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（S。卡罗莱纳）、罗斯州立学院（俄克拉荷马州）和萨默塞特社区学院（肯塔基州）。 这些机构（“群体”）将分享如何准备和参与当前产业转型的战略，因为小型学院代表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得资源和适应产业和创业创新趋势的能力。该小组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“生态引擎启动工具包”中，作为一个框架，使全国社区学院和HBCU机构网络能够有效地针对关键基础设施痛点，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资源，培养创新和创业的学生，并加强机构的竞争力和生存能力。该项目有五个目标：1）增加教师参与赞助项目，2）增加合作伙伴参与赞助项目，3）增加学生参与研究&创业，4）增加赞助项目办公室的能力，5）开发技术转让流程。为实现这些目标，该群组将在执行中采取生态系统建设办法，在发展中采用科学方法。队列中的各个机构结合了他们在高等教育基础设施和创业生态系统建设方面的知识，为他们在每个参与机构发展创新和创业社区的战略提供信息。在开发过程中，该项目将实验性地开发和测试来自三个原始参与机构的解决方案，一旦得到确认，将与全国各地遇到相同限制的其他机构分享开发的最佳实践。大规模采用完整的生态引擎启动套件可以帮助创建一个全国性的社区学院和HBCU高等教育机构网络，分享最佳实践和关系，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 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.