercialization teams through assessment and evaluation Broader Impacts:By enabling over thirty teams a year to actively move through the Foundry's processes, the outcomes of this project will include the increase in both activity and knowledge that will mpact the innovation ecosystem at Purdue. In addition, this can lead to the rise in the quality and quantity of end products supported by the BDMCE. Faculty involved in the project will also increase their experience as mentors, researchers and innovators through their sustained involvement in this I-Corps project.By supporting entrepreneurial teams in several technology/market domains, Purdue may further their understanding and codification of the processes and activities that are appropriate to commercialize each technology -- and those that are not -- and contribute to the global body of knowledge about entrepreneurship. The project's assessment outputs, and the academic articles that they will enable, will help both Purdue and other universities better understand best practices for the support of student-led teams. Also, in line with their overall goal, the Purdue I-Corps Site will help ensure that more research benefits society.