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Strategic Plan 2000

Objective Five


Be recognized for leadership in fostering entrepreneurship, corporate interaction, and economic development.

 

Actions

    • • Provide an environment that stimulates and fosters entrepreneurship in our faculty and students by

    • —developing certificate programs and minors involving the DuPree College of Management
      —identifying and inviting entrepreneurs to present lectures in appropriate courses and in our seminar series
      —creating strategic alliances in areas of technology lending themselves to entrepreneurial activities
      —fostering interactions between entrepreneurial enterprises in the Advanced Technology Development Center and the future Technology Development Center to be located in the Environmental Science and Technology Building

      • • Become a model for corporate interaction by

      • —creating strategic alliances with corporate partners that encompass multi-faceted interactions between our faculty and students and corporate initiatives strengthening industrial partnerships with individual faculty members and through continuing education and research programs in polymers, separations, bioengineering, microelectronics materials, and other fields of importance to chemical engineers
        —increasing company-based research and educational activities
        —encouraging faculty consulting opportunities

      • • Enhance the faculty role in economic development by

      • —encouraging the adoption of Institute policies that provide incentives for researchers to seek patents to cover their innovations and to assist development of the resulting intellectual property
        —playing a role in initiatives such as the Georgia Research Alliance, GCATT, Yamacraw, and efforts to support the location and expansion of technology companies in Atlanta and in the state
        —assisting corporate and state agencies identify and develop technologies with the potential to improve the state economy


Goals

  • • A significant percentage of the undergraduates and of the graduate students will complete certificate programs or obtain minors in programs involving management

    • • Addition of at least two companies as major research partners (i.e. major supporter of research programs) over the next 5 years