A unique partnership between two of the Department of Energy’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Programs (LEEP) and the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) I-Corps Program will offer valuable additional support for early-stage clean energy startups. Beginning with Cohort 5, innovators in Chain [...]

In June 2019, NSF submitted a biennial report on the efficacy of the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) program, which provides hands-on entrepreneurship training to academic researchers and other scientists. The report includes metrics on the effectiveness of I-Corps at each federal science [...]

At its new I-Corps Site, led by Professor Matthew Lynall, Purdue University is proving that the only way forward is together. In the last four years, collaborative work with the National Science Foundation, other state institutions and external local and national commercial stakeholders and [...]

Congressman Dan Lipinski (IL-3), joined by Congressman Daniel Webster (FL-11), has introduced the Innovators to Entrepreneurs Act of 2018, supporting the expansion of the successful I-Corps program which helps turn federal research investments into innovative new products and jobs. The [...]

ANN ARBOR–A new pilot program supported by the National Science Foundation will help early stage startups in the Midwest commercialize their technology. The Midwest Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Node, led by the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship with the University of Illinois [...]

Each week VentureWell features a faculty members who are doing good work—faculty members who are challenging norms in higher education and inspiring students to impact the world through invention. This month’s faculty spotlight is Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Director of the Certificate in [...]

The Midwest is like an archipelago of innovation islands, each with its own business ecosystem.  The Midwest I-Corps Node (MWIN) Industry Connect programs help build bridges between geographically distinct innovation communities within and outside the region.  MWIN Industry Connect events [...]

Cheruvu, my University of Michigan based ag-tech startup, recently attended the 2017 Agriculture Technology Innovation Summit, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From February 22 & 23, the Summit offered an excellent meeting space for entrepreneurs, industries, and [...]

A new four-university alliance will help researchers across the Midwest turn their inventions into marketable products to benefit society. Supported by a $3.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, this new alliance establishes The Midwest [...]