The Innovative and Entrepreneurial University: Higher Education, Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Focus

November 5, 2013 - Released today, this Department of Commerce report was conducted in response to a letter that was marshaled by the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship to the Department in 2011. That letter, entitled “Recommendations to Facilitate University-Based Technology Commercialization”, was signed by over 140 University Presidents provided a strategic framework for university, industry and government stakeholders to advance Innovation and Entrepreneurship in higher education. This report highlights numerous best practices for fostering innovation and entrepreneurship by supporting student and faculty entrepreneurship, university-industry collaboration, technology transfer and regional economic development. Deep dives conducted for the report are now housed on this wiki alongside 21 other student-created profiles, to allow for easy acess and updating of the information:

• Arkansas Baptist College
• Alabama State University
• Arizona State University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Howard University
• Lorain County Community College
• University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
• University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
• Prairie View A&M University
• William Marsh Rice University
• University of Southern California