1. INNOVATE CAROLINA: ROADMAP
Judith Cone, Chancellor’s Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Putting important ideas to use

2. The Challenges
Health
Water
Poverty
Environment
For a world in need, who can help the majority of global citizens who lack access to fundamental resources?
What is the role of research universities in making the world a better place for all its citizens – at home and abroad?

3. Carolina’s To-do List
Committed to helping solve some of the most pressing problems of our time.
Cure diseases, and get those cures to all the people who need them.
Find, invent, gain adoption of clean energy solutions.
Feed seven billion people.
Inspire and prepare students in our schools.
Promote widespread prosperity.
Describe the world, and replace conflict with understanding

4. Our Response Vision Mission
With a special focus on urgent challenges, innovators and innovations launched at Carolina consistently apply important ideas for a better world.
Mission
Be a place where innovators thrive.

5. UNC’s Opportunity Goals Goals Strengthen the innovation ecosystem:
Build/strengthen the building blocks of innovation.
Collaborate and be connected.
Prepare Carolina community with the skills, knowledge, connections, and resources to think and act entrepreneurially.
Graduate I-shaped Students (be, learn, do).
Help people translate their ideas.
Align the organization.

6. Clarity and Alignment
Values: That which is worth doing. Expressed in Vision/Mission/Goals.
Resources: Required people, time, money, facilities, and equipment.
Processes: Needed organization structures, rules, and methods.
Expressed in Vision / Mission / Strategy
We cannot strengthen an intentional culture of innovation if all we do is talk about high ideals and say we want this to happen. We must have clarity and alignment between how we allocate resources. And, we must examine our structures, rules, and methods to ensure that they too are aligned.

7. A vision without resources is just a hallucination.
We cannot strengthen an intentional culture of innovation if all we do is talk about high ideals and say we want this to happen. We must have clarity and alignment between how we allocate resources. And, we must examine our structures, rules, and methods to ensure that they too are aligned.

8. A vision without the right processes is demoralizing.
We cannot strengthen an intentional culture of innovation if all we do is talk about high ideals and say we want this to happen. We must have clarity and alignment between how we allocate resources. And, we must examine our structures, rules, and methods to ensure that they too are aligned.

9. INNOVATE CAROLINA: ROADMAP
Prepare
Collaborate
Translate
Align
Catalyze
Prepare
the Carolina community with the knowledge, skills, and connections necessary to translate new ideas into innovations.
Collaborate with diverse groups on campus and beyond to explore issues, options, and creative approaches that may lead to innovations.
Translate important new ideas more expediently and at an increased volume into innovations that improve society.
Align
people, incentives, resources, and processes to strengthen an intentional culture of innovation at Carolina
Catalyze innovation at Carolina by facilitating the work of faculty, staff, and students as they put important ideas to use for a better world.
Components of a UNC data skillset
Support Innovators and Innovations

10. UNC’s Innovation Ecosystem

11. INNOVATE CAROLINA
Putting Important Ideas to Use