This study contributes to the literature on accelerators which focuses on private sector accelerators by providing an analysis of an accelerator in the public sphere that works with early-stage, science-driven applications, the National Science Foundation’s Innovation-Corps (I-Corps) program. The methodology is based on a comparison of the ability of the services delivered through the I-Corps program to teams at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) to speed their venture project discontinuation decisions over and above those of researchers receiving baseline commercialization services only. We find modest evidence that the I-Corps program helped Georgia Tech I-Corps teams make faster decisions to discontinue venture projects. The total savings of quicker I-Corps project discontinuation are estimated at more than $3.6 million over the 8-year observation period.

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I-Corps 对加速美国东南大学风险终止的影响

本研究通过分析公共领域的加速器与早期、科学驱动的应用程序、美国国家科学基金会的创新团队 (I-Corps) 计划合作，为专注于私营部门加速器的加速器文献做出贡献. 该方法基于通过 I-Corps 计划提供的服务与佐治亚理工学院 (Georgia Tech) 团队的服务能力的比较，以加快他们的风险项目终止决策，超过仅接受基线商业化服务的研究人员的决策。 . 我们发现适度的证据表明 I-Corps 计划帮助佐治亚理工学院 I-Corps 团队更快地做出停止风险项目的决定。更快的 I-Corps 项目中止所节省的总成本估计超过 3 美元。