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= <span style="font-size:smaller;">Overview – University of the People ⁷</span> =

<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill is an original member of “The Triangle,” a group of three universities—North Carolina State University, Duke University, </span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-ba375197-905a-5574-ae7d-1c55d79a87a2"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size:smaller;">University </span></span></span><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—whose Hill.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&nbsp;The research facilities of these universities </span><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and the educated workforce they provide have historically served as a major attraction for businesses located in and around the region, which came to be known in the 1950s as the Research Triangle Park (RTP) in North Carolina.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Currently, the entrepreneurship program at UNC, Chapel Hill is driven by </span><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chancellor Folt and Interim Vice Chancellor of Commercialization and Economic Development Judith Cone. Judith Cone was invited to campus in 2010 by our previous Chancellor &nbsp;Holden Thorp, an academician, NACIE member, former entrepreneur Thorpe to create and lead the I&E programming at UNC. Chancellor Thorpe and venture capitalist, who has coJudith Cone assembled the Chancellor’s Innovation Circle--written a book, ''Engines this group along with the Faculty Working Group and the Chancellor’s Student Innovation Team launched what would be an era of Innovation'', about exploration and discovery for UNC’s innovation on university campusescommunity. Even so, before the UNC Chapel Hill community believes that what sets their school apart from others is that “it is, as it was meant university understood it’s potential to bean Innovation Hub, it prided itself on being “</span><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the University of the peoplepeople” which now we have discovered to be our key differentiator, both as</span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-ba375197-905a-5574-ae7d-1c55d79a87a2"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size:smaller;">an university</span></span></span><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and an innovation hub.”</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ba375197-905a-5574-ae7d-1c55d79a87a2"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The “University of the People” ethos also extends to the current structure of the entrepreneurship programs at UNC, Chapel Hill. Entrepreneurship has moved from the exclusive domains of the business and engineering schools to the people, as the university moves to institutionalize a campus-wide culture of entrepreneurship.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:smaller;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ba375197-905a-5574-ae7d-1c55d79a87a2"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along with the students, the faculty is also encouraged to think entrepreneurially. An Since the early days of our I&E ecosystem, an invitation only faculty boot camp sponsored by the Chancellor affords 20 faculty members (at a time) the opportunity to develop their business ideas. Support services include assistance with business plans and workshops. Students are also given opportunities to translate their entrepreneurial plans into viable commercial ventures.</span></span></span>

'''The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies '''at <span style="font-size:smaller;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ba375197-905a-5574-ae7d-1c55d79a87a2"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As our ecosystem has flourished and grown, centers have been created in departments across the Kenan-Flagler Business School is UNC Chapel Hill’s flagship university. In an effort to foster collaboration between these different groups and to focus their entrepreneurial program. The Center offers staffenergy to shape university policy to create a more inclusive, facultydiverse, active I&E ecosystem on campus Innovate Carolina was formed. Innovate Carolina is led by Judith Cone who is now the Interim Vice Chancellor of Economic Development and especially students Commercialization (a position that resulted from the resources to identify and evaluate valuable entrepreneurial opportunitiesdemonstrated need for institutional focus on I&E).</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:smaller;">'''The Office of Technology Development (OTD)Center for Entrepreneurial Studies ''' at the Kenan-Flagler Business School is UNC, Chapel Hill’s technology transfer officeflagship entrepreneurial program.&nbsp; OTD advances UNCThe Center offers staff, Chapel Hill’s mission to encourage innovation and disseminate knowledge. Principallyfaculty, the OTD serves the UNC Chapel Hill community and especially students the public by licensing innovations developed by faculty, students resources to identify and staffevaluate valuable entrepreneurial opportunities.</span>

In addition to encouraging university wide entrepreneurial culture<span style="font-size:smaller;">'''The Office of Technology Development (OTD)''' is UNC, Chapel Hill’s technology transfer office.&nbsp; OTD advances UNC, Chapel Hill believes there is still a strong role for the government in promoting Hill’s mission to encourage innovation and commercialization at the nation’s universitiesdisseminate knowledge. This role includes increasing funding for proof-of-concept centersPrincipally, instituting further patent reformthe OTD serves the UNC Chapel Hill community and the public by licensing innovations developed by faculty, students and revising immigration law to make it easier for American companies to hire bright American university trained immigrant studentsstaff.</span>

<span style="font-size:smaller;">In addition to encouraging university wide entrepreneurial culture, UNC, Chapel Hill believes there is still a strong role for the government in promoting innovation and commercialization at the nation’s universities. This role includes increasing funding for proof-of-concept centers, instituting further patent reform, and revising immigration law to make it easier for American companies to hire bright American university trained immigrant students.</span> <span style="font-size:smaller;">UNC Chapel Hill also welcome and value OIE’s deep dives on university innovation and commercialization. And to realize its commitment to the five buckets in the NACIE sponsored university innovation and commercialization letter, UNC Chapel Hill has adopted the following strategies:</span>