The following is a list of the articles that appear in the March 2023 issue of University-Industry Engagement Advisor monthly newsletter.
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University-Industry Engagement Advisor
Vol. 5, No. 3, March 2023
- Engagement with small businesses: Plenty of opportunity but limited bandwidth. It’s not that industry engagement executives have anything against working with smaller companies; in fact, the idea of working with these companies, including start-ups, can be the beginning of an exciting process as both the company and the partnership grow. But corporate engagement leaders admit they sometimes simply lack the time required to pursue these companies as much as they’d like.
- Ole Miss partners with HBCUs to tackle “workforce cliff” in insurance industry. Last fall, the University of Mississippi announced a program intended to address a workforce shortage and a lack of diversity in the insurance industry by partnering with agents, brokers, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
- GSK partners with FIU students to increase diversity and reduce health disparities. Although Florida International University had never previously collaborated with GSK, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, their first partnership is a biggie. On January 19th StartUP FIU, the innovation hub at the university, and GSK launched the GSK Innovation Challenge, a 12-week program in which a cohort of 31 FIU undergraduate students will seek to identify barriers to timely and effective health maintenance and care within their communities.
- U Kansas research park rebrands in bid to better target industry partners. It was created in 2009 as the Bioscience and Technology Business Center, but the research park in Lawrence, KS (adjacent to the campus of the University of Kansas) was rebranded about 18 months ago to KU Innovation Park. The non-profit economic development organization that runs the park has four equal stakeholders — the University of Kansas, the City of Lawrence, Douglas County, and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. They insist that the change had less to do with the park’s performance than it did with sending a clearer message to existing and prospective industry partners.
- A year after launch, U Kentucky’s Innovation Connect making solid progress. On April 11, UK Innovation Connect will host the inaugural Kentucky Innovator Challenge in Lexington, coinciding with the one-year anniversary of the industry engagement program. The University of Kentucky division is marking the anniversary by holding an event that doesn’t just celebrate the milestone, but doubles as another touchpoint for corporate partners.