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Economic Development in University Settings
Nina Exner, PanelistA Mission to Help: What Libraries are Doing
to Support Local Economic DevelopmentNCLA 59th Biennial Conference, October 4 -
7, 2011, Hickory, NC
Universities do economic development too.
Major areas:• Grantsmanship• Sponsored programs• Intellectual propertyDevelopment and licensing• Technology Transfer• Extension programs • Incubators and business development centers
Your mileage may vary…
Most of these have library tie-ins.
Literature reviews?Market research?
Intellectual property?Government agency research?
Yeah, we do that.
What happened at A&T
We started by providing mediated searching for our grant
support team.I don’t have time to get
every literature review done with everything else I’m
doing!
I’m a reference librarian. Is there anything I can do to help
with that? We’d love to be your partners!
What happened at A&T
That led to co-developed workshops and training seminars.
What happened at A&T
New projects are emerging.
We’re becoming “proven” partners.
Hints and Take-Aways
Understand your campus’ priorities.
Economic development
Collaboration
Desk servicesDesk service
Student support
Economic
development
Tech Transfer
Patent searching
Grants
Research support
Hints and Take-Aways
Understand your economic development unit’s needs and
priorities
Hints and Take-Aways
Look at your team’s relevant strong points.
Hints and Take-Aways
Look at your team’s relevant strong points.
Research support
Patent searching Copyright Market
researchTraining
Hints and Take-Aways
Keep offering help persistently.
But relevantly!
Tech Transfer
Patent searching
Grants
Research support
Hints and Take-Aways
Network on- and off-campus.
•Go to economic development unit’s workshopsoTalk to the trainer(s)!!
•Go to other related workshops•See if you can co-sponsor relevant speakers
Get creative!
Thanks for listening!Contact information
Nina ExnerEvening Services Librarian,
North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State Univ.
and PhD student, UNC SILS
Email [email protected] (336) 285-4185