NSF INNOVATION CORPS SITE AT UCLA
commercial potential?
UCLA NSF I-Corps Site awardees will complete an education component to prepare the team to apply for the NSF I-Corps Teams program which provides funding of $50,000 to do deeper market and commercialization proof-of-concept work around the team’s technology. Teams will also be encouraged to take advantage of UCLA’s unique collection of entrepreneurial plan competitions, on campus accelerators and incubators, and translational governmental funding.
You can apply with a full team consisting of an Entrepreneurial Lead, Academic Lead and Industry Mentor.*
The “Entrepreneurial Lead” can be a Post-Doctoral scholar, professional staff, graduate student, undergraduate or other student, with relevant knowledge of the technology and a commitment to investigating the commercial landscape surrounding the innovation.
The “Academic Lead” will be responsible for overall project management. The Academic Lead must have an academic appointment that normally qualifies them to submit proposals or play the role of PI in subsequent submissions to NSF.
The “Industry Mentor” will typically be an experienced or emerging entrepreneur with proximity to the institution and experience in transitioning technology out of academic labs. The UCLA I-Corps Site Team Selection Committee members will facilitate mentorship introductions.
*If you don’t have an Academic Lead or Industry Mentor, you may still apply.
Nine week workshop non-credit course focuses on lean startup instruction and methodology consistent with the NSF I-Corps curriculum. In addition to supporting translational research, this course will help train students to understand innovation and entrepreneurship.
The course is an introduction to the transformation of new knowledge and inventions into viable commercial products and services with particular emphasis on the technology being developed at major research universities like UCLA. This course is intended for MBA and graduate students.
The course is an introduction to the transformation of new knowledge and inventions into viable commercial products and services with particular emphasis on the technology being developed at major research universities like UCLA. This course is intended for undergraduate students.
Innovation-Node Los Angeles (IN-LA) is a collaboration of the University of Southern California (USC), California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). ZAP! courses are offered quarterly by the ITA.