Synthetik Applied Technologies Selected to Attend the Prestigious NSF I-Corps Program

The National Science Foundation recently announced that Synthetik Applied Technologies has been selected to participate in the national Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program.

The team will receive a $50,000 grant to support travel related to customer discovery and to participate in the intensive seven-week curriculum to explore and optimize the commercial potential of a patent-pending technology.

Synthetik will join 21 other teams selected from around the United States. As part of the program, the team will conduct intensive customer discovery with potential clients in the United States, Canada, and Europe, conducting 100 customer-discovery interviews over a seven-week period.

According to the National Science Foundation website, the NSF I-Corps program prepares scientists and engineers to extend their research focus and accelerates the economic and societal benefits of NSF-funded, basic-research projects that are ready to move toward commercialization. Program grantees learn to identify valuable product opportunities that can emerge from research and gain skills in entrepreneurship through training in customer discovery and guidance from established entrepreneurs.