Strengthening an Inclusive Innovation Ecosystem through an Historically Black Colleges and Universities Community of Practice

通过历史悠久的黑人学院和大学实践社区加强包容性创新生态系统

• 批准号: 2332409
• 负责人: Iris Wagstaff
• 金额: $ 151.02万
• 依托单位: American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2332409&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Strengthening; Inclusive; Innovation; Ecosystem; through

Since 2017 with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has led efforts to support inclusive innovation by specifically developing and leveraging the talent at HBCUs and their potential to serve as economic engines in their local communities and leaders in the innovation arena. The AAAS HBCU Innovation Initiative via it’s Community of Practice (CoP) has provided training, mentoring, and resourcing of over 350 HBCU students and faculty from 38 institutions to develop innovations addressing grand challenges and global issues framed by the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).This three-year project will build upon the CoP’s goal of creating and leveraging an inclusive innovation ecosystem to empower HBCU students and faculty to not only pursue, but lead national efforts in the invention, innovation, making, and entrepreneurship arena. Anticipated outcomes from the inclusive innovation ecosystem include fostering the transdisciplinary talent at HBCUs and positioning students and faculty to become change makers to solve the grand challenges in their community, the U.S., and globally. The targeted project activities will provide students with a stronger sense of identity in seeing themselves as inventors, innovators, makers, and entrepreneurs. Faculty will be empowered to support student innovation career pathways and receive training and resources to lead innovation efforts in their classrooms and research labs.This project will advance the field by providing knowledge of best practices and strategies in broadening participation in innovation related areas and advancing innovation capacity at HBCUs by employing a CoP and inclusive ecosystems as models and frameworks. The embedded research study will engage and leverage the expertise of HBCU social science researchers as collaborative partners in knowledge generation on how best to advance innovation capacity at HBCUs. This key stakeholder partnership and participatory research approach with HBCU scholars will lay the foundation for future efforts to identify, scale and sustain institutional capacity building in innovation on HBCU campuses. Activities will equip HBCU students and faculty with the training and resources to develop innovation related prototypes addressing critical societal issues. Mentoring, coaching and training will assist students and faculty in serving as innovation leaders on their campuses. An external evaluation team will assess the overall project impacts, and to address the specific research questions that will guide the research study. The activities align with the following objectives: 1) Expand and scale student and faculty training in innovation, tech transfer, and product commercialization through participation in the AAAS HBCU Making and Innovation Showcase, 2) Expand faculty training to include a targeted pd and leadership track, 3) Advance on-campus capacity building, 4) Expand the CoP to leverage new strategic collaborative partnerships, and 5) Advance the evidence base on inclusive innovation via an embedded research study.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.

自2017年以来，在美国国家科学基金会(NSF)历史上黑人高校本科项目(HBCU-UP)的支持下，美国科学促进会(AAAS)通过具体开发和利用HBCU的人才及其作为当地社区经济引擎和创新舞台领导者的潜力，领导了支持包容性创新的努力。AAAS HBCU创新倡议通过其实践社区(COP)为来自38个机构的350多名HBCU学生和教职员工提供了培训、指导和资源，以开发创新，以应对联合国可持续发展目标(SDGs)框架下的重大挑战和全球问题。这个为期三年的项目将基于COP的目标，即创建和利用包容性创新生态系统，使HBCU学生和教职员工不仅能够在发明、创新、制造和创业领域追求并领导国家的努力。包容性创新生态系统的预期成果包括培养HBCU的跨学科人才，并定位学生和教职员工成为变革的创造者，以解决他们所在社区、美国和全球的重大挑战。有针对性的项目活动将为学生提供更强的认同感，让他们将自己视为发明者、创新者、制造者和企业家。教师将被授权支持学生的创新职业道路，并接受培训和资源，以在他们的课堂和研究实验室领导创新努力。该项目将通过提供最佳实践和战略知识，扩大创新相关领域的参与，并通过使用COP和包容性生态系统作为模型和框架来提高HBCU的创新能力，从而推动该领域的发展。嵌入的研究研究将利用HBCU社会科学研究人员的专业知识，作为知识生成的合作伙伴，讨论如何最好地提高HBCU的创新能力。这一关键利益攸关方伙伴关系和与HBCU学者的参与性研究方法将为今后确定、扩大和维持HBCU校园创新方面的机构能力建设奠定基础。活动将为HBCU的学生和教职员工提供培训和资源，以开发与创新相关的原型，解决关键的社会问题。指导、指导和培训将帮助学生和教职员工在他们的校园里担任创新领导者。外部评估小组将评估整个项目的影响，并解决指导研究性研究的具体研究问题。这些活动符合以下目标：1)通过参与AAAS HBCU制造和创新展示，扩大和扩大学生和教师在创新、技术转移和产品商业化方面的培训；2)扩大教师培训，包括有针对性的PD和领导力轨道；3)推进校园能力建设；4)扩大COP，以利用新的战略合作伙伴关系；5)通过嵌入式研究研究，推进包容性创新的证据基础。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。