Type I: University of South Alabama Collaborative Research for Entrepreneurial Activities, Training, and Education (CREATE) Center

这个项目来自南阿拉巴马大学(美国)莫比尔分校，创建了一个NSF I-Corps网站。NSF创新团队(i-Corps)网站是由NSF资助的实体，成立于大学，其目的是培育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移到市场或成为i-Corps团队的申请者。I-Corps网站还加强了当地和地区的创新，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了贡献。美国-移动网站设在最近成立的研究创新办公室的Create Center。移动地区的经济正在增长，制造业和工业集中在一些STEM密集型集群(航空、钢铁、海事和造船、能源、化工、运输和技术)。美国网站可能会产生广泛的地区性影响，特别是考虑到该机构参与了几项社区活动，如创业周末和少数族裔商业加速器，随着商业化技术、创业劳动力发展和就业活动的成功迭代，导致了重大的商业和社会影响。美国网站本身被设计为社区资产，由四个不同的移动机构组成，其中包括：一所新兴的研究型大学(美国)；一所以非裔美国人为主的社区学院；一所南方浸信会大学；以及一所有200年历史的耶稣会学院。在这个i-Corp网站上组成的团队将包括不同机构的学生和导师。此外，将商科学生和技术撰稿人安排在团队中可能会提供一个独特的机会来观察最佳实践？目前还没有在其他地方得到应用。

This project, from the University of South Alabama (USA), in Mobile, creates an NSF I-Corps Site. 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 USA-Mobile Site is housed in the recently established CREATE Center, in the Office of Research Innovation. The Mobile region's economy is growing and features manufacturing and industries in a number of STEM-rich clusters (Aviation, Steel, Maritime & Shipbuilding, Energy, Chemical, Transportation, and Technology). The USA Site is likely to have broad regional impacts, particularly given this institution's involvement in several community activities such as Start-Up Weekend and a Minority Business Accelerator, leading to significant commercial and societal impact with increased successful iterations of commercialized technology, entrepreneurial work force development and employment activities. The USA Site itself is designed as a community asset made up of four, diverse Mobile institutions including: an emerging research university (USA); a primarily African-American community college; a Southern Baptist university; and, a 200 year-old Jesuit College. Teams formed at this I-Corp Site will include diversity of students and mentors across institutions. In addition, placing business students and technical writers on teams may provide a unique opportunity to observe ?best-practices? that are not currently being applied elsewhere.