Can you turn a scientist into an entrepreneur? The National Science Foundation and Stanford University are trying to find out.
Twenty-one teams of scientists and engineers who’ve developed technology backed by the NSF are in the midst of an intensive class taught through Stanford to see if they can learn to launch start-ups and even become entrepreneurs.
Called the NSF Innovation Corps, the program aims to commercialize technology inside U.S. university laboratories and to get the scientists out of those labs and into conversations with prospective customers—often strangers–about how to adapt their technologies into products.
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