NSF i-corps hub (track 1): mid-south region

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Award ID
2229521
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Awarding agency
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$15,000,000

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Completion date 76% complete
Place of performance
Nashville, TN 37203, USA

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Abstract
The broader impact/commercial potential of this NSF i-corps hubs project is the development of a sustainable, inclusive, innovation ecosystem that will impart shared economic prosperity across the US mid-south region. The mid-south hub?s formative, evidence-driven approach may inform how inclusive innovation ecosystems can be established in regions with nascent economic activity. This knowledge will augment team preparation, maximizing the value extracted from i-corps training. The hub will further amplify the downstream successes and sustainability of deep technology ventures, including grant acquisition, fundraising, sustainable revenues, and net-positive liquidity events. Success will be leveraged to influence innovation culture at regional institutions, leading to the incentivization of enterprising faculty, students, and staff. The diverse leadership team and inclusive bench of instructors will increase the hub?s ability to connect to innovators and mentors of all backgrounds, including those who are disadvantaged or underrepresented. These efforts will include building commercialization capacity at underrepresented institutions. Evidence from the deliberate implementation of a democratized organizational structure will be evaluated for its capability to encourage and preserve the cognitive proximity of ecosystem members. This knowledge will be disseminated via the national innovation network to drive translational impacts and economic development, shaping the future of american innovation. This i-corps hubs project is based on the development of a use-inspired incubator that uses data-driven approaches to develop best practices, influence economic policy, inspire adoption of inclusive approaches to innovation, and instruct future programmatic investments. Currently, a GAP exists in understanding how regional innovation clusters can unify to drive the development of a prolific innovation ecosystem. Addressing this GAP will enable policymakers and government agencies to implement evidence-based approaches to inform programmatic investments and maximize technology commercialization, economic development, and overall national innovation readiness. This consortium of diverse, deep technology-producing institutions from disparate locations within the mid-south region will leverage the i-corps program to catalyze technological commercialization, spur economic development, and inform the future of inclusive american innovation. The hub will prioritize a formative, longitudinal assessment to iteratively optimize key activities, including team recruitment, regional and national i-corps training, upstream changes in university innovation culture, downstream impacts on successful commercialization, and an inclusive innovation corridor across the mid-south. This effort will advance technology transfer from academic institutions into entrepreneurial ventures that seed emergent, regional ecosystems. The data-driven, performance improvement approach will ensure best practices are evidence-based and create a model for other regions seeking to induce inclusive innovation cluster development. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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Subawards

