The Innovation Center
The Innovation Center seeks to bring together students, faculty, alumni and the community to design critical, creative and systems solutions for our curriculum and the complex challenges of today's world. At The Innovation Center we aim to not only encourage innovative ideas, we also work towards putting those ideas into action by creating partnerships, platforms and products and affecting policies.
Innovation Center Initiatives
Business School Plus Curriculum
The Innovation Center will encourage, support and partner with faculty, students, businesses and the community to drive a business school plus curriculum. The plus is for a curriculum intentionally designed to build grit, will and perseverance, a desire for social change, and encourage teaching that enables empathy, cultural competence and critical and systems thinking.
Structural Solutions to Problems
How can our students experience problem solving in ways that honor people, create partnerships, design platforms and influence policy to discover lasting solutions? The Innovation Center serves as host for a discussion series linking the community, local businesses, policy makers and our students and faculty to brainstorm solutions for the pressing problems of our time.
Gronowski Innovation Lab
An all-glass, flexible thinking studio/classroom where our students work on the next big ideas, our faculty design the curriculum that prepares and encourages our students to change the world and local businesses come to collaborate, conceptualize, create and launch business solutions. In the Innovation Incubator, all can write on the walls from floor to ceiling, all furniture is on wheels and there is a built-in coworking space for growing businesses to work alongside our students.
Message from the Director:
Hello! Bienvenidos!
Thank you for visiting The Innovation Center at Regis University. The vision for the Anderson Centers of Distinction is to help business become stewards of society with the goal of improving the quality of life on earth. The Innovation Center is specifically designed and intended to assist the college in the “how” our graduates are working to accomplish this vision. Let me explain.
In their 2012 article, A Leadership Education Model for Jesuit Business Schools, McCallum, Connor, and Horian define the distinction of graduates from business schools at Jesuit universities where self-awareness, ingenuity, love, and heroism are the essential dispositions, skills, and traits of the graduates. And while the public, those hiring our graduates, and even our students all agree that these are fundamental skills that graduates should have, the latest information tells us that we are not delivering this type of education as well as we can with all of our business students. Building leaders with values, experience, and the desire to improve society is at the core of The Innovation Center.
Sullivan Chair for Free Enterprise
The Innovation Center and all of its programs are supported by the John J. Sullivan Chair in Free Enterprise. The endowment serves to perpetuate the concept and practice of free enterprise, and instill in our leaders a highly developed sense of responsibility for the future of the free market system in our complex and ever-changing world.