The e-C3i course is designed to provide medical device innovators with an educational foundation of business frameworks and tools to assess the opportunity to translate an idea from the lab (concept) to the market (clinic). Participants in the e-C3i Program will learn an initial set of core skills that will enable them to:

1. characterize the unmet market need
2. identify the key product attributes
3. conduct customer and stakeholder interviews
4. validate the business opportunity

The e-C3i course is being offered to investigators with active NIH (non-SBIR/STTR) research grants from participating Institutes and Centers. Additionally, project teams that successfully complete the e-C3i course will be eligible to matriculate into the core C3i Program for continued entrepreneurial training.

Applications for the e-C3i course must be sent to nibib-sbir@mail.nih.gov by April 12, 2024. Click here for more information about the e-C3i program and how to apply.