By Kirk White
I recently attended a national meeting of higher education leaders where several business leaders discussed the challenges of connecting with universities. Robert K. Utley, a commercial real estate developer said, “colleges and universities are complicators, not simplifiers. The biggest problem is that higher education doesn’t have a common language.” I agree with his point. As with any discipline, in order to do business you have to learn the terminology and lingo. In Indiana, we have a unique tool that helps business, industry, researchers, non-profits or anyone who needs to connect to higher education resouces. I encourage you to check out Indure, the Indiana Database of University Research Expertise. It is a joint effort by the IEDC, IU, Purdue, Ball State and Notre Dame to offer a searchable database of university academic experts form all four top-ranked Indiana institutions.
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