Researchers, students invited to apply for UD's NSF I-Corps Sites Program

8:21 a.m., Sept. 9, 2014--The Horn Program in Entrepreneurship has announced that it is inviting applications to the University of Delaware’s National Science Foundation Innovation Corps Sites Program (I-Corps Sites). 

Applications for the first cohort are due by 5 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 22. 

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Interested students, faculty and staff members are invited to attend an information session that will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 16, from 5-6 p.m. at the Venture Development Center, 132 E. Delaware Ave.

The I-Corps Sites Program provides specialized training and grants of $3,000 to teams interested in assessing the commercial viability of their ideas for products and businesses that are science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)-based as well as behavioral and health sciences-related technologies. 

Participation gives students, faculty and staff members the opportunity to make a global impact with their inventions.

Teams will have access to Horn Program in Entrepreneurship’s resources, such as use of the Venture Development Center, and are eligible to apply to the national I-Corps Teams Program, which provides larger grants of $50,000.

The I-Corps Sites Program’s training consists of a series of five workshops aimed at introducing team members to the Lean Startup methodology by guiding them through the initial phase of customer discovery research and problem validation. 

RSVP by email to hornprogram@udel.edu if you plan to attend the information session. 

For additional information, the Request for Applications (RFA), and the application form, visit UD’s I-Corps Sites website. 

Questions should be sent by email to hornprogram@udel.edu with “I-Corps Sites Program” in the subject line.

About UD’s NSF I-Corps Sites Program

UD’s program is funded by a $300,000 award from the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps Sites Program (I-Corps Sites) that was announced in June. 

The three-year project will be led by Dan Freeman, director of UD’s Horn Program in Entrepreneurship, and Dan Flynn, associate dean for research in the College of Health Sciences.