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Engaging Your University in Regional Economic Development

  Schedule

Note: This is a tentative agenda and is subject to change.

Monday
8:00 AM Registration
9:00 Introductions: Sharing Perspectives, Places, and Projects
10:00 Universities as Economic Drivers: The Needs and Nature of Innovation-based Regional Development
11:00 Leading Economic Engagement: Working in Different Worlds
12:00 PM Leading Economic Engagement: The TRE Economic Engagement Academy Framework
1:30 Tools for Success
4:30 Reflections on the Day
5:30 Photo
5:45 Reception
7:30 Small Group Sessions: Project Development Action Planning
Tuesday
8:30 AM Check-in
9:00 Building Effective Programs for Place-based Advantage: Program Approaches for Customizing Your Economic Engagement Ecosystem
4:30 PM Reflections on the Day
Dinner on Own
7:30 Small Group Sessions: Project Development Action Planning
Wednesday
8:30 AM Check-in
9:00 Resource Development for Economic Engagement
10:00 Defining and Implementing your University-based Economic Engagement Effort
11:00 Economic Development Frameworks
1:00 PM An Overview of Economic Sectors: From Energy to Manufacturing, Healthcare to Bio Pharma, Materials to IT
2:00 Co-Creation of Value: Economic Engagement as Exchange
3:00 Action Planning Reports: Moving from Theory to Practice
4:00 Wrap Up: Reflections and Celebration
5:00 Adjourn



 

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