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
Attend this introductory training to learn how to grow your focus from the science/technology to the people it benefits and more!
- Feb 14
- Feb 16
- Feb 23
- Mar 2
This 4-session program provides training and grants to support team-based customer research aimed at investigating the viability and societal impact of scientific and technological discoveries.
The I-Corps Northeast Hub
The NSF I-Corps Hub: Northeast Region is made up of nine universities, with new partner institutions 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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