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Table 2. I-Corps Sites University of New Hampshire ..........................................2016 .......................... New Hampshire
New Mexico State University ............................................2016 ..........................New Mexico
Site Institution Year Funded State Rensselaer Polytechnique Institute ..................................2016 ..........................New York
Arizona State University ....................................................2016 ..........................Arizona
University of Akron............................................................2013, 2017 ................ Ohio Jackson State University.....................................................2016 ..........................MIssissippi
University of California, San Diego .................................2013, 2017 ................ California University of California, Irvine ........................................2017 ..........................California
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ..................2013, 2017 ................ Illinois City University New York ..................................................2017 ..........................New York
University Toledo ...............................................................2013, 2017 ................ Ohio Brandeis University ............................................................2017 ..........................Massachusetts
Carnegie-Mellon University..............................................2014 .......................... Pennsylvania New York University ..........................................................2017 ..........................New York
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ............................2014 .......................... Massachusetts George Washington University.........................................2017 ..........................DC
San Diego State University ................................................2014 .......................... California Cornell University ..............................................................2017 ..........................New York
University of Central Florida ............................................2014 .......................... Florida Johns Hopkins University .................................................2017 ..........................Maryland
University of Chicago ........................................................2014 .......................... Illinois University of Alabama Birmingham ................................2017 ..........................Alabama
University of Delaware.......................................................2014 .......................... Delaware University of Georgia .........................................................2017 ..........................Georgia
University of Houston ........................................................2014 .......................... Texas University of Massachusetts Lowell .................................2017 ..........................Massachusetts
University of Minnesota Twin Cities ...............................2014 .......................... Minnesota University of California, Santa Cruz ................................2017 ..........................California
University of Southern California ....................................2014 .......................... California University of Virginia.........................................................2017 ..........................Virginia
University of Texas at San Antonio ..................................2014 .......................... Texas Mississippi State University ...............................................2017 ..........................Mississippi
University of Utah ..............................................................2014 .......................... Utah Texas A&M Main Campus ................................................2017 ..........................Texas
Brigham Young University ................................................2015 .......................... Utah California State University Northridge ...........................2017 ..........................California
Howard University & Hampton University ....................2015 .......................... DC University of California, Merced ......................................2017 ..........................California
Michigan Technological University .................................2015 .......................... Michigan
New Jersey Institute of Technology ..................................2015 .......................... New Jersey
Oregon State University .....................................................2015 .......................... Oregon I-Corps Sites that have been formed from FY 2012. Beginning in 2013, NSF funded four I-Corps Sites to pilot
Purdue University ...............................................................2015 .......................... Indiana the program. Afterwards, 11 I-Corps Sites were funded in FY 2014, 21 in 2015, and 15 in 2016. At the beginning
Rochester Institute of Technology ....................................2015 .......................... New York of FY2017, an additional 16 Sites were funded. As of FY 2017, there are a total of 67 I-Corps Sites. (Data Source:
http://www.msf.gov/awardsearch)
Stony Brook University ......................................................2015 .......................... New York
Tulane University................................................................2015 .......................... Louisiana
University of Alabama .......................................................2015 .......................... Alabama PROGRAM GROWTH While NSF did not create I-Corps to be a required
University of California, Los Angeles ..............................2015 .......................... California Early success with the program sparked curiosity program for SBIR recipients, some government agen-
University of Connecticut .................................................2015 .......................... Connecticut cies have begun offering I-Corps participation or
University of Iowa ..............................................................2015 .......................... Iowa from its founders and participants. The question was agency specific I-Corps programs to their SBIR recip-
University of Louisville ......................................................2015 .......................... Kentucky raised, “Would the principles of Lean LaunchPad ients. For example, in 2015 and 2016, the National
University of North Carolina at Charlotte ......................2015 .......................... North Carolina and the formal curriculum developed for I-Corps Institutes of Health (NIH) offered a life sciences
University of Pennsylvania ................................................2015 .......................... Pennsylvania be applicable to technologies that were not based on
University of Pittsburgh .....................................................2015 .......................... Pennsylvania science and engineering?” Another pilot to test the I-Corps curriculum for their SBIR Phase I grant-
University of Rochester......................................................2015 .......................... New York viability of the I-Corps program, but with different ees and are planning to schedule cohorts each year
University of South Florida, Tampa .................................2015 .......................... Florida programmatic intentions, was Innovation Corps for moving forward. NSF SBIR recipients are eligible to
University of Washington ..................................................2015 .......................... Washington Learning (I-Corps-L) (28). In 2013, with the help apply to the I-Corps program, and NSF I-Corps par-
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee ...............................2015 .......................... Wisconsin of Steve Blank, I-Corps-L was piloted within NSF’s ticipants are provided information on the NSF SBIR
Ohio State University .........................................................2016 .......................... Ohio Directorate for Education and Human Resources program as an opportunity for commercialization
Missouri University of Science & Technology ................2016 .......................... Missouri (EHR) to promote opportunities for widespread support.
Louisiana State University .................................................2016 .......................... Louisiana adoption, adaptation, and utilization of discover- As part of the effort to scale I-Corps across fed-
Wichita State University ....................................................2016 .......................... Kansas ies and practices stemming from education R&D. eral agencies, NSF partnered with multiple agencies
University of Arizona .........................................................2016 .......................... Arizona I-Corps-L challenged NSF education researchers to create agency specific versions of I-Corps. The
Oklahoma State University ...............................................2016 .......................... Oklahoma to think beyond their research results and towards first group of agencies included the U.S. Centers for
Washington State University .............................................2016 .......................... Washington broader adoption of STEM education and learning Disease Control; Department of Energy (DOE)/
Tennessee Technological University ................................2016 .......................... Tennessee innovations. That pilot prompted the EHR directorate Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy; DOE
University of Nevada, Las Vegas .......................................2016 .......................... Nevada to sponsor full cohorts each year since the initial Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy;
Dartmouth University .......................................................2016 .......................... New Hampshire education pilot. U.S Department of Homeland Security; Department