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Innovators to Entrepreneurs Act of 2018
(Sec. 3) This bill amends the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act to require the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide as an option under the Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program participation in an I-Corps Teams course by grantees of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program and other entities.
The cost of participation by such a grantee in a course may be furnished:
through I-Corps Teams grants,
(Sec. 4) The NSF shall develop an I-Corps course to support commercialization-ready participants. The course shall support participants that have completed an I-Corps Teams course and participants that have made the decision to market an innovation.
(Sec. 5) The Government Accountability Office shall evaluate the I-Corps Program, including by assessing the effects of the I-Corps on the commercialization of federally funded research and development, the higher education system, regional economies, and the national economy.
(Sec. 6) The bill authorizes funding through FY2020 for participation by SBIR grantees and other entities in the I-Corps program and for the development of an I-Corps course to support commercialization-ready participants.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 5086 as passed House amended on Apr 24, 2018. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Apr 24, 2018
Innovators to Entrepreneurs Act of 2018
Passed · Two-thirds required
379 Yea 16 Nay 33 not voting
Crossed both parties 16 of 395 voting members broke with their own party: 16 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
428 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 5086 and vote against it. 1 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 5086 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
17 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.