• One-hour cohort meetings featuring guest speakers and feedback sessions. Cohort meetings are held weekly (summer programs) and bi-weekly (fall, spring programs) via Zoom.

• Guided independent study with original Launch Blue high-quality training materials and application exercises.

• One-on-one coaching sessions that take place on Zoom

In order to qualify for program completion for regional NSF I-Corps all participants must:

• Be in attendance at cohort meetings

• Attend a minimum of 4 coaching sessions with program instructors

• Complete a minimum of 20 customer interviews

• Review all required online learning content hosted on Thinkific.

• All cohort meetings and coaching sessions are hosted virtually via Zoom.

• Meetings are held weekly on Fridays at 10 am ET and are one hour in length.

• All meetings will be captioned using Zoom's ASR. If other accommodations are needed, please let us know.

This program is open to faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and staff from institutions of higher education.

Candidates affiliated with the University of Kentucky or a Kentucky Commercialization Ventures partner institution must submit or be working on submission of an Invention Report or Idea Report to the University of Kentucky Office of Technology Commercialization or to Kentucky Commercialization Ventures.

If you are affiliated with another institute of higher education and are interested in the UAccel program, have your tech transfer office reach out to us at x@launchblue.org.

We encourage all team members to actively participate in the program. I-Corps teams are encouraged to assign team members to the roles of Entrepreneurial Lead and Technical Lead, which are:

• Technical lead: Typically, a faculty member who is the inventor and serves as principal investigator, or a postdoctoral researcher who has deep expertise in the core technology area to be evaluated for market potential.

• Entrepreneurial lead: Typically, a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher who leads the team and is committed to commercialization.