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title: UD A Partner in Regional Innovation Hub
description: UD is a partner in a new regional innovation network, established with a $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
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## UD A Partner in Regional Innovation Hub

by [Horn Entrepreneurship](https://horn.udel.edu/author/horn-entrepreneurship) • August 31, 2021

By Tracey Bryant and Catherine Zandonella, Princeton • August 25, 2021

Photos by Evan Krape and Ashley Barnas 

![Untitled design (5)-1](https://horn.udel.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Untitled%20design%20(5)-1.png?width=600&name=Untitled%20design%20(5)-1.png)Collaboration to accelerate tech, broaden diversity in entrepreneurship

The University of Delaware is a partner in a new regional innovation network, established with a $15 million grant from the [National Science Foundation (NSF)](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/announcements/082521.jsp), to accelerate the transformation of scientific discoveries into technologies that improve our daily lives.

The NSF Innovation Corps (I-CorpsTM) Northeast Hub[, announced Aug. 25](https://www.icorpsnortheasthub.org/press-room), is one of five new hubs in a nationwide NSF-funded network of universities formed to boost the economic impact of federally funded research – delivering benefits in health care, energy and the environment, computing, artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced materials and other areas – while building skills and opportunities among researchers from all backgrounds, including those historically underrepresented in entrepreneurship.

[Read the rest of the story on UDaily](https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2021/august/nsf-innovation-network-diversity-entrepreneurship-deep-tech/)

 

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