Conference on the STEM Intrapreneurship and Entrepreneurship Education Spectrum

STEM内部创业和创业教育系列会议

• 批准号: 1446976
• 负责人: Stuart Schulman
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: CUNY Baruch College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1446976&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; STEM; Intrapreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Education

The infusion of intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial skills into technician education programs to prepare highly qualified entry level technicians who understand the industry enterprise is an area of interest to the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. This project will support a two-day Conference on the STEM Intrapreneurship and Entrepreneurship Education Spectrum leading to a formal report on conference outcomes. ATE Centers and projects have developed a wide array of innovative responses to this focal area, including Contract Research Organizations, incubators and Virtual Enterprises. This conference will initiate a group discussion on best practices culminating in recommended goals for technician education programs, faculty development seminars and a network-based mentorship. This conference will build consensus on how these practices can become a regular part of STEM technician education programs. The Institute for Virtual Enterprise (IVE) at the City University of New York (CUNY) has had a successful track record of developing STEM intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship curriculum, performing faculty development and leading discussion in this area. IVE currently hosts an annual summer conference at Baruch College in New York City on intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship that focuses on the Virtual Enterprise pedagogy. The current conference will be expanded in two primary ways: (1) providing support for speakers with expertise in other portions of the STEM Intrapreneurship and Entrepreneurship Education Spectrum beyond Virtual Enterprise; and, (2) disseminating the practices beyond ATE grantees by providing travel stipends with special emphasis on faculty at community colleges that do not currently have ATE grants. This proposal will expand the reach of the practices to new campuses and set an action research framework for future scholarly publications on the topic. Conference participants will join a social network where further campus-to-campus support, mentorship and interaction occur. Participants will be encouraged to take back a platform for STEM intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship, implement it on their campus and study its effects using an action research methodology.Some of the questions that will be addressed during the conference and discussed in the conference report are: What practices exist at other institutions?How effective are these practices in students' education?What metrics gauge a program's success? What other qualitative and quantitative data are useful for measuring impact? How can faculty design a classroom research study of practices?With whom can faculty network to learn about these practices?How does one make the case for these practices to College Senior Administrators and Governing Boards?What are the legal precedents and complications around encouraging entrepreneurial activity at a public, tax-supported institution?Are there outlets for scholarly publications for work in STEM entrepreneurship education?Are there common milestones in entrepreneurial activity for campuses to track successes?

将内部创业和创业技能融入技术人员教育计划中，以培养了解行业企业的高素质入门级技术人员是高级技术教育 (ATE) 计划感兴趣的领域。该项目将支持为期两天的 STEM 内部创业和创业教育频谱会议，并形成关于会议成果的正式报告。 ATE 中心和项目针对这一重点领域制定了一系列广泛的创新应对措施，包括合同研究组织、孵化器和虚拟企业。这次会议将发起关于最佳实践的小组讨论，最终提出技术人员教育计划、教师发展研讨会和基于网络的指导的建议目标。本次会议将就这些实践如何成为 STEM 技术人员教育计划的常规组成部分达成共识。纽约城市大学 (CUNY) 的虚拟企业研究所 (IVE) 在开发 STEM 内部创业和创业课程、开展师资发展和主导该领域的讨论方面拥有成功的记录。 IVE 目前在纽约巴鲁克学院举办年度夏季会议，主题是内部创业和创业精神，重点关注虚拟企业教学法。本次会议将通过两个主要方式进行扩展：(1) 为虚拟企业之外的 STEM 内部创业和创业教育领域其他部分的专业知识演讲者提供支持； (2) 通过提供旅行津贴，将这些做法传播到 ATE 受助者之外，特别关注目前没有 ATE 补助金的社区学院的教职人员。该提案将把实践的范围扩大到新校区，并为未来有关该主题的学术出版物制定行动研究框架。会议参与者将加入一个社交网络，在那里可以进行进一步的校园间支持、指导和互动。我们将鼓励与会者收回 STEM 内部创业和创业平台，在自己的校园中实施该平台，并使用行动研究方法研究其效果。会议期间将解决并在会议报告中讨论的一些问题是：其他机构存在哪些实践？这些实践在学生教育中的效果如何？衡量项目成功的指标是什么？还有哪些其他定性和定量数据可用于衡量影响？教师如何设计实践的课堂研究？教师可以与谁建立网络来了解这些实践？如何向大学高级管理人员和理事会解释这些实践？在公共税收支持机构鼓励创业活动有哪些法律先例和复杂性？STEM 创业教育方面的学术出版物是否有渠道？ 校园创业活动是否能追踪成功？