Conference: Community Recommendations for Advancing Geoscience Entrepreneurism

会议：促进地球科学创业精神的社区建议

• 批准号: 2335368
• 负责人: Billy Williams
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: American Geophysical Union
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2335368&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Community; Recommendations; Advancing; Geoscience; Conference; Community; Recommendations; Advancing; Geoscience

Climate change and environmental degradation threaten everyone and the planet. There is a need to quickly develop, test, and scale the most innovative solutions while avoiding unintended consequences. An entrepreneurial landscape is emerging in areas related to the environment including, but not limited to, energy, ecosystem/sustainability services, clean energy, emissions detection and reduction, carbon offsets, etc. Geoscientists, however, are notably lacking in that landscape. This not only decreases the overall scope of innovation, especially for a field so central to the challenges, it also undermines our collective ability to assess the effectiveness of innovations. To discover the barriers to geo-innovation and entrepreneurship, the American Geophysical Union, the largest geoscience professional society, with over 60,000 members, will hold a series of virtual events to survey its membership that reaches across all fields of the geosciences. Broader Impacts of the work include uncovering the incentives, training, opportunities, and educational vehicles needed to create a large cohort of geo-entrepreneurs and startup founders. Efforts will include robust representation from early career scientists and members of underrepresented groups. The professional society will make public the report of their findings by posting it on their website and will convene a panel at their December 2023 national meeting to discuss the findings and generate discussion on additional means of increasing geo-entrepreneurial activities and mindsets among geoscience faculty and their students.To solicit ideas on developing entrepreneurial talent and speed the pace of innovation and delivery of innovative solutions on energy, environmental, and climate issues to society and the economy, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is convening key players from across the geo-entrepreneurship ecosystem to identify different pathways that potential entrepreneurs with geoscience training can take to successfully launch products and services that advance sustainable, resilient, and inclusive futures. With input from the geoscience community and guidance from a steering committee of geo-entrepreneurial experts, AGU will deliver a report that identifies barriers, highlights successes, and offers concrete recommendations to spur and scale geo-entrepreneurial activity. The report will set a solid foundation for developing an entrepreneurial mindset in, and opportunities for, university faculty, students, and other interested parties. The work will involve four phases: (1) identifying key stakeholders and interviewing geo-entrepreneurs as well as forming an 8-member steering committee to guide the project; (2) developing, distributing, and analyzing a survey of the AGU and geo-entrepreneurial community; (3) engaging five virtual focus groups to explore key themes identified by the survey results; and (4) convening an in-person meeting of experts to develop a final report and recommendations. To assist in this process, the steering committee will guide the overall project by identifying leaders, organizations, and stakeholders in geo-entrepreneurship and innovation. They will also help to develop the survey and focus group questions. This committee will also provide critical input on how focus group and survey outputs are analyzed and will shape recommendations for the final report. At the December 2023 AGU national meeting that attracts tens of thousands of attendees, a panel of experts and discussion session will be held to further engage geoscience communities and present possible means by which they can be active in innovation ecosystems and in the creation of geo-founded startups and commercial ventures providing solutions to pressing climate and environmental problems.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.

气候变化和环境退化威胁着所有人和地球。有必要快速开发，测试和扩展最具创新性的解决方案，同时避免后果。在与环境有关的领域中出现了一种企业家景观，包括但不限于能源，生态系统/可持续性服务，清洁能源，清​​洁能源，排放探测和减少，碳偏移等。但是，地球科学家在该景观中显然缺乏。这不仅降低了创新的总体范围，尤其是对于挑战如此重要的领域，它还破坏了我们评估创新有效性的集体能力。为了发现地质创新和企业家精神的障碍，最大的地球科学专业社会的美国地球物理联盟将举办一系列虚拟事件，以调查其成员资格，以遍及地球科学的所有领域。这项工作的更广泛的影响包括揭示创建大量地理企业家和初创创始人所需的激励措施，培训，机会和教育工具。努力将包括早期职业科学家的强大代表和代表性不足的群体的成员。专业协会将通过将其发布在其网站上公开报告，并将在其2023年12月的全国会议上召开小组讨论，以讨论发现的结果，并在地球科学教师及其学生中提高地理企业家的活动和思维方式进行讨论。美国地球物理联盟（AGU）经济召集了来自地球企业家生态系统的主要参与者，以确定潜在的地球科学培训企业家可以成功推出可推动可持续，富有弹性和包容性未来的产品和服务的不同途径。通过地球科学社区的意见和地理企业家专家指导委员会的指导，Agu将提供一份报告，以识别障碍，突出成功并提供具体建议，以刺激和扩展地理企业活动。该报告将为发展企业家的心态和大学教师，学生和其他有关方面的机会奠定坚实的基础。这项工作将涉及四个阶段：（1）确定主要利益相关者并采访地理企业家，并组建一个由8名成员的指导委员会指导该项目； （2）开发，分发和分析对AGU和GEO-ENREPRENERIAL社区的调查； （3）参与五个虚拟焦点小组探索通过调查结果确定的关键主题； （4）召集专家面对面会议，以制定最终报告和建议。为了协助这一过程，指导委员会将通过确定领导者，组织和利益相关者的地理企业家精神和创新来指导整个项目。他们还将帮助制定调查和重点小组问题。该委员会还将提供有关如何分析焦点小组和调查输出的关键意见，并将为最终报告塑造建议。在2023年12月吸引成千上万参与者的AGU全国会议上，将举行一组专家和讨论会议，以进一步吸引地球科学社区，并提出可能积极参与创新生态系统中的可能手段使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响评估标准进行评估。