Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs of the University of California will address the audience about recognizing innovation transfer and entrepreneurship in the academic personnel process.
Since its establishment in 1950, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded discoveries and innovations that have transformed our lives, from the Internet to Google to MRI machines. In this session, I will provide an overview of NSF’s first new directorate in more than three decades, the Directorate for Technology,...
Tenure has often been situated as a non-negotiable tenet of modern academia, a status granted after a probationary period and extensive review, and critical for academic freedom. However, the processes by which promotion and tenure (P&T) are vetted depart in practice from the meritocratic ideal that is frequently used to...
The global academic community is at a powerful crossroad as it relates to perspectives, recognition and response to innovation and entrepreneurship achievements in the academic environment. Virtually every major institution is stressing the importance of innovation and transfer of technology to faculty, staff and students however the recognition and reward...
PTIE, if adopted at an institution, invokes a new learning curve for most faculty that have limited or misconceived understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation activity. Specifically, the definitions of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial activity, innovation, product development, commercialization are all new to most faculty. Further, the metrics that will be newly offered...