University of Delaware to Kick Start Business Community Involvement
There’s a lot of hope accompanying an ad running in today’s News Journal that new University of Delaware president Patrick Harker (fresh from being a Dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania), can bring some vitality to Delaware’s business community by “Creating Knowledge Based Partnerships” with businesses.
I’m encouraged by this announcement. Some of that hope that I mention above is mine, but I think that there’s a chance for the University to be the center point of some innovation in business and technological development for the State.
The focus of the advertisment is a day long conference featuring:
- Chad Holliday of DuPont
- Abbey Joseph Cohen of Goldman Sachs & Co.
- Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner, and
- UD President Patrick Harker
There will also be panel discussions on a number of subjects, including:
- Corporate governance
- Alternative energy
- Life sciences
- The environment
- Agriculture
- Advanced Materials
The list of speakers in that discussion is pretty impressive, including state and federal government officials and representatives, University Faculty, and business leaders from the community, including the heads of some pretty large corporations.
The conference will be held on Friday, November 2, 2007 at Clayton Hall (directions) on the University of Delaware Campus.
The cost is $25, and they note that space is limited, so if you want to attend, you may want to act quickly.
The sponsors of the announcement include:
- The University of Delaware
- The Office of the Governor
- Delaware State Chamber of Commerce
- Delaware Public Policy Institute
- Delaware Business Roundtable
- First State Innovation
- Select Greater Philadelphia
- The News Journal
This conference looks like a great idea. The homepage for the Conference calls it the “first” in the series, which is even more encouraging.
October 12th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
I see that the newarking and Newark are both open once again. I guess school’s back in session. Sounds like an interesting conference. $25 is affordable
October 12th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Hi Christina,
We are back open.
The 2-4 hours of daily commute that I had over the summer are gone, and I have much more time to actually be active in the community.
No more very early mornings leaving to avoid rush hour traffic, and staying late at work to again miss crowded highways. Working at home is much more of a joy.
The conference does sound like it will be pretty interesting. I’m really glad that discussions of future growth of the State and the region are being discussed in an open forum like this.
October 14th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Ooooh this sounds really interesting!
I’ll have to try and get a ticket.
October 14th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
If you’re interested in going, let me know. I’ll see about getting some tickets. I don’t know how quickly they will be going.
October 16th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
[…] If you put together a former Dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Delaware’s largest University, and a touch of open and accessible State Government, what do you get? The guys over at Newarking hope you might just see a kick start in business community involvement and just maybe see the University of Delaware become the center point of some innovation in business and technological development for the State. […]