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PRESENTING, SUPPORTING
Delaware Prosperity Partnership
PRESENTING SPONSOR
This year is a significant one for Delaware, with a strong economic performance and the lowest unemployment rate in the past decade.
Since its formation in 2017, the Delaware Prosperity Partnership has made considerable progress in advancing its four-pillar mission: 1. Attract new businesses to the state.
Kurt Foreman
President and CEO
2. Retain and engage existing businesses as they make plans for expansion. 3. Build a stronger entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem.
4. Assist employers and various partners in addressing talent pool issues.
DPP’s focus on enhancing Delaware’s culture of innovation has supported more mature, existing enterprises such as Solenis, as well as promising enterprises in the early stages of growth, such as Wilmington PharmaTech. With one of the highest per-capita patent rates in the country, Delaware continues to attract entrepreneurial innovators, from high-tech agriculture to fintech. “At DPP, we believe that encouraging innovation and entrepreneurism will benefit not only the more seasoned businesses that call Delaware home, but also encourage innovators from around the globe to choose Delaware for building on their next big idea,” says Kurt Foreman, president and CEO of DPP.
University of Delaware
PRESENTING SPONSOR
The University of Delaware, founded in 1743, is
the eighth-oldest university in the country. UD’s
storied tradition of academic excellence continues
today in both the classroom and laboratory, with
consistent ranking among the top 30 public univer-
sities. Beyond its Georgian-inspired main campus in Newark, Delaware, UD has locations across the state—in Wilmington, Dover, Georgetown and Lewes.
UD is a state-assisted, privately governed institution and one of a select group of institutions in the United States to hold the triple land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant designation. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies UD as a research university with very high research activity—a designation accorded less than 3 percent of U.S. colleges and universities. UD ranks among the nation’s top 100 universities in federal R&D support for science and engineering.
UD offers a broad range of degree programs: three associate programs, 148 bachelor’s programs, 121 mas- ter’s programs (with 13 joint degrees offered within) and 55 doctoral programs through its seven colleges. The university’s student body encompasses more than 19,000 undergraduates, more than 4,000 graduate students and more than 800 students in professional and continuing studies from across the country and around the globe. UD’s distinguished faculty includes internationally known authors, scientists and artists, Guggenheim and Fulbright fellows and members of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The university is fortunate to have an alumni base of more than 185,000, representing a unique and global ambassador community eager to support the university’s mission and pursuits.
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