Advance & I-Corps Joint Program

该项目将通过实现女教师、博士后和其他研究人员尚未开发的创新潜力，促进科学进步。它将充分利用NSF I-Corps计划（包括国家创新网络）和ADVANCE中心已经开发的个人资源，建立对各自计划的相互理解，并确定和启动协同试点计划，以鼓励和使女性研究人员能够实现其研究成果的转化潜力，以获得积极的社会和经济效益。 通过ADVANCE开发的见解，让更多的女性参与I-Corps，学术界和工业界之间的伙伴关系将得到加强，美国STEM劳动力将更加多样化，具有全球竞争力。目标和范围：该项目汇集了NSF两个重要项目的参与者：创新团队（I-Corps）和NSF Advance：STEM学术课程中性别平等的组织变革。ADVANCE促进系统性变革，促进STEM教师在学术环境中的公平，无论STEM教师参与者拥有什么性别，种族或民族背景。I-Corps计划帮助参与者将他们的关注点扩展到大学之外，并加速NSF资助的基础研究项目的经济和社会效益，这些项目已准备好走向商业化。该项目将为多达400名女性与会者建立个人和具体的联系，其形式是在发展中心和I-Corps站点/节点之间建立当地团队。在学习对方最佳做法的同时，他们将努力确定和设计各种举措，以消除障碍，增加女性研究人员获得积极创业和创新成果的机会。潜在贡献：该计划将建立并运作一种联系，使女性STEM参与者能够将其关注点，想法和研究成果扩展到大学之外。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will promote the progress of science by realizing the untapped innovation potential of female faculty, postdoctoral and other researchers. It will leverage the combination of the already well developed individual resources of the NSF I-Corps program (including the National Innovation Network), and ADVANCE Centers by building mutual understanding of the respective programs, and identifying and initiating synergistic pilot programs to encourage and enable female researchers to realize the translational potential of their research outcomes for positive and societal and economic benefit. By involving more women in I-Corps through insights developed by ADVANCE, there will be enhanced partnerships between academia and industry and a more diverse American STEM workforce that is globally competitive. Goals and Scope: The project brings together participants in two important NSF programs; the Innovation-Corps (I-Corps) and NSF Advance: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions. ADVANCE fosters systemic change that promotes equity for STEM faculty in academic settings, no matter what gender, racial or ethnic backgrounds the STEM faculty participants possess. The I-Corps program prepares participants to extend their focus beyond their university footprint and to accelerate the economic and societal benefits of NSF-funded, basic-research projects that are ready to move toward commercialization. For up to 400 female attendees, this project will create personal and specific connections in the form of local teams developed between ADVANCE Centers and I-Corps Sites/Nodes. While learning best practices from the other they will work to identify and design initiatives to remove barriers and increase accessibility to positive entrepreneurial and innovation outcomes for female researchers. Potential contribution: This program will establish and make operational a connection that will enable female STEM participants to extend their focus, ideas and research outcomes beyond their University footprints.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.