Researchers at the UT Austin Walker School of Mechanical Engineering have successfully completed the U.S. National Science Foundation’s prestigious National Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) Teams program, as members of the 2022 Summer Cohort in New York City....
The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced the addition of five new NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) Hubs that will scale the NSF-led National Innovation Network, accelerating the translation of discoveries into new solutions that benefit society. Each I-Corps Hub is funded for up to $3 million per year for five years and comprises a regional alliance of at least eight universities. ...
Arable aims to observe a crop’s development as it grows and help farmers determine when the crop needs the basics, such as more light, water, or nutrients....
By Mike Cronin – Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal Jul 28, 2020, 2:36pm CDT Updated Jul 28, 2020, 2:46pm CDT Several academic, public-sector and private-sector organizations in Austin and beyond have banded together to fight the current Covid-19 pandemic — and future pandemics. The Texas Global Health Security Innovation Consortium boasts more than......
These UT professors have won the university’s Invent & Innovate Awards by Avril SealeUT News Feature image: From left, Christopher Idelson, John M. Uecker, M.D., Doug Stoakley and Christopher Rylander. Photo by Marsha Miller A Laparoscopic Windshield Wiper Health Innovation Award: ClearCam Dell Seton Medical......
Originally posted at The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Blog By Jose Papa, Program Associate with Texas Health Catalyst The following blog post is authored by José Papa, a program associate with Texas Health Catalyst who is interested in how technology and......
TTUHSC researchers are turning “great” research into business ventures that provide life-changing products By Kara Bishop Photos by Neal Hinkle Original article: TTU’s Health Science Center PULSE Magazine School of Health Professions Associate Dean for Research Phil Sizer, PhD, PT, is passionate about research, obviously, and value......
By: Nicole Lundberg Texas Tech Discoveries The story started with a simple research presentation. Suhas Pol, a research assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University, asked Kerry Gilbert, professor and director of the Clinical Research Anatomy Laboratory, at the Texas......
By Cheryl Taylor RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS – AUG. 4, 2017 – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley has been awarded $499,985 in federal funding by the National Science Foundation to establish an NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Site in the Rio Grande Valley. UTRGV’s......
Harvard Business Review By Greg Satell When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links......
NeoFluidics, LLC was formed out of the TTU accelerator program and went through the NSF I-Corps Team program. The portfolio includes a platform microfluidic storage and dilution technology (NeoPlate). It mimics a standard microtiter well plate with the added capabilities of being able to store ultra-low......
Texas Tech researchers recently were represented at the Texas Renewable Energy Industries Alliance’s annual conference, GridNEXT. The conference, held November 9-11 in the 100% renewable Georgetown, Texas, showcased seven winners from Texas Tech’s GLEAMM Challenge held in September at the Innovation Hub at Research Park. On display in Georgetown......
Posted November 3rd, 2016 by the University of Michigan. Contact Jane Sugiyama, 734-763-2908 janesugi@umich.edu ANN ARBOR⎯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......
I-Corps supports national innovation ecosystem, helps take scientific discovery to the marketplace September 27, 2016 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded five new grants to teach entrepreneurship and to support research and innovation at regional hubs across the United States under its Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) program.......
By Laura Lorek Reporter with Silicon Hills News Feature Image: Professor of Innovation at UT Austin Bob Metcalfe with Francisco Gomes, associate dean for graduate programs in UT’s school of architecture at the stART Studio. Nurturing professor led startups to help them take their inventions......
JADE BOYD – August 8, 2016 Rice University News and Media Scientists combine talents to promote, commercialize advanced biomanufacturing breakthroughs Rice University has launched an interdisciplinary initiative to focus its strengths in advanced biomanufacturing techniques to solve grand challenges. The iBIO initiative will bring Rice’s faculty and......
Southwest I-Corps team “Living Umbrella” (Dave Tilley, Tim Williamson, and Piotr Kulczakowicz) was featured in the VentureWell newsletter for their BMC journey Comic Strip featuring the SW I-Corps Teaching team. Check it out! Dave Tilley, Tim Williamson, and Piotr Kulczakowicz of Living Umbrella created a comic that......
Texas A&M Explores The Business Of Safer Hospital Rooms Newswise — “Technology boot camp” is how Virender Sharma, a professor at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health, describes his experience at Innovation Corps (I-Corps), a National Science Foundation (NSF) program that......
Researchers work to revolutionize how health care institutions clean surfaces “Technology boot camp” is how Virender Sharma, PhD, professor at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health, describes his experience at Innovation Corps (I-Corps), a National Science Foundation (NSF) program that helps scientists bring......
The popularity of ABC’s Shark Tank has made it hip for many to identify themselves as entrepreneurs, even though it’s more likely most haven’t made it out of the what-if stage. The extraordinary stories attached to trailblazers and risk-takers like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs and......
By Patrick Kurp, Engineering Communications Rice University George R. Brown School of Engineering “We are trained in science, in our discipline. Business we tend to learn on our own. One of the big lessons I learned from I-Corps are real-world tactics to define your market.......
(Note: This is the first in a series of stories about research projects that have received I-Corps funding.) A team of Texas A&M University engineers has been accepted into the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, which is managed by the Center for New Ventures......
Dell Medical School leaders have emphasized the part it will play in turning research into real-world applications and business opportunities, as well as its academic role. Those efforts are paying off. Three nascent medical technologies have received big funding boosts from the University of Texas medical school as......
In October, the Southwest Node of NSF I-Corps hosted a regional program to develop potentially eligible teams for national I-Corps grants. Organized by Rice University and the University of Houston, seven teams from both schools spent 10 days learning and implementing best practices for linking......
The program fosters entrepreneurship that will lead to the commercialization of technology previously supported by National Science Foundation-funded research. Texas Tech University has been named the fourth member of the southwest node of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps), joining The University of......
Lubbock Avalanche Journal Texas Tech University has been named the fourth member of the southwest node of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps, joining The University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University and Rice University to foster entrepreneurship that will lead to the commercialization......
How is I-Corps affecting entrepreneurs and scientists across America? NSF has put together a great info graphic that answers this question. Below are some highlights from the full report. Download the I-Corps Fact Sheet to see the whole thing!...
Sunday, March 15 2:00PM – 3:00PM Radisson Town Lake Riverside Ballroom 111 E Cesar Chavez The National Science Foundation I-Corps program is focused on advancing the commercial outcomes of fundamental scientific research through applied entrepreneurship training consistent with Steve Blanks Business Model Canvas methodology. The......
UT-Dallas News Center UT Dallas, MD Anderson Cancer Center Team Up to Help Companies Commercialize Their Discoveries A new UT Dallas-led initiative is aimed at identifying potentially marketable biomedical technologies developed at University of Texas System institutions and moving them more efficiently from the laboratory......