Collaborative Research: EPIIC: Developing an Eco Engine Jumpstart Kit

这是一个跨以下机构的合作项目：本尼迪克特学院(南卡罗来纳州)、罗斯州立学院(俄克拉何马州)和萨默塞特社区学院(肯塔基州)。这些机构(“群体”)将就如何准备和参与当前的产业转移分享战略，因为小型学院代表着历史上服务不足的社区，通常遭受一系列共同的基础设施问题，这些问题阻碍了机构获取资源和适应工业和创业方面的创新趋势的能力。该团队将开发和测试一种解决这些常见基础设施问题的方法，主要是通过以新的方式利用现有资源并与创新生态系统中的外部合作伙伴合作。结果将被记录在一个“Eco Engine JumpStart Kit”中，作为一个框架，它将允许社区学院和HBCU机构的全国网络有效地瞄准关键基础设施痛点，以改善与创新生态系统的互动。这将使机构能够在生态系统中聚集更多的资源，培养创新和创业的学生，并增强机构的竞争力和生存能力。该项目有五个目标：1)增加教师对赞助项目的参与度，2)增加合作伙伴对赞助项目的参与度，3)提高学生对研究和创业的参与度，4)提高赞助项目办公室的能力，5)发展技术转移流程。为了实现这些目标，该队列将在实施中采取生态系统建设的方式，在发展中采取科学的方法。队列中的各个机构结合了它们在高等教育基础设施和创业生态系统建设方面的知识，为它们在每个参与机构培养创新和创业社区的战略提供了信息。在开发过程中，该项目将试验性地开发和测试来自三个原始参与机构的解决方案，并在得到确认后，与全国各地遇到同样限制的其他机构分享开发的最佳做法。大规模采用完整的Eco Engine JumpStart套件可以帮助创建一个由社区大学和HBCU高等教育机构组成的全国性网络，共享最佳实践和关系，以在创新生态系统中产生更广泛的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This is a collaborative project across the following institutions: Benedict College (S. Carolina), Rose State College (Oklahoma), and Somerset Community College (Kentucky). These institutions (the “cohort”) will share strategies on how to prepare for and participate in the current industrial shift given that small colleges, representing historically underserved communities, typically suffer from a common set of infrastructure problems that hamper the institution’s ability to acquire resources and adapt to innovative trends in industry and entrepreneurship. The cohort will develop and test an approach that addresses these common infrastructure problems, primarily through leveraging existing resources in new ways and collaborating with external partners in the innovative ecosystem. The results will be captured in an “Eco Engine Jumpstart Kit” to serve as a framework that will allow the nationwide network of Community Colleges and HBCU institutions to effectively target critical infrastructure pain points for improved engagement with the innovative ecosystem. This will enable institutions to aggregate more resources in the ecosystem, develop innovative and entrepreneurial students, and strengthen the competitiveness and viability of the institution. This project has five goals: 1) increase faculty engagement with sponsored projects, 2) increase partner engagement in sponsored projects, 3) increase student engagement in research & entrepreneurship, 4) increase capacity of sponsored projects office, and 5) develop a technology transfer process. To achieve these goals, the cohort will take an ecosystem-building approach in implementation and a scientific methodology in development. The individual institutions in the cohort have combined their knowledge of higher-education infrastructure and entrepreneurial ecosystem-building to inform their strategy on growing a community of innovation and entrepreneurship at each participating institution. In development, the project will experimentally develop and test solutions from the three original participating institutions and, once confirmed, share developed best practices with other institutions across the nation experiencing the same limitations. A mass adoption of the completed Eco Engine Jumpstart Kit can aid in creating a nationwide network of community college and HBCU higher-education institutions sharing best practices and relationships for broader impact in the innovative ecosystem.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.