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Re-Evaluating the Examination of Minoritized Social Identities among I-Corps Hub Program Participants

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Conference

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 5: Exploring and Re-Examining Ideas in Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation Education

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

Tagged Topic

Diversity

Page Count

33

DOI

10.18260/1-2--44017

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https://peer.asee.org/44017

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187

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Alanna Epstein University of Michigan Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-3314-9579

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Alanna D. Epstein is an Assistant Research Scientist studying motivation, instruction, and entrepreneurial outcomes in the context of the NSF Innovation Corps ("I-Corps") training program. She received her Ph.D. from the Combined Program in Education and Psychology at the University of Michigan, and her Bachelor's degree in psychology was completed at Oberlin College. Her dissertation work focused on the longitudinal development high school students' motivational beliefs about math, English, science, and social studies. Other research interests of hers include the formation of career aspirations, the school-to-work transition, and the differential participation in science, technology, engineering, and math fields based on social identity groups such as gender and Racial/Ethnic identity.

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Nathalie Duval-Couetil Purdue University at West Lafayette Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-0260-0208

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Nathalie Duval-Couetil is the Director of the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, Associate Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center, and a Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. She is

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Abstract

Members of historically disenfranchised social identity groups, including women, immigrants, and people of color, face structural barriers to success in entrepreneurship as well as STEM careers (Carter et al., 2015). These barriers include institutional biases, the persistence of ability-based stereotype beliefs, and lack of role models that restrict access to the “human capital” experience needed to succeed (McAdam, 2015). A substantial body of literature has analyzed barriers to participation in entrepreneurship activities broadly, however, research related to disparities in the specific field of academic entrepreneurship is more limited (Poggesi et al., 2020). Further, the idea of intersectionality refers to the combination of minoritized race and gender identities as a unique social experience above and beyond the influence of each identity separately (Essers et al., 2010). Therefore, this approach acknowledges that forms of exclusion based on a variety of social identities are deeply interconnected (Healy et al., 2011). Existing research applying this model to entrepreneurship has called for further study of these patterns (Knight, 2016). In light of the need to apply an intersectional approach to the study of these disparities in the types of capital needed for successful technology commercialization, this paper will describe the pilot-testing of novel open-ended and multiple-choice questions related to minoritized social identities in the context of the Great Lakes I-Corps Hub "Regional" and "Local" I-Corps courses. Our findings support frequent calls in the literature for "mixed-methods" combinations of quantitative and qualitative approaches to the assessment and categorization of social identities, and point to types of such identities that are often excluded from quantitative multiple-choice measures.

Epstein, A., & Duval-Couetil, N. (2023, June), Re-Evaluating the Examination of Minoritized Social Identities among I-Corps Hub Program Participants Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44017

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