Winners of i6 Challenge and Cluster Mapping Project Announced

Six teams were selected as winners of the i6 Challenge, a new innovation competition led by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA), in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The i6 Challenge seeks to identify and support the nation's best ideas for technology commercialization and entrepreneurship in six different regions of the country. The winning team from each region will receive $1 million from EDA to support their project and may be eligible for additional awards from NIH and NSF. Projects include efforts to drive innovative technologies in the medical and bioscience industries to market more quickly by bringing experts in science and academia together with public and private sector businesses and entrepreneurs. Read the list of winners Additionally, EDA selected the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness led by Michael Porter at Harvard Business School to receive approximately $1 million to develop a cluster map by analyzing regional assets, enabling regions to create comprehensive strategies to promote economic growth.