ADVANCE Partnership: New Jersey Equity in Commercialization Collective (NJECC)

ADVANCE 合作伙伴关系：新泽西州股权商业化集体 (NJECC)

• 批准号: 2300380
• 负责人: Treena Livingston
• 金额: $ 124.76万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-12-15 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2300380&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ADVANCE; Partnership; New; Jersey; Equity

The New Jersey Equity in Commercialization Collective (NJECC) will address gender equity issues in academic technology commercialization (patenting, licensing, and startup creation) by focusing on the elimination of systemic institutional and entrepreneurial eco-system barriers. Key barriers to equity and inclusion in STEM commercialization and entrepreneurship include systemic cultural perceptions, training and reward structures, and patenting/ technology transfer activities at academic institutions. It is important to recognize and redress these inequities, not only as a matter of fairness but also because the lack of diversity in entrepreneurship diminishes the diversity of new ideas and hurts US technological innovation and economic competitiveness. To achieve systemic change in this area, the project will leverage a robust partnership of organizations across the state of New Jersey. The NJECC will be led by New Jersey Institute of Technology in collaboration with the NJ Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology; NJEdge (NJ’s non-profit technology services provider and member-driven consortium); New Jersey City University; Princeton University; Rowan University; Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; Seton Hall University; Stevens Institute of Technology; and St. Peters University. Working together, the NJECC project partners will aim to significantly increase the diversity of STEM faculty researchers who participate in New Jersey’s entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem. In turn, developing innovation pathways for new and diverse innovators will foster economic growth and the availability of new products and services that are important to society. The NJECC project will include two main initiatives: (1) training for Gatekeepers (academic Tech Transfer, Venture Development and Entrepreneurial offices) on methods to reduce barriers that hinder the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in commercialization activities and (2) the establishment of NJ statewide inclusive network development programs (showcases and conferences). In addition, NJECC will link these planned activities with the NJIT NSF-funded CyberCorps @ Scholarship for Service grant, the Secure Computing Initiative, to increase diversity and innovation in the crucial area of cybersecurity. Over the course of the project, these initiatives will aim to generate sustainable, intentional strategies for increasing the diversity of the academic innovator pool—strategies that then can be institutionalized across the state and beyond. The NJECC will aim to significantly reduce key barriers to equity and inclusion in STEM commercialization and entrepreneurship and will significantly increase the diversity of NJ STEM faculty researchers who participate in New Jersey’s entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem. The collaboration will also extend the existing infrastructures and resources of the less-resourced institutions through access to the resources of the other participating institutions. In addition, this project will aim to stimulate the ongoing collection of patenting and invention disclosure data, disaggregated by gender, race/ethnicity, and other identity dimensions. The NJECC team will use a variety of channels to disseminate project findings and strategies for systemic change, including but not limited to 1) print, digital, and social media; 2) national/regional conference presentations (NSF events, AUTM, UEDA, EdgeCon) and 3) relevant academic journals and resource libraries (TechTransfer Tactics, ARC Network).The NSF ADVANCE program is designed to foster gender equity through a focus on the identification and elimination of organizational barriers that impede the full participation and advancement of diverse faculty in academic institutions.  Organizational barriers that inhibit equity may exist in policies, processes, practices, and the organizational culture and climate.  ADVANCE "Partnership" awards provide support for projects that scale-up evidence based systemic change strategies to enhance gender equity for STEM faculty regionally or nationally.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.

新泽西州商业化公平集体（NJECC）将通过重点消除系统性制度和创业生态系统障碍来解决学术技术商业化（专利、许可和初创企业创建）中的性别平等问题。 STEM 商业化和创业的公平和包容性的主要障碍包括系统性文化观念、培训和奖励结构以及学术机构的专利/技术转让活动。认识并纠正这些不平等现象非常重要，这不仅是为了公平问题，也是因为企业家精神缺乏多样性会减少新想法的多样性，损害美国的技术创新和经济竞争力。为了实现这一领域的系统性变革，该项目将利用新泽西州各组织之间强有力的合作伙伴关系。 NJECC 将由新泽西理工学院与新泽西州科学、创新和技术委员会合作领导； NJEdge（新泽西州的非营利技术服务提供商和会员驱动的联盟）；新泽西城市大学；普林斯顿大学；罗文大学；罗格斯大学、新泽西州立大学；西顿霍尔大学；史蒂文斯理工学院；和圣彼得斯大学。 NJECC 项目合作伙伴将共同努力，显着增加参与新泽西州创业和创新生态系统的 STEM 教师研究人员的多样性。反过来，为新的和多样化的创新者开发创新途径将促进经济增长以及对社会重要的新产品和服务的可用性。 NJECC 项目将包括两项主要举措：(1) 对守门人（学术技术转让、风险开发和创业办公室）进行培训，了解如何减少阻碍妇女和代表性不足的少数群体参与商业化活动的障碍；(2) 建立新泽西州全州包容性网络发展计划（展示和会议）。此外，NJECC 还将把这些计划的活动与 NJIT NSF 资助的 Cyber​​Corps @ 服务奖学金、安全计算计划联系起来，以增加网络安全关键领域的多样性和创新。在该项目的过程中，这些举措将旨在制定可持续的、有目的的战略，以增加学术创新者库的多样性，然后这些战略可以在全州内外制度化。 NJECC 的目标是显着减少 STEM 商业化和创业的公平性和包容性的关键障碍，并将显着增加参与新泽西州创业和创新生态系统的 NJ STEM 教师研究人员的多样性。此次合作还将通过访问其他参与机构的资源来扩展资源较少机构的现有基础设施和资源。此外，该项目旨在促进持续收集按性别、种族/民族和其他身份维度分类的专利和发明披露数据。 NJECC 团队将使用各种渠道传播项目研究结果和系统性变革策略，包括但不限于 1) 印刷、数字和社交媒体； 2) 国家/地区会议演讲（NSF 活动、AUTM、UEDA、EdgeCon）和 3）相关学术期刊和资源库（TechTransfer Tactics、ARC Network）。 NSF ADVANCE 计划旨在通过重点识别和消除阻碍学术机构中多元化教师充分参与和进步的组织障碍来促进性别平等。  阻碍公平的组织障碍可能存在于政策、流程、实践以及组织文化和氛围中。  ADVANCE“合作伙伴”奖为那些扩大基于证据的系统性变革战略的项目提供支持，以增强地区或全国 STEM 教员的性别平等。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。