EAGER: Multi-level Research into I-Corps' Impact on Entrepreneurial Development: An Exploratory Study

这个EAGER项目从事有可能在创新领域产生变革的研究。该项目涉及一项研究，评估创新团活动的个别和综合影响，以探讨对参与者创业发展的多层次影响。对创业以及经济学、心理学和社会学相关领域的研究发现，新企业的创建受到多个分析层面（个人、团队、组织、社区、行业和经济）的广泛因素的影响。I-Corps在全国各地提供不同层次、不同形式和不同地点的创业培训，为收集有利于跨学科、多层次调查新业务创造的数据提供了独特的环境，重点是源于大学校园创新的技术创业公司。它收集的关于项目活动和影响的研究和数据将有助于推动未来的研究，并发展有关技术商业化和新业务创造的更全面的理论。这些成果将为下一代创业培训和创业战略提供信息，还将有助于增进关于创业成功关键决定因素的基本知识，并有助于制定适当的评估指标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，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。

This EAGER project engages in research that has the potential to be transformative in the field of innovation. The project involves a study that evaluates the individual and combined effects of Innovation Corps (I-Corps) activities to explore the multi-level impact on entrepreneurial development of participants. Research on entrepreneurship and in the related fields of economics, psychology, and sociology has found that new business creation is affected by a wide range of factors at multiple levels of analysis (individual, team, organization, community, industry, and economy). I-Corps, with its entrepreneurship training offered at different levels, formats and from different locations across the country, provides a unique setting to collect data conducive to interdisciplinary, multi-level investigation of new business creation with a focus on technology startup firms originating from innovations developed on university campuses. The research and the data that it collects on program activities and impact will help advance future research and the development of more comprehensive theories about technology commercialization and new business creation. The outcomes will inform the next generation of entrepreneurship training and startup strategies, and, it will also help advance fundamental knowledge about the key determinants of entrepreneurial success and the development of appropriate metrics for its evaluation. It will enable future innovation research and the development of more comprehensive theories about technology commercialization and new business creation.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.