冲击创新队

• 种子基金(每名申请人最高2,150元)
• 客户验证培训和经验
• 本地专家指导
• 获得创业资源
• 与当地创新生态系统建立联系
• 维护你的知识产权

Each 冲击创新队 applicant must have a team that includes an 企业领导, an 学术领导，和 导师.

• 的 企业领导 can be a Post-Doctoral scholar, graduate student, undergraduate or other student, or professional university staff member, with relevant knowledge of the technology and a deep commitment to investigate the commercial landscape surrounding the innovation. 的 企业领导 must be capable and have the desire to support the transition of the technology, should the project demonstrate the potential for commercial viability.

• 的 导师 must be an experienced or emerging entrepreneur with proximity to WSU and experienced 把技术从学术实验室转移出来. 导师是一个第三方资源. 导师可以由创业领导选择.
  
  If you have not identified a 导师 or need assistance identifying a mentor, please indicate this information on the application and WSU Ventures will do our best to 为你的项目找一位导师.

• 的 学术领导 must have an academic appointment that would normally qualify him/her to submit proposals or play the role of a Principle Investigator in subsequent submissions to NSF.

As part of the I-Corps commercialization initiative, the 冲击创新队 will provide up to $2,150 per team for 30 teams each year. 这笔资金被授予 to accepted teams during a six-month period to support team-based customer discovery research aimed at investigating the commercial viability of a product or a specific market application of a novel process, algorithm, device, or other technology.

的 冲击创新队 award can be used to fund any expenses related to customer 发现研究，包括原型成本. 团队大约有6个月的时间 花他们的奖金. 费用包括:

• Materials and Supplies: used to create a prototype (for products) or pilot program (服务)
• Meetings, Conferences, Tradeshows and 培训: Cost of registration/admission as 以及相关的辅助成本. (i.e.交通费、餐费、演讲费、 等.)
  • 会议必须与产品/服务行业相关
  • Meetings hosted by the team for the purpose of customer discovery or market research
• Transportation: Costs related to the delivery of goods (freight, postage or other transportation services relating to goods purchased or delivered)
• Travel costs: Costs related to travel, accommodations, and meals while traveling for 客户发现和市场研究的目的

*Legal fees and Administrative Costs (office supplies and equipment) cannot be included.

Additional follow-on funding is available, but not guaranteed. 注意这些都是竞争性的 程序:

• NSF I-Corp团队 拨款50,000元
• SBIR项目 为第一阶段提供高达150,000元的资助

的 企业领导 for each team must commit to attending E-Launch training (six sessions), complete required assignments, meetings with mentor, market research, customer delivery, and 其他基本创业活动. EL将获得学费折扣 for the E-Launch training sessions, and the $250 will be deducted from the seed funding. Completion of a minimum of two training sessions will be required before the initial 可以支付种子资金.

Failure to successfully complete the program training elements may be grounds for disqualification from the 冲击创新队 program and forfeiture and/or repayment 所有与项目相关的种子资金.

• 团队项目商业化
• Applications submitted by Site teams to NSF's I-Corp Team Program
• 新成立的企业
• 许可协议
• Creation of business plans suitable for review by third-party investors

All teams will make a “go/no-go” decision about commercialization of their technology 在收到资助后六个月内.