Building on the success of the decade-long NSF Innovation Corps, I-Corps™, program, today, the U.S. National Science Foundation announced the establishment of five I-Corps Hubs that will scale the National Innovation Network and rapidly advance solutions benefiting society. Each I-Corps Hub is [...]

Written by: Nicole Casal Moore In an effort to nurture a regional innovation ecosystem and move more discoveries from the research lab to the real world, the National Science Foundation has established a Great Lakes Innovation Corps Hub that’s led by the University of Michigan and involves 11 [...]

Having always been more interested in the practical side of a PhD, Dr. Greg Ledva found a way to combine his Postdoctoral research with entrepreneurship during his time at the University of Michigan. “I have always been interested in entrepreneurship and I didn’t want to focus on pure theory,” [...]

An upcoming virtual conference hosted by the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation will showcase over a dozen companies that got their start at local I-Corps programs in the Midwest. Many have also benefited from participating in the National Science [...]

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 [...]