The model demonstrates innovative thinking, a deep understanding of the barriers to organizational change, and addresses a clear opportunity for advancing an entrepreneurial or socially impactful mindset, skillset, and culture for UC Merced.
The innovation has a clear contribution to the campus and has the potential of providing a track record of results and success. This innovation, if scaled, has potential to be transformative for the campus and represents a new best practice for the University of California system.
The innovation may be easily adapted without losing quality. The innovation should be able to spread with relative ease. Replication may be across different units, departments, divisions, and other UC campuses.
The overall cost of the planned innovation must be feasible for the campus to undertake within a reasonable period of time.
