I-Corps @ Ohio
Cleveland, US
Terms checked 7 Oct 2026 against the official page.
A seven-week university customer discovery program supporting faculty and student teams with market evaluation and $15,000 in funding to explore launching a startup based on university intellectual property, modeled after NSF I-Corps methodologies and state funding from Ohio academic initiatives for commercialization potential in tech startups across disciplines, led by Technology Transfer Office leadership in Cleveland State University to build teams consisting of academic leads, entrepreneurial leads, and executive mentors validation pathways towards market viability and eventual licensing agreements efficiently through rigorous validation sprints and lean methodology frameworks in northeast Ohio ecosystems successfully across scientific applications and academic engineering departments systematically at CSU campuses overall for research development impact statewide natively in collaborative environments thoroughly throughout university programs across domains effectively for Ohio-ba
The terms
- Investment
- $15k (checked 7 Oct 2026)
- Equity
- No equity
- Program length
- 7 weeks (checked 7 Oct 2026)
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