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== Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==
Looking at the big picture which encompasses both the Wake Forest campus, Wake Forest Baptist Medical School, and Wake Forest Biotech Place there is a great deal of faculty innovation and entrepreneurship. Through a newly developed biotech place, faculty from the Medical School and Undergraduate Campus are able to find space and resources needed to grow their ideas. This 242,000 square foot and 100 million dollar building now provides the best most cutting edge technology needed to innovate and bring technology to market.
Specifically on the Undergraduate Campus, 25 different faculty members across many areas of interest/disciplines come together to teach students about creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship because they see the importance of a diversified education. As of now, the entrepreneurship community has one endowed chair, Dr. Bill Conner Farr Professor of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. He leads the academic side of entrepreneurship on campus and plays an active role advocating for faculty entrepreneurship on the Undergraduate Campus. In the future, I would like to see more innovation and entrepreneurship come from faculty outside of science disciplines. I think it is important for students to see how their interests can be transferred in innovative ways in order to make an impact. In the spring, Wake Forest will welcome its first Entrepreneur in Residence which will provide students with an important resource and hopefully set an example to faculty as entrepreneurs.
== University technology transfer function ==
