Steve Blank

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Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

Steve Blank

The National Cancer Institute SBIR Development Center , is leading the pilot, with participation from the SBIR & STTR Programs at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute , the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke , and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. The class is team based.

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Reinventing Life Science Startups – Evidence-based Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

Both of these groups, those who took the Innovation Corps class and those who didn’t, applied for government peer-reviewed funding through the SBIR program. The teams that skipped the class and pursued traditional methods of starting a company had an 18% success rate in receiving SBIR Phase I funding.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 5 – Chris Brose

Steve Blank

However, they won’t create a new commercial ecosystem if they continue to dole out small SBIR account grants and million-dollar OTA’s (door prizes for showing up) while the same five national defense contractors they’ve been paying for the past three decades still get the billion-dollar programs.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

The same year we started the class, it was adopted by the National Science Foundation to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.) The NSF observed, “The class is the scientific method for entrepreneurship.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

The same year we started the class, it was adopted by the National Science Foundation to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (an SBIR grant.) The NSF observed, “The class is the scientific method for entrepreneurship.

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Doubling Down On a Good Thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite

Steve Blank

SBIR/STTR Program and Startup Seed Funding. The Small Business Innovative Research ( SBIR ) and Small Business Technology Transfer ( STTR ) programs are startup seed funds created by Congress to encourage U.S. The SBIR/STTR program made ~6,200 seed stage investments in 2014, dwarfing the seed investments made by venture capital.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1

Steve Blank

All the services have incubators, Accelerator’s, and SBIR programs. An insurgency has arisen in the services and combatant commands that has essentially said, “We can’t wait until our acquisition system is fixed, so we’re going to bypass it.” And they’re even making an end-around to a broken acquisition system.