Collaborative Research: EPIIC:Increasing our Innovation SCOREs: Symbiotic Collaboration of Regional Ecosystems

合作研究： EPIIC：提高我们的创新分数：区域生态系统的共生协作

• 批准号: 2331549
• 负责人: Amit Shukla
• 金额: $ 80万
• 依托单位: Seattle University
• 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: 2023-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2331549&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; EPIIC; Increasing; our

This is a collaborative project across the following institutions: Seattle University, Cal Poly Humboldt State University, St. Francis University, St. Mary’s University, and Utah Tech University. The EPIIC award is to establish an innovation ecosystem in a cohort-based model specifically designed for primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs). The cohort comprises a diverse range of institutions with varying demographics, sizes, missions, and locations. The primary goals of this project are twofold: (1) to develop innovation capacity within the cohort institutions and (2) to collectively establish best practices and foster a community of innovation for PUIs. This regional ecosystem encompasses several rural institutions, many of which cater to low-income and first-generation students, while others have a significant representation of historically underrepresented students in STEM fields. The cohort is deeply committed to implementing institutional changes that expand access to career opportunities requiring advanced skills in their respective regions. The overarching aim is to cultivate a mutually beneficial relationship among the cohort members, empowering each institution to play an expanded role within the regional economy. The award's purpose is to establish a Symbiotic Collaboration for Regional Ecosystem (SCORE) cohort, which introduces an innovative approach to enhancing STEM innovation capacity. This approach stems from the cohort's undergraduate-focused mission and its strong emphasis on students and the communities they serve. The proposed project envisions a community-based approach, fostering the development of best practices in various aspects of innovation and partnerships, including workforce development, experiential learning, research and innovation, industry partnerships, investors, entrepreneurship, and regulatory issues. Operating as a community of practice, the cohort of primarily undergraduate institutions will collaborate, learn, and grow together while upholding the values of inclusive excellence as a central aspect of the project. The greatest collective impact the cohort will have will come from the increased capacity to serve the regions’ economic and community needs and to expand institutional capacity to provide access for students into an advanced, quickly evolving STEM workforce. A broader impact of this cohort-based learning community for innovation will result in infrastructure for innovation capacity, continued collaborations, enhancing innovation capacity for the STEM workforce, and developing models and best practices for PUIs nationwide.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.

这是一个跨以下机构的合作项目：西雅图大学、加州理工洪堡州立大学、圣弗朗西斯大学、圣玛丽大学和犹他理工大学。 EPIIC 奖旨在专门在基于队列的模型中建立一个创新生态系统。主要为本科院校 (PUI) 设计。该群体由人口结构、规模、使命和地点各不相同的各种机构组成。该项目的主要目标有两个：(1) 发展群体机构内的创新能力和( 2）共同建立最佳该区域生态系统包含多个农村机构，其中许多机构面向低收入学生和第一代学生，而其他机构则在 STEM 领域中代表着历史上代表性不足的学生。致力于实施制度变革，扩大各自地区需要先进技能的职业机会。该奖项的总体目标是在群体成员之间建立互利关系，使每个机构能够在地区经济中发挥更大的作用。就是要建立一个区域生态系统共生合作 (SCORE) 队列引入了一种增强 STEM 创新能力的创新方法，这种方法源于该队列以本科生为中心的使命以及对学生及其所服务的社区的高度重视。基于方法，促进创新和伙伴关系各个方面的最佳实践的发展，包括劳动力发展、体验式学习、研究和创新、行业伙伴关系、投资者、创业和监管问题。本科院校将合作、学习和共同成长，同时坚持包容性卓越的价值观作为该项目的核心方面，该团队将产生的最大集体影响将来自于服务该地区经济和社区需求以及扩大规模的能力的增强。为学生提供进入先进、快速发展的 STEM 劳动力队伍的机构能力，这种基于队列的学习社区对创新的更广泛影响将带来创新能力的基础设施、持续的合作、增强 STEM 劳动力的创新能力和开发模型。以及全国 PUI 的最佳实践。该奖项反映了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，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。