Type I: George Mason University Innovation Site

这个来自乔治梅森大学（Mason）的项目创建了一个NSF I-Corps站点，它将与华盛顿特区I-Corps节点有密切的联系。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或成为I-Corps团队的申请人。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。梅森的国家科学基金会I-Corps站点将有助于建立商业化促进基础设施，以增强现有和未来的创业培训和支持活动的影响，并将向梅森社区展示创业教育的价值。I-Corps网站将影响大学人才在以技术为基础的创业企业中发挥作用的准备工作，因此将成为弗吉尼亚州和整个美国经济成功的关键因素。通过I-Corps网站，梅森的商业化促进活动将支持从依赖传统雇主的经济向企业家驱动的经济转变。随着越来越多的创业公司开始蓬勃发展，新的就业机会将被创造出来，未来毕业生的职业前景将得到加强。在国家层面上，人们有理由担心美国正在失去其作为全球科技领导者的地位。梅森的活动将通过教授大学研究人员超越传统学术界限的思维来扭转这一趋势，从而使这群才华横溢的科学家成为他们帮助创建的以技术为基础的创业公司的创新驱动力。

This project from George Mason University (Mason) creates an NSF I-Corps Site that will have a close affiliation with the Washington DC I-Corps Node. 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.An NSF I-Corps Site at Mason will aid in the creation of a commercialization facilitation infrastructure that will enhance the impact of existing and future entrepreneurial training and support activities and will demonstrate the value of entrepreneurship education to the Mason community. The I-Corps Site will impact the preparedness of university talent for roles in technology-based entrepreneurial enterprises and as such will be a critical ingredient of the economic success of Virginia and the United States as a whole. With an I-Corps Site, Mason's commercialization facilitation activities will support a shift from an economy dependent on traditional employers to an entrepreneurially-driven economy. As more startups begin to flourish, new jobs will be created and the career prospects of future graduates will be strengthened. On the national level, there is valid concern that the US is losing its standing as the global leader in technology. Mason's activities will counter this trend by teaching university researchers to think beyond traditional academic boundaries, thus enabling this group of highly-talented scientists to become drivers of innovation within technology-based entrepreneurial companies that they help to create.