Training Faculty in Entrepreneurship and Innovation: An Evaluation of the National Science Foundation Innovation-Corps™ Program
Training Faculty in Entrepreneurship and Innovation: An Evaluation of the National Science Foundation Innovation-Corps™ Program
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10.1177/2515127420929383
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2020-06
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Nathalie Duval-Couetil;A. Huang-Saad;M. Wheadon
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作者：
Nathalie Duval-Couetil;A. Huang-Saad;M. Wheadon
由于方案规划的多样性，评估创业教育的影响是困难的，这对评估结果的普遍性提出了挑战。美国国家科学基金会的创新团队（I-Corps）计划，激励学术研究人员探索其研究的商业化潜力，提供了一个独特的机会，从教育角度研究创业和技术商业化培训的成果，因为它在人口和环境中实现了标准化。我们使用了四个层次的柯克帕特里克模型评估培训和教育计划的影响，深入研究教师的经验与I-军团。使用定性调查方法，我们进行了26次采访，在三个大型公共研究机构的教师创新。研究结果显示，教师有积极的印象，该计划的整体和具体的知识收益归因于参与。他们还描述了影响他们的研究和教学的行为变化。然而，与会者也指出了综合服务团教学法方面的挑战，并指出了改进培训的机会。该计划对特定学习成果（技能，知识，态度和行为）的评估和描述有助于为学术研究人员提供技术商业化和创业培训的最佳实践。
Evaluating the impact of entrepreneurship education is difficult given the heterogeneity of programming which presents challenges related to the generalizability of findings. The National Science Foundation’s Innovation-Corps (I-Corps) program, which incentivizes academic researchers to explore the commercialization potential of their research, offers a unique opportunity to examine the outcomes of entrepreneurship and technology commercialization training from an educational perspective given its standardization across populations and settings. We used the four-level Kirkpatrick Model for evaluating the impact of training and education programs to examine faculty experiences with I-Corps in depth. Using a qualitative inquiry methodology, we conducted 26 interviews with faculty innovators across three large public research institutions. Findings revealed that faculty had positive impressions of the program overall and attributed specific knowledge gains to participation. They also described behavioral changes impacting both their research and teaching. However, participants also identified challenges with I-Corps pedagogy and identified opportunities to improve training. This program evaluation and description of specific learning outcomes (skills, knowledge, attitude, and behaviors) contributes to best practices associated with delivering technology commercialization and entrepreneurship training to academic researchers.