Join us at the 12th-annual Chancellor’s Faculty Innovation Workshop hosted by Innovate Carolina. This invitation-only event is open to a select group of UNC-Chapel Hill faculty who receive a nomination from their dean and an invitation from Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz. Congratulations on joining the distinguished group of nearly 300 faculty leaders who have graduated from this workshop since 2009. Over the past decade, the workshop has given Carolina’s most entrepreneurial researchers and teachers the chance to develop new skills that help them turn their ideas into solutions that make an impact. Many of these workshop alumni have used the knowledge and skills gained to accelerate innovation projects and launch new centers, nonprofits and startup ventures.
The Entrepreneurial Mindset—Maximizing Faculty Impact
This workshop helps faculty strengthen the skills used by successful innovators. Using design-thinking and lean startup methodologies, the workshop builds and strengthens skills in ideation, problem-solving, team building, and entrepreneurial practices that can help faculty take an idea through to successful implementation and impact. Participating faculty are guided by design and entrepreneurship educators who encourage and support thinking and working in nimble ways to address the demands of a constantly changing world.
Special Note: During Fall 2020, a small cohort of workshop faculty are participating in a series of five online session that allow them to apply design thinking principles and methods to the projects, ideas and ventures that they bring to the workshop. Through these sessions, faculty will take an in-depth approach to advancing their innovations as they progress across the multi-week program.
Learn the tools and techniques to evaluate, develop and implement ideas:
>> Ideation
>> Problem solving
>> Team building
>> Entrepreneurial practice
Summer 2020: Online Workshops
Fall 2020: Workshop Retreat
Fall 2020 Location TBD
