Workshop - Understanding accelerators as organizations that influence diversity and inclusion in entrepreneurship through practices; University Park, PA; Summer 2020

尽管创业教育的加速器和其他背景广泛存在，但高科技、高增长(HTHG)创业生态系统仍然主要是白人和男性。加速器是具有特定实践和流程的组织，这些实践和流程告知他们的文化和结构。需要专门研究加速器的组织科学及其在HTHG创业的多样性和包容性问题上的实际作用。为了促进这类文献的发展，这个研讨会--理解加速器作为影响创业多样性和包容性的组织--将召集组织科学和创业方面的教员研究人员和研究生，以及促进加速器的实践者。一旦聚集在一起，与会者将为未来的研究制定议程，这将促进关于加速器的组织理论，同时关注实践中的相关问题。这次会议的成果将被广泛分享，以提高人们对创业生态系统中需要更多多样性和包容性的认识，以及学者和实践者可以通过何种方式在严格和相关的研究上进行合作。此外，该研讨会旨在成为一个正在进行的共同兴趣社区的开始，该社区可以随着时间的推移继续推进关于创业和多样性的学术研究。近几十年来，对科学教育的研究已经改变了对多样性的期望，并改变了学习科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)的包容性背景。尽管STEM和HTHG创业之间存在重叠，但只有有限的见解从非正式的STEM学习环境转移到加速器。从这些差距开始，本次研讨会将重点介绍加速器作为组织已知(和需要了解)的情况，以及它们对HTHG创业中多样性和包容性问题的影响。制定的研究议程将鼓励在创业教育背景下就多样性和包容性问题开展跨学科学术研究。关于如何在加速器以及在邻近的活动环境中支持更大的多样性和包容性，如拥有正式创业计划的大学和创业生态系统中的企业，组织科学将培养新的见解。这些见解将促进关于加速器的过程和实践对来自非主要人口群体(包括妇女、有色人种、工人阶级背景的人和来自农村社区的人)的企业家的初始参与和职业轨迹所起作用的科学知识，从而促进创新经济中的更大公平。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

Despite the widespread availability of accelerators and other context for entrepreneurship education, the high-tech, high-growth (HTHG) entrepreneurial ecosystem remains mostly white and male. Accelerators are organizations with specific practices and processes that inform their culture and structure. Research that is devoted to the organizational science of accelerators and their practical role in matters of diversity and inclusion in HTHG entrepreneurship is needed. To prime the development of such a literature, this workshop – Understanding Accelerators as Organizations that Influence Diversity and Inclusion in Entrepreneurship – will convene faculty researchers and graduate students in organization science and entrepreneurship as well as practitioners who facilitate accelerators. Once assembled, participants will set forth an agenda for future research that will advance theories of organization about accelerators while attending to issues of relevance in practice. The output from the gathering will be shared widely to stimulate awareness about the need for greater diversity and inclusion in the entrepreneurial ecosystem and the means by which scholars and practitioners can collaborate on rigorous and relevant research. Moreover, the workshop aims to be the beginning of an ongoing community of shared interest that can continue to move forward scholarship on entrepreneurship and diversity over time.In recent decades, studies of science education have shifted the expectations for diversity and inclusion contexts for learning about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). Despite the overlap between STEM and HTHG entrepreneurship, only limited insights have transferred from informal STEM learning contexts to accelerators. Starting with these gaps, this workshop will highlight what is known (and what needs to be known) about accelerators as organizations and their impact on matters of diversity and inclusion in HTHG entrepreneurship. The developed research agenda will encourage interdisciplinary scholarship on matters of diversity and inclusion in contexts for entrepreneurship education. New insights stand to be fostered in organizational science regarding how to support greater diversity and inclusion in accelerators as well as in adjacent activity settings such as universities with formal entrepreneurship programs and businesses in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. These insights will advance scientific knowledge on the role that the processes and practices of accelerators have on the initial involvement and career trajectories of entrepreneurs from non-dominant population groups (including women, people of color, people from working class backgrounds, and people from rural communities), thereby promoting greater equity in the innovation economy.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.