Research, Funding, and Awards

  • UConn Selected by NSF for Tech Startup Creation

    The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) and the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI) are pleased to announce that UConn has been selected as a National Science Foundation I-Corps Site.  The primary goal of the NSF I-Corps program is to foster entrepreneurship that will lead to the commercialization of technology that has been supported previously by NSF-funded research.  UConn has been awarded a grant from NSF of $300,000 for three years that will support student and faculty commercialization endeavors. For the full story go to  http://research.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/351/2015/02/UConnSelectedbyNSFforTechnologyStartupCreation.pdf

     

     

     

    For more information, contact: Jessica McBride at jessica.mcbride@uconn.edu