UC San Diego IGE-hosted Cohorts
In collaboration with the NSF Desert and Pacific Region Hub, the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur (IGE) at UC San Diego hosts special topic cohorts of NSF I-Corps regional training.
Participant teams complete a four-session intensive NSF I-Corps training which is an assumption/hypothesis testing, customer discovery-focused process. The process is used to gather important insights on problem/solution fit and product/market fit, in order to maximize the impact of an innovation. Teams of two or more members are preferred, and at least one team member is expected to attend at every session.
Teams that successfully complete the training qualify for a monetary award and potential recommendation to the National I-Corps Teams program.
IGE-hosted Cohorts:
'24WI Sustainability focused program (1): January 25 - February 22 (No longer accepting applications.)
'24SP MedTech focused program (1): March 6 - April 3 (No longer accepting applications.)
'24SU Sustainability focused program (2): July 11 - August 8 (Apply by Jul 3)
'24FA MedTech focused program (2): October 9 - November 6 (Apply by Oct 1)
To Apply:
Submit this form by the stated deadline for the cohort you are interested in joining. Any applications received after a stated deadline may be considered instead for a later cohort or recommended to a different cohort at the Desert and Pacific Region Hub. We may evaluate and accept teams on a rolling basis. Please submit only one form per team; individual team members are not required to submit their own applications.
Questions can be directed to Joyce Tiglao, jtiglao@ucsd.edu.
