Business Encounters: Life Scientist Simulation Experience to Enhance Entrepreneurial Intent and Self-efficacy

商业接触：生活科学家模拟体验 提高创业意向和自我效能感 在2019财年，NIH投资了260亿美元用于4.9万个研究项目拨款。将这项工作商业化 对国家健康至关重要，并由充满活力的生物医学初创公司、孵化器和 资金选择。生命科学家是这些初创企业的关键，但女性生命科学家的比例偏低。 从活动的最早阶段起，对女性的障碍就会导致意向、自信、 创业精神和下游资金。在从潜在女性生命科学中获得价值方面的差距 创业者既浪费又不可接受；这个项目旨在解决这一差距。 商业邂逅的第二阶段开发：生命科学家完成了一个3D模拟产品， 吸引职业生涯早期的女科学家，从研究生到博士后，再到资助的研究人员。在一个 模拟和培训体验作为女性生命科学家角色扮演挑战既定障碍 并向模拟顾问寻求指导，他们 ·确定障碍， ·确定他们的创业意向水平， ·确定一条克服创业障碍的途径，练习必要的技能，以及 ·建立自我效能感。 第一阶段成功地确立了商业邂逅的可行性：生命科学家并奠定了 第二阶段和第三阶段的基础工作。我们与8名具有生活专业知识的女性初级调查人员合作 科学、创业、商业、评估和评估(SBIR)，以及征求以下方面的反馈 34名女性生命科学家处于职业生涯的早期阶段，8名男性具有生命科学或 企业家精神。在此基础上，我们明确了需求，创建了仿真设计，开发、测试 并提炼了单场景原型，并概述了第二阶段和第三阶段商业化计划。 我们发现，尽管人们对创业信心不高，但仍强烈支持一项填补上述差距的解决方案 才能。我们确定了对指导的热情，以便在互动的 仿真框架。彻底测试的原型通过连续的可用性轮次得到改进 直到所有的可用性问题都得到解决。最终，100%的参与者同意他们将推荐 对于有兴趣从事创业的女性来说，这是一种体验。 第二阶段使用相同的强大团队方法完成开发。一种终结性的评估 采用等待名单对照的干预前后设计评估对80名女性生命科学家的影响 创业意向，2)创业自我效能感，3)影响创业的因素，4) 企业家对获得支持、职业转变和挑战的态度 商业化。

Business Encounters: Life Scientist Simulation Experience to Enhance Entrepreneurial Intent and Self-efficacy In FY 2019, the NIH invested $26 billion in 49,000 research project grants. Commercialization of that work is essential to the nations health and driven by a vibrant community of biomedical startups, incubators and funding options. Life scientists are key to those startups yet women life scientists are underrepresented. Barriers to women from the earliest stages of activity results in decreased intent, confidence, entrepreneurship, and downstream funding. This gap in obtaining value from potential women life science entrepreneurs is both wasteful and unacceptable; this project intends to address that gap. Phase II development of Business Encounters: Life Scientist completes a 3D simulation product that engages early-career women scientists, from graduate students to post-docs to funded investigators. In a simulation and training experience as women life scientists role-play challenges to established barriers and seek guidance from simulated advisors, they • identify barriers, • establish their level of entrepreneurial intent, • define a pathway to overcome barriers to entrepreneurship, practice the necessary skills, and • build self-efficacy. Phase I successfully established the feasibility of Business Encounters: Life Scientist and laid the groundwork for Phases II and III. We worked with 8 women Primary Investigators with expertise in life science, entrepreneurship, business, assessment and evaluation (SBIR), as well soliciting feedback from 34 women life scientists in the earlier stages of their career and 8 men with experience with life science or entrepreneurship. Based on this, we clarified the need, created a simulation design, developed, tested and refined a single-scenario prototype, and outlined a plan for Phase II and Phase III commercialization. We found strong support for a solution to fill the above gap despite low confidence in entrepreneurial ability. We identified enthusiasm for guidance to identify and overcome barriers, within an interactive simulation framework. The thoroughly tested prototype was refined through successive usability rounds until all usability issues were addressed. Eventually 100% of participants agreed they would recommend the experience to women interested in pursuing entrepreneurship. Phase II completes development using the same strong team approach. A summative evaluation with a pre-/post-intervention design with wait-list control assesses impact on 80 women life scientists’ 1) entrepreneurial intention, 2) entrepreneurial self-efficacy, 3) factors that affect entrepreneurship, and 4) entrepreneurial attitudes toward availability of support, career change, and the challenge of commercialization.