International Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Workshop 2019: Support for Participants including those from Underserved Groups in S&T

为期五天的面向国内外STEM研究人员(研究生、博士后学者和初级教师)的技术创业和商业化研讨会将于2019年8月在布朗大学举行。讲习班的目的是提供程序和框架，鼓励研究人员通过直接创业或与公司接触，将其研究成果商业化。它包括帮助研究人员了解职业选择，讨论可供他们使用的商业化资源，包括由联邦政府提供的资源，如i-Corps和SBIR/STTR。讲习班特别鼓励科学和技术领域任职人数偏低群体的个人参加，讲习班讨论的主题侧重于任职人数偏低的挑战，并提供导师和榜样。为了配合NSF的使命，它将增加专注于从他们的研究中创造经济和社会价值的研究人员的数量。讲习班的做法是通过提供经过测试的工具、心理框架和认识到研究人员思维定势的商业化进程。它只有一个有限的体验式项目部分，研究人员利用他们自己研究小组的研究从事以下工作：评估他们的研究以获得独特的能力；制定产品概念；确定客户和用户需求；以及构建业务案例。体验部分不仅推进了商业化的早期阶段，而且允许研究人员想象整个过程。在主题专家的带领下，大量时间用于讨论主题问题。主题包括：STEM研究和商业化进程中代表性的现实和挑战，特别是技术创业；职业道路选择，平衡基础研究与商业化活动的适当关注；可用于支持商业化活动的资源。榜样和导师将与参与者互动。来自美国大学的教师将参加研讨会，观察和评估所使用的方法，以适应他们自己的课程使用。教师将参与这一主题的讨论。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

A five-day Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Workshop for domestic and international STEM researchers (graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and junior faculty) to be held at Brown University in August 2019. The objective of the Workshop is to provide processes and frameworks to encourage researchers to engage in the commercialization of their research, through direct venture creation or engagement with companies. It includes assistance to researchers in understanding career choices, discussions of commercialization resources available to them, including those provided by the Federal government such as I-Corps and SBIR/STTR. The Workshop especially encourages the participation of individuals from under-represented groups in Science and Technology, with Workshop discussion topics focusing on under-representation challenges, and providing mentors and role models. In alignment with the NSF mission, it will increase the number of researchers who are focused on the creation of economic and social value from their research. The approach in the workshop is via the provision of tested tools, mental frameworks and processes for commercialization that are cognizant of the mindset of researchers. It has a limited experiential project component, with researchers utilizing the research from their own research groups to engage in: evaluating their research for unique capabilities; formulating product concepts; determining customer and user needs; and building a business case. The experiential components not only advance the early stage of commercialization but allow the researchers to imagine the full process. Significant time is devoted to discussion of topical issues, led by subject matter experts. Topics include: realities and challenges of representation in STEM research, and in commercialization processes, particularly technology entrepreneurship; career path options, and balancing fundamental research with appropriate attention to commercialization activities; resources available to support commercialization activities. Role models and mentors will engage with the participants. Faculty from US universities will participate in the Workshop to observe and evaluate the methods used in order to adapt for their own curricular use. Faculty will engage in discussions on this topic.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.