Universities and Economic Development

Finalists in Awards of Excellence Program Exemplify the Top Higher Education-Led Initiatives in Regional Economic Transformation

I decided to reblog it because I think it does a great job of highlighting some of the specific things that a professor like BradB can do to impact the startup community from a role in a university.

Initiative outlines plan to encourage economic growth, entrepreneurship, industry engagement

The Montana State University Innovation Campus hopes to sell the Trump administration on Bozeman as a base for the nation’s Economic Research Service and the National Institute for Food and Agriculture.

The university has reshaped a city where the Ivy League campus once felt like a world of its own, separate from the factory town where thousands of workers assembled bolt-action rifles.

The 16 startups — new companies based on intellectual property generated from UA research — that formed this past year to bring UA inventions to the public include:

"I think we provide a service that is becoming more important to research-intensive academic institutions such as UAH."

IEP Open is a new partnership between APLU and UEDA that will enable UEDA member campuses who are not members of APLU to participate in the IEP Universities Program.

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Instead of the 4 percent to 5 percent that most institutional investors allot to these sorts of assets, the Yale Model calls for allotments of 25 percent to 30 percent to that class of investment — a significantly higher percentage that has resulted in significantly outsize returns for the school.