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Identification Of Entrepreneurial Competencies In I-Corps Site Teams At The University Of South Florida, Mark A. Giddarie Mar 2021

Identification Of Entrepreneurial Competencies In I-Corps Site Teams At The University Of South Florida, Mark A. Giddarie

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The Innovators to Entrepreneurs Act was introduced by Congressman Daniel Lipinski of Illinois and several other congressional colleagues in January of 2019. This bill enables broader participation in the successful National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program and provides additional training for innovators to learn how to turn their research into new products and businesses. I-Corps connects scientists and engineers within the technological, entrepreneurial, and business communities to move discoveries from the laboratory to the market.

The most successful federal program of its kind, I-Corps has trained over 1,300 teams, led to the formation of 644 startup companies and resulted …