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Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-15T02:28:45Z

Alex Herrero:

= <kbd>Overview:</kbd> =

<kbd>In the year 2015, six students from the UPRM were chosen to become University Innovation Fellows. Together, they composed the first generation of Mayaguez Fellows. In 2017, a new generation rose. Facing all the hardships that the year 2017 brought upon them, they did not give up on their quest of becoming agents of change. No Huelga or Huracan stopped them, and together they worked on projects they knew would not only help thier university rise up again, but also their Puerto Rico.</kbd>

= <kbd>Student Projects:</kbd> =

== [[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]- Visionary ==

Visionary is the Virtual Reality technology learning program at UPRM which aims to introduce students to VR/AR/MR and other immersive media technology and enable them to develop their own projects and startups.  It was founded a year ago by Alex after he incubated the idea at Idea Platform (IP). With the help of IP, Alex pitched Visionary at Facebook reperesentatives, which in turn got him in contact with Oculus. Oculus provided Visionary with 2 Oculus Rift VR headsets and $5,000 to use to buy the hardware needed to run them. Visionary started strong, but soon the year 2017 happened. After a series of strikes and hurricanes, Visionary is starting up again.

Alex's goal is for Visionary to become a self-sufficient tribe of Idea Platform so that even when he leaves UPRM, Visionary may continue to run. To do this, the Fellow has put together a motivated team of enablers and is working alongside other established tribes of IP so that Visionary is able to lift off. In order to do this a base curriculum will be established as well as a VR license or certificate which will allow the student participating in the program to use the computers and headsets at their own time. To obtain the certificate the participant must demostrate adequate capability to work with virtual reality software and hardware. During the first half of the semester, the participant will be enabled to use the software and hardware through workshops lead by the Visionary team. For the second part of the semester, the participants will be empowered to define their own project, create a team, and implement it. They would present it to the IP and external community as if it were a pitch, where their projects could be considered as the first step towards starting a startup. Visionary is meant to be a fun way to learn a new technology, not a class, so along the semester there will be various activities that will keep it interesting, such as challenges, hackathons, guest speakers, game nights and much more. 

Visionary is important to Mayaguez and Puerto Rico because it is not afraid to work with and empower others with brand new technologies. Visionary hosted the first ever VR Hackathon in Puerto Rico causing a huge wave that was felt across the island. People that had never coded or touched a VR headset were able to create a VR experiece in less than 12 hours. VR/AR/MR are very versatile tools that have an overwhelming amount of applications. To take advantage of the technology and ride the wave, one must be Visionary!

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== [[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]] - The UPRM MakerSpace: E.P.I.C-Labs (Entrepeneuship, Prototyping and Innovation Community Laboratories) ==
<div>'''Project Overview'''</div>
If we take a moment to stand in the middle of the educational process of a student these days and we dive into the core of the student experience we would see that there is a profound interest in the development and inclusion of learning elements that are personalized. Educational Elements that are developed depending on the students’ needs and educational interests. This interest has become a movement, a strong movement that is revolutionizing the way schools and universities are looking at their curriculums and courses. Within this great and inspiring Movement makerspace have become a crucial and key piece within the playing board.

Makerspaces are redefining education in unimaginable ways. They are becoming a keystone for the innovation and entrepreneurship communities within schools and universities. As expressed in article from '''The Education Partners''', makerspaces can be defined as, “a physical location where people gather to share resources and knowledge, work on projects, network and build. Makerspaces provide tools and space in a community environment. Makerspaces are an ideal learning environment to imagine, design, prototype, create and iterate in hands-on, project-based learning environments” (Beidelman, 2018).

Within the previous definition we can see that makerspaces are directly related to team work, resources and knowledge sharing and learning environment. This shows us the major role the community plays within the functionality of a makerspace.  

 

'''''“The maker movement in education is built upon the foundation of constructionism, which is the philosophy of hands-on learning through building things.  Constructionism, in turn, is the application of constructivist learning principles to a hands-on learning environment.”''''' (Kurdyla, 2018)

 

Makerspace have become a great opportunity for students to take a little more control over their educational paths. To identify their individual passions and share them with others to connect and find collective passions that can transform into smaller communities within the makerspace environment based on similar interests. The impact of a student in the life of a student is amazing and it can “also empower students, helping them to shift from being passive consumers of information and products to active creators and innovators” ("Makerspaces: the Benefits", 2018).

