Workshop - Understanding accelerators as organizations that influence diversity and inclusion in entrepreneurship through practices; University Park, PA; Summer 2020

研讨会 - 将加速器理解为通过实践影响创业多样性和包容性的组织；

• 批准号: 2013661
• 负责人: Betsy Campbell
• 金额: $ 3.9万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-02-15 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2013661&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Understanding; accelerators; organizations; influence

Despite the widespread availability of accelerators and other context for entrepreneurship education, the high-tech, high-growth (HTHG) entrepreneurial ecosystem remains mostly white and male. Accelerators are organizations with specific practices and processes that inform their culture and structure. Research that is devoted to the organizational science of accelerators and their practical role in matters of diversity and inclusion in HTHG entrepreneurship is needed. To prime the development of such a literature, this workshop – Understanding Accelerators as Organizations that Influence Diversity and Inclusion in Entrepreneurship – will convene faculty researchers and graduate students in organization science and entrepreneurship as well as practitioners who facilitate accelerators. Once assembled, participants will set forth an agenda for future research that will advance theories of organization about accelerators while attending to issues of relevance in practice. The output from the gathering will be shared widely to stimulate awareness about the need for greater diversity and inclusion in the entrepreneurial ecosystem and the means by which scholars and practitioners can collaborate on rigorous and relevant research. Moreover, the workshop aims to be the beginning of an ongoing community of shared interest that can continue to move forward scholarship on entrepreneurship and diversity over time.In recent decades, studies of science education have shifted the expectations for diversity and inclusion contexts for learning about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). Despite the overlap between STEM and HTHG entrepreneurship, only limited insights have transferred from informal STEM learning contexts to accelerators. Starting with these gaps, this workshop will highlight what is known (and what needs to be known) about accelerators as organizations and their impact on matters of diversity and inclusion in HTHG entrepreneurship. The developed research agenda will encourage interdisciplinary scholarship on matters of diversity and inclusion in contexts for entrepreneurship education. New insights stand to be fostered in organizational science regarding how to support greater diversity and inclusion in accelerators as well as in adjacent activity settings such as universities with formal entrepreneurship programs and businesses in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. These insights will advance scientific knowledge on the role that the processes and practices of accelerators have on the initial involvement and career trajectories of entrepreneurs from non-dominant population groups (including women, people of color, people from working class backgrounds, and people from rural communities), thereby promoting greater equity in the innovation economy.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.

尽管创业加速器和其他创业教育背景广泛存在，但高科技、高增长（HTHG）创业生态系统仍然主要是白色和男性。加速器是具有特定实践和流程的组织，这些实践和流程为其文化和结构提供了信息。研究是专门的组织科学的加速器和他们的实际作用，在HTHG创业的多样性和包容性的问题是必要的。为了推动这样一个文献的发展，这个研讨会-了解加速器作为影响企业家精神的多样性和包容性的组织-将召集组织科学和企业家精神方面的研究人员和研究生，以及促进加速器的从业人员。一旦聚集在一起，与会者将为未来的研究提出一个议程，这将推进关于加速器的组织理论，同时关注实践中的相关问题。会议的成果将得到广泛分享，以促进人们认识到需要在创业生态系统中实现更大的多样性和包容性，以及学者和从业人员可以通过何种方式合作进行严格和相关的研究。此外，该研讨会旨在成为一个持续的共同兴趣社区的开始，可以随着时间的推移继续推进创业和多样性的奖学金。近几十年来，科学教育的研究已经改变了对学习科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的多样性和包容性背景的期望。尽管STEM和HTHG创业之间存在重叠，但只有有限的见解从非正式的STEM学习环境转移到加速器。从这些差距开始，本次研讨会将重点介绍加速器作为组织的已知（以及需要了解的）内容及其对HTHG创业中的多样性和包容性问题的影响。制定的研究议程将鼓励在创业教育背景下就多样性和包容性问题开展跨学科研究。在组织科学中，关于如何支持加速器以及相邻活动环境（如具有正式创业计划的大学和创业生态系统中的企业）的更大多样性和包容性的新见解将得到培养。这些见解将推进科学知识，了解加速器的流程和实践对非主导人口群体企业家的初始参与和职业轨迹的作用（包括妇女、有色人种、工人阶级背景的人和来自农村社区的人），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。