SBIR Phase I: Value Innovation Teaching Toolkit

SBIR 第一阶段：价值创新教学工具包

• 批准号: 0946067
• 负责人: Richard Lee
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Value Innovation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0946067&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Value; Innovation; Teaching

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) research project will develop a software-as-a-service toolkit for innovation processes and service oriented educational simulation for the value innovation process, applicable to both business educational needs and to the crucial college and K-12 demographic, where the core of STEM education takes place and where the principals of innovation should be directed if they are to properly influence future business innovators. Innovation, even more than entrepreneurship, is crucial to US competitiveness in the current global business environment. However, the current education and business environment lacks both a formal set of deployable tools that can facilitate the innovation process and a means of providing outcome testable training and education on innovation. Both are crucial to not only implementing processes of innovation, but to facilitating an innovation culture in an organization. The education will leverage the suite of service oriented, web-based tools that can be used to support an organization's innovation efforts with minimal impact on the organizations existing innovation or information technology structure. Innovation is one of the hottest topics in business today, with CEO's understanding that it's the engine driving their company's organic growth. However, most organizations do not have the knowledge or skill base to apply the concepts of innovation to their business' practices. This lack can be attributed to two problems: first, the company's employees often lack a basic understanding of innovation owing to a deficiency during their formal education and, second, the company lacks a usable set of tools that make an innovation process easily adaptable to the organization's situation and needs. The Value Innovation Teaching Toolkit addresses both unmet needs. By providing an educational simulation applicable to both business training needs and the educational needs of students in formal STEM programs at the university and K-12 level, the toolkit will provide the learner with an innovation learning environment that is outcome tested. Additionally, our toolkit will provide a suite of web-based tools that will facilitate the innovation process with minimal impact on an organization's current IT infrastructure.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）研究项目将开发一个软件即服务工具包，用于创新过程和面向服务的教育模拟，用于价值创新过程，适用于商业教育需求和关键的大学和K-12人口，STEM教育的核心在哪里，如果创新的原则要适当地影响未来的业务，他们应该被引导到哪里创新者在当前的全球商业环境中，创新甚至比企业家精神更重要，对美国的竞争力至关重要。然而，目前的教育和商业环境既缺乏一套正式的可部署工具，可以促进创新进程，也缺乏一种手段，提供成果可检验的创新培训和教育。这两者不仅对实施创新过程至关重要，而且对促进组织中的创新文化也至关重要。该教育将利用一套面向服务的、基于网络的工具，这些工具可用于支持组织的创新工作，同时对组织现有的创新或信息技术结构的影响最小。创新是当今商业中最热门的话题之一，CEO们认为创新是推动公司有机增长的引擎。然而，大多数组织没有知识或技能基础，无法将创新概念应用于其业务实践。这种缺乏可归因于两个问题：第一，公司的员工往往缺乏对创新的基本理解，这是由于他们在正规教育中的缺陷;第二，公司缺乏一套可用的工具，使创新过程易于适应组织的情况和需求。价值创新教学工具包解决了这两个未满足的需求。通过提供适用于商业培训需求和大学和K-12级别正式STEM课程学生教育需求的教育模拟，该工具包将为学习者提供经过结果测试的创新学习环境。此外，我们的工具包将提供一套基于Web的工具，这些工具将促进创新过程，同时对组织当前的IT基础设施产生最小的影响。