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=University-Industry Collaboration=
UNC Chapel Hill maintains several collaborative relationships with industry groups to enhance industry access to their research expertise, intellectual property, and commercial opportunities. These include:
*'''The Council for Entrepreneurial Development''' (CED) members have a shared mission to identify, enable and promote high-growth, high-impact companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina. CED members are a community of people inspired by entrepreneurship. They include startup companies, more mature growth-stage firms, investors, service partners, academics, and individuals.
*'''North Carolina Biotechnology Center''' provides long-term economic and societal benefits through support of biotechnology research, business, education and strategic policy by:
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<li>Serving as the statewide hub of life-science commercialization</li>
<li>Bootstrapping companies and new business sectors with loans and other support</li>
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*'''North Carolina Small Business Technology Development Center''' (SBTDC) is a program of The University of North Carolina System, in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration, which provides resources for growing and developing businesses. These resources include: Training & Education for Business Startups; Direct Service to Economic Development Organizations, Government Agencies, and University Departments; and Leverage University Resources Statewide.
*'''North Carolina Innovative Development for Economic Advancement''' (NC I.D.E.A) provides small grants to high-tech startup companies to support business activities that validate potential markets, reduce risk of early failure, and advance projects to the point of self-sustainability at which time they are suitable for private equity investment
*'''The Carolina Entrepreneurial Fellows Program (CEF)''' is a collaborative effort between the Center and ''the MBA Entrepreneurship Club'' which matches entrepreneurial students with local startups
<ul style="margin-left: 40px; list-style-type: circle;"><li>Typically students work two days a week with one startup (perhaps their own), two days at another startup and each Friday on group projects.</li><li>This 2/2/1 format gives students a broad entrepreneurial experience and exposure to the local startup community.</li><li>Internships are funded by clients, the ''MBA Entrepreneurship Club'' and ''the North Carolina Small Business Technology and Development Center.''</li>
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*'''The ''''''Carolina Venture Fellows Program (CVF)''' is inspired in part by the ''Kauffman Fellows Program''. CVF is a highly competitive program that places select students in a structured twelve-month <span data-cke-bookmark="1" style="display: none;" id="cke_bm_83s"> </span>apprenticeship with a venture capital firm<ul style="margin-left: 40px; list-style-type: circle;"><li>The venture fellow works part-time during the school year and full-time during the summer.</li><li>Over twelve months, the venture fellow is involved in all facets of a venture firm: sourcing deals, structuring investments, assisting portfolio companies and fundraising.<span data-cke-bookmark="1" style="display: none;" id="cke_bm_83e"> </span></li>
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*'''Outcomes'''
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<li>Venture firms that have participated in CVF include: Intersouth Partners, IDEA Fund Partners, Southern Capitol Ventures, A.M. Pappas & Associates, SJF Ventures, Hatteras Venture Partners, Parish Capital, Golden Pine Ventures, Dogwood Equity, The Aurora Funds and Carrboro Capital</li>
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*'''Outcomes'''
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<li>Participating firms include: Brown Brothers Harriman, North State Capital Investors, Bank of America Global Strategic Capital, The Halifax Group, Jacobs Capital, and Google</li>