Stories of Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship in the Southeast

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the addition of three new NSF Innovation Corps Hubs (NSF I-Corps™) that will scale the NSF-led National Innovation Network (NIN), accelerating the translation of discoveries into new solutions that benefit society and the economy.

The three new Hubs cover four states in the Southeast as well as the New England and Northwest regions of the country and are run respectively by the Georgia Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley. Each NSF I-Corps Hub may receive up to $3 million per year for five years and comprises a regional alliance of at least eight universities. Combined with the existing 10 NSF I-Corps Hubs, these 13 NSF I-Corps Hubs presently span 48 states.

Georgia Tech returns as a lead institution, coordinating the efforts of these universities in four states: Clemson, Morehouse College, The University of Alabama, the University of Central Florida, the University of Florida, the University of Miami, and the University of South Florida. For a number of years, Georgia Tech was the lead for the I-Corps South Hub that included Tennessee before the contract was awarded to Vanderbilt University in 2022 for what is now known as the I-Corps Mid-South Hub.

NSF I-Corps Hubs provide experiential entrepreneurial training to researchers across all fields of science and engineering. I-Corps Hubs form the operational backbone of the NIN, a network of universities, NSF-funded researchers, established entrepreneurs, local and regional entrepreneurial communities and other federal agencies, that collectively help researchers learn to investigate the commercial potential of fundamental discoveries in science and engineering. The NSF I-Corps Hubs work collaboratively to build and sustain an innovation ecosystem that engages all Americans throughout the U.S.

 

 

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