The final quarterly meeting of 2015 for Indiana University’s Council for Regional Engagement and Economic Development (CREED) is set for 11:30 a.m. Wednesday (Nov. 4) at Room 1006 of University Hall on the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis campus. Scheduled presentations include: An overview of IU’s Grand Challenges initiative by Fred H. Cate, IU’s vice… Read more »
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IU Kokomo chancellor elected to University Economic Development Association board
At the University Economic Development Association’s (UEDA) annual summit, held recently in Anchorage, Alaska, IU Kokomo Chancellor Susan Sciame-Giesecke was elected to the organization’s Board of Directors. As IU-Kokomo’s seventh chancellor, Sciame-Giesecke has played a leading role in regional partnerships involving education, business and economic growth and research. This includes facilitating discussions for the development… Read more »
Innovate Indiana, IU Kokomo officials contribute to project that outlines university roles, methods in economic development
A trio of Indiana University officials played integral roles in a recently established framework that defines the roles that colleges and universities play in modern economic development and the methods they can use to better pursue that mission. The two-year project — taken on by the University Economic Development… Read more »
OVPE settles into new campus headquarters on the fifth floor of IUPUI's University Hall
University Hall on the campus of IUPUI is now the new home base for IU’s Office of the Vice President for Engagement. The move, which took effect July 2, puts OVPE within close proximity to other key IU administrators, IUPUI researchers and unifies more of the OVPE team under one roof. Prior to the relocation,… Read more »
IU delegation travels to Fort Wayne to tour $20 million Mirro Center for Research & Innovation
Back in May, the $20 million Mirro Center for Research and Innovation at Fort Wayne’s Parkview Regional Medical Center — funded in part by a $1 million donation by the Mirro Family Foundation — opened its doors. On Monday, a seven-member delegation hosted by Dr. Michael J. Mirro, an IU trustee and medical director of… Read more »
Indiana faces a technical skills 'mismatch' that threatens the state's economy, but a unique conference seeks to chart a new path forward
It is an inescapable fact that Indiana faces a growing gap between the number of jobs that require technical skills and the number of workers who possess them. This reality was made abundantly clear in a recent study by HireUp Indy and TechPoint. It found that computer and information technology (IT) jobs in Indiana grew… Read more »
Indiana CTSI launches new initiatives, grows project development team with $5 million from Indiana Economic Development Corp.
Five million dollars awarded to the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) by the Indiana Economic Development Corp. will be used to launch a molecular therapeutics program, a program that connects industry mentors to entrepreneur researchers and create an academic research commercialization hub for Indiana. Some of the money also will be used to… Read more »
Indiana University's quarterly CREED meeting is set to convene March 4 at Kokomo campus
The first meeting of Indiana University’s Council for Regional Engagement and Economic Development (CREED) to be held outside of Indianapolis will take place March 4 at IU’s Kokomo campus. CREED is an organization of representatives from each of IU’s 10 statewide campuses that seeks to enhance economic development by connecting IU creative and intellectual assets…. Read more »
IU expands its mission of innovation support by joining the National Academy of Inventors
Indiana University has joined a growing list of university and nonprofit research institutions that are members of the National Academy of Inventors, an organization that honors innovation, the researchers who enable it and efforts to better society through it. The academy also plays an economic development role, in part by serving as a liaison between… Read more »
IUPUI begins the process of spreading an innovative and entreprenuerial culture across its campus and throughout Central Indiana
Last fall, Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie revealed details on IU’s future direction, one that builds upon nearly 200 years of educating Hoosiers and creating billions of dollars worth of employment opportunities. In all, there were eight Bicentennial Priorities developed and two of them – “building a prosperous and innovative Indiana” and creating “a… Read more »