Training and Professional Development

  • This Summer: Commercialize Your Innovation

    Accelerate UConn

    Accelerate UConn is UConn’s National Science Foundation (NSF)  Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Site. Its mission is to catalyze the transition of new scientific discoveries and capabilities from the lab to the marketplace. Participating teams will receive an introduction to the most critical elements of the I-Corps Curriculum. Over the course of 3 weeks, teams will learn how to determine the market opportunity for their product or technology.

    Participants will learn how to:

    • Develop new ways to communicate the value of their product or technology

    • Understand the structure of the market they are entering

    • Develop strategies for generating demand for their product or technology

    • Identify next steps needed to launch their venture

    • Identify customers most likely to bring them revenue

    Summer 2021: 

    • 3 weeks of training on the Business Model Canvas and Customer Discovery Process

    • Coaching from industry experts and access to next step resources

    • $1,000 to support customer discovery and development of minimum viable product

    The deadline for the Summer 2021 cohort is June 28, 2021 at 11:59.

    Apply here!

     
    For more information, contact: Jennifer Mathieu at jennifer@uconn.edu