Southwest I-Corps™ is a hub for education, infrastructure and research to engage academic scientists and engineers in innovation.

Through the combined entrepreneurial experience and research capabilities of five leading research institutions in Texas, Southwest I-Corps™ supports and connects young scientists, leading faculty and the greater business community across the Texas and Southwest region in testing their funded research for potential commercial applications through national and regional I-Corps™ programming.

Together, we are spurring innovation.

We’re working to build, utilize, and sustain the national innovation ecosystem.

Southwest I-Corps™ is part of the National Innovation Network (NIN), a national network of NSF-funded researchers from I-Corps™ Teams, I-Corps™ Nodes, and I-Corps™ Sites. Working together, this network of thinkers addresses America’s needs for innovation education, infrastructure, and research.

Individually known as an I-Corps™ Node, Southwest I-Corps™ cultivates regional innovation education, infrastructure and research. We work cooperatively with other I-Corps™ Nodes to foster understanding on how to:

• Identify, develop and support promising ideas that can generate value,
• Create and implement tools and resources that enhance our nation’s innovation capacity,
• Gather, analyze, evaluate and utilize the data and insight resulting from the experiences of the I-Corps™ Teams, and
• Share and leverage effective innovation practices on a national scale to improve the quality of life for the American public.