It is because of all these great benefits and positive impact on the student community that Alejandro chose to work with its university makerspace. As a student community leader, maker and now as an UIF University Fellow Alejandro’s project focuses on taking the newborn makerspace of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagûez Campus to next level. 

Right now, the university makerspace, its still starting to form and expand to the needs of its growing student’s community. As of now it consists mainly of different work areas for students to go and collaborate with other colleagues for projects, equipment to give presentations and workshops, Arduinos and basic Arduino related electronics/tools and 3D printers. Even though the makerspace it is still on its developing phase and the small equipment list, the makerspace space has been a huge gamechanger for a lot of students. As a part of an initiative that targets student lead innovation and entrepreneurship the '''Business Center''' of the university of stablished a collaboration with a student association called '''Idea Platform''' to operate and run the makerspace. This association has been the centerfold of the student community and has promoted the growth and diversity within the day to day of the makerspace activities.

 Alejandro’s project its focused on leading the Makerspace Administration Office team within the Idea Platform student organization to develop and construct the first fabrication and prototyping laboratory of the university developed and operated by students. This initiative was born from the needs of the student to have free access no only to tools and equipment that can help them develop their own ideas and products but to also receive mentorship and guidance on their educational or entrepreneurial journey. Starting by the room requested to the university construct the equipment room all the way to the cleaning and construction efforts and the creations of funding proposals most of the work has been made possible thanks to the immense effort and compromise of the student community. In addition to the fabrication equipment and taking advantage of the facilities acquired a collaboration was also stablished with the other UIF Fellow Alex Herrero and its initiative Visionary to create the first student run VR/AR/MR Laboratory as part of the makerspace 

Alejandro’s work vision is to continue promoting the student enthusiasm and motivation and guide it to not only develop the new areas of work within the makerspace, but more importantly to show that a group of motivated and perseverant student can actually help build the university of tomorrow. His hopes are that this will transform into a program where students are trained as community leaders within the campus where they will be able to identify misused spaces with great potential and transform them into signature makerspaces focused on different areas of high impact (agriculture, art, educational pedagogy, other areas of STEM, etc) which will help the innovation and entrepreneurship in our community grow and help students in ways never imagined.

'''Work Cited'''

Beidelman, J. (2018). ''Makerspaces Are Changing Education''. ''Blog.theeducationpartners.com''. Retrieved 7 January 2018, from [http://blog.theeducationpartners.com/makerspaces-are-changing-education http://blog.theeducationpartners.com/makerspaces-are-changing-education]

''Makerspaces: the Benefits''. (2018). ''curiositycommons''. Retrieved 12 January 2018, from [https://curiositycommons.wordpress.com/makerspaces-the-benefits/ https://curiositycommons.wordpress.com/makerspaces-the-benefits/]

Kurdyla, E. (2018). ''EDUCATIONAL MAKERSPACES | Teacher Librarian''. ''Teacherlibrarian.com''. Retrieved 8 January 2018, from [http://teacherlibrarian.com/2014/06/18/educational-makerspaces http://teacherlibrarian.com/2014/06/18/educational-makerspaces]

== [[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]- Elicit ==
When you hear the word Elicit, you get all those neurons in your brain activated, you get a jolt of energy, even of inspiration. Feeling all those things from a single word. The creativity that emerges from the word “Elicit” entices even the ones that argue to be the least creative. For me Elicit should mean everything, it should be the beginning and the end. It should be the start and finish. Everything, is an understatement for the principles I want to establish. A little history about Elicit, it all starts from the inception of the revolutionary student organization Idea Platform, (a product from a UIF Fellow) Elicit was the first tribe ever founded. It was the melting pot of everything revolutionary at the moment on campus. That grew into becoming the biggest tribe of the organization, with skills ranging from storytelling and filmmaking to coding and writing. Our people were the most diverse of them all. We had students from every single faculty on campus, it was fantastic. Fast tracking to the present, we’re currently pivoting our mission and vision. I feel that Elicit has lost the spark that once influenced. Jaran’s mission, my mission is to acquire as much knowledge from the UIF Network so I can inject that passion and enthusiasm again. My mission as a Fellow is to find the tools needed for me to develop the best place for interdisciplinary students to be. I want to create a place where engineers can work on art, business people make things from scratch and science people could develop their artistic abilities. We are in 2018, the time for humans to have just one interest, is a thing of the past. This new dawn of hybrid disciplines is what has brought arguably, the best and brightest innovations this world has ever seen. Steve Jobs is just an example of the hundreds from these hybrids, him personally mixing Electrical Engineering with Marketing and Design, allowed the creation of arguably the biggest and most consumer innovative company, ever. Elicit should be our campus’ most innovative place with the most diverse people. I am determined to make this ideal happen. 
== [[Rolando_Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]- AgroSolucion ==

