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Strategic Plan

About

This Strategic Plan paves CIE’s path for supporting UNCW faculty, staff, student, and community success from 2023-2025. To develop a focused approach, conversations with UNCW leadership, regional entrepreneurs, volunteers, and partners occurred throughout 2022.

At CIE we believe:

  1. Entrepreneurship unleashes human potential.
  2. Everyone should have access to succeed through entrepreneurship.
  3. Through entrepreneurship and innovation, community and global problems will be solved.
  4. We are stronger together.

CIE is a distinct academic ecosystem. We attract changemakers and dreamers, the inquisitive and curious, and those who have the mindset to control their destiny. Among those engaged are UNCW faculty and staff, UNCW students, community entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, programmers, scientists, youth, and retirees. CIE serves as a UNCW-community connector, whether it is for student success or entrepreneurial success.

Vision

An inclusive, resilient, and robust regional entrepreneurial ecosystem that hires leadership ready UNCW graduates, partners in UNCW research, and creates solutions for regional and global communities.

Mission

CIE nurtures high-impact startups with education, connections, and incubation and collision space, and accelerates the entrepreneurial ecosystem in southeastern North Carolina as a vibrant hub of innovation.

Values

C - Collaboration
     Community
     Communication
I - Inclusiveness
     Integrity
     Innovation
E - Entrepreneurial Mindset
     Excellence
     Expertise

Goals

1. Propel Entrepreneur Success

Provide mentoring, programs, funding, facilities, and UNCW connections to high-impact startups to support success.

2. Support Student Success

Connect UNCW students with experiential learning experiences to grow their entrepreneurial mindset.

3. Build an Entrepreneurial Talent Pipeline

Inspire the next generation of high-impact entrepreneurs, from youth to retirees.

4. Catalyze Inclusivity in High-Impact Startups

Envision, support, and communicate strategies that recognize and support the power of people starting a scalable business that can make change in their own communities.

5. Strengthen the Innovation Economy in Southeastern North Carolina

Through collaboration, ignite regional strengths to create innovative and entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges.

Contact The CIE

Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Phone: (910) 962-2206

cie@uncw.edu

803 South College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403-5676

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