INNOVATE CAROLINA: ROADMAP

Putting important ideas to use

Judith Cone, Chancellor’s Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurshipwww.innovate.unc.edu

For a world in need, who can help the majority of global citizens who lack access to fundamental resources?

Water Environment

The Challenges

What is the role of research universities in making the world a better place for all its citizens – at home and abroad?

Health Poverty

Committed to helping solve some of the most pressing problems of our time.

Carolina’s To-do List

• Cure diseases, and get those cures to all the people who need them.

• Find, invent, gain adoption of clean energy solutions.• Feed seven billion people.• Inspire and prepare students in our schools.• Promote widespread prosperity.• Describe the world, and replace conflict with

understanding

With a special focus on urgent challenges, innovators

and innovations launched at Carolina consistently

apply important ideas for a better world.

Vision

Our Response

MissionBe a place where innovators thrive.

UNC’s OpportunityGoals

Strengthen the innovation ecosystem:• Build/strengthen the building blocks of innovation.• Collaborate and be connected.• Prepare Carolina community with the skills, knowledge,

connections, and resources to think and act entrepreneurially.• Graduate I-shaped Students (be, learn, do).• Help people translate their ideas.• Align the organization.

Goals

Clarity and Alignment

Values: That which is worth doing. Expressed in Vision/Mission/Goals.

Resources: Required people, time, money, facilities, and equipment.

Processes: Needed organization structures, rules, and methods.

Expressed in Vision / Mission / Strategy

A vision without resources is just a hallucination.

A vision without the right processes is demoralizing.

Prepare

Prepare the Carolina community with the knowledge, skills, and connections necessary to translate new ideas into innovations.

Collaborate with diverse groups on campus and beyond to explore issues, options, and creative approaches that may lead to innovations.

Translate important new ideas more expediently and at an increased volume into innovations that improve society.

Align people, incentives, resources, and processes to strengthen an intentional culture of innovation at Carolina

Support Innovators and Innovations

Collaborate

Translate Align Catalyze

Catalyze innovation at Carolina by facilitating the work of faculty, staff, and students as they put important ideas to use for a better world.

INNOVATE CAROLINA: ROADMAP

UNC’s

Innovation

Ecosystem

INNOVATE CAROLINAPutting Important Ideas to Use