Author: slora

8/20/2019

In June 2019, NSF submitted a biennial report on the efficacy of the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) program, which provides hands-on entrepreneurship training to academic researchers and other scientists. The report includes metrics on the effectiveness of I-Corps at each federal science agency participating in the I-Corps program.

In short, from its 2011 inception through December 2018, 1,315 I-Corps teams (a total of 3,745 people) have received NSF I-Corps training, which has resulted in the creation of 644 startups and $301 million in follow-on funding across all disciplines of science and engineering.

Read the full report on the NSF I-Corps website.

9/18/2018

One of the best ways to measure a startup ecosystem and where it is headed is by looking at its youngest entrepreneurs and technologists. From classrooms at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, to the city’s accelerator programs for budding entrepreneurs, there is evidence in all corners of Chicago that show it’s not just tech veterans pushing the city’s innovative spirit forward. To highlight some of Chicago’s young tech leaders, Chicago Inno has compiled a list of 25 promising and notable young entrepreneurs and technologists in the city’s tech and startup scene. 

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5/15/2018

The national laboratory last month announced its second class of participants for a Midwest energy entrepreneurship program.
Erika Boeing is developing a small wind turbine she hopes can someday find a home alongside solar panels on the rooftops of big-box stores, factories and other large commercial and industrial buildings.

A major challenge for her St. Louis-based company: securing funding, which is generally harder to come by for advanced hardware than software startups. And Boeing and her team are at “the limit of our expertise and computing resources for computational fluid dynamics modeling,” as she describes it.

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4/24/2018

Congressman Dan Lipinski’s (IL-3) Innovators to Entrepreneurs Act of 2018, which helps turn federal research investments into innovative new products and creates jobs, has passed the House of Representatives with overwhelming bipartisan support.

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