X-Roots Digs Deep in Customer Discovery
I-Corps Training Alters Startup’s Target Market, Service Offering
In academia, the formula for success is publish or perish. In startups, the saying might as well be pivot or perish.
Case in ...
Oil Spill Prevention System Shaped by I-Corps Training
Early on the morning of Aug. 29, 2005, the flood waters from Hurricane Katrina cascaded into the Murphy Oil Refinery in Chalmette. An above-ground storage tank holding 65,000 barrels of oil stood in ...
Smarter Reality, LLC Raises Millions Through SBIR Funding
Frank Coppersmith, CEO of Smarter Reality, LLC, has raised millions through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, helping to propel the company to new heights. As a participant in ...
Return and Verified Announce First 100% Wind-Powered Direct Air Capture Hub, Designed To Scale to 500,000 Tons Annually
San Angelo (Texas), November 21, 2024 – Carbon capture and removal project developers Return Carbon and Verified Carbon today announced “Project Concho”, a pioneering Direct Air Capture (DAC) ...
I-Corps Leads to New Business Path
Startup pivots from biodegradable plastic to nutraceuticals
LSU Biological Sciences Associate Professor Naohiro Kato never intended to go into the nutraceutical business. He created a business, ...
Innovating Beyond Challenges: How I-Corps Helped One Researcher Pivot to Success
One of the hardest lessons researchers learn from the National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps (I-Corps) training is that their brilliant invention, the sector-disrupting innovation they spent ...
UTMB Research Team Recognized for Work on Traumatic Brain Injury Detection
A team of researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch has been accepted into the prestigious National Science Foundation's National I-CorpsTM program for their groundbreaking research on ...
UT Austin Professor Dr. Wei Li Accepted into NSF National I-Corps Program for Innovative Dysphagia Monitoring Wearable Device
Dr. Wei Li of UT Austin has recently been accepted into the prestigious National Science Foundation's National I-Corps™ program, marking a significant milestone in the advancement of healthcare ...
Infant Innovation: Iman Salafian’s Collaborative Approach to Medical Devices for Newborns
Like many engineers, Iman Salafian wants to help as many people as possible with his research. But it's also deeply personal to this Texas Engineer who took a childhood experience watching a family ...
University of Texas at Austin Lecturer Dr. Devrim Ikizler Accepted into NSF’s Prestigious I-Corps SBIR Cohort
Austin, TX — The University of Texas at Austin proudly announces that Dr. Devrim Ikizler, a distinguished lecturer and CEO of Intelligent Analytics and Modeling (IAMECON), has been accepted into ...
Palanquin Power Recognized by U.S. Department of Energy’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the latest round of cohorts in its Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP). Thirty-three innovators have been selected to be embedded across ...
Baylor University Professor Leads Team in the NSF’s National I-Corps Program with Support from the Southwest Hub
Baylor University's groundbreaking research in fuel-flexible combustion technology has garnered national attention, as Lulin Jiang, Ph.D., along with her esteemed team, has been accepted into the ...
