Development of a comprehensive suite of research-backed, integrated educational tools to inspire, educate, train, and support academic entrepreneurs in the commercialization of university research.

项目总结 持续教育技术公司(Continuum)将与堪萨斯大学(KU)合作 拟议的i-red计划，题为智能工具，通过提升参与者的 中央创意州区(START Central)计划，以刺激创意中的技术创新 国家地区通过解决研究人员在翻译科学知识方面的创业教育需求 从研究实验室到商业产品的发现，改善人类健康，促进 经济增长。通过拟议的努力，初创公司Central将帮助中部地区解决 其强劲的生物医学研究活动与可比管道的开发之间存在着持续的差距 学术企业家将这项研究产生的许多创新商业化。 Continum建议的教育产品套件将提供全面、统一和可评估的 在个别区域机构内建立健全的创业文化的机制，并将 提供单个机构协调努力、共享资源、发展的集中机制 区域最佳实践。这些“智能”工具将寻求对丰富的信息进行组织和系统化 和有关生物医学翻译的基本教育资源，运用教育心理学 成人在线学习的原则--从另一个角度开发一个完整而有效的课程 不同的、互不相连的资源和节目集合。后端分析、用户反馈和 评估功能将大量嵌入到学习管理系统中，以提供用户， 机构，以及Continuum，以持续评估和改进 教育工具及其内容，以及评估和最大限度地发挥产品对 个人用户和每个机构客户更广泛的创业文化。 在第一阶段，Continuum和KU将合作组建项目联合体，并使所有 准备运行第二阶段试点项目计划。该团队将共同为和输入内容 设计教育产品的线框模型。然后这些线框产品将进行初步测试， 反复重新设计，并初步验证。在阶段1结束时，经过验证的线框教育 产品将准备好进行全面增强，并在第二阶段的两个试点项目计划中使用。评估 在两个试点项目中，将使用满足用户需求的增强型智能教育产品 反复重新设计教育产品。在第二阶段结束时，智能教育产品和 试点项目计划的格式将准备好商业化。 将根据增强的创业态度、信心和能力对结果进行评估 方案参与者与对照组进行比较。评估计划结果的指标包括 开发的产品、签署的许可协议数量、正在培训的学生和教职员工数量 通过启动中心的各个方面，申请的专利数量，SBIR/STTR申请的数量 由任何联邦机构提交和授予，以及启动的初创公司的数量。

PROJECT SUMMARY Continuum Educational Technologies’ (Continuum) will work with the University of Kansas (KU) on the proposed I-RED program entitled Smart Tools to Accelerate Research Translation by Uplifting Participants for the Central IDeA State Region (STARTUP Central) program to stimulate technological innovation in the IDeA state regions by addressing the entrepreneurial educational needs of investigators in translating scientific discoveries from research laboratories into commercial products that improve human health and promote economic growth. Through the proposed effort, STARTUP Central will help the Central Region address a persistent gap between its robust biomedical research activities and the development of a comparable pipeline of academic entrepreneurs commercializing the many innovations resulting from this research. Continuum’s proposed suite of educational products will provide a comprehensive, uniform, and assessable mechanism for developing robust cultures of entrepreneurship within individual regional institutions, and will provide a centralized mechanism for individual institutions to coordinate efforts, share resources, and develop regional best-practices. These “smart” tools will seek to organize and systemize the abundance of information and basic educational resources available regarding biomedical translation, employing educational psychology principles for adult online learning to develop an integrated and effective curriculum from an otherwise disparate and disconnected collection of resources and programming. Back-end analytics, user-feedback, and evaluation features will be heavily embedded into the learning management system to provide users, institutions, and Continuum with a means to continuously assess and improve the usability and effectiveness of the educational tools and their content, as well as to assess and maximize the impact of the products on individual users and the broader entrepreneurial culture of each institutional customer. In Phase 1, Continuum and KU will work collaboratively to assemble the project consortium and make all preparations to run the Phase 2 Pilot Project program. The team will work together to input content for and design a wireframe model of the educational products. These wireframe products will then be initially tested, iteratively redesigned, and initially validated. At the end of Phase 1, the validated wireframe educational product will be ready for full enhancement and used in the two Pilot Project programs in Phase 2. Assessment of the enhanced smart educational products to meet user needs in the two Pilot Project programs will be used to iteratively redesign the educational products. At the end of Phase 2, the smart educational products and the format of the Pilot Project program will be ready for commercialization. Outcomes will be assessed based on enhanced entrepreneurship attitudes, confidence, and competency in the program participants compared to the control. Metrics to evaluate program outcomes include number of products developed, number of licensing agreements signed, number of students and faculty being trained through the various aspects of STARTUP Central, number of patents filed, number of SBIR/STTR applications submitted and awarded by any federal agency, and number of start-up companies launched.