Entrepreneurship and Business Development Pillar Overview
Goals: Entrepreneurship recognized and utilized as means to get science into practice & Grow CUNY CREST
Objectives: Create and Implement entrepreneurship programming & Grow funding, activity, prominence
Build an entrepreneurship avenue for students, faculty and community
Better explain CREST to stakeholders, funders, partners
Increase impact of CUNY CREST toward CCNY /CUNY mission
Director: Harry Cikanek
All Pillars
Type 2 RIE underway and maturing creating local climate mitigation focused economic engine
Good win percentage in major efforts funded by Agencies, Industry, Philanthropists and NGOs
Balanced portfolio of education, outreach, basic and translational research
Standard set of impact metrics
Robust suite of regional partners for RIE helping new climate focused business develop and thrive in Metro NYC, extensive venture capital support
Strong suite of NASA, NOAA, NSF awards
Strong suite of local, regional, state, philanthropic and NGO awards
Comprehensive suite of services / outreach for faculty, students and local environmental focused business
Proposals
Partnering
Programming
Promulgation