I-Corps Sites: Type I - University of Texas at El Paso I-Corps Site for Innovation

通过这个项目，德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校通过其迈克·洛亚创新和商业中心建立了一个创新团队(i-Corps)网站，并在工商管理学院和工程学院之间架起了桥梁。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当地团队，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。UTEP i-Corps网站与该大学的技术商业化办公室(OTC)和创业实践社区(ECop)密切合作，促进并加速客户驱动的研究向商业世界的过渡。UTEP i-Corps网站加强了地方和区域创新，并为地区/国家专业导师、受过专业培训的企业家和以客户为导向的创新者做出了贡献。该网站为研究人员提供了验证的关键组成部分，帮助他们推动他们的创新走出UTEP的实验室，进入地区和国家的商业活动。这个i-Corps网站位于一家为拉美裔服务的机构，在该大学服务的整个地区协同创新、研究商业化和新业务创造。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With this project, the University of Texas at El Paso establishes an Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Site through its Mike Loya Center for Innovation and Commerce and bridges the Colleges of Business Administration and Engineering. 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 UTEP I-Corps Site, in close collaboration with the University's Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) and Entrepreneurship Community of Practice (ECop), fosters and accelerates transition of customer-driven research into the commercial world. This UTEP I-Corps Site reinforces local and regional innovation and contributes to a regional/national pool of professional mentors, professionally trained entrepreneurs and customer-driven innovators. The site provides researchers with a critical component of validation that helps them propel their innovations out of UTEP's labs and into regional and national commercial activities. This I-Corps Site, located in a Hispanic-serving institution, synergizes innovation, research commercialization and new business creation across the region served by the university.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.