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  Partnership for Innovation Center - P4I
 

Strategy Statement

The P4I will bring faculty, students, and business organizations together to bring down cultural walls that prevent innovation in organizations, including universities. This will be done by acknowledging that innovation is a significant cultural phenomenon that can be managed through education, process change, and metrics.

  • The Research Advantage
    • Break new ground
    • Work on the hard, fuzzy problems
    • Intersection of science and practice
    • New ideas and vitality (students)
    • A “big picture” view, unobstructed by the need to sell services
    • Objective perspective
  • Academic Excellence
    • Providing research opportunities in innovation for students
    • Offering grants and scholarships
    • Providing ongoing research activities
    • Sponsoring research presentations
    • Facilitating technology transfer

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