SBIR Phase I: Novel simulation-based training for entrepreneurs

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目旨在为大学、政府和非政府组织开发创业培训材料。这些组织对加速创建技术驱动的创业型企业感兴趣，并有建立培训创业技术人员的计划的历史。为了取得成功，这些团队必须学会团结一致地运作，建立一个深思熟虑和可实施的业务战略，获得所需的资源，并执行战略。这项研究项目旨在提供一个教学框架，通过增强现有的评估工具，建立一个企业家游戏的模拟试验台，并用样本组测试这些模拟和教育计划，从而最大限度地实现这些目标。最终产品将是一个经过测试的计划，包括评估、反馈和一个单一的模拟，该模拟将使用赠款资金进行多次试验，用于数据收集和改进。项目成果将影响从前期融资到风险资本融资的小型初创公司。这类组织通常资金紧张，无法自掏腰包参加研讨会，也无法购买不直接专注于每项核心技术的软件。然而，当研讨会得到其他组织的赞助时，公司愿意参加提高创业技能的研讨会。从经济发展和许可收入的角度来看，这类组织在创建更具生存能力的高增长公司方面既有既得利益，又都有资金，他们都愿意将资金用于向潜在企业家提供节目

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to develop entrepreneurship training material for universities, governments and non-government organizations. Such organizations have an interest in accelerating the creation of technology-driven entrepreneurial enterprises, and have a history of establishing programs to train technologists for entrepreneurship. To be successful, these teams must learn to operate cohesively, establish a thoughtful and implementable business strategy, obtain needed resources, and execute on the strategy. This research project aims to provide an instructional framework to maximize these goals by enhancing the existing assessment tools, building a simulation test-bed of entrepreneur 'games' and testing these simulations and the educational program with sample groups. The end product will be a tested program including assessments, feedback, and a single simulation which will be piloted several times using grant funding for data collection and refinement. The project outcomes will impact small early-stage companies from pre-funding through to venture capital funding. Such organizations are typically cash-strapped, and will be unable to pay out of their own pocket to attend workshops and purchase software that are not directly focused on each of their core technologies. However, companies are willing to attend workshops to improve entrepreneurial skills when those are sponsored by other organizations. Such types of organizations have both a vested interest in creating more viable high growth companies, both from an economic development and licensing revenue perspective, and they both have funding that they have been willing to put to work delivering programming to prospective entrepreneurs