I’ve been on the virtual road this fall. Below are a few highlights of some of the inspirational stages I’ve been able to share with thinkers and doers from around the world. - Shalin
Meeting: U.S. National Academies Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR)
Title: Driving Talent, Workforce Development, and Opportunity: APLU’s Innovation and Economic Prosperity Designation
Description: The Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable hosted a webinar on innovative economic engagement efforts by universities to respond to the needs of their students and regions. As technology continues to accelerate innovation, more Americans will need higher levels of education and training in order to thrive in the 21st-century workplace. The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) created a designation program to recognize institutions that have demonstrated a substantive, sustainable, and institution-wide commitment to and strategy for regional economic engagement, growth, and economic opportunity.
Ashley Stokes, Associate Vice President for Engagement and Extension, Colorado State University
David Spalding, Dean of the Ivy College of Business and Interim VP of Economic Development and Industry Relations, Iowa State University
Ahmad Ezzeddine, Associate Vice President for Educational Outreach and International Programs, Wayne State University
Shalin Jyotishi, Assistant Director for Economic Development and Community Engagement and Program Director, Innovation and Economic Prosperity Universities program at APLU
Meeting: 2020 Annual Meeting of the International Economic Development Council
Title: Anchors of Stability, Partners in Growth: Colleges and Universities as a Critical Asset
Description: Colleges and universities are critical features across communities, offering not only teaching and learning opportunities but also contributing to communities' research, employment, and cultural ecosystems. This session is designed for economic developers who seek to understand how these unique partners can support business attraction, retention, and expansion but also how to strategically leverage the range and diversity of college and university partnership models that can be engaged to support economic development.
Moderator: Joel Simon, Managing Director, Burning Glass
Panelists:
Shalin Jyotishi, Senior Policy Analyst on Education and Labor, New America
Cullum Clark, Director, Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative George W. Bush Institute
Meeting: 2020 National Academy of Inventors Conference Series
Title: Fostering inclusive and equitable entrepreneurial ecosystems across APLU's Innovation and Economic Prosperity Universities
Description: Join public university and entrepreneurship leaders to learn how higher education can foster a more inclusive and equitable campus innovation enterprise featuring leaders from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ Innovation and Economic Prosperity (IEP) Universities program.
Moderator: Shalin Jyotishi, Program Director, Innovation and Economic Prosperity Universities & Assistant Director for Economic Development and Community Engagement, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)
Panelists:
Julia Potter, Director of Educational Partnerships Development and Special University Projects, California State University, Northridge
Anthony Hood, Director of Civic Innovation in the Office of the President, University of Alabama-Birmingham
Tonya Witherspoon, Associate Vice President for Industry Engagement and Applied Learning, Wichita State University
Rachel Jagoda Burnette, Program Officer, The Lemelson Foundation
Meeting: 2020 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Conference
Title: Policies to Promote Industry & Entrepreneurial Emergence (Innovations in Science and Technology)
Description: This panel brings together scholars at the intersections of policy, ecosystems, entrepreneurship, and industrial emergence. Theories seeking to explain the phenomenon of agglomeration and regional development are abundant. Additional work seeks to understand processes impacting performance and growth, specifically the importance of policy at subnational geographies (Alcácer et al. 2017; Conti 2018). Entrepreneurial ecosystems, a new and popular model of regional agglomeration, posit a set of organizations, actors, policies, and intangibles interact to support entrepreneurs (Auerswald 2015; Autio et al. 2018; Spigel 2017; Stam 2015). Importantly, this conceptualization implies regional factors must cohere and relate to achieve the greatest outcome.
Panel Chair: Maryann Feldman, Heninger Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Panel organizer: Paige Clayton, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology
Discussants:
Shalin Jyotishi, Senior Policy Analyst, New America
Nicholas Vonortas, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, George Washington University
Presentations:
Paige Clayton, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology
Allison Lowe Reed, Lecturer in Economics, North Carolina State University
Abraham Song, PhD Candidate, George Mason University
G. Jason Jolley, Professor of Rural Economic Development, Ohio University
Christelle Khalaf, Associate Director of the Center for Business and Economic Analysis, University of Wyoming