The creation of the UCAR Foundation by the UCAR Board of Trustees in 1986 represented a new dimension in the activities of UCAR, an attempt to increase UCAR benefits to society by transferring technology to the private sector and by creating new revenues for UCAR science. Thus started a journey i... Show moreThe creation of the UCAR Foundation by the UCAR Board of Trustees in 1986 represented a new dimension in the activities of UCAR, an attempt to increase UCAR benefits to society by transferring technology to the private sector and by creating new revenues for UCAR science. Thus started a journey into unfamiliar, but promising, domains. The strategic plan presented here now signals a new phase in the growth and development of the UCAR Foundation. It marks the transition from a period of trial and experimentation into a period in which specific strategies will be executed and performance will be judged against stated objectives. The plan reviews briefly what has been accomplished, but more importantly, what has been learned in the first eight years of operations. It states the Foundation's mission and four strategic goals, and then focuses on the strategies that the Foundation will employ to accomplish its goals. Show less