Subrecipient Amount Awarded
University Of Tennessee Team expansion - to support outreach, recruitment and pipeline development $150,138
University Of Arkansas OP PI will work with the Hub Director, Lead Instructor, Faculty Lead, and other senior personnel to increase awareness of the Mid-South I-Corps Hub program… $28,632
University Of Louisville As a Partner Institution for the NSF I-Corps Mid-South Hub, the University of Louisville will work with Vanderbilt University and all of the Hub partners to… $102,484
The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation As a Mid-South I-Corps Hub partner institution, the University of Kentucky, through Launch Blue, will design and implement regional-level I-CORP short course… $134,859
Rector & Visitors Of The University Of Virginia The goal of the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program is to use experiential education, specifically, the customer discovery process to help researchers reduce… $122,253
Tennessee State University Reduce the time and risk associated with translating promising ideas and technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace, increase the economic… $87,206
University Of Arkansas OPPI will work with the Hub Director, Lead Instructor, Faculty Lead, and other senior personnel to increase awareness of the Mid-South I-Corps Hub program and… $42,323
George Mason University GMU joins the Mid-South Hub as a robust National I-Corps team generator, a coveted trove of institutional knowledge, and an influential gateway to the… $168,193
University Of Memphis For Year 1 of the Memphis Hub Member Institution, the Director and Co-Director will work to establish I-Corps programming in Memphis and to integrate the… -$7,779
Jackson State University As a partner institution of the NSF I-Corps Mid-South Hub, Jackson State University will implement entrepreneurship education, recruit, and train I-Corps… $27,482
Meharry Medical College Meharry Medical College (MMC) will focus on three focus areas identified for the Mid-South NSF I-Corps Innovation Hub for redefining the academic innovation… $49,999
University Of Arkansas OPPI will work with the Hub Director, Lead Instructor, Faculty Lead, and other senior personnel to increase awareness of the Mid-South I-Corps Hub program and… $23,651
University Of Louisville As a Partner Institution for the NSF I-Corps Mid-South Hub, the University of Louisville will work with Vanderbilt University and all of the Hub partners to… $50,000
George Mason University GMU joins the Mid-South Hub as a robust National I-Corps team generator, a coveted trove of institutional knowledge, and an influential gateway to the… $56,400
University Of Memphis For Year 1 of the Memphis Hub Member Institution, the Director and Co-Director will work to establish I-Corps programming in Memphis and to integrate the… $36,250
Tennessee State University Reduce the time and risk associated with translating promising ideas and technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace, increase the economic… $51,083
The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation As a Mid-South I-Corps Hub partner institution, the University of Kentucky, through Launch Blue, will design and implement regional-level I-CORP short course… $50,000
Jackson State University As a partner institution of the NSF I-Corps Mid-South Hub, Jackson State University will implement entrepreneurship education, recruit, and train I-Corps… $50,000
Rector & Visitors Of The University Of Virginia The goal of the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program is to use experiential education, specifically, the customer discovery process to help researchers reduce… $49,906
George Mason University GMU joins the Mid-South Hub as a robust National I-Corps team generator, a coveted trove of institutional knowledge, and an influential gateway to the… $22,701
Meharry Medical College Meharry Medical College (MMC) will focus on three focus areas identified for the Mid-South NSF I-Corps Innovation Hub for redefining the academic innovation… -$60,718
University Of Arkansas OPPI will work with the Hub Director, Lead Instructor, Faculty Lead, and other senior personnel to increase awareness of the Mid-South I-Corps Hub program and… $69,998
George Mason University GMU joins the Mid-South Hub as a robust National I-Corps team generator, a coveted trove of institutional knowledge, and an influential gateway to the… $146,501
Jackson State University As a partner institution of the NSF I-Corps Mid-South Hub, Jackson State University will implement entrepreneurship education, recruit, and train I-Corps… $8,672
Meharry Medical College Meharry Medical College (MMC) will focus on three focus areas identified for the Mid-South NSF I-Corps Innovation Hub for redefining the academic innovation… $49,999
University Of Louisville As a Partner Institution for the NSF I-Corps Mid-South Hub, the University of Louisville will work with Vanderbilt University and all of the Hub partners to… -$7,700
University Of Memphis For Year 1 of the Memphis Hub Member Institution, the Director and Co-Director will work to establish I-Corps programming in Memphis and to integrate the… $62,691
The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation As a Mid-South I-Corps Hub partner institution, the University of Kentucky, through Launch Blue, will design and implement regional-level I-CORP short course… $145,228
Tennessee State University Reduce the time and risk associated with translating promising ideas and technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace, increase the economic… -$8,973
Rector & Visitors Of The University Of Virginia The goal of the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program is to use experiential education, specifically, the customer discovery process to help researchers reduce… $60,911
University Of Tennessee Team expansion - to support outreach, recruitment and pipeline development $69,680
University Of Memphis For Year 1 of the Memphis Hub Member Institution, the Director and Co-Director will work to establish I-Corps programming in Memphis and to integrate the… $36,250
Tennessee State University Reduce the time and risk associated with translating promising ideas and technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace, increase the economic… $49,968
The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation As a Mid-South I-Corps Hub partner institution, the University of Kentucky, through Launch Blue, will design and implement regional-level I-CORP short course… $50,000
University Of Tennessee Team expansion - to support outreach, recruitment and pipeline development $49,893
University Of Louisville As a Partner Institution for the NSF I-Corps Mid-South Hub, the University of Louisville will work with Vanderbilt University and all of the Hub partners to… $50,000
George Mason University GMU joins the Mid-South Hub as a robust National I-Corps team generator, a coveted trove of institutional knowledge, and an influential gateway to the… $56,401
Rector & Visitors Of The University Of Virginia The goal of the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program is to use experiential education, specifically, the customer discovery process to help researchers reduce… $49,907
Jackson State University As a partner institution of the NSF I-Corps Mid-South Hub, Jackson State University will implement entrepreneurship education, recruit, and train I-Corps… $50,000
University Of Memphis The University of Memphis has been elected as the next Hub member institution by the members of the Mid-South I-Corps hub site lead by Vanderbilt University.… $60,417
University Of Tennessee Team expansion - to support outreach, recruitment and pipeline development $208,290
Meharry Medical College Meharry Medical College (MMC) will focus on three focus areas identified for the Mid-South NSF I-Corps Innovation Hub for redefining the academic innovation… $199,998
Rector & Visitors Of The University Of Virginia The goal of the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program is to use experiential education, specifically, the customer discovery process to help researchers reduce… $199,627
University Of Tennessee Team expansion - to support outreach, recruitment and pipeline development $12,275
George Mason University GMU joins the Mid-South Hub as a robust National I-Corps team generator, a coveted trove of institutional knowledge, and an influential gateway to the… $225,603
The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation As a Mid-South I-Corps Hub partner institution, the University of Kentucky, through Launch Blue, will design and implement regional-level I-CORP short course… $200,000
University Of Louisville As a Partner Institution for the NSF I-Corps Mid-South Hub, the University of Louisville will work with Vanderbilt University and all of the Hub partners to… $200,000
Tennessee State University Reduce the time and risk associated with translating promising ideas and technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace, increase the economic… $195,542
Jackson State University As a partner institution of the NSF I-Corps Mid-South Hub, Jackson State University will implement entrepreneurship education, recruit, and train I-Corps… $200,000
George Mason University GMU joins the Mid-South Hub as a robust National I-Corps team generator, a coveted trove of institutional knowledge, and an influential gateway to the… $225,603
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2229521 was awarded to Vanderbilt University by National Science Foundation on January 1, 2023.

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$15,000,000 has been obligated on 2229521.

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