IGNITE FSU’s Post

Last week, I had the opportunity to visit Lehigh University, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University & Florida State University to speak about the NSF funded work (Grant # TIP-2430589) around innovation & entrepreneurship by university faculty known as PTIE (Promotion & Tenure - Innovation & Entrepreneurship). Thank you to all my wonderful hosts and to all the amazing faculty, staff, administrators and students that I had the opportunity to speak with during my visits. You can read more about my visit to FSU in the article with this post. I look forward to visiting Montana State University-Bozeman & University of Nevada-Las Vegas later this month to speak about the same topics. Universities do amazing work each and every day to make our world a better place - both through the students they help to train and mentor to be the next generation of innovators, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs that drive our innovation economy and the faculty that seek societal impacts beyond the traditional publication and grant paradigm. Thank you to Erwin Gianchandani & Pradeep Fulay in the TIP Directorate at NSF for their support over the years and to all our amazing partners in the PTIE coalition and beyond for helping to create what Almesha L. Campbell, Ph.D., RTTP, HonNAI has called "a movement" to expand the breadth of impact from our universities. None of this would have been possible without the visionary leadership at Oregon State University. Brian Wall, Karl Mundorff, Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Julie Risien, Irem Y. Tumer, Tuba Ozkan-Haller, Edward Feser, Jayathi Murthy and so many other folks at OSU made this possible. #GoBeavs