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NSF I-Corps Hub: Great Plains Region

Programming Information

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

Intro to Customer Discovery
Coaching Session - Discovery Strategy
Customer Value Propositions
Coaching Session - Ecosystem Model
Team Presentations
Coaching Session - Customer Problems
Team Presentations
Coaching Session - Customer Value Props
Final Presentations
What's Next?

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