The Evansdale Innovation Center is partnering with WVU LaunchLab Network to host the next round of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps training program to help prepare WVU scientists, engineers and students to accelerate their cutting-edge technologies and products into the marketplace.
Guided by WVU trainers, the second cohort of the I-Corps training will help participants identify opportunities that can evolve from academic research, gain business skills, test business models and test hypotheses about customers in the real world to ensure products have a strong market demand prior to commercialization.
“As WVU pursues world-changing discoveries and innovation, we encourage our WVU researchers, faculty, staff and graduate students to take advantage of this training program that will help commercialize their advanced technologies, discoveries and innovations,” said Randy Quinn, associate director of the Evansdale Innovation Center. “This training will serve as an entrepreneurial boot camp for faculty and students to discover what it’s like to take a product to market. It will ultimately help determine whether their idea can be successful with customers. We want to ensure WVU’s cutting-edge research gets off the shelves and enters the real world so we can continue to make a lasting impact in West Virginia and beyond.”
The second cohort of the I-Corps training will take place Feb. 22 through March 9. Researchers who want to learn more about the program and or apply to be in the spring cohort should reach out to Randy Quinn at randolph.quinn@mail.wvu.edu. The deadline to apply is Feb. 8.
The Evansdale Innovation Center, founded by the WVU Research Office, is home to the WVU I-Corps program and is a part of the WVU Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Applied Hub. The IDEA Hub encompasses a University-wide network of centers, offices and programs that fosters and supports innovation and entrepreneurship in students, faculty and staff while engaging the statewide community.