NSF I-Corps Hub: Great Plains Region

What is I-Corps?

As a National Science Foundation (NSF) Program, our I-Corps Great Plains Regional Hub provides training for scientists, researchers, and engineers in the Great Plains region and is designed to help propel research ideas into the marketplace. I-Corps is an immersive, entrepreneurial training course designed to explore the commercial viability of technology-based innovation ideas. It's a free five-week program that consists of large group sessions covering customer development, segmentation and discovery, ecosystem modeling, and more.

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NSF I-Corps Regional Cohort Training Opportunities

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will provide teams with access to an experiential learning process with customer discovery, aimed at successfully designing products and services that provide a clear benefit to customers. The learnings acquired will allow teams to gain insights that can be leveraged in crafting a focused and clear commercialization strategy for translating technology out of the lab and into the marketplace.

This course is about communicating with your customer ecosystem. Teams will learn to “channel” the voice of the customer, which gives partners and investors a more objective view of the foundations used to craft your commercialization strategy. The lectures support the teams by providing structure and best practices for customer engagement.

SESSION SCHEDULE

 

  1. Intro to Customer Discovery
    Coaching Session - Discovery Strategy

  2. Customer Value Propositions
    Coaching Session - Ecosystem Model

  3. Team Presentations
    Coaching Session - Customer Problems

  4. Team Presentations
    Coaching Session - Customer Value Props

  5. Final Presentations
    What's Next?

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: WWW.GP-ICORPS.ORG

CONTACT US AT: INFO@GP-ICORPS.ORG

 

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