Scientists go through three-day business ‘boot camp’ at U of M Innovation Corps Program

Innovation Corps, or I-Corps, is a program that launched at Stanford University with the aim of using NSF funding to encourage scientists to bring their innovations to the commercial market. The program targets researchers at academic institutions who already receive NSF funding, but have yet to take their inventions outside the laboratory.

The program creates three-person teams that include a primary investigator, an entrepreneurial lead, and business mentor.

"It’s a great team because we all might be sitting around the table and saying the same thing, but in three different ways," Babette Ten Haken, a business mentor for one team, said.

By Ben Freed

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