As the Manager of Entrepreneurial Community at Drexel Applied Innovation, I am always promoting the NSF I-Corps program to help researchers expand the impact of their research. The program enables participants to explore the question of, “who outside of academia cares the most about my innovation, why, and by how much?” To answer this question, NSF I-Corps participants connect with the unmet needs of industry to learn about what real world problem their innovation is solving, how intense that problem is, and who it affects.
