AWARE: Cultivating the Diversity of the Health Care Innovation Ecosystem

AWARE：培育医疗保健创新生态系统的多样性

• 批准号: 1641744
• 负责人: Linda Fleisher
• 金额: $ 22.32万
• 依托单位: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-02-15 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1641744&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AWARE; Cultivating; Diversity; Health; Care

The broader impact of this Accelerating Women and Under-Represented Entrepreneurs (AWARE) project is to enhance success for women- and minority-owned businesses in obtaining NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) funding, thereby leading to a diverse and responsive innovation ecosystem connecting minority entrepreneurs with existing sources of support that ultimately improves the health of Americans, especially disadvantaged populations. Health care is a highly regulated environment that requires a level of scientific and clinical rigor that challenges many entrepreneurs. Academic researchers, on the other hand, are well-versed in issues regarding access to appropriate patient populations, clinical accuracy and relevance, human subjects' protection in research studies. This project will build mutually-beneficial collaborations and training among underrepresented entrepreneurs and academic researchers to determine best practices for diversifying the pool of principal investigators receiving SBIR funding. Training will focus on NSF SBIR/STTR program requirements while mentorship by experts will support entrepreneurs in the development, review and refinement of key proposal elements and implementation, research and commercialization plans. This model will bring all of these resources and expertise into one immersive training for underrepresented entrepreneurs who already have potentially high risk-high reward technology with evidence for commercial potential. The proposed project will develop and test the AWARE Immersion Program to increase both the quality and quantity of SBIR/STTR proposals submitted by startup companies that traditionally have been disadvantaged and underrepresented in the program. Through mixed qualitative and quantitative methods, the barriers and facilitators to SBIR submission for successful women and minority early entrepreneurs (graduated from a top accelerator program) will be determined. The program will be based on this extensive needs assessment with minority and women entrepreneurs and key leaders of incubators and innovation programs. The findings will guide the development of the specific elements of the immersion program. The first group of entrepreneurs will be recruited through the existing network of incubators and through our established community and entrepreneurial networks. Those recruited will be matched to health care researchers and clinicians with experience in SBIR/STTR funding as well as business and commercial professionals. The program will consist of a number of webinars, in-person trainings, planning meetings and writing sessions. Each entrepreneur will develop a plan of action with their mentor/advisory team at the start of the program which will be monitored to ensure that clear objectives met, culminating in the submission of an SBIR/STTR proposal.

这项加速妇女和代表性不足的企业家（Aware）项目对妇女和少数群体拥有的企业获得成功的成功，在获得NSF小型商业创新研究（SBIR）/小型企业技术转移研究（STTR）资金方面增强了成功，从而导致了一项多元化和响应性的生态领域的发展，这是一家人与次要的富人的发展，这一基金的发展范围是一家人，并促进了次要的富人企业的发展。弱势群体。 卫生保健是一个受高度监管的环境，需要一定程度的科学和临床严谨，挑战许多企业家。 另一方面，学术研究人员在有关适当的患者人群，临床准确性和相关性的问题中，在研究研究中的保护方面非常精通。 该项目将在代表性不足的企业家和学术研究人员之间建立互惠互利的合作和培训，以确定获得SBIR资金的主要研究人员池的最佳实践。 培训将重点关注NSF SBIR/STTR计划的要求，而专家的指导将支持企业家的开发，审查和完善关键建议要素以及实施，研究和商业化计划。该模型将把所有这些资源和专业知识带入对代表性不足的企业家的沉浸式培训中，他们已经具有潜在的高风险高奖励技术，并具有商业潜力的证据。 拟议的项目将开发和测试意识浸入计划，以增加初创公司提交的SBIR/STTR提案的质量和数量，这些公司传统上在该计划中处于不利地位和代表性不足。 通过混合定性和定量方法，将确定成功的妇女和少数民族早期企业家（从顶级加速器计划毕业）提交SBIR提交的障碍和促进者。 该计划将基于与少数族裔和女性企业家以及孵化器和创新计划的主要领导者的广泛需求评估。 这些发现将指导沉浸式计划的特定要素的发展。 第一组企业家将通过现有的孵化器网络以及我们已建立的社区和企业家网络招募。 那些被招募的人将与拥有SBIR/STTR资金以及商业和商业专业人员经验的医疗保健研究人员和临床医生相匹配。 该计划将包括许多网络研讨会，面对面培训，计划会议和写作会议。 每个企业家将在计划开始时与他们的导师/咨询团队制定行动计划，并将对其进行监控，以确保实现明确的目标，并最终提交SBIR/STTR建议。