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
For researchers exploring commercialization pathways and funding for their innovation, join us for the next special event in the Innovating Together Series hosted by the I-Corps Northeast Hub!
If you want to learn more about the NSF I-Corps Hub Northeast Regional Program or have already…
- Sep 29
- Oct 4
- Oct 13
- Oct 20
Apply by September 8 at 5 p.m. In this four-session program, Hub instructors provide training and grants to support team-based customer research aimed at investigating the viability and societal impact of scientific and technological discoveries.
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- Nov 30
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.
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