I-Corps: Ongoing Training, Evaluation, and Tracking of Program Impact

I-Corps：持续培训、评估和跟踪计划影响

• 批准号: 1832730
• 负责人: Philip Weilerstein
• 金额: $ 682.18万
• 依托单位: National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2021-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832730&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Ongoing; Training; Evaluation; Tracking

The broader impact of this award is to support the goals of the NSF I-Corps program to increase the economic and societal impact of NSF research funding directly, through enabling commercialization of research, and indirectly, by equipping scientists and engineers with skills and experience in developing and testing economically scalable models for the development of a product or technology. The structured, repeatable program that has been developed engages a national community of institutions and faculty to deliver the training and support these outcomes. Through the work proposed here, this project supports the training of more than 500 additional participants, supports the training of additional faculty to increase the diversity of the faculty pool and maintain fidelity of the program pedagogy, continues conducting systematic data collection and tracking of teams immediately before and long after formal participation in the program, and creates and disseminates datasets of use to both novice and experienced researchers in the field as well as the dissemination of scalable systems for impact measurement that provide both a framework that can be adopted by others in the field. The systems created through this work, and the insights gained, will advance the understanding of how best to track venture outcomes and assess the impact of early-stage entrepreneurial support programming.This NSF project will support the evaluation of I-Corps program outcomes and tracking of program impact in a systematic and timely way. This work is important to the operation of a consistent, high-fidelity program at scale and to the measurement of long term program results and an understanding of what works. The core intellectual merit of this work is insight into the program's impact, both economic outcomes and participants' career and research outcomes, over time. To gain this insight, the project evaluates the delivery of each cohort, administers a longitudinal outcomes survey, and tracks venture outcomes independently to verify program impact data. Working with NSF, the project makes these datasets accessible to the research community to enable the continued study of how best to support emerging science and technology innovation. The processes and data systems that efficiently track outcomes and provide insights into the development of technology-based products and ventures are a product of this project, as well.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项的更广泛的影响是支持NSF I-Corps计划的目标，通过使研究商业化直接增加NSF研究资金的经济和社会影响，并间接地通过为科学家和工程师提供开发和测试经济可扩展模型的技能和经验来开发产品或技术。已经开发的结构化，可重复的计划涉及国家机构和教师社区，以提供培训并支持这些成果。通过这里提出的工作，该项目支持培训500多名额外的参与者，支持培训额外的教师，以增加教师库的多样性和保持程序教学法的保真度，继续进行系统的数据收集和跟踪团队之前和之后很长一段时间正式参与该计划，创建和传播数据集，供该领域的新手和有经验的研究人员使用，并传播可扩展的影响计量系统，这些系统提供了一个可供该领域其他人采用的框架。 通过这项工作创建的系统，以及获得的见解，将促进了解如何最好地跟踪创业成果和评估早期创业支持计划的影响。这个NSF项目将支持I-Corps计划成果的评估和以系统和及时的方式跟踪计划的影响。 这项工作是重要的，一个一致的，高保真程序的操作规模和长期计划的结果的测量和了解什么工作。这项工作的核心智力价值是洞察该计划的影响，无论是经济成果和参与者的职业和研究成果，随着时间的推移。为了获得这种洞察力，该项目评估每个队列的交付情况，管理纵向成果调查，并独立跟踪风险成果，以验证计划影响数据。该项目与NSF合作，使研究界能够访问这些数据集，以继续研究如何最好地支持新兴的科学和技术创新。该项目的成果之一是有效跟踪成果并为基于技术的产品和企业的开发提供见解的流程和数据系统。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。