With the passage of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico's agriculture was completely destroyed, leaving losses of $780 millions and there are forecasts of not being able to produce food for a year or longer. Puerto Rico needs to know more efficient ways to manage information, resources, establish viable public policies and mainly encourage the local economy to get out of this situation as soon as possible. Quite possibly students have the conditions and knowledge necessary to solve many of these problems. This is why as a student I think that the best way to demonstrate that we have the potential to have an impact in the country, we must change our University and in this way begin the change and transformation by ourselves.

In our university there are situations that although complicated, uniting university students and professors with high level skills and knowledge, we can solve and improve. Such as aspects of internal public policy, recycling, methods for the food sustainability of the Campus, alternative of renewable energy and promote the local economy through entrepreneurship and innovation of university staff (non-teaching staff, teachers and students).

For this it is necessary to create a multidisciplinary group of students and professors able to devise and conceptualize viable solutions and to join efforts with the rest of the university bodies to make these new ways of working a reality. AgroSolucion, a body of students representing the diversity of thoughts, philosophies and ways of working, who concretize situations that are bad or can improve in our Campus and through sustainable policies based on the sovereignty of educational mutualism, innovation and collective entrepreneurship, we will achieve more sustainable venue and able to demonstrate the potential of university staff.

= <kbd>Related links:</kbd> =

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SY3dQpl1TUS1-FQyYdtB6H1kqmYhmuHhInXZuGdqIYM/edit?usp=sharing Lanscape Canvas 2017]</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit#slide=id.p4 Lanscape Canvas 2015]</kbd>

<kbd>Business Model Canvas: TEDx UPRM</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3XrllkgFom61Q6pr9H2WlCR0DDqdIysL58/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3Xrll...]</kbd>

<kbd>Business Model Canvas: Computing Day with ACMs</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1iH84Rq3uFsaeJZjgwy_h_cYbgXhs8/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1...]</kbd>

<kbd>Business Model Canvas: Innovation Space</kbd>

<kbd>[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiWzzqLhs81mfox8XvhdSJRII3tmvg https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiW...]</kbd>

<kbd>Business Model Canvas: E-Ship</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit]</kbd>

<kbd>Business Model Canvas: Startup Lab</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing]</kbd>

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico_-_Mayaguez <kbd>Mayaguez</kbd>]

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-15T02:28:17Z

Alex Herrero:

= <kbd>Overview:</kbd> =

<kbd>In the year 2015, six students from the UPRM were chosen to become University Innovation Fellows. Together, they composed the first generation of Mayaguez Fellows. In 2017, a new generation rose. Facing all the hardships that the year 2017 brought upon them, they did not give up on their quest of becoming agents of change. No Huelga or Huracan stopped them, and together they worked on projects they knew would not only help thier university rise up again, but also their Puerto Rico.</kbd>

= <kbd>Student Projects:</kbd> =

== [[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]- Visionary ==

Visionary is the Virtual Reality technology learning program at UPRM which aims to introduce students to VR/AR/MR and other immersive media technology and enable them to develop their own projects and startups.  It was founded a year ago by Alex after he incubated the idea at Idea Platform (IP). With the help of IP, Alex pitched Visionary at Facebook reperesentatives, which in turn got him in contact with Oculus. Oculus provided Visionary with 2 Oculus Rift VR headsets and $5,000 to use to buy the hardware needed to run them. Visionary started strong, but soon the year 2017 happened. After a series of strikes and hurricanes, Visionary is starting up again.

