I-Corps course information and materials

I-Corps is a National Science Foundation initiative to assess the readiness of emerging technology concepts for transitioning into valuable new products through a public-private partnership. 



In collaboration with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), NSF offers select participants from US academic laboratories the opportunity to participate in a special, accelerated version of Stanford University's Lean LaunchPad course. 



The course engages participants in moving products out of the lab and into the market, through talking to customers, partners and competitors and encountering the chaos and uncertainty of creating successful innovations.



Questions? Email icorps@nciia.org.

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APRIL-MAY NYC I-CORPS COURSE
Baruch College
New York City, New York

Kick-off workshop:
April 2-5 

Online classes:
Tuesdays, 1-4 pm ET
April 9, 16, 23, 30 and May 7

Final workshop: May 14-15 

Syllabus
April Kick-off Logistics
May Closing Logistics
April At-a-Glance Schedule
May At-a-Glance Schedule
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APRIL-MAY DC AREA I-CORPS COURSE
University of Maryland and George Washington University
Washington DC area

Kick-off workshop:
April 7-10

Online classes: 
Monday, 1-4 EST
April 15, 22, 29, May 6 and 13

Closing workshop:
May 20-21

Syllabus
April Kick-off Logistics
May Closing Logistics
April At-a-Glance Schedule
May At-a-Glance Schedule

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I-CORPS COURSE TEXTS AND TOOLS
(textbooks are included in your registration fee and mailed to the PI for distribution to the team)

The Startup Owners Manual

Business Model Generation

Business Model Canvas

Giff Constable, "12 Tips for Early Customer Development Interviews"

Steve Blank, "What’s a Startup? First Principles"

Steve Blank, "Make No Little Plans – Defining the Scalable Startup"

Steve Blank, "A Startup is Not a Smaller Version of a Large Company"

Conducting Customer Discovery Interviews

LaunchPad Central

Business canvas
I-Corps teams are asked to come to the I-Corps course having already completed a business canvas. This video was created by Alexander Osterwalder, co-author of Business Model Generation.

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Sample Presentations and Videos

I-Corps Teams will conclude the course by preparing a final Lessons Learned Presentation (10 minutes), a 2-minute Lessons Learned Video and a 1-minute Technical Video.  Below are samples from two alumni teams of our January-March session in Arlington.

Team 162:  Rapisense
Final Lessons Learned Presentation
Two-minute Lessons Learned Video
One-minute Technical Video

Team 152:  BioGel
Final Lessons Learned Presentation
Two-minute Lessons Learned Video
One-minute Technical Video