BE BOUNDARYLESS

Boundaryless is more than a program or our physical location in the University Union—it’s mindset and a way of being. To be boundaryless is to hunger for innovation, meaningful action, and value creation so much that we can overcome our natural inclination to congregate into silos, colleges, offices, majors, cliques, and comfort zones. We believe everyone can be boundaryless and when we’re boundaryless, we’re more unified and powerful.

PURPOSE

student making a prototype at a hackathon eventWe help students become innovators who convert their ingenuity into meaningful action and value—in Arizona and beyond. We catalyze, amplify, and make accessible innovation and entrepreneurship for the entire NAU community.

VISION

student working on a solution on a whiteboardInnovation and entrepreneurship supercharge NAU’s ability to lead the way to a better Arizona and world. Every student is an innovator who converts their aspirations and ingenuity into value. Every faculty, staff, and community partner innovates and harnesses the entrepreneurial mindset.

VALUES

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Our values align with and draw inspiration from NAU’s Core Values. Our goal, in all we do, is to align the ethos of innovation and entrepreneurship (as defined below) with these values as we serving students.

  • Student Centered: Helping students become innovators with the mindset and skillset to convert their ingenuity into value is at the heart of all we do.
  • Integrity: We model the highest ethical standards because its right and because the skills we teach must be used ethically.
  • Diversity: We champion interdisciplinarity and collaboration and in so doing strive for diversity of perspective, experience, and culture.
  • Service: We serve, collaborate with, and build value for the entire NAU community and our many broader communities in Flagstaff and throughout the world.
  • Discovery: We are intensely curious–we ask questions, observe deeply, think critically, and share openly across all disciplines and communities
  • Excellence: If it’s worth doing it is worth doing excellently.

INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

student looking up with inspired and excited look on face

We define innovation as creating something new and valuable. Boundaryless, the center, does not own innovation; it’s happening throughout the university. Our work is to foster it across all disciplines and throughout NAU. We do this primarily to help students become innovators and secondarily to the benefit of the broader NAU community[1].

We define entrepreneurship[2] as the dynamic process of converting innovative ideas into meaningful action and value[3]. We don’t own entrepreneurship but we strive to make it accessible for all, we help define it broadly, and we work to catalyze its integration into the NAU ecosystem. While we primarily work to help students become entrepreneurs, we champion its institutional value and work to spread it through the broader NAU community.

Innovation and entrepreneurship are unique but closely related. New and valuable ideas become reality through innovation and entrepreneurship empowers the innovator in realizing their aspirations and maximizing their innovation’s impact.

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[1] NAU community includes both those on campus and our community partners

[2] Entrepreneurship: Theory, Process, Practice, Kuratko

[3] We recognize the fact that value is subjective

Boundaryless
Location
Room Boundaryless Building
Student Union
1050 S Knoles Dr
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
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