A host of institutions have joined NSF’s five regional educational programmes called I-Corps Hubs, which will each receive $3m per year until 2026.
Innovation Corps (I-Corps), an entrepreneurship training scheme for the US government research agency National Science Foundation (NSF), has formed five I-Corps Hubs having partnered several universities.
Each hub will be equipped with $3m in annual funds for five years and will involve universities training academic researchers to commercialise their findings.
NSF I-Corps Hub in the Great Lakes region is led by University of Michigan and joined by Iowa State, Michigan Technological, Missouri Science & Technology, Purdue, Akron, Chicago, Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Minnesota Twin Cities, Toledo and Wisconsin-Milwaukee universities.
University of Maryland, College Park is leading the hub in the mid-Atlantic area, and participants include Carnegie Mellon, George Washington, Howard, Johns Hopkins, North Carolina State, Penn State, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania and Virginia Tech universities.
City University of New York spearheads New York region’s NSF I-Corps Hub, which features peers Columbia, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, Rockefeller, Stevens Institute of Technology, Stony Brook, Massachusetts Medical School and New York at Albany.
Princeton University heads up the northeast NSF I-Corps Hub, while Delaware State, Lehigh, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rowan, Rutgers, Temple and Delaware filled out the roster.
University of Southern California serves as the lead for NSF I-Corps Hub in the west region, while California Institute of Technology, Colorado School of Mines, University of California (UC), Los Angeles, UC Riverside, University of Colorado Boulder, University of New Mexico and University of Utah are all taking part.