SBIR Phase I: Value Innovation Teaching Toolkit

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)研究项目将为创新过程开发一个软件即服务工具包，并为价值创新过程开发面向服务的教育模拟，既适用于商业教育需求，也适用于关键的大学和K-12人口，STEM教育的核心发生在那里，如果创新的主体要适当地影响未来的商业创新者，他们应该被引导到哪里。在当前的全球商业环境中，创新甚至比创业精神对美国的竞争力至关重要。然而，目前的教育和商业环境既缺乏一套可促进创新进程的正式可部署工具，也缺乏提供可检验结果的创新培训和教育的手段。两者不仅对实施创新过程至关重要，而且对促进组织中的创新文化也是至关重要的。教育将利用一套面向服务的、基于网络的工具，这些工具可用于支持组织的创新努力，而对组织现有的创新或信息技术结构的影响最小。创新是当今商界最热门的话题之一，首席执行官明白创新是推动公司有机增长的引擎。然而，大多数组织并不具备将创新概念应用于其业务实践的知识或技能基础。这种缺乏可以归因于两个问题：第一，公司员工由于在正规教育期间的不足，往往对创新缺乏基本的了解；第二，公司缺乏一套可用的工具，使创新过程很容易适应组织的情况和需求。价值创新教学工具包解决了这两个未得到满足的需求。通过提供适用于大学和K-12级别正规STEM课程学生的商业培训需求和教育需求的教育模拟，该工具包将为学习者提供一个经过结果测试的创新学习环境。此外，我们的工具包将提供一套基于Web的工具，以最大限度地减少对组织当前IT基础设施的影响，促进创新过程。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) research project will develop a software-as-a-service toolkit for innovation processes and service oriented educational simulation for the value innovation process, applicable to both business educational needs and to the crucial college and K-12 demographic, where the core of STEM education takes place and where the principals of innovation should be directed if they are to properly influence future business innovators. Innovation, even more than entrepreneurship, is crucial to US competitiveness in the current global business environment. However, the current education and business environment lacks both a formal set of deployable tools that can facilitate the innovation process and a means of providing outcome testable training and education on innovation. Both are crucial to not only implementing processes of innovation, but to facilitating an innovation culture in an organization. The education will leverage the suite of service oriented, web-based tools that can be used to support an organization's innovation efforts with minimal impact on the organizations existing innovation or information technology structure. Innovation is one of the hottest topics in business today, with CEO's understanding that it's the engine driving their company's organic growth. However, most organizations do not have the knowledge or skill base to apply the concepts of innovation to their business' practices. This lack can be attributed to two problems: first, the company's employees often lack a basic understanding of innovation owing to a deficiency during their formal education and, second, the company lacks a usable set of tools that make an innovation process easily adaptable to the organization's situation and needs. The Value Innovation Teaching Toolkit addresses both unmet needs. By providing an educational simulation applicable to both business training needs and the educational needs of students in formal STEM programs at the university and K-12 level, the toolkit will provide the learner with an innovation learning environment that is outcome tested. Additionally, our toolkit will provide a suite of web-based tools that will facilitate the innovation process with minimal impact on an organization's current IT infrastructure.