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

商业遭遇：生命科学家模拟体验 增强创业意向和自我效能 在2019财年，NIH投资了260亿美元用于49，000个研究项目赠款。这项工作的商业化 对国家健康至关重要，并由充满活力的生物医学创业公司，孵化器和 供资备选办法。生命科学家是这些创业公司的关键，但女性生命科学家的代表性不足。 从活动的最初阶段就对妇女造成障碍，导致意图、信心、 创业和下游融资。这种差距在获得价值的潜在妇女生命科学 企业家既浪费又不可接受;本项目旨在解决这一差距。 第二阶段开发的业务接触：生命科学家完成了一个3D模拟产品， 吸引了早期职业女性科学家，从研究生到博士后，再到受资助的研究人员。中 模拟和培训经验，女生命科学家扮演角色，挑战既定障碍 并寻求模拟顾问的指导， ·识别障碍， ·确定他们的创业意向水平， ·确定克服创业障碍的途径，实践必要的技能， ·建立自我效能。 第一阶段成功地建立了商业接触：生命科学家的可行性，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主要研究者合作 科学、创业、商业、评估和评价（SBIR），并征求 34名处于职业生涯早期阶段的女性生命科学家和8名具有生命科学经验的男性， 创业在此基础上，我们明确了需求，创建了仿真设计，开发，测试 并完善了单一场景原型，并概述了第二阶段和第三阶段商业化的计划。 我们发现，尽管对企业家的信心不高， 能力我们发现，在互动的环境中， 仿真框架经过全面测试的原型通过连续的可用性测试得到了完善 直到所有可用性问题得到解决。最终100%的参与者同意他们会推荐 向有兴趣从事创业的妇女提供经验。 第二阶段使用相同的强大团队方法完成开发。总结性评估， 干预前/后设计与等待名单控制评估的影响，80名妇女生命科学家的1） 创业意向，2）创业自我效能，3）影响创业的因素，4） 创业态度的支持，职业生涯的变化，和挑战的可用性， 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.