创新谘询委员会 Terms of Reference

Background

转换 2030 sets the path for 菠菜网lol正规平台 to expand experiential learning opportunities for all 菠菜网lol正规平台 students to sharpen their skill sets through research, scholarship, and creative activities, as well as entrepreneurship and cross-disciplinary innovation 培训. We must establish the support mechanisms required to help move groundbreaking research and discovery out of the lab and into the marketplace and to support our students and faculty in becoming change agents and leaders. 我们将通过培养来做到这一点 great ideas and investing in bold solutions to today’s biggest challenges.

目的

的 purpose of the 菠菜网lol正规平台 创新谘询委员会 (IAC) is to advise the Vice President for 研究与创新 (VPRI) on solutions critical to building and growing innovation, entrepreneurship, and commercialization support for 菠菜网lol正规平台 students, faculty, and staff. IAC serves as a vehicle for ongoing dialogue between 菠菜网lol正规平台 leadership and community leaders to help inform 菠菜网lol正规平台’s innovation agenda, strategy, goals, and programs.

职责

  • Advising on the overall 菠菜网lol正规平台 innovation strategy and areas of focus;
  • Recommending and promoting structures, policies, and procedures required to build and grow the innovation enterprise;
  • Proposing solutions to alleviate identified barriers to innovation culture and programs;
  • Advocating for policies and procedures that foster, support, and reward innovation 和创业精神;
  • Collaborating with others involved in the research and innovation enterprise and recommending mechanisms that satisfy the innovation, entrepreneurship, and commercialization support needs of students, faculty, and staff;
  • Providing strategic advice regarding emerging science and technology issues and trends, and identifying leading-edge operational models that will support the growth and sustainability of the 菠菜网lol正规平台 innovation enterprise;
  • Sharing resources, information, and best practices for academic innovation, entrepreneurship, and commercialization support programs;
  • Acting as conduits of information and collaboration between and among 菠菜网lol正规平台 and the external community; and
  • IAC members will be available to the VPRI for strategic and operational consultation.

会员

的 IAC shall be composed of a minimum of nine (9) and a maximum of 15 members. 的 members are a combination of business leaders and successful entrepreneurs with expertise in business, venture capital, technology commercialization, and entrepreneurship support. 的 members are appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of, the VPRI.

IAC members are appointed ordinarily for four (4) years. Inaugural committee appointments, however, may be for three (3), four (4), or five (5) years, to establish staggered 谘询委员会的委任条款. Appointment renewals permissible.

IAC members will cease to be members if their appointment term ends, they resign from the IAC, or they fail to attend two consecutive IAC meetings without acceptable advance 致主席的通知.

的 inaugural IAC Chair will be appointed by the VPRI for a term of two (2) years. Chairs for subsequent two-year terms will be elected by the IAC members.

会议

IAC将每年召开两次会议. 会议 will be held at the call of the Chair, in consultation 与VPRI合作. Notice of a meeting will be duly delivered to the IAC members at least four weeks in advance, and will include a meeting agenda, a draft of which will be set by the Chair, in consultation 与VPRI合作. 咨询委员会会议的会期 will vary depending on the state of business.

会议 will be conducted in person on 菠菜网lol正规平台 campus or virtually, as circumstances require, with each being two (2) to four (4) hours in duration. 允许IAC成员 to select another suitable person to attend as their proxy for 一个 (1) regularly scheduled 会议每年.

In addition, it is anticipated that IAC members will serve on subcommittees and working groups as may be required to advance the goals of the council.

投票

If required, specific IAC recommendations to the VPRI, including Chair elections, will be made by way of a discussion followed by a resolution and a vote. 建议 vote will be decided by simple majority. For voting purposes, a quorum shall be defined as 一个 third of the IAC members, but at no time less than three (3) IAC members.

补偿

IAC membership will be strictly on a volunteer basis, with no m一个tary compensation.