= <span style="font-size:smaller;">'''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship'''</span> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-6880225f-d31d-8419-3bd8-1447d77cfd77"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Dayton faculty members have a wide range of skills and assets that make them invaluable to the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus.</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty members have two primary avenues for innovation: inside the classroom and through their personal research projects. Innovation in the classroom requires student interaction in place of a purely lecture-based course. Many courses already embody this ideal, but there is still room to grow. Transitioning towards a curriculum that supports innovation and entrepreneurship in the classroom is a gradual process that the current Leadership Circle aims to continue. When it comes to faculty research, the </span>[http://www.udri.udayton.edu/AboutUDRI/Pages/AboutUDRIhome.aspx <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Dayton Research Institute(UDRI)]</span>] <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is committed to providing innovative and practical solutions that can be serviced to the public through commercialization, collaboration, and entrepreneurship.</span></span>
= <span style="font-size:smaller;">'''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function'''</span> =