I-Corps Sites: Type II - Southeastern Wisconsin I-Corps Site: Enhancing Regional Technology Commercialization

该项目来自威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校（UWM），将其最初的I-Corps Site奖扩展到下一阶段的创新和创业支持。创新团队（I-Corps）网站是在大学建立的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。这是一个II类I-Corps站点的提案-II类提案是由已经获得I类奖项的机构提交的。威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校（UWM）与UWM研究基金会（UWMRF）合作，目前运营着威斯康星州东南部的NSF I-Corps站点（“密尔沃基I-Corps站点”），这是威斯康星州唯一的NSF I-Corps站点。该网站吸引了来自五个密尔沃基地区学术机构的学术团队：UWM，威斯康星州医学院（MCW），马奎特大学（MU），威斯康星州康考迪亚大学（CUW）和密尔沃基工程学院（MSOE）。这是一个示范性的I-Corps网站：在全州范围内开展活动;发起了一项保健倡议;成功地实现了包容性，特别是在妇女中;试验了各种课程;该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。

This project, from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), extends their initial I-Corps Site award for scale up to their next phase of support for innovation and entrepreneurship. 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. This is a proposal for a Type II I-Corps Site - Type II proposals are submitted by institutions that have already received a Type I award.The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), in partnership with the UWM Research Foundation (UWMRF), currently operates the NSF I-Corps Site of Southeastern Wisconsin ("Milwaukee I-Corps Site"), which is the only NSF I-Corps site in Wisconsin. The site draws academic teams from five Milwaukee-area academic institutions: UWM, the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Marquette University (MU), Concordia University of Wisconsin (CUW), and the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). This has been an exemplary I-Corps Site that: reached out across the state; launched a Healthcare initiative; succeeded in inclusiveness, particularly among women; experimented with a variety of curricular offerings; and engaged in entrepreneurship research and published outcomes of their studies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.