Type I: Innovation Binghamton I-Corps Site

这个项目来自宾厄姆顿大学，在这个机构创建了一个NSF I-Corps站点。NSF创新团队（I-Corps）站点是在大学建立的NSF资助的实体，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移到市场或成为I-Corps团队申请人。I-Corps站点还加强本地和区域的创新，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。宾厄姆顿I-Corps站点加强了宾厄姆顿大学的生态系统。通过将现有的创新支持计划和技术转让与创业和企业孵化服务相结合，对来自教师研究，学生创造力和社区创新者的技术进行商业可行性评估。经验丰富的技术转移专业人员、常驻宾厄姆顿面向行业的中心的技术专家以及在职创业和财务顾问招募团队，并将有前途的团队纳入该计划。创业和工程学院、驻校教师（EIR）以及社区教练和导师激发创意和团队建设，并通过理论和实践指导创新者，最终，去/不去的决定。凭借严格的选拔过程和实践培训，拥有客户验证，技术和制造可行的产品和服务的团队在大学，当地企业和资助者以及I-Corps区域和国家节点的进一步支持下进行商业化。这一过程创造了一个不断增长的企业家队伍，他们继续创新，建立企业，指导和投资他人，并全面充电创业生态系统，使宾厄姆顿和大学成为企业家，投资者和初创公司的中心。宾厄姆顿I-Corps网站旨在改变大学教师，员工和学生的心态，以及社区成员和领导人的能力，提供一种切实可行的方法，以创造围绕技术建立的新的可持续企业。展示这条前进的道路在大学，当地企业，专业服务和投资者社区，行业和政府之间建立了积极和强大的关系。在企业、私营部门和政府之间建立信任和互动，其涟漪反应远远超出了项目团队的范围，并传播了一个由新项目驱动和补充的自我维持的创业生态系统。此外，通过将企业家和内部企业家聚集在一起，该网站计划模糊了大企业和小企业，制造业和服务业，学术界和私营部门的界限，并通过新的企业促进了对价值和创造就业机会的共同目标的努力。公司的成功推出激励宾厄姆顿大学的研究人员，学生和毕业生，并灌输乐观的前景，创造财富和履行工作在宾厄姆顿，或任何地方，他们的职业生涯需要他们在全国各地。

This project, from Binghamton University, creates an NSF I-Corps Site at this institution.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 Binghamton I-Corps Site strengthens the ecosystem at Binghamton University. By integrating existing innovation support programs and technology transfer with entrepreneurship and business incubation services, technologies stemming from faculty research, student ingenuity, and community innovators are evaluated for commercial viability. Experienced technology transfer professionals, technical experts resident in Binghamton's industry-facing centers, and on-staff entrepreneurship and financial advisers recruit teams and promote promising teams into the program.Entrepreneurship and engineering faculty, entrepreneurs-in-residence (EIRs), and community coaches and mentors stimulate ideation and team building, and guide the innovators through theory and practice, and, ultimately, the go / no-go decision. By virtue of a rigorous selection process and hands-on training, the teams with customer-validated, technology- and manufacturing-feasible products and services proceed with commercialization with further support from the university, local businesses, and funders, as well as the I-Corps regional and national nodes. The process creates a growing cadre of entrepreneurs who continue to innovate, build businesses, mentor and invest in others, and overall recharge the entrepreneurial ecosystem, making Binghamton and the University a hub for entrepreneurs, investors, and start-up companies.The Binghamton I-Corps Site is meant to transform the mindset of University faculty, staff and students, as well as that of community members and leaders by providing a practical, achievable approach to generating new, sustainable ventures built around technologies. Demonstrating this path forward creates positive and powerful relationships between universities, the local business, professional services and investor communities, industry, and government. Generating trust and interactions between academia-private sector-government has ripple effects far beyond the teams going through the program, and propagate a self-sustaining, entrepreneurial ecosystem driven and replenished by new launches. Furthermore, by bringing together entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, this Site program blurs lines separating big and small business, manufacturing and service industries, academia and the private sector, and spurs efforts towards the common goal of value and job creation through new ventures. Successful launches of companies inspire Binghamton University researchers, students and graduates, and instill optimism about the prospects for creating wealth and fulfilling jobs in Binghamton, or wherever their careers take them throughout the nation.