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Anita J. La Salle Computer and Informa/on Science and Engineering Directorate
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Risk-‐Averse Culture Infects U.S. Workers, Entrepreneurs Updated June 2, 2013
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Building the NaCon’s I-‐Corps™ “Fabric”
I-‐Corps™ Nodes
I-‐Corps™ Sites
I-‐Corps™ Teams
I-‐Corps™ Mentors
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NSF InnovaCon-‐Corps Teams Flow Diagram Pool of eligible PIs
& projects:
~50,000 projects (NSF)
RecruiCng processes (NSF)
Pool of eligible Teams (from NSF): • Entrepreneurial Lead
• PI • Mentor
Team SelecCon (NSF)
Node Assignment
(NSF)
Awarded I-‐Corps Teams (NSF)
Curriculum Delivery & Refinement (Nodes)
Customer Discovery
(Teams/Nodes)
Business Model
Canvasses (Teams)
“Go” Decision (Teams)
“No-‐Go” Decision (Teams)
Resource Infusion
Pool of
eligible
Teams
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Sites)
Strategic Partnership
Private CapitalizaCon
Public Funding (e.g., SBIR, STIR, …. )
Private Sector
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The I-‐Corps™ “Grass-‐Roots “ AcCvity – Teams How to become and I-‐Corps Team
Join a monthly Webinar, check out our website Form your I-‐Corps
Team
Send us your Execu/ve Summary
Engage in Telephone Interviews
Immerse in I-‐Corps
Curriculum at a Node
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A few examples… from our >350 Teams
so far.
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New way to organize, browse and share your photos.
Acquired by Dropbox!
Developed so*ware to annotate a large number of images quickly and accurately
Combining human input with an annota<on algorithm Facilitate image analysis
Founders Serge Belongie Professor at UC San Diego Peter Welinder Award-‐winning research in computer vision, machine learning and crowdsourcing. Boris Babenko Co-‐founder of @Anchovi Labs, Inc.
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“Smart and yummy educa<onal anima<ons, mini–games, and interac<ve tools that help mid-‐school learners beCer understand math concepts.” New Mexico State University
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Stephen DiMagno's fundamental research in chemistry led to developed a new way to make imaging agents for staging and managing certain cancers, including pediatric cancers, cardiac disease, as well as various neurological disorders, like Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. University of Nebraska -‐ Lincoln Department of Chemistry
Researcher founds company that manufactures molecules that become imaging agents for managing cancer, cardiac disease
and neurological disorders.
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North Carolina
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… Bio-‐Adhesive Alliance was selected as the $25,000 grand prize winner. The start-‐up company is a spin-‐out from NC A&T State University that has developed an innova/ve technology to produce liquid asphalt from swine manure. According to the company, “This technology provides a sustainable and cost-‐effec/ve solu/on to swine manure treatment while reducing pavement construc/on and maintenance cost.” The Bio-‐Adhesive Alliance team completed the Na/onal Science Founda/on’s commercializa/on program known as I-‐Corps.
Bio-‐Adhesive Alliance
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A wall-‐climbing robot system based on the teams "City-‐Climber" technology for building façade inspec/on and glass wall cleaning applica/ons. The current prac/ce of manual inspec/on of building façade is /me-‐consuming, expensive, and poses risk to human workers. The City-‐Climber technology provides a solu/on to meet a strong demand for automated inspec/on of building façades. In addi/on, the City-‐Climber robots can be modified to carry out tasks such as to clean glass walls and solar panels. Under prior funding, this team developed several wall-‐climbing robot prototypes, named City-‐Climber.
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Forbes "[...Neon] is now integra/ng her research into an algorithm that helps determine which online images produce the greatest number of clicks."
Sophie Lebrecht, Carnegie Mellon University, Entrepreneurial Lead; Mike Tarr, PI; Babs Carryer, Mentor Sophie Lebrecht iden/fied that the brain computes a very rough, very rapid and automa/c snapshot of percep/on in order to es/mate the likability of an object. They had essen/ally discovered a way to predict the images people would be most adracted to, and that image discovery had huge market poten/al—any/me there is an image, and you want a human to relate to that image, the research is applicable.
NEON
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Magdy Iskander, University of Hawaii NSF Industry/University Collabora/ve Research
Center (I/U CRC)
“All in all , ICORPS has been a most rewarding experience in my over 35 years in academia. ICORPS is magic, transforma<ve and most effec<ve, in a deceivingly simple way, in invigora<ng interstate in commercializa<on and makes believers out of academic doubters. … We are most grateful for the opportunity and wholeheartedly thank you for having our team being a part of this outstanding program.”
Microwave Stethoscope
Within months aier comple/ng I-‐Corps, this team formed a company, MIWa Technologies, LLC.
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Rather than lejng the woody side products of logging go up in smoke, this team at the University of Washington developed a heat-‐resistant laminate "blanket" that wraps around the slash pile to form a biochar-‐baking kiln that converts woody debris into biochar-‐-‐a greener alterna/ve to coal that can also be used as a nutrient-‐rich soil addi/ve for organic gardeners. The new blanket-‐-‐created in partnership with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) in the Pacific Northwest-‐-‐is the key product of a start-‐up company formed by three of the team members.
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“Selected as a GigaOm "Best of the Best" finalist for new start-‐up”
“They've already received $1 mm in Angel financing and are going out for their series A round now.”
“Development model for web and mobile applica<ons. AppScale is the open source implementa<on of Google App Engine cloud pla[orm.”
PI: Chandra Krintz University of California-‐Santa Barbara “AppScale -‐-‐ Spurring InnovaCon Through Cloud ApplicaCon Portability”
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Building the NaCon’s I-‐Corps™ “Fabric” I-‐Corps™ Nodes
I-‐Corps™ Sites
I-‐Corps™ Teams
I-‐Corps™ Mentors
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