I-Corps Sites: Tulane I-Corps Site for a Resurgent New Orleans

该项目在位于洛杉矶新奥尔良的杜兰大学创建了一个I-Corps站点。这个项目对杜兰大学有贡献吗？美国的创新翻译工作，以及卡特里娜飓风后的新奥尔良？生态系统?特别是在技术、能源和环境领域。美国国家科学基金会创新队（I-Corps）站点是由美国国家科学基金会资助的实体，建立在大学里，其目的是培养和支持多个本地团队，将他们的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化为市场。学术机构使用现场资金来催化团队（金额从1000美元到3000美元不等），这些团队的技术概念可能会被商业化。在网站的支持和指导下，团队学习创业的第一手资料，并探索将他们的想法、设备、流程或其他智力活动转化为市场。I-Corps站点还加强地方和区域创新，并为由导师、研究人员、企业家和投资者组成的国家创新网络做出贡献。杜兰大学每年将资助15个杜兰I-Corps SIte团队，将资助的研究从实验室转移到市场，并支持课堂上出现的有前途的想法的商业化（特别是顶点设计课程，这些课程已经产生了启动知识产权和创业公司的记录）。杜兰大学有足够的研究人员吗？NSF-supported多少?愿意担任杜兰大学I-Corps团队的学术顾问。团队创业领导将从学生和博士后中招募，并沉浸在基于Blank？客户开发流程，Osterwalder？商业模式Canvas和Furr？敲定它，然后扩大它的过程。杜兰和新奥尔良有大量的企业家愿意担任杜兰I-Corps团队的导师。包括来自跨学科生物创新博士项目和杜兰企业家协会（TEA）的新兴企业家。更广泛的影响：预计项目成果包括可专利技术、初创公司和商业许可的增加，以及杜兰大学I-Corps团队的学生和教师，他们通过深入参与创新和创业，将成为创新者和企业家。杜兰I-Corps网站将加强杜兰？我们致力于STEM教育、妇女和代表性不足的少数群体、全球卫生倡议以及为残疾人提供服务。新技术的发展将扩大新奥尔良及周边地区的经济发展，并加强日益增长的生命科学产业。

This project creates an I-Corps Site at Tulane University located in New Orleans, LA. The project contributes to Tulane?s innovation-translation efforts and also to the post-Katrina New Orleans? ecosystem ? particularly in the areas of technology, energy, and the environment. 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. Site funding is used to by academic institutions to catalyze teams (with amounts ranging from $1,000 to $3,000) whose technology concepts are likely candidates for commercialization. With the support and mentorship of the Sites, the teams learn first-hand about entrepreneurship and explore the transition of their ideas, devices, processes or other intellectual activities into the marketplace. I-Corps Sites also strengthen innovation locally and regionally and contribute to the National Innovation Network of mentors, researchers, entrepreneurs and investors.Tulane will fund fifteen Tulane I-Corps SIte teams per year, to move funded research out of the laboratories into the marketplace and to support commercialization of promising ideas emerging from the classroom (particularly capstone design courses that have generated a track record of launching intellectual property and start-up companies). Tulane has a critical mass of faculty researchers?many NSF-supported?willing to serve as Academic Advisors for Tulane I-Corps teams. Team Entrepreneurial Leads wil be recruited from students and postdocs and immersed in a curriculum emphasizing business model development based on Blank?s Customer Development process, Osterwalder?s Business Model Canvas, and Furr?s Nail It then Scale It process. Tulane and New Orleans have large pools of entrepreneurs willing to serve as Mentors to Tulane I-Corps teams?including emerging entrepreneurs from their interdisciplinary BioInnovation PhD Program and the Tulane Entrepreneurs Association (TEA). Broader Impacts:Anticipated program outcomes include increases in patentable technologies, start-up companies, and commercial licenses as well as students and faculty of the Tulane I-Corps teams who, by their deep involvement in innovation and entrepreneurship, will emerge as innovators and entrepreneurs. The Tulane I-Corps Site will strengthen Tulane?s commitment to STEM education, women and underrepresented minorities, global health initiatives, and service to persons with disabilities. The Development of new technologies will expand economic development and reinforce the growing life sciences industry of New Orleans and surrounding regions.