Workshop: Culturally Relevant Enterprise Development (CRED) for Tribal Colleges Listen and Learn

我们建议举办一个“倾听和学习”研讨会，以促进美国国家科学基金会与美国原住民/阿拉斯加原住民（NA/AN）社区之间的合作，以开发创新和基于STEM/STEAM的创业课程和孵化器计划。 目标是收集，理解和记录NA/AN社区现有创业孵化器计划中的最佳实践，并设想创业孵化器计划可能是什么样子。 研讨会参与者将了解社区需求，现有的NA/AN创业计划，NSF创业，精益启动平台和商业模式画布的现有成功模式;技能包括：客户发现过程; STEM，社会和基于社区的文化相关创业;围绕定义个人创业心态和想象未来NA/AN创业孵化器计划的积极态度。 该活动将有助于促进对NA/AN社区现有创业孵化器项目中最佳实践的理解，并帮助制定NSF赞助的NA/AN STEM企业家项目的愿景。 它将为NA/AN企业家的试点群体参与文化相关的I-Corps变体奠定基础，文化相关企业发展（CRED）计划最终可能扩展到其他社区。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

We propose a "listen and learn" workshop to facilitate partnerships between NSF and Native American/Alaska Native (NA/AN) communities in the US to develop an innovation and STEM/STEAM-based entrepreneurship curriculum and incubator program. The goals are to collect, understand, and document best practices among existing entrepreneurship incubator programs in NA/AN communities as well as envision what an entrepreneurship incubator program could look like. Workshop participants will come away with knowledge of community needs, existing, existing successful models for NA/AN entrepreneurship programs, NSF entrepreneurship, lean launchpad, and the business model canvas; skills including: Customer discovery process; STEM, social, and community-based culturally-relevant entrepreneurship; positive attitudes around defining individual entrepreneurial mindsets and imagining a future NA/AN entrepreneurship incubator program. The activity will help advance understanding of best practices among existing entrepreneurship incubator programs in NA/AN communities and to help develop a vision for what an NSF-sponsored program for NA/AN STEM entrepreneurs could look like. It will lay a ground work for a pilot cohort of NA/AN entrepreneurs to participate in a culturally relevant I-Corps variant, Culturally Relevant Enterprise Development (CRED) program that could ultimately be expanded to other communities.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.