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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6880225f-d31d-8419-3bd8-1447d77cfd77"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; 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; 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 [http://www.udri.udayton.edu/Pages/home.aspx University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI)]</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; 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:larger;">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 interested students and other faculty.</span></span>