Entrepreneurship at UNC

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Entrepreneurship at UNC

• UNC-CH Working Group
• on Economic Development
• Leslie Boney
• UNC General Administration
• April 12, 2007

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Why Does Entrepreneurship Matter for North
Carolina?

• Global environment
• Where the jobs are
• Slow death absent
• conversion experience

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Why Does Entrepreneurship Matter for UNC?

• If we dont wake upthe next new thing isnt
  going
• to be invented here, its going to be invented by
  smart
• folks (somewhere else)and thats where the new
  jobs are going
• to be. -- Erskine Bowles
• Our universities need to emphasize
  entrepreneurship
• and leadership across all disciplines both inside
  and
• outside the classroom. -- UNC
  Board of Governors

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Why Does Entrepreneurship Matter for UNC?

• Weve got the stuff
• Weve got the next generation
• Weve got the resources for outreach
• If not us, who?

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What does it look like at UNC?

• Internal focus CEI, Kauffman
• External Focus Eship Centers
• SBTDC, engagement efforts
• Two way offices tech transfer

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Wheres the ?

• Golden LEAF
• Kauffman
• DOC
• Individual donors
• Sponsored research

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Who else is playing?

• CED
  Rural Center
• DOC
  SBCs
• NC REAL JA

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Where does entrepreneurship fit with the larger
issues we face?
UNC Students
Gotta figure out how to handle more
people 80,000 by 2017
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Where does entrepreneurship fit with the larger
issues we face?

• Gotta be nimble to adjust to new population
• 22,000 out of 30,000 new high school graduates by
  2017 will be Hispanic

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Where does entrepreneurship fit with the larger
issues we face?

• Legislative priorities entrepreneurially based
• Competitive Research Fund for High Priority
  Economic Development fields nanoscience, marine
  science, natural products, environmental
  sciences, information technology,
  biomanufacturing, port logistics, advanced
  materials - 15m FY07 30m FY08
• Training and Support for High-growth Companies
  support for gazelles 1m FY07
• Training for Local Government Officials in new
  economic development 1m FY07

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Where to now?

• So far.
• Entrepreneurial state
• Kauffman Campuses II
• II
• Next steps.
• Cheerleading individual
• Subsector approach
• Ally with K-12, community colleges
• Ally with businesses

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• Leslie Boney
• Associate VP for Economic Development Planning,
  Policy and Research
• UNC General Administration
• lboney_at_northcarolina.edu
• [phone]
• 910 Raleigh Road
• Chapel Hill, NC 27514