Economic Development & Innovation

Economic Development and Innovation

Initiative

Position the DFW region as a leader in sustainability and innovation

LEAD: Office of Research & Innovation
with support from the Office of Sustainability

Definition

The economic development strategy focuses on fostering leadership in the green jobs market through collaboration with local businesses. This involves identifying problems that campus research can help solve, offering hands-on learning experiences and capstone opportunities for the students, and connecting startups with UTA researchers. Sustainability plans often drive investment in clean energy technologies, carbon capture and storage, sustainable agriculture, and other areas. This can stimulate academic research in engineering, materials science, biology, and other fields aimed at developing innovative technologies to address climate change.

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Strategies

Near goal indicator  Action Items: 2

  • Identify faculty to foster research within Green Technology
  • Identify collaboration opportunities for green technology transfer and commercialization

Middle goal indicator  Action Items: 3

  • Create a professional learning opportunity/ program for existing professionals to benefit from UTA's sustainable offerings
  • Leverage the cluster hire initiative to drive a sector of research that is focused, across disciplines, on forwarding research around sustainability
  • Develop administrative capacities to pursue grants in these fields

Long goal indicator  Action Items: 5

  • Connect with local businesses to identify problems that campus research could help solve
  • Identify target areas for sustainability to further grant-funded research
  • Collaborate on sustainability-focused workforce training
  • Leverage Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Development for collaboration with local businesses/organizations
  • Expand green workforce development funding