EAGER: Pathway to Commercialization at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

EAGER：传统黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 的商业化之路

• 批准号: 2139221
• 负责人: Almesha Campbell
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Jackson State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2139221&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Pathway; Commercialization; Historically; Black

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) exert an outsized influence on the production of Black STEM majors, relative to Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs), yet they often lack the financial resources and infrastructure needed to support technology commercialization. Development of technology transfer resources at HBCUs could directly impact a significant proportion of African American scientists and engineers, and the African American tech-entrepreneurial pipeline. This project seeks to explore the technology and technology transfer infrastructure at a subset of HBCUs with Computer Science and Engineering Departments. It will investigate PWIs with consortium models in their approach to technology transfer offices in an effort to understand the feasibility of HBCUs to establish similar consortium models. Further, it will identify best practices among consortium models that hold the most promise for the HBCU environment.The Pathways to Commercialization for HBCUs project seeks to explore the technology and technology transfer infrastructure at a subset of ABET-accredited HBCUs and CISE-funded HBCUs. The project will investigate PWIs with consortium models in their approach to technology transfer offices in an effort to understand the feasibility of HBCUs to establish similar consortium models. Customer discovery will be conducted to identify both assets and pain points from technology commercialization administrators and faculty at the participating HBCUs. Additional discovery will be conducted with PWIs that have some elements of their TTO functions centralized. The work will be guided by the following research questions: 1) What is the current capacity of HBCUs to perform technology transfer; 2) To what extent do HBCUs view technology commercialization as a business opportunity; 3) What are the differences in faculty incentives for technology commercialization at research intensive research institutions vs HBCUs; and 4) Can a subset of potential shared activities be identified to improve technology commercialization at HBCUs? The goal of the customer discovery is to answer those questions. In particular, the project aims to identify best practices among consortium models that hold the most promise for the HBCU environment. A virtual convening will be held to discuss findings from the customer discovery, conduct design thinking sessions, and adopt a set of recommendations for implementing best practices.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.

相对于以白人为主的大学（pwi），传统上的黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）对黑人STEM专业的培养施加了巨大的影响，但它们往往缺乏支持技术商业化所需的财政资源和基础设施。hbcu技术转移资源的开发可以直接影响相当大比例的非裔美国科学家和工程师，以及非裔美国人的技术创业渠道。该项目旨在探索具有计算机科学和工程系的hbcu子集的技术和技术转移基础设施。它将调查采用联合体模式的pwi对技术转让办公室的做法，以努力了解hbcu建立类似联合体模式的可行性。此外，它还将确定对HBCU环境最有希望的财团模式中的最佳实践。“hbcu商业化之路”项目旨在探索abet认证的hbcu和cise资助的hbcu的技术和技术转移基础设施。该项目将调查采用联合体模式的pwi对技术转让办公室的做法，以努力了解hbcu建立类似联合体模式的可行性。将进行客户发现，以从参与的hbcu的技术商业化管理人员和教师那里确定资产和痛点。将对集中了其TTO功能的某些元素的pwi进行其他发现。本研究将围绕以下问题展开：1)目前hbcu进行技术转移的能力如何；2) hbcu在多大程度上将技术商业化视为商业机会？3)研究密集型研究机构与hbcu的教师对技术商业化的激励有何差异；4)能否确定一个潜在的共享活动子集，以改善hbcu的技术商业化？客户发现的目标就是回答这些问题。特别是，该项目旨在确定对HBCU环境最有希望的财团模式中的最佳实践。将举行虚拟会议，讨论客户发现的结果，进行设计思考会议，并采用一组实施最佳实践的建议。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。