Pathways to Impact workshops are designed to help researchers think about impact beyond the laboratory and the publication. The workshops will help PhD students, PostDocs, and Faculty members at universities adopt an entrepreneurial mindset to question how they ultimately hope their research and careers will make an impact. Unlike the Local, Regional, and National I-Corps programs, participants in Pathways to Impact workshops are not expected to have a technology commercialization idea in mind.

Benefits of the Program

• Provide participants with a new framework to view their research goals.
• Expose participants to the entrepreneurial mindset, and how it can help guide their research and career.
• Inspire researchers to explore–through outside stakeholders and their own community–how their research/discoveries might be implemented for societal impact.
• Provide a set of tools to shape participants’ research objectives to be more use-inspired and impactful.
• Reduce psychological barriers and conceptual misunderstandings about innovation that prevent people from seeing themselves as inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs.

Register

The registration process begins with an application submission to the program of the individual’s choosing. In the days after applying, participants will be contacted by a member of the Great Lakes Regional I-Corps Hub team with additional details regarding next steps.

2025 Workshops and Webinars

Note: all dates and course information are subject to change. Check our event page for current information.

• All About I-Corps: Unlocking Innovation with the Great Lakes I-Corps Hub
  • Dates: January 23, April 24, June 26, September 18
• Funding For STEM Innovations
  • Dates: March 13, September 11, October 30
• IP and Working with Your Tech Transfer Office
  • Dates: May 8, November 13
• Leveraging I-Corps for SBIR
  • Dates: March 20, June 5, October 16
• Partnerships with Industry
  • Dates: March 27, June 19, October 23
• PhD Career Paths in Industry
  • Date: June 12
• Project Management and Leadership
  • Dates: April 10, October 9
• Technology Commercialization Pathways
  • Dates: February 13, August 14