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Activities
Objectives and Key Results – EnterpriseKC Will…
• Work with the regional workforce supply chains to map curricula to workforce taxonomy needs. • Work with the regional workforce supply chains to develop high demand, high opportunity market value assets and skills training across all talent development pathways. • Establish partnerships between the regional workforce supply chains and industry to create real world, experiential learning opportunities. • Determine the current supply chain production capacity by job category and by institution.
7.1.4 Pillar 4: Innovation & Commercialization Supply Chain
Strategic Goal: Substantially increase the volume and visibility of high opportunity research conducted among the R1 and R2 universities and enterprises in the region and ensure that the research is commercialized in the region.
Strategic questions to answer : What are the academic and industrial research dimensions we have today to support any given cluster? How do we more tightly couple regional economic development strategies with academic research strategies? How do we vastly increase the level of federal both classified and non- classified research? How do we increase the visibility of the research being across the region? How do we increase the rate of commercialization for the research done at area universities? Can we simplify / streamline IP licensing for research conducted at regional universities?
Activities
Objectives and Key Results – EnterpriseKC Will…
• Identify and track the annual research dollars granted to regional universities by cluster and the startups per research dollar spent. • Identify strategies and programs to increase federal research dollars for universities and industry. • Work with universities to streamline and expedite the IP licensing and commercialization process. • Increase visibility of IP available for licensing across all research institutions in the region. • Identify and track the risk capital invested into regional startups and gazelles by investment stage. • Measure the startup and gazelle density and rate of change by cluster.
7.1.5 Pillar 5: Enterprise Growth
Strategic Goal: Accelerate economic development through industry-led initiatives that foster enterprise growth, new startups, and the targeted recruitment of new enterprises to the region. Strategic questions to answer : Who are the enterprises, gazelles and start-ups in each identified cluster and where are they located? Which enterprises, gazelles and start-ups are at risk in the region? How do we keep them here? Which enterprises, gazelles and start-ups have the best opportunity to grow? What do we do to ensure they grow here? How do we create proactive, targeted strategies around the recruitment of high impact, high opportunity enterprises?
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