Alex's goal is for Visionary to become a self-sufficient tribe of Idea Platform so that even when he leaves UPRM, Visionary may continue to run. To do this, the Fellow has put together a motivated team of enablers and is working alongside other established tribes of IP so that Visionary is able to lift off. In order to do this a base curriculum will be established as well as a VR license or certificate which will allow the student participating in the program to use the computers and headsets at their own time. To obtain the certificate the participant must demostrate adequate capability to work with virtual reality software and hardware. During the first half of the semester, the participant will be enabled to use the software and hardware through workshops lead by the Visionary team. For the second part of the semester, the participants will be empowered to define their own project, create a team, and implement it. They would present it to the IP and external community as if it were a pitch, where their projects could be considered as the first step towards starting a startup. Visionary is meant to be a fun way to learn a new technology, not a class, so along the semester there will be various activities that will keep it interesting, such as challenges, hackathons, guest speakers, game nights and much more. 

Visionary is important to Mayaguez and Puerto Rico because it is not afraid to work with and empower others with brand new technologies. Visionary hosted the first ever VR Hackathon in Puerto Rico causing a huge wave that was felt across the island. People that had never coded or touched a VR headset were able to create a VR experiece in less than 12 hours. VR/AR/MR are very versatile tools that have an overwhelming amount of applications. To take advantage of the technology and ride the wave, one must be Visionary!

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== [[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]] - The UPRM MakerSpace: E.P.I.C-Labs (Entrepeneuship, Prototyping and Innovation Community Laboratories) ==
<div>'''Project Overview'''</div>
If we take a moment to stand in the middle of the educational process of a student these days and we dive into the core of the student experience we would see that there is a profound interest in the development and inclusion of learning elements that are personalized. Educational Elements that are developed depending on the students’ needs and educational interests. This interest has become a movement, a strong movement that is revolutionizing the way schools and universities are looking at their curriculums and courses. Within this great and inspiring Movement makerspace have become a crucial and key piece within the playing board.

Makerspaces are redefining education in unimaginable ways. They are becoming a keystone for the innovation and entrepreneurship communities within schools and universities. As expressed in article from '''The Education Partners''', makerspaces can be defined as, “a physical location where people gather to share resources and knowledge, work on projects, network and build. Makerspaces provide tools and space in a community environment. Makerspaces are an ideal learning environment to imagine, design, prototype, create and iterate in hands-on, project-based learning environments” (Beidelman, 2018).

Within the previous definition we can see that makerspaces are directly related to team work, resources and knowledge sharing and learning environment. This shows us the major role the community plays within the functionality of a makerspace.  

 

'''''“The maker movement in education is built upon the foundation of constructionism, which is the philosophy of hands-on learning through building things.  Constructionism, in turn, is the application of constructivist learning principles to a hands-on learning environment.”''''' (Kurdyla, 2018)

 

Makerspace have become a great opportunity for students to take a little more control over their educational paths. To identify their individual passions and share them with others to connect and find collective passions that can transform into smaller communities within the makerspace environment based on similar interests. The impact of a student in the life of a student is amazing and it can “also empower students, helping them to shift from being passive consumers of information and products to active creators and innovators” ("Makerspaces: the Benefits", 2018).

It is because of all these great benefits and positive impact on the student community that Alejandro chose to work with its university makerspace. As a student community leader, maker and now as an UIF University Fellow Alejandro’s project focuses on taking the newborn makerspace of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagûez Campus to next level. 

Right now, the university makerspace, its still starting to form and expand to the needs of its growing student’s community. As of now it consists mainly of different work areas for students to go and collaborate with other colleagues for projects, equipment to give presentations and workshops, Arduinos and basic Arduino related electronics/tools and 3D printers. Even though the makerspace it is still on its developing phase and the small equipment list, the makerspace space has been a huge gamechanger for a lot of students. As a part of an initiative that targets student lead innovation and entrepreneurship the '''Business Center''' of the university of stablished a collaboration with a student association called '''Idea Platform''' to operate and run the makerspace. This association has been the centerfold of the student community and has promoted the growth and diversity within the day to day of the makerspace activities.

