STARTUP Central

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• 批准号: 10779877
• 负责人: Adam Courtney
• 金额: $ 149.02万
• 依托单位: CONTINUUM EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES, PBC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-16 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10779877
• 关键词: STARTUP; Central

PROJECT SUMMARY Continuum Educational Technologies’ (Continuum) will work with the University of Kansas (KU) on the proposed I-RED program entitled Smart Tools to Accelerate Research Translation by Uplifting Participants for the Central IDeA State Region (STARTUP Central) program to stimulate technological innovation in the IDeA state regions by addressing the entrepreneurial educational needs of investigators in translating scientific discoveries from research laboratories into commercial products that improve human health and promote economic growth. Through the proposed effort, STARTUP Central will help the Central Region address a persistent gap between its robust biomedical research activities and the development of a comparable pipeline of academic entrepreneurs commercializing the many innovations resulting from this research. Continuum’s proposed suite of educational products will provide a comprehensive, uniform, and assessable mechanism for developing robust cultures of entrepreneurship within individual regional institutions, and will provide a centralized mechanism for individual institutions to coordinate efforts, share resources, and develop regional best-practices. These “smart” tools will seek to organize and systemize the abundance of information and basic educational resources available regarding biomedical translation, employing educational psychology principles for adult online learning to develop an integrated and effective curriculum from an otherwise disparate and disconnected collection of resources and programming. Back-end analytics, user-feedback, and evaluation features will be heavily embedded into the learning management system to provide users, institutions, and Continuum with a means to continuously assess and improve the usability and effectiveness of the educational tools and their content, as well as to assess and maximize the impact of the products on individual users and the broader entrepreneurial culture of each institutional customer. In Phase 1, Continuum and KU will work collaboratively to assemble the project consortium and make all preparations to run the Phase 2 Pilot Project program. The team will work together to input content for and design a wireframe model of the educational products. These wireframe products will then be initially tested, iteratively redesigned, and initially validated. At the end of Phase 1, the validated wireframe educational product will be ready for full enhancement and used in the two Pilot Project programs in Phase 2. Assessment of the enhanced smart educational products to meet user needs in the two Pilot Project programs will be used to iteratively redesign the educational products. At the end of Phase 2, the smart educational products and the format of the Pilot Project program will be ready for commercialization. Outcomes will be assessed based on enhanced entrepreneurship attitudes, confidence, and competency in the program participants compared to the control. Metrics to evaluate program outcomes include number of products developed, number of licensing agreements signed, number of students and faculty being trained through the various aspects of STARTUP Central, number of patents filed, number of SBIR/STTR applications submitted and awarded by any federal agency, and number of start-up companies launched.

项目概要 Continuum Educational Technologies (Continuum) 将与堪萨斯大学 (KU) 合作 拟议的 I-RED 计划题为“智能工具，通过令人振奋的参与者加速研究翻译” 中央 IDeA 州地区 (STARTUP Central) 计划，旨在刺激 IDeA 的技术创新 州地区通过解决研究者在翻译科学成果方面的创业教育需求 研究实验室的发现转化为改善人类健康和促进健康的商业产品 通过拟议的努力，STARTUP Central 将帮助中部地区解决一个问题。 其强大的生物医学研究活动与可比管道的开发之间持续存在差距 的学术企业家将这项研究产生的许多创新商业化。 Continuum 提议的教育产品套件将提供全面、统一且可评估的 在各个区域机构内发展强有力的创业文化的机制，并将 为各个机构提供协调努力、共享资源和发展的集中机制 这些“智能”工具将寻求组织和系统化丰富的信息。 以及有关生物医学翻译的基本教育资源，运用教育心理学 成人在线学习的原则，从其他方面开发综合有效的课程 不同且互不相关的资源和编程集合。 评估功能将大量嵌入学习管理系统中，为用户提供， 机构和 Continuum 具有持续评估和提高可用性和有效性的方法 教育工具及其内容，以及评估和最大化产品的影响 个人用户和每个机构客户更广泛的创业文化。 在第一阶段，Continuum 和 KU 将合作组建项目联盟，并使所有 准备运行第二阶段试点项目计划。该团队将共同努力输入内容并进行实施。 设计教育产品的线框模型，然后对这些线框产品进行初步测试， 在第一阶段结束时，经过反复重新设计和初步验证，经过验证的线框具有教育意义。 产品将准备好全面增强并用于第二阶段的两个试点项目计划。 评估 两个试点计划中将使用满足用户需求的增强型智慧教育产品 第二阶段结束时，迭代重新设计教育产品和智能教育产品。 试点项目计划的格式将为商业化做好准备。 将根据增强的创业态度、信心和能力来评估结果 项目参与者与对照相比，评估项目结果的指标包括人数。 开发的产品、签署的许可协议数量、接受培训的学生和教师数量 通过 STARTUP Central 的各个方面、申请的专利数量、SBIR/STTR 申请数量 由任何联邦机构提交和授予，以及成立的初创公司的数量。