Scholar's Award: Developing Innovators and Expertise for Fostering Innovation

培养创新者和促进创新的专业知识目前，美国的一系列利益相关者正在共同投资数十亿美元建设创新中心和STEM教育改革。该项目调查了创新理论家在过去是如何与继续困扰着从事当前倡议的教育工作者、政策制定者和实践者的挑战搏斗和框定的。政府如何在全球经济中促进私人研发？研究人员如何才能在不考虑学科专业的情况下接受创业培训？对商业化、企业家精神及其产品的关注在哪些方面改变了什么是有价值的知识，并可能使其变得狭隘？如何才能使STEM的参与更加多样化？这种多样性是否会导致原本不会发生的意外发现？这个项目追溯了创新理论家在20世纪60年代至80年代和今天对大学、企业研究中心和联邦机构的影响？S：地方、地区和国家创新倡议的激增。PI将探索这些理论家如何开发各种形式的专业知识，旨在通过培养技术科学从业者的创造力、创业精神、跨学科和社会相关性来提高STEM的参与度和绩效。研究结果将通过一本书、一个研究生研讨会和一个针对STEM研究生和政策制定者的研讨会来传播。

Developing Innovators and Expertise for Fostering InnovationCurrently, a range of U.S. stakeholders are investing billions of dollars collectively in the construction of innovation centers and the reform of STEM education. The project investigates how innovation theorists in the past wrestled with and framed the challenges that continue to vex educators, policymakers, and practitioners engaged in present initiatives. How can governments foster private research and development in a global economy? How can researchers be trained for entrepreneurial careers irrespective of disciplinary specialty? In what ways does a focus on commercialization, entrepreneurship, and its products alter, and potentially narrow, what counts as valuable knowledge? How can STEM participation be made more diverse, and will that diversity result in unforeseen discoveries that would not have occurred otherwise?This project traces the impact of innovation theorists on universities, corporate research centers, and federal agencies during the 1960s to the 1980s and on today?s proliferation of local, regional, and national innovation initiatives. The PI will explore how these theorists developed forms of expertise designed to improve STEM participation and performance by fostering creativity, entrepreneurialism, interdisciplinary, and social relevance in technoscientific practitioners. Findings will be disseminated via a book, a graduate student seminar, and a workshop directed at STEM graduate students and policymakers.