Join Nebraska faculty, staff and students for a spring semester program to learn strategies about connecting research innovation with market applications. The online program begins Feb. 8, and participants may sign up individually or in teams of up to five people until Feb. 4.
Learn more and register: https://go.unl.edu/customerdiscovery-spring2021
The free, non-credit program is based on the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps, which helps researchers develop a value proposition and customer segmentation. After identifying and interviewing prospective customers, researchers use feedback to guide decisions about a startup company or technology commercialization.
Read participant Q&As: https://www.nutechventures.org/fall-2020-nebraska-introduction-to-entrepreneurship/
The program features four evening sessions, all held via Zoom, led by a team of campus instructors and an NSF National I-Corps instructor. It also includes office hours with instructors between sessions.
The program cohort will be limited to 16 teams. Sponsoring organizations include NUtech Ventures, the Center for Entrepreneurship, the Combine Incubator and the National Strategic Research Institute.
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/customerdiscovery-spring2021