Transform your discovery
- Explore the value to society of your research
- Engage with mentors and experienced entrepreneurs
- Accelerate your discovery’s impact through a startup or new venture
What is I-Corps?
- The I-Corps program helps researchers explore the potential for their discoveries to become products and services that can benefit society.
- Researchers form teams and attend a 4-session program focused on identifying how their innovation meets customer needs.
- Teams can include faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students and/or undergraduates who are developing a scientific or technical discovery at any institution in the Northeast.
Rutgers University student Sherifat Alaka illuminates fingerprint samples with a special light, while observed by Kimberlee Sue Moran, associate teaching professor and director of forensics. Rutgers is one of two partner institutions in the new Innovation-Corps (I-Corps) Northeast Hub hub funded by the National Science Foundation to foster startups based on university research. Photo credit: ©2020 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Why participate in I-Corps?
- Researchers build relationships and gain skills in an inclusive, welcoming environment.
- Promising ventures may continue to NSF's national I-Corps program and win a $50,000 small business grant.
- Program alumni become part of the I-Corps entrepreneurship ecosystem and have access to resources across the Hub-member institutions.
Events and Upcoming Regional Programs
Lean how how NSF I-Corps and the Merck Digital Sciences Studio can help you bring your technology closer to solving real-world problems, follow-on funding, and impacting lives! Whether you're far along in your…
Learn about the impact your research could have for societal benefit!
Who Should AttendAll faculty, students, and researchers at Temple University or Drexel University, as well as local entrepreneurs with a technology innovation, are welcome to attend. Come learn about the commercial potential of your technology! If you don't have…
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Apply by September 8 at 5 p.m. Propelus is our four-session program that trains university innovators to conduct team-based customer research aimed at investigating the viability and societal impact of scientific and technological discoveries.
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Through the program, we provide training and grants to support team-based customer research aimed at investigating the viability and societal impact of scientific and technological discoveries.
Our four-session program helps researchers explore the customer perspective to inform how a discovery or innovation can become the basis of a…
The I-Corps Northeast Hub
The NSF I-Corps Hub: Northeast Region is made up of eight universities, with new affiliates added annually. Note: Participants in Hub programs do NOT need to be affiliated with a Hub member university.
I-Corps Northeast Map
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