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Innovation @ Carolina Innovation @ Carolina Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Te University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Background and Sample of Current Activities A Working Report Version 1.0, December 22, 2009 Authors: Maryann Feldman, Judith Cone, Mark Meares, Lowry Caudill, Jennifer Miller, Lauren Lanahan, and Gil Avnimelech P REPARED FOR THE INNOVAT I O N CIRCL E CON V ENED B Y CHANCELLOR HOLDEN THO RP, JANUARY 2010 Membership as of December 23, 2009 University of Utah TractManager Salt Lake City, Utah Saddle Brook, New Jersey The Chancellor’s Innovation Circle Jason Kilar CEO, Hulu LLC Christy Shaffer Seattle, Washington CEO, Inspire Rye Barcott Dennis Gillings Pharmaceuticals Founder, Carolina Chairman, CEO, Richard Krasno Chapel Hill, North Carolina for Kibera Quintiles Transnational Executive Director, Charlotte, North Carolina Corporation William R. Kenan, Jr. Sallie Shuping-Russell Durham, North Carolina Charitable Trust; Managing Director, Harris Scott Barton Trustee, Kenan Institute Blackrock Alternative Managing Director, Julia Sprunt Grumbles of Private Enterprise Advisors Capital Dynamics Vice President, Turner Chapel Hill, North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina Palo Alto, California Broadcasting (Retired) Chapel Hill, North Carolina Myla Lai-Goldman M.D. Richard Stack Vaughn Bryson Scientific Advisor, Director, Founder, President, CEO Reginald Lee Seventh Sense President, Synecor LLC Eli Lilly & Co. (Retired) (Reg) Hardy Biosystems, Inc. Chapel Hill, North Carolina President, Managing Director, Cambridge, Massachusetts Clinical Products, Ltd. C/Max Capital Corporation William (Bill) N. Starling Vero Beach, Florida Fort Lauderdale, Florida Doug Mackenzie Managing Director, Founder, Partner, Radar; Synergy Life Science W. Lowry Caudill F. Neal Hunter Affiliated Partner at Partners; CEO, Synecor LLC Chair, Co-founder, Co-Founder, Executive Kleiner, Perkins, Portola Valley, California Magellan Laboratories, Chair, Cree, Inc. Caufield & Byers Inc. (Retired) Durham, North Carolina Palo Alto, California Matthew Szulik Durham, North Carolina CEO, Red Hat (Retired) Stuart Janney Fred McCoy Raleigh, North Carolina Thomas N. Chewning Board Chair, Bessemer Vice Chairman, Synecor, CFO, Dominion Securities LLC LLC; Chairman, Tom Uhlman Resources, Inc. (Retired) Butler, Maryland TransEnterix, Inc.; Founder, Managing Richmond, Virginia Executive Chairman, Partner, New Venture Kimberly J. Jenkins InnerPulse, Inc. Partners, LLC Alfred Childers Member, Board of Chapel Hill, North Carolina Madison, New Jersey Co-founder, Trustees, Duke Magellan Laboratories, University; Adjunct Todd Pope Edward Vick Inc. (Retired) Professor, Duke and President, CEO, CEO, Chairman, Young Cary, North Carolina UNC in Entrepreneurship; TransEnterix, Inc. and Rubicam (Retired) Microsoft senior Chapel Hill, North Carolina Old Greenwich, Phillip L. Clay executive (Retired) Connecticut Chancellor, MIT Chapel Hill, North Carolina John Powell Cambridge, Co-founder, Managing Kay Wagoner Massachusetts Brent Jones Director, Integral Co-founder, President, Managing Director, Capital Partners CEO, Director, Icagen, Inc. Stacie Cockrell Northgate Capital Menlo Park, California Chapel Hill, North Carolina Author, Speaker Danville, California Austin, Texas Jonathan Reckford Debbie Wright Thomas P. Kennedy CEO, Habitat for Humanity Chief Counsel Global Alston Gardner Professor of Medicine; Atlanta, Georgia IP – Open Innovation Managing Director, Director, Faculty and Supply Chain, Fulcrum Ventures LLC Outreach, Technology Thomas A. Rizk Kraft Foods New York, New York Commercialization Chairman, CEO, Chicago, Illinois T he UNIV ERSITY of NORT H CAROLINA at CHAPEL HI LL Table of Contents 2 About this Report 3 Introduction from the Chancellor 4 Charter 5 Memo from Lowry Caudill Chair, Innovation Circle 6 Memo from Judith Cone Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship 7 A Teoretical Framework Building a Culture of Systematic Innovation and Entrepreneurship at American Public Research Universities 15 Laying the Cornerstone: A Tradition of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 23 Te Carolina Entrepreneurial Landscape: Planting the Seeds of an Entrepreneurial Mindset 53 Carolina Blue Sky: A New Day for Innovation and Entrepreneurship 57 Appendix version 1.0 About this Report To Members of the Innovation Circle Chancellor Holden Torp has asked you to serve on the Innovation Circle, a group of volunteer alumni, parents, and friends of the University, to help determine Carolina’s future strategy for innovation and entrepreneurship. So you can better understand the current state of innovation and entrepreneurship at UNC, this report presents a snapshot across the three missions of research, teaching, and service. As