 Alejandro’s project its focused on leading the Makerspace Administration Office team within the Idea Platform student organization to develop and construct the first fabrication and prototyping laboratory of the university developed and operated by students. This initiative was born from the needs of the student to have free access no only to tools and equipment that can help them develop their own ideas and products but to also receive mentorship and guidance on their educational or entrepreneurial journey. Starting by the room requested to the university construct the equipment room all the way to the cleaning and construction efforts and the creations of funding proposals most of the work has been made possible thanks to the immense effort and compromise of the student community. In addition to the fabrication equipment and taking advantage of the facilities acquired a collaboration was also stablished with the other UIF Fellow Alex Herrero and its initiative Visionary to create the first student run VR/AR/MR Laboratory as part of the makerspace 

Alejandro’s work vision is to continue promoting the student enthusiasm and motivation and guide it to not only develop the new areas of work within the makerspace, but more importantly to show that a group of motivated and perseverant student can actually help build the university of tomorrow. His hopes are that this will transform into a program where students are trained as community leaders within the campus where they will be able to identify misused spaces with great potential and transform them into signature makerspaces focused on different areas of high impact (agriculture, art, educational pedagogy, other areas of STEM, etc) which will help the innovation and entrepreneurship in our community grow and help students in ways never imagined.

'''Work Cited'''

Beidelman, J. (2018). ''Makerspaces Are Changing Education''. ''Blog.theeducationpartners.com''. Retrieved 7 January 2018, from [http://blog.theeducationpartners.com/makerspaces-are-changing-education http://blog.theeducationpartners.com/makerspaces-are-changing-education]

''Makerspaces: the Benefits''. (2018). ''curiositycommons''. Retrieved 12 January 2018, from [https://curiositycommons.wordpress.com/makerspaces-the-benefits/ https://curiositycommons.wordpress.com/makerspaces-the-benefits/]

Kurdyla, E. (2018). ''EDUCATIONAL MAKERSPACES | Teacher Librarian''. ''Teacherlibrarian.com''. Retrieved 8 January 2018, from [http://teacherlibrarian.com/2014/06/18/educational-makerspaces http://teacherlibrarian.com/2014/06/18/educational-makerspaces]

== [[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]- Elicit ==
When you hear the word Elicit, you get all those neurons in your brain activated, you get a jolt of energy, even of inspiration. Feeling all those things from a single word. The creativity that emerges from the word “Elicit” entices even the ones that argue to be the least creative. For me Elicit should mean everything, it should be the beginning and the end. It should be the start and finish. Everything, is an understatement for the principles I want to establish. A little history about Elicit, it all starts from the inception of the revolutionary student organization Idea Platform, (a product from a UIF Fellow) Elicit was the first tribe ever founded. It was the melting pot of everything revolutionary at the moment on campus. That grew into becoming the biggest tribe of the organization, with skills ranging from storytelling and filmmaking to coding and writing. Our people were the most diverse of them all. We had students from every single faculty on campus, it was fantastic. Fast tracking to the present, we’re currently pivoting our mission and vision. I feel that Elicit has lost the spark that once influenced. Jaran’s mission, my mission is to acquire as much knowledge from the UIF Network so I can inject that passion and enthusiasm again. My mission as a Fellow is to find the tools needed for me to develop the best place for interdisciplinary students to be. I want to create a place where engineers can work on art, business people make things from scratch and science people could develop their artistic abilities. We are in 2018, the time for humans to have just one interest, is a thing of the past. This new dawn of hybrid disciplines is what has brought arguably, the best and brightest innovations this world has ever seen. Steve Jobs is just an example of the hundreds from these hybrids, him personally mixing Electrical Engineering with Marketing and Design, allowed the creation of arguably the biggest and most consumer innovative company, ever. Elicit should be our campus’ most innovative place with the most diverse people. I am determined to make this ideal happen. 
== Rolando Cruz-AgroSolucion ==

With the passage of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico's agriculture was completely destroyed, leaving losses of $780 millions and there are forecasts of not being able to produce food for a year or longer. Puerto Rico needs to know more efficient ways to manage information, resources, establish viable public policies and mainly encourage the local economy to get out of this situation as soon as possible. Quite possibly students have the conditions and knowledge necessary to solve many of these problems. This is why as a student I think that the best way to demonstrate that we have the potential to have an impact in the country, we must change our University and in this way begin the change and transformation by ourselves.

