http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jun2014/oer-18.htm
Here's a brief excerpt from the article:
A collaboration between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health will give NIH-funded researchers training to help them evaluate their scientific discoveries for commercial potential, with the aim of accelerating biomedical innovations into applied health technologies.
I-Corps at NIH is a pilot of the NSF Innovation Corps
(I-Corps) program specially tailored for biomedical research. Academic researchers and entrepreneurs with Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR)
Phase I awards – awards that establish feasibility of proof of
concept for commercializable technology – from participating NIH
institutes will be eligible to apply to I-Corps at NIH. NIH will begin
outreach to the small business research community with a June 25
program briefing at the 2014 BIO International Convention in San Diego,
and a webinar on July 2.
The I-Corps Teams curriculum is a nine-week boot camp in which experienced business-savvy instructors work closely with teams of researchers to help them explore potential markets for their federally funded innovations. I-Corps instructors take a scientific method-based approach to customer discovery that resonates with scientists and engineers. While I-Corps instructors typically have a wide range of expertise, I-Corps at NIH will be taught by instructors who have biomedical business experience.
