Building Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at EPSCoR's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

该研讨会由阿拉巴马州农业与机械大学及其创业、创新和经济发展中心资助，旨在提供战略和最佳实践，通过加强STEM的创新能力和能力，提高历史悠久的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)的研究竞争力和经济发展。虽然HBCU在培训黑人专业人员方面发挥了重要作用，但很少有人专注于研究，因此，很少有人从事创新和创业发展。为了解决HBCU创业和创新水平低的问题，该项目旨在让八个EPSCoR司法管辖区的44个HBCU参与，以及更广泛的学术和行业社区，致力于STEM创新创业。该项目预计，利用HBCU作为不同创业创新者的来源，将提供更广泛的宝贵资源网络，从而增进科学技术知识，并增加全国范围内有能力的、训练有素的技术创业者的渠道。本次研讨会的总体目标是让八个EPSCoR司法管辖区目前的44个HBCU从事STEM创新和创业，以及更广泛的学术和行业相关STEM社区，以提供一个平台，讨论最佳方法、活动和实施战略，以将这些园区发展为高绩效的STEM创新和创业资源。研讨会的重点是(1)创建一个平台，以学习和社会科学研究为基础，建立扩大参与的方法，以发展和促进HBCU对国家科学和工程创新企业的参与；(2)告知并吸引包括HBCU、政府和行业在内的各种利益攸关方建立多样化的STEM创新社区，并为扩大HBCU在当前创新和创业领域的参与提供有前途的战略、模式和技术；(3)开展可持续的学习活动，旨在扩大HBCU的创业和社会创业方案和课程的开发，鼓励创新并补充目前的EPSCoR投资和扩大参与的兴趣。研讨会的目的是展示在科学和工程创新中包容的新颖和有效的战略方法，这些方法可以由HBCUS在全国范围内改编和复制。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This workshop grant by Alabama Agricultural & Mechanical University and its Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Development is aimed at providing strategies and best practices to enhance research competitiveness and economic development at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by strengthening STEM innovation capacity and capability. While HBCUs play an important role in training black professionals, few are research-focused and thus, few are engaged in innovation and entrepreneurial development. To address this low level of entrepreneurship and innovation at HBCUs, the project aims to engage 44 HBCUs across eight EPSCoR jurisdictions, along with the broader academic and industry community working on STEM innovation entrepreneurship. The project anticipates that employing HBCUs as a source of diverse entrepreneurial innovators will provide a wider network of valuable resources, thereby enhancing scientific and technological knowledge and increasing the national pipeline of enabled, well-trained technology entrepreneurs.The overall goal of this workshop is to engage the current 44 HBCUs in eight EPSCOR jurisdictions working on STEM innovation and entrepreneurship as well as the broader academic and industry-related STEM community, to provide a platform for discussion of best approaches, activities, and implementation strategies to develop these campuses into high-performing resources of STEM innovation and entrepreneurship. The focus of the workshop is to (1) create a platform for building approaches for broadening participation, grounded in learning and social science research, to develop and advance participation of HBCUs in the nation's science and engineering innovation enterprise; (2) inform and engage various stakeholders, including HBCUs, government, and industry, in building diverse STEM communities of innovation and lead to promising strategies, models, and technologies for broadening participation of HBCUs in the current innovation and entrepreneurship space; and (3) deliver sustainable learning activities designed to expand the development of entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship programs and courses at HBCUs that encourage innovation and complement current EPSCoR investments and interest in broadening participation. The intent of the workshop is to demonstrate novel and effective strategic approaches for inclusiveness in science and engineering innovation that can be adapted and replicated nationally by HBCUs.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.