Award Abstract # 1829281
I-Corps Sites: Type I - Center for Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (ICE) I-Corps Site

NSF Org: TI
Translational Impacts
Recipient: UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS
Initial Amendment Date: September 9, 2018
Latest Amendment Date: June 17, 2024
Award Number: 1829281
Award Instrument: Continuing Grant
Program Manager: Ruth Shuman
rshuman@nsf.gov
 (703)292-2160
TI
 Translational Impacts
TIP
 Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships
Start Date: October 1, 2018
End Date: September 30, 2025 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $255,000.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $255,000.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2018 = $85,000.00
FY 2020 = $170,000.00
History of Investigator:
  • Gwen Holdmann (Principal Investigator)
    gholdman@alaska.edu
  • Peter Webley (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Mark Billingsley (Former Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
2145 N TANANA LOOP
FAIRBANKS
AK  US  99775-0001
(907)474-7301
Sponsor Congressional District: 00
Primary Place of Performance: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
Fairbanks
AK  US  99775-7880
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
00
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): FDLEQSJ8FF63
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): I-Corps-Sites
Primary Program Source: 01001819DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
01001920DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT

01002021DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT

01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 9150
Program Element Code(s): 804600
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.084

ABSTRACT

With this project, the Center for Innovation, Commercialization, and Entrepreneurship (Center ICE) hosts a National Science Foundation I-Corps Site.

Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Sites are NSF-funded entities established at universities whose purpose is to nurture and support multiple, local teams to transition their technology concepts into the marketplace. Sites provide infrastructure, advice, resources, networking opportunities, training and modest funding to enable groups to transition their work into the marketplace or into becoming I-Corps Team applicants. I-Corps Sites also strengthen innovation locally and regionally and contribute to the National Innovation Network of mentors, researchers, entrepreneurs and investors.

Center ICE is an innovation hub located at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), which is the flagship research campus at the University of Alaska. This I-Corps Site is administered out of UAF but is open to all members of the UA community - UAF, the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), and the University of Alaska Southeast. This I-Corps Site capitalizes on Alaska's existing entrepreneurial ecosystem and amplifies its effect. An I-Corps Site also complements current efforts from the Office of Naval Research to solidify and grow innovation and entrepreneurship, including bringing experienced Lean Launch educators to Alaska. In addition, there is a goal to set up a system that uniformly serves the entire state and not just the UA Fairbanks campus, including a focus on native Americans and rural areas.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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