EAGER: Multi-level Research into I-Corps' Impact on Entrepreneurial Development: An Exploratory Study

EAGER：I-Corps 对创业发展影响的多层次研究：一项探索性研究

• 批准号: 1940249
• 负责人: Joseph Cheng
• 金额: $ 29.62万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-15 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1940249&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Multi; level; Research; into

This EAGER project engages in research that has the potential to be transformative in the field of innovation. The project involves a study that evaluates the individual and combined effects of Innovation Corps (I-Corps) activities to explore the multi-level impact on entrepreneurial development of participants. Research on entrepreneurship and in the related fields of economics, psychology, and sociology has found that new business creation is affected by a wide range of factors at multiple levels of analysis (individual, team, organization, community, industry, and economy). I-Corps, with its entrepreneurship training offered at different levels, formats and from different locations across the country, provides a unique setting to collect data conducive to interdisciplinary, multi-level investigation of new business creation with a focus on technology startup firms originating from innovations developed on university campuses. The research and the data that it collects on program activities and impact will help advance future research and the development of more comprehensive theories about technology commercialization and new business creation. The outcomes will inform the next generation of entrepreneurship training and startup strategies, and, it will also help advance fundamental knowledge about the key determinants of entrepreneurial success and the development of appropriate metrics for its evaluation. It will enable future innovation research and the development of more comprehensive theories about technology commercialization and new business creation.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.

这个 EAGER 项目从事有潜力在创新领域带来变革的研究。该项目涉及一项评估创新军团（I-Corps）活动的个体和综合效果的研究，以探讨对参与者创业发展的多层次影响。对创业以及经济学、心理学和社会学相关领域的研究发现，新企业的创建受到多个分析层面（个人、团队、组织、社区、行业和经济）的广泛因素的影响。 I-Corps 在全国不同地点提供不同级别、不同形式的创业培训，提供了一个独特的环境来收集数据，有利于对新企业创建进行跨学科、多层次的调查，重点关注来自以下国家的技术初创公司：大学校园中开发的创新。它收集的有关计划活动和影响的研究和数据将有助于推进未来的研究以及有关技术商业化和新业务创造的更全面理论的发展。研究结果将为下一代创业培训和创业战略提供信息，还将有助于增进有关创业成功关键决定因素的基础知识，并制定适当的评估指标。它将促进未来的创新研究以及关于技术商业化和新业务创造的更全面理论的发展。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。