with any such report, it leaves out as much as it includes, especially considering this is a campus with more than 3,000 faculty members, 27,500 students and the report covers multiple years. Representative but not exhaustive, it will, however, present a starting point for your own explorations. Determining impact through rigorous evaluation is always a challenge since it is ofen very expensive and requires long lag times between the event and the outcome. When possible, impact results are covered in the report, but it is weighed toward activities. Te disparity between listing activities and impact might be attributed to a) the authors being unaware of certain impact studies, b) the stage of the initiative or c) their absence. Tis report presents a snapshot of As you read this report, please note your questions and feedback, and either send them to Judith Cone innovation and entrepreneurship ([email protected] — 816.305.1073) or raise them at the January 15, 2010 meeting. All eforts will across the three missions of be made to answer questions prior to that meeting. Tis background working document helps set research, teaching, and service. the stage for the strategic deliberations and your ultimate contributions to Carolina’s Innovation Roadmap due to be released in early fall, 2010. Your service is greatly appreciated. 2 The UNI V ERSITY of N O RTH CARO LIN A at CHA P EL HILL Senior Fellow and former Vice President, to Introduction join us and help me lead a strategic process from the Chancellor that will culminate in a roadmap for sys- tematic innovation and entrepreneurship at Carolina. Additionally, Lowry Caudill, distinguished alumnus, adjunct faculty To Members of the Innovation Circle member, donor, and entrepreneur, has agreed to serve as Chair of the Innovation Te world needs Carolina, perhaps more than at any Circle — a group of alumni and friends of other time in history, and the demand is urgent. Tere the university who have agreed to think is no shortage of grand challenges facing people and with us about this subject. Faculty, admin- the planet — issues that cannot wait to be addressed. istrators, staf, students, and community leaders will Already, our world-class faculty make signifcant all be a part of our ongoing strategic dialogue. advances in knowledge and educate some of the When the Carolina Community pulls together brightest students in the world. Our administrators, toward a goal, there is no stopping it. It will be staf and donors create a dynamic and responsive exciting to experience the unfolding of ideas com- system of leadership and support for Carolina. Yet, ing from a community of people who care so deeply we have to go further. We know we must translate as they streamline processes, acquire the resources new knowledge into more practical applications, to to speed execution and deliver on their promise of create ideas, transform them, and ensure that they are positive impact. Tis document is just the start of a applied for profound impact. We will accept noth- year-long process. ing less than to change the world for the better. So that we have a common starting point for Having a commitment to these ideals and then deliberations, a theoretical framework is included delivering on their promise are two wholly diferent followed by a look at Carolina’s accomplishments to dimensions. To have greater positive impact — to date. It provides a snapshot of innovation at Carolina solve problems and create new beneft to society — and compares us to other universities in a variety of will require that the entire Carolina Community categories. It is intended to serve as a primer of sorts, focus on outcomes as well as on inputs; to translate for those involved in our innovation conversation; to ideas into extended value; and to be connected to encourage us to embrace and build on our strengths the world so that our assumptions, knowledge, and and to begin to think about our needed improve- processes are constantly challenged. Ours must be ments, problems, solutions, and opportunities. a culture that is motivated by vision translated into Innovators see opportunity and bring value. Tey innovations; characterized by a sense of urgency, a are comfortable with the reality that being innova- commitment to rigor, based on data, measured for tive is an approach to life that means there is no beneft and driven by an entrepreneurial spirit. certainty, no completeness. Carolina will never stop We proudly accept our role in the world commu- demanding more from itself. We will use the lens of nity. As a scientist, an administrator, and an innovative innovation and entrepreneurship to help us translate entrepreneur, I have experienced frst-hand the excite- ideas into positive impact. I appreciate your willing- ment, difculty, and reward of translating
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