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

在 EPSCoR 的传统黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 中培养创业精神和经济发展

• 批准号: 2022768
• 负责人: Teresa Orok
• 金额: $ 9.95万
• 依托单位: Alabama A&M University
• 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: 2020-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2022768&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Building; Entrepreneurship; Economic; Development; EPSCoR

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.

这个研讨会由亚拉巴马农业机械大学及其创业，创新和经济发展中心资助，旨在提供战略和最佳实践，通过加强STEM创新能力和能力，提高历史上黑人学院和大学的研究竞争力和经济发展。虽然HBCUs在培训黑人专业人员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HBCUs创业和创新水平低的问题，该项目旨在让八个EPSCoR管辖区的44个HBCUs参与，沿着更广泛的学术和工业社区致力于STEM创新创业。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，从而提高科学和技术知识，增加国家的能力，很好，很好本次研讨会的总体目标是让目前在8个EPSCOR管辖区从事STEM创新和创业的44个HBCU以及更广泛的学术界参与进来。和行业相关的STEM社区，提供一个讨论最佳方法，活动和实施策略的平台，将这些校园发展成为STEM创新和创业的高性能资源。讲习班的重点是（1）建立一个平台，以学习和社会科学研究为基础，建立扩大参与的方法，以发展和促进HBCU参与国家的科学和工程创新企业;（2）通知和参与各种利益相关者，包括HBCU，政府和行业，建立多样化的STEM创新社区，并制定有前途的战略，（3）提供可持续的学习活动，旨在扩大HBCUs的创业和社会创业方案和课程的发展，鼓励创新和补充目前的EPSCoR投资和扩大参与的兴趣。该研讨会的目的是展示新的和有效的战略方法，在科学和工程创新的包容性，可以适应和复制全国HBCUs。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。