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I-Corps™ at GW

Calling All GW Innovators & Researchers!
I-Corps is a National Science Foundation program designed to foster, grow and nurture innovation ecosystems regionally and nationally.
The program provides real world, hands-on training on how to successfully incorporate innovations into successful products. The ultimate goal is to create a new venture or licensing opportunity for program participants, and to learn the valuable process of business model generation and customer discovery.
I-Corps at GW offers an Introduction Workshop to introduce the GW community to the evidence-based innovation methods used in I-Corps. These are held the third Friday of each month at GW.
All GW professors, research staff, post docs, graduate students, and undergraduate students with potentially commercializable research or technology-based business ideas are eligible to participate. Both the Introduction Workshop and the National I-Corps Program are free, with $50,000 for those that qualify for the NSF I-Corps National program.
A team that completes in the Introduction Workshop or the GW I-Corps Site program becomes eligible to apply to the NSF National I-Corps Program.
The program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and jointly run by the George Washington University, University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, and Johns Hopkins University.
Contact Us
Bob Smith
Director of I-Corps at GW
[email protected]