MISSION STATEMENT

To: (1) develop, market and manage the Missouri Research Park, the University of Missouri Technology Park at Fort Leonard Wood and Discovery Ridge Research Park and (2) consult with University officers on the development, marketing and managing of other research parks and similar real-estate ventures affiliated with any of the four campuses of the University of Missouri.

VISION STATEMENT

We strive to: 

• Employ a “best practices” model in developing, marketing and managing the University’s Research Parks and in consulting with University officers on all university-driven real-estate ventures.

• Continuously, relentlessly advise the University’s officers that there truly is a best-practices model for all university-driven real-estate ventures and that this model is tied to market realities that will remorselessly crush the noblest of misguided ventures.

• Profess the long-term intangible value of the University’s involvement in economic-development initiatives and research-oriented real-estate ventures because they necessarily immerse the University’s officers in transformational choices of a kind that emphasize strategy over tactics, leadership over management, and national prominence over regional identity.