Your business school is an excellent example of how our educational institutions are building bridges to the private sector that will have payoffs in how well graduates are prepared to meet the challenges of an BIS Review 83/1997  -3-  increasingly knowledge-based global economy.
The growth of high-tech industry here in the Research Triangle, as well as in Silicon Valley and Boston -- all areas rich in educational and research institutions -- is no accident. In the private sector, a number of major corporations have invested in their own internal training centers -- so-called corporate universities. Some labor unions have done the same.