The New York City Regional Innovation Network (NYCRIN) is a network of over 25 leading universities in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, and Pennsylvania area designed to support regional needs for innovation education, infrastructure and research by providing state-of-the-art training for academic researchers and technologists through the National Science Foundation I-Corps program. NYCRIN will work cooperatively to build, utilize and sustain a national innovation ecosystem that further enhances the development of technologies, products and processes that benefit society.