= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smaller;">'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</span></span> =
<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-serifmedium;"><span style="font-sizefamily:largerarial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6880225f-d31d-8419-3bd8-1447d77cfd77"><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Dayton faculty members have a wide range of skills and assets that make them invaluable valuable to the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus.</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty Our faculty members have two primary avenues for innovation: inside the classroom and through their personal research projects. Innovation in the classroom requires student interaction is implimented within classrooms by allowing students to interact with one another in place of a purely lecture-based course. Many courses on campus have already embody embodied this ideal, but there is still room to growfor improvement. Transitioning towards a curriculum that supports innovation and entrepreneurship in the classroom is a gradual process that is currently being implimented with the current Leadership Circle aims to continueuniversity. When it comes to faculty research, the [http://www.udri.udayton.edu/Pages/home.aspx University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI)]</span> </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size:smaller;">is committed to providing innovative and practical solutions that can be serviced to the public through commercialization, collaboration, and entrepreneurship</span>.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;">UDRI strives to create value through working with a variety of groups , such as the Air Force Research Lab at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, large businesses, and local non-profits. Additionally, faculty have the option to take paid sabbatical leave of up to a year in order to pursue new avenues of research or find new opportunities which they then bring back to campus to further pursue and exposure engage their research with interested students and other faculty.</span></span>
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smaller;">'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</span></span> =