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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announces the The UNC-Chapel Hill Working Group on Economic Development, a network of faculty and administrators interested in engaged scholarship and public service in economic development. The Working Group will be a joint project of the Office of Economic and Business Development, the Carolina Center for Public Service, the Odum Institute, and the University Center for International Studies. Any Carolina faculty member or administrator is welcome to join.
The Working Group defines economic development broadly as both business and community development. Areas of interest include business administration, social science, professional education, technology commercialization, globalization issues, information technology, and the physical and health sciences. Working Group topics need not be confined to North Carolina, but a special focus will be given to research with implications for the state's economy.
If you are interested in joining or learning more about the Carolina Working Group on Economic Development, please contact the Office of Economic and Business Development at (919) 843-5453 or oebd@unc.edu.
At part of Carolina's ongoing efforts to pursue engaged scholarship and service, the Office of Economic and Business Development, in partnership with the Carolina Center for Public Service, announces the Community Economic Development Competitive Grants Program. The program will fund projects with potential to improve the economic competitiveness of both businesses and communities across a wide range of issues in North Carolina. Specifically, the Program will fund projects that address the areas of opportunity identified at the Carolina Summit on Community Economic Development (PDF).
Tenured, tenure track, and fixed term faculty members from any Carolina school, college, center or institute are eligible. Faculty members from any discipline are encouraged to apply.
The UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Economic and Business Development and the Appalachian College Association proudly announce the Appalachian Colleges Community Economic Development Partnership. Generously funded by the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the Partnership will strengthen local and regional economies by creating customized, sustainable campus-community collaborations for economic development.
Additional information coming soon.
The Carolina Seminars on Economic development brought together a broad array of university, public, private and non-profit leaders to address the question of how to ensure that North Carolina excels in the growing global economy.
Seminar topics ranged from techniques for promoting small businesses and entrepreneurship, to examinations of the development opportunities associated with the health care industry and technology commercialization, to evaluations of popular economic development strategies such as attracting the “creative class,” to discussions of the optimal role for universities in economic development.
The Seminar was co-convened by the Office of Economic and Business Development and the Program on Southern Media, Politics and Public Life.
Carolina Seminars Summary coming soon.
The first Carolina Summit on Community Economic Development drew together nearly 80 participants from around the state and across UNC-Chapel Hill for a structured dialogue on how the university can better serve the economic development needs of North Carolina. Conferees participated in a round-robin series of discussion groups and identified several areas of opportunity to build more globally competitive businesses and communities in the state.