I-Corps Sites: Type I - Center for Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (ICE) I-Corps Site

通过这个项目，创新、商业化和创业中心(Center ICE)主办了一个国家科学基金会i-Corps网站。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。中心ICE是位于阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯大学(UAF)的创新中心，是阿拉斯加大学的旗舰研究校园。这个i-Corps站点是在UAF之外管理的，但向UA社区的所有成员开放-UAF、阿拉斯加大学安克雷奇(UAA)和阿拉斯加东南大学。这个i-Corps网站利用了阿拉斯加现有的创业生态系统，并放大了它的影响。I-Corps网站还补充了海军研究办公室目前为巩固和发展创新和创业精神所做的努力，包括将经验丰富的精益启动教育人员带到阿拉斯加。此外，还有一个目标是建立一个统一服务于整个州而不仅仅是UA费尔班克斯校园的系统，包括关注美洲原住民和农村地区。这一奖项反映了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 Center for Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (Center ICE) hosts a National Science Foundation I-Corps Site. 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.Center ICE is an innovation hub located at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), which is the flagship research campus at the University of Alaska. This I-Corps Site is administered out of UAF but is open to all members of the UA community - UAF, the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), and the University of Alaska Southeast. This I-Corps Site capitalizes on Alaska's existing entrepreneurial ecosystem and amplifies its effect. An I-Corps Site also complements current efforts from the Office of Naval Research to solidify and grow innovation and entrepreneurship, including bringing experienced Lean Launch educators to Alaska. In addition, there is a goal to set up a system that uniformly serves the entire state and not just the UA Fairbanks campus, including a focus on native Americans and rural areas.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.