I do have a couple of comments on the draft for this theme, though admittedly I have a very poor understanding of what this document means and how it will be used.

My main reaction is that the document does not adequately reflect the inspired collaboration of the vested faculty in this area, as laid out in the SFI document for a School of Innovation, Management & Economics. I believe this collaboration gives UCM a pivotal opportunity to advance related research and education that it has never had before. Indeed, these areas have been bedeviled by dispute and paralysis ever since UCM opened, and I truly hope the administration will embrace this creative faculty-led initiative.

I have two specific suggestions: (1) explicitly embrace the faculty vision by either naming the theme "Innovation, Management and Economics" or indicating that the SIME is an ultimate objective of this theme; and (2) allowing the relevant faculty an opportunity to collaborate on language in this document.