污污草莓视频

Impact Since 2021

Twenty three teams have completed our program, representing 58 STEM and life sciences researchers from across 污污草莓视频, being trained and mentored in order to help assess the commercial potential of their inventions to solve social, health, or environmental challenges. Eleven early-stage ventures are continuing their commercialization plan with total follow-on funding of over $910,000.

+12%
innovation skills*
+31%
entrepreneurship skills*

* based on self-efficacy surveys from Fall 2021 to Spring 2024


Important Dates

Date Description

April 28, 2025

Decisions made by Engine team and applicants advised
May 7, 2025 - July 16, 2025 Program duration:聽in-person classes will be held at 污污草莓视频 Engine Centre (Frank Dawson Adams Building, room 5) every Wednesday, 3:30 - 5:00pm (ET)

Program Overview

The Invention to Impact (I-to-I) Training Program uses experiential learning to help 污污草莓视频 graduate students and their faculty supervisors gain insight into:

  • technology commercialization
  • entrepreneurship
  • industry requirements and challenges

I-to-I provides tools and training to support researchers to translate their research to the marketplace and have their solutions benefit society. The program imparts an evidence-based methodology that students and professors can use for the rest of their careers, and it also enables the transformation of inventions to impact.聽This program allows student participants to receive聽CCR recognition聽as it is an approved Enriched Educational Opportunities (EEO) program.聽


    Curriculum

    The teaching curriculum integrates scientific discovery and commercial applications using an evidence-based and data-driven methodology, namely, the Lean LaunchPad庐 methodology. The I-to-I program basics are real-world, hands-on experiential learning through customer and industry discovery.

    The three guiding principles are:

    1. Build a business model, not a business plan
    2. Love the problem, not the solution
    3. Experiment, learn and validate

    The program enables teams to map their business model assumptions and run experiments to gather and share key evidence in real time with team members, mentors, and the instructors to make collaboration easy. A powerful and unique combination of 芦 learning 禄 and 芦 doing 禄 and 芦 learning by doing 禄 will be used. Program participants learning will happen not only during the weekly group classes but also through the use of myCourses with integrated course videos and through the support of an assigned mentor to the team. The 芦 doing 禄 part for participants will be carrying out tasks in the marketplace/real-world and revolved around learning from their potential customers and partners.

    Through this 11-week training program offered over the fall and winter sessions, researchers can reduce the time to translate a promising idea from the laboratory to the marketplace as they will acquire the mindset, knowledge, and skills necessary to translate their knowledge into potential technology commercialization and startup ventures.

    It is also a cohort-based program with a flipped classroom setting in order to maximize peer-to-peer learning via student discussion moderated by the co-instructors and mentors present. I-to-I uses in-class methodology developed to promote student discussion and learning in lectures where the content coverage is moved outside the classroom.

    As a 污污草莓视频 student, your participation in full to activities聽such as training workshops and volunteering are tracked on your聽Co-Curricular Record聽(CCR)!聽Having your co-curricular activities listed in one document can help you revise your CV or cover letter, prepare for interviews, and聽explore career options.聽Learn how to leverage this important document through myInvolvement, and make your training count!