{"id":5370,"date":"2011-07-28T15:20:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T19:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=5370"},"modified":"2011-07-28T15:20:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T19:20:12","slug":"nsf-unveils-innovation-corps-to-extend-innovation-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=5370","title":{"rendered":"NSF Unveils Innovation Corps to Extend Innovation Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MapPins_CJSorgFlickr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2867\" title=\"MapPins_CJSorgFlickr\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MapPins_CJSorgFlickr.jpg\" alt=\"Pins on a map (CJ Sorg\/Flickr)\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MapPins_CJSorgFlickr.jpg 267w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MapPins_CJSorgFlickr-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=121225&amp;org=NSF&amp;from=news\">National Science Foundation<\/a> launched today its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/special_reports\/i-corps\/index.jsp\">Innovation Corps<\/a> (I-Corps) program, a public-private partnership to help turn scientific and engineering discoveries into useful technologies and products. I-Corps expects to support up to 100 projects at $50,000 a project.<\/p>\n<p>In I-Corps, NSF will ask members of the private sector to share their knowledge and experience with I-Corps awardees. These technology developers, business leaders, and venture capitalists from private industry will act as I-Corps mentors and form a network of expertise that can enhance the I-Corps awardees&#8217; ability to transform their scientific and engineering results into successful technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Each I-Corps team of principal investigator, mentor, and an entrepreneurial lead, will systematically identify and act on the barriers to developing the awardee&#8217;s technology for the marketplace. These will include factors such as resources required, competing technologies, and value added by the innovation.<\/p>\n<p>I-Corps will also pilot test merit review processes where promising discoveries from NSF-funded research projects will be identified quickly for financial support as well as for mentorship through the national network. In addition, I-Corps plans to provide students with opportunities to learn about and participate in the process of transforming scientific and engineering discoveries into innovative technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deshpandefoundation.org\/\">Deshpande Foundation<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kauffman.org\/\">Kauffman Foundation<\/a>, along with NSF, are founding members of the I-Corps partnership. I-Corps plans to hold monthly Webinars to discuss the program and answer questions. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/special_reports\/i-corps\/program.jsp\">first Webinar<\/a> is Tuesday 2 August at 2:00 pm ET.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=4394\">U.S. Regional Industry Cluster Challenge Unveiled<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cjsorg\/2543596456\/\">C.J. Sorg\/Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Science Foundation launched today its Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, a public-private partnership to help turn scientific and engineering discoveries into useful technologies and products. I-Corps expects to support up to 100 projects at $50,000 a project. In I-Corps, NSF will ask members of the private sector to share their knowledge and experience with I-Corps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[53,74,14],"class_list":["post-5370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ventures","tag-economics","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-nsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5374,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions\/5374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}