Building Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at EPSCoR's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

该研讨会由阿拉巴马农业机械大学及其创业、创新和经济发展中心资助，旨在通过加强STEM创新能力和能力，为传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）提供战略和最佳实践，以提高研究竞争力和经济发展。虽然hbcu在培养黑人专业人才方面发挥着重要作用，但很少有以研究为重点的，因此很少有从事创新和创业发展的。为了解决hbcu创业和创新水平较低的问题，该项目旨在与EPSCoR八个司法管辖区的44所hbcu以及致力于STEM创新创业的更广泛的学术和行业社区合作。该项目预计，利用hbcu作为多样化创业创新者的来源，将提供更广泛的宝贵资源网络，从而增强科学和技术知识，并增加有能力、训练有素的技术企业家的国家管道。本次研讨会的总体目标是让目前在EPSCOR 8个辖区从事STEM创新和创业的44所hbcu以及更广泛的STEM学术和行业相关社区参与进来，为讨论最佳方法、活动和实施策略提供一个平台，以将这些校园发展成为STEM创新和创业的高效资源。研讨会的重点是(1)建立一个平台，以学习和社会科学研究为基础，建立扩大参与的途径，发展和促进hbcu参与国家的科学和工程创新事业；(2)向包括hbcu、政府和行业在内的各利益相关方提供信息和参与，以建立多样化的STEM创新社区，并提出有前景的战略、模式和技术，以扩大hbcu在当前创新和创业领域的参与；(3)提供可持续的学习活动，旨在扩大hbcu的创业和社会创业项目和课程的发展，鼓励创新，补充目前EPSCoR的投资和扩大参与的兴趣。研讨会的目的是展示新的和有效的战略方法，以实现科学和工程创新的包容性，这些方法可以被hbcu在全国范围内适应和复制。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

This workshop grant by Alabama Agricultural & Mechanical University and its Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Development is aimed at providing strategies and best practices to enhance research competitiveness and economic development at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by strengthening STEM innovation capacity and capability. While HBCUs play an important role in training black professionals, few are research-focused and thus, few are engaged in innovation and entrepreneurial development. To address this low level of entrepreneurship and innovation at HBCUs, the project aims to engage 44 HBCUs across eight EPSCoR jurisdictions, along with the broader academic and industry community working on STEM innovation entrepreneurship. The project anticipates that employing HBCUs as a source of diverse entrepreneurial innovators will provide a wider network of valuable resources, thereby enhancing scientific and technological knowledge and increasing the national pipeline of enabled, well-trained technology entrepreneurs.The overall goal of this workshop is to engage the current 44 HBCUs in eight EPSCOR jurisdictions working on STEM innovation and entrepreneurship as well as the broader academic and industry-related STEM community, to provide a platform for discussion of best approaches, activities, and implementation strategies to develop these campuses into high-performing resources of STEM innovation and entrepreneurship. The focus of the workshop is to (1) create a platform for building approaches for broadening participation, grounded in learning and social science research, to develop and advance participation of HBCUs in the nation's science and engineering innovation enterprise; (2) inform and engage various stakeholders, including HBCUs, government, and industry, in building diverse STEM communities of innovation and lead to promising strategies, models, and technologies for broadening participation of HBCUs in the current innovation and entrepreneurship space; and (3) deliver sustainable learning activities designed to expand the development of entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship programs and courses at HBCUs that encourage innovation and complement current EPSCoR investments and interest in broadening participation. The intent of the workshop is to demonstrate novel and effective strategic approaches for inclusiveness in science and engineering innovation that can be adapted and replicated nationally by HBCUs.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.