CPATH T: NEWPATH: Nurturing, Through Entrepreneurship, IT World Leaders

CPATH T：NEWPATH：通过创业精神培养 IT 世界领导者

• 批准号: 0722287
• 负责人: Neelam Soundarajan
• 金额: $ 60.68万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0722287&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CPATH; NEWPATH; Nurturing; Through; Entrepreneurship

This project, at Ohio State University, offers educational solutions to the serious challenges posed by global competition and the rapid pace of change in IT. Gaps exists between the skills needed by IT industries and those posessed by new hires. Education and experiences of graduates of typical U.S. undergraduate computing programs may be out of sync with national needs. While organizations today face an imperative to innovate in order to drive growth and remain competitive, most graduates lack the entrepreneurial skills to serve as change agents, understanding of such important business concepts as market needs, or a vision of future technology directions. This project, titled NEWPATH, is aimed at addressing these challenges. NEWPATH will produce graduates who have solid command of computing technologies, a vision of technology advancement directions, understanding of the needs of the market, and, perhaps most importantly, real entrepreneurial experiences in the IT world. Graduates will be ready to become key members of entrepreneurial teams in established IT companies or to lead their own IT start-ups.The NEWPATH plan is designed to produce graduates in computing who will become industry world leaders as a result of having gained significant knowledge, training, and crucial experience in entrepreneurial activities before graduation. A key component of the program is an intense six-month immersion, immediately prior to graduation, in which students in the program form small entrepreneurial teams that attempt to create a model start-up through all phases of the process, including ideation, developing business plans, seeking venture capital, designing and building an IT product/service, marketing, etc. While the experience of creating and successfully running an IT start-up would be extremely valuable in preparing students for their future professional careers in the IT industry, the experience of going through the initial stages of setting up such a start-up, even the experience of creating a start-up that actually fails, can be of almost equal value in preparing students for IT industry leadership.This project has the potential to serve as a national undergraduate computing education model. Students will pursue technical educational mastery plus they will acquire knowledge and experience sufficient to: -Identify potential business opportunities in the IT industry, either in the form of new products, tools, and services, or innovative applications of existing products, tools, and services; -Evaluate the resources needed, the potential rewards, and the potential risks in pursuing new opportunities; -Perform realistic evaluations of competing products and the potential for success or failure against competitors; -Effectively persuade venture capital firms and other potential partners of the merits of an entrepreneurial vision. -Help organize and work with a multidisciplinary team that takes a potential product or service through market research; attracting venture capital; design and product development; and successfully marketing the product by use of effective, low-cost promotional tools.These are qualities that meet the needs of employers and also address issues of U. S. global competitiveness.

俄亥俄州州立大学的这个项目为全球竞争和IT快速变化带来的严峻挑战提供了教育解决方案。IT行业所需的技能与新员工所具备的技能之间存在差距。典型的美国本科计算机课程毕业生的教育和经验可能与国家需求不同步。虽然今天的组织面临着创新的必要性，以推动增长和保持竞争力，但大多数毕业生缺乏作为变革推动者的创业技能，对市场需求等重要商业概念的理解，或对未来技术方向的愿景。这个名为“新途径”的项目旨在应对这些挑战。NEWPATH将培养谁拥有坚实的计算技术，技术进步方向的愿景，市场需求的理解，也许最重要的是，在IT世界的真实的创业经验的毕业生。毕业生将准备好成为创业团队的关键成员，在建立IT公司或领导自己的IT初创企业。NEWPATH计划旨在培养计算机专业的毕业生，他们将成为行业的世界领导者，因为他们在毕业前获得了重要的知识，培训和创业活动的重要经验。该计划的一个关键组成部分是一个激烈的六个月的浸泡，即将毕业前，在该计划的学生形成小型创业团队，试图通过该过程的所有阶段，包括构思，开发商业计划，寻求风险投资，设计和建立IT产品/服务，营销，虽然创办和成功经营一家新成立的资讯科技公司的经验，对学生日后在资讯科技业的职业生涯有莫大的帮助，但经历创办这类公司的初期阶段，即使是创建一个实际上失败的初创企业的经验，在培养学生成为IT行业的领导者方面也几乎具有同等的价值。这个项目有可能成为全国本科生计算机教育的典范。学生将追求技术教育掌握，加上他们将获得足够的知识和经验：-识别IT行业的潜在商机，无论是新产品，工具和服务的形式，还是现有产品，工具和服务的创新应用; -评估所需的资源，潜在的回报，以及追求新机会的潜在风险;- 对竞争产品和与竞争对手竞争的成败潜力进行现实的评估; -有效地说服风险投资公司和其他潜在的合作伙伴，使他们相信创业愿景的优点。- 帮助组织一个多学科的团队，并与之合作，通过市场调查，吸引风险投资，设计和产品开发，并通过使用有效的，低成本的促销工具成功地销售产品。S.全球竞争力。