Kaz Karwowski

Innovation-corps (I-corps) Faculty @National Science Foundation Nsf

Houston, TX, US

The NSF I-Corps is an entrepreneurship and technology commercialization training program for the nation\'s leading scientists and engineers in academic research. As a national instructor at the Southwest NSF node (SW I-Corps), one of seven national nodes for the program, I coach professors and researchers in their search for commercial applications to their research.SW I-Corps is a regional program designed to foster, grow and nurture an innovation ecosystem in the SouthWest Region of the United States. The program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and jointly run by the University of Texas at Austin, Rice University, Texas A&M University and Texas Tech University. The program provides real world, hands-on training on how to successfully incorporate innovations into successful products. The ultimate goal is to help program participants create a new venture or licensing opportunity.Participants in SW I-Corps programs engage extensively with industry. Over the course of our programs, teams talk to customers, partners, competitors, and other market stakeholders. During this time, teams seek to define a solid product-market fit while building a viable business model for their innovation.

Thomas Edison State University

BS BA, Management

Harvard University

ALM, Management