Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Ventures Pillar Overview
Goals & Objectives
Foster entrepreneurship in remote sensing and earth system science to translate research into real-world impact through scalable ventures
Collaborate with CUNY and external resources to bring in workshops, seminars, and networking events to support programming
Benefits & Impacts
Build an entrepreneurship avenue for students, faculty and community
Build industry partnerships to create opportunities for faculty and staff
Speed research to practice
Leadership
Co Directors:
Harry Cikanek
Hamidreza Norouzi
Co-Associate Directors
Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay
Jennifer Cherrier
Cross Pillar Collaborations
Research and Applications
International Collaborations
Community Resilience &
Stakeholder Engagement
Education and Training
Policy and Outreach
2025-2027 Plans
Greatly narrow the plan to specific actions that the pillar can take, e.g. conduct workshop on proposal writing for SBIRs and other Opportunities, establish regular cadence of workshops and seminars, etc.
Ongoing Activites
Partnering:
Center for Catastrophic Risk Applications with GMU and MIT
Programming:
In development- To be Announced