Fund or office: Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) Program, Enterprise Innovation
Weill Cornell Medicine's Entrepreneur-in-Residence program embeds experienced entrepreneurs and executives inside the institution to guide Weill Cornell inventors and startup teams through the commercialization process. EiRs are recruited from therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, digital health and finance, and they work across the components of Weill Cornell Enterprise Innovation. Their services include one-on-one mentoring on business strategy and business model design, help structuring capitalization, and in some cases stepping into operating roles in the resulting startups. Faculty physicians and scientists with commercializable inventions are the primary users of the program, which sits alongside Enterprise Innovation's licensing and venture activities.