Advance & I-Corps Joint Program

该项目将通过实现女性教师、博士后和其他研究人员尚未开发的创新潜力，促进科学进步。该项目将结合美国国家科学基金会I-Corps项目（包括国家创新网络）和ADVANCE中心已经发展良好的个人资源，建立对各自项目的相互理解，并确定和启动协同试点项目，以鼓励和使女性研究人员实现其研究成果的转化潜力，从而产生积极的社会和经济效益。通过ADVANCE开发的见解，让更多女性参与I-Corps，将加强学术界和工业界之间的伙伴关系，并使美国STEM劳动力更加多样化，具有全球竞争力。目标和范围：该项目汇集了两个重要的NSF项目的参与者；创新军团（I-Corps）和美国国家科学基金会推进：STEM学术专业性别平等的组织变革。ADVANCE促进系统性变革，促进STEM教师在学术环境中的公平，无论STEM教师参与者拥有何种性别、种族或民族背景。I-Corps项目使参与者能够将他们的关注点扩展到大学之外，并加速nsf资助的基础研究项目的经济和社会效益，这些项目已经准备好走向商业化。对于多达400名女性与会者来说，该项目将以ADVANCE中心和I-Corps站点/节点之间发展的本地团队的形式建立个人和特定的联系。在从另一个国家学习最佳实践的同时，她们将努力确定和设计倡议，以消除障碍，增加女性研究人员获得积极的创业和创新成果的机会。潜在贡献：该项目将建立并运营一个联系，使STEM女性参与者能够将自己的关注点、想法和研究成果扩展到大学之外。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will promote the progress of science by realizing the untapped innovation potential of female faculty, postdoctoral and other researchers. It will leverage the combination of the already well developed individual resources of the NSF I-Corps program (including the National Innovation Network), and ADVANCE Centers by building mutual understanding of the respective programs, and identifying and initiating synergistic pilot programs to encourage and enable female researchers to realize the translational potential of their research outcomes for positive and societal and economic benefit. By involving more women in I-Corps through insights developed by ADVANCE, there will be enhanced partnerships between academia and industry and a more diverse American STEM workforce that is globally competitive. Goals and Scope: The project brings together participants in two important NSF programs; the Innovation-Corps (I-Corps) and NSF Advance: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions. ADVANCE fosters systemic change that promotes equity for STEM faculty in academic settings, no matter what gender, racial or ethnic backgrounds the STEM faculty participants possess. The I-Corps program prepares participants to extend their focus beyond their university footprint and to accelerate the economic and societal benefits of NSF-funded, basic-research projects that are ready to move toward commercialization. For up to 400 female attendees, this project will create personal and specific connections in the form of local teams developed between ADVANCE Centers and I-Corps Sites/Nodes. While learning best practices from the other they will work to identify and design initiatives to remove barriers and increase accessibility to positive entrepreneurial and innovation outcomes for female researchers. Potential contribution: This program will establish and make operational a connection that will enable female STEM participants to extend their focus, ideas and research outcomes beyond their University footprints.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.