Investigating and Fostering STEM Entrepreneurship Among Racially Minoritized Undergraduate Students

调查和培养少数族裔本科生的 STEM 创业精神

• 批准号: 2315148
• 负责人: Ebony McGee
• 金额: $ 250万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315148&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Investigating; Fostering; STEM; Entrepreneurship; Among

Racially minoritized (RM) entrepreneurs face significant challenges due to various factors, such as limited access to entrepreneurship education, a lack of capital sources, and discriminatory social networks. This project aims to investigate entrepreneurship among both RM and non-RM students, while also implementing interventions to address these issues. The project will use comprehensive survey and focus groups to explore RM and non-RM students’ motivations, attitudes, practices, behaviors, and prior experience in STEM entrepreneurship. The project will use the findings from this study to provide tailored training, workshops, and coaching in entrepreneurship to address the specific challenges faced by marginalized groups. Given that STEM fields are crucial to the future of the US and its economy, diversifying STEM is essential for fostering innovation. This project holds direct public interest, as it seeks to ensure equitable access to the rewards of successful entrepreneurship, thereby improving innovation and creativity of the STEM ecosystem. The theoretical framework guiding this project is the Equity Ethic (McGee, 2020). The survey will be conducted in year 1 of the project. Other activities in the program include summer virtual training, three-day in-person summits consisting of patent workshops and additional in-depth patent coaching for select participants. Additionally, in the fifth year, business coaches will be assigned to aid potential entrepreneurs with business incorporation. The ultimate objective is to train the next generation of RM business owners and facilitate their integration into the STEM ecosystem. The intended outcomes for the target audience encompass several goals: establishing limited liability companies (LLCs), increasing the retention rate of racially minoritized (RM) groups in STEM fields, generating financial prosperity through business ownership, promoting STEM innovation that challenges systemic racism, developing an entrepreneurship curriculum tailored for RM individuals, and augmenting the pool of RM STEM entrepreneurs who actively contribute to a more equitable STEM ecosystem.This project is funded through the Racial Equity in STEM Education activity (EDU Racial Equity). The activity supports research and practice projects that investigate how considerations of racial equity factor into the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce. Awarded projects seek to center the voices, knowledge, and experiences of the individuals, communities, and institutions most impacted by systemic inequities within the STEM enterprise. This activity aligns with NSF’s core value of supporting outstanding researchers and innovative thinkers from across the Nation's diversity of demographic groups, regions, and types of organizations. Programs across EDU contribute funds to the Racial Equity activity in recognition of the alignment of its projects with the collective research and development thrusts of the four divisions of the directorate.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.

由于各种因素（例如获得企业家教育，缺乏资本来源和歧视性的社交网络），种族少量（RM）企业家面临重大挑战。该项目旨在调查RM和非RM学生之间的企业家精神，同时还采取干预措施来解决这些问题。该项目将使用全面的调查和焦点小组来探索RM和非RM学生的动机，态度，实践，行为以及先前在STEM企业家精神方面的经验。该项目将利用本研究的发现提供量身定制的培训，讲习班和企业家指导，以应对边缘化群体面临的具体挑战。鉴于STEM领域对美国及其经济的未来至关重要，因此多样化的STEM对于促进创新至关重要。该项目具有直接的公共利益，因为它试图确保获得成功的企业家精神的回报，从而提高STEM生态系统的创新和创造力。指导该项目的理论框架是股权道德（McGee，2020）。该调查将在该项目的第一年进行。该计划中的其他活动包括夏季虚拟培训，为期三天的面对面峰会，包括专利研讨会和针对选定参与者的其他深入的专利教练。此外，在第五年中，将分配商业教练来帮助具有业务收入的潜在企业家。最终目标是培训下一代RM企业主，并支持其集成到STEM生态系统中。 The intended outcomes for the target audience encompass several goals: establishing limited liability companies (LLCs), increasing the retention rate of roughly minoritized (RM) groups in STEM fields, generating financial prosperity through business ownership, promoting STEM innovation that challenges systemic racism, developing an entrepreneurship curriculum tailored for RM individuals, and augmenting the pool of RM STEM entrepreneurs who actively contribute to a more公平的STEM生态系统。该项目是通过STEM教育活动（EDU种族资产）的种族平等资助。该活动支持研究和实践项目，这些项目调查了对种族资产的考虑如何改善科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和劳动力。授予的项目旨在将个人，社区和机构的声音，知识和经验集中在STEM企业中最受系统性不平等影响。这项活动符合NSF的核心价值，即支持来自全国各种人口群体，地区和组织类型的杰出研究人员和创新思想家。 EDU的计划为种族公平活动提供资金，以表彰其项目与局四个部门的集体研究和发展的一致性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估而被认为是珍贵的支持。