In our university there are situations that although complicated, uniting university students and professors with high level skills and knowledge, we can solve and improve. Such as aspects of internal public policy, recycling, methods for the food sustainability of the Campus, alternative of renewable energy and promote the local economy through entrepreneurship and innovation of university staff (non-teaching staff, teachers and students).

For this it is necessary to create a multidisciplinary group of students and professors able to devise and conceptualize viable solutions and to join efforts with the rest of the university bodies to make these new ways of working a reality. AgroSolucion, a body of students representing the diversity of thoughts, philosophies and ways of working, who concretize situations that are bad or can improve in our Campus and through sustainable policies based on the sovereignty of educational mutualism, innovation and collective entrepreneurship, we will achieve more sustainable venue and able to demonstrate the potential of university staff.

= <kbd>Related links:</kbd> =

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SY3dQpl1TUS1-FQyYdtB6H1kqmYhmuHhInXZuGdqIYM/edit?usp=sharing Lanscape Canvas 2017]</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit#slide=id.p4 Lanscape Canvas 2015]</kbd>

<kbd>Business Model Canvas: TEDx UPRM</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3XrllkgFom61Q6pr9H2WlCR0DDqdIysL58/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3Xrll...]</kbd>

<kbd>Business Model Canvas: Computing Day with ACMs</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1iH84Rq3uFsaeJZjgwy_h_cYbgXhs8/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1...]</kbd>

<kbd>Business Model Canvas: Innovation Space</kbd>

<kbd>[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiWzzqLhs81mfox8XvhdSJRII3tmvg https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiW...]</kbd>

<kbd>Business Model Canvas: E-Ship</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit]</kbd>

<kbd>Business Model Canvas: Startup Lab</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing]</kbd>

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico_-_Mayaguez <kbd>Mayaguez</kbd>]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-14T23:29:46Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb|Uprm logo.jpg]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ UPRM E-Ship] is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities with internal champions and external collaborators:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair
*W2Socials

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*[https://www.facebook.com/IdeaPlatformPR/ Idea Platform] (Achieve-Elicit-AppCreatrs-Empower3D-Visionary-WearTech)
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

The Chancellor of our University has stated multiple times that “I&E is one of his most important priorities on campus”. However, changing decades of institutional culture is not something that happens in a year. Institutional policies sometimes impede faculty innovation and entrepreneurship through research. An example of these policies are that if a professor chooses to give a selected number of hours of class, say 12hrs a week, institutional policies don’t encourage him to do research. Likewise, those professors that do develop research possess the entrepreneurship mindset in the sense that they search for funding outside the university, but whether they spin-out and commercialize their projects is still in construction. In the other hand, some professors are not aware of the commercialization potential of their projects because they have not been exposed enough to know the indicated processes. In order to change the impact that the disorientation can cause, preparation and training for professors that have research projects in every faculty should be a high priority.
<div>Despite the challenges, the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez has a group of champions in the faculty that keeps growing. This group has been submitting proposals for courses, programs, researches, among other successful initiatives that promote I&E. This group is the spark that will illuminate other professors and administrators to keep the momentum.</div>
= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office.The Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office (IPTTO) of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, ascribed to the College of Engineering, facilitates the development, protection and commercialization of intellectual property such as research and inventions of the faculty, students and personnel of the UPRM.

The University of Puerto Rico receives the gross income that is generated from the patents and its respective commercialization through the Vice President’s Office, which has overall responsibility for interpreting the IP Policy, and resolving questions and disputes concerning it.
<div>Under UPR’s policy (Cert. 132, 2002-03) the University owns IP that is generated through research conducted with the use of its facilities and resources. This University-wide policy applies to all investigators who use UPR facilities or resources or who participate in university research and develop intellectual property. This includes all full- and part-time faculty and staff; students who participate in research and us UPR facilities; research fellows; and visitors to UPR’s faculties and schools from other universities or collaborators from industry.</div>
All royalties and most fees resulting from the IP are shared between UPR and the individuals involved in its discovery. Ownership of the intellectual property is divided in the following manner: 33 1/3% of the IP is owned by the inventor(s), 56 2/3% of the IP is owned by the inventor’s UPR unit(s), 10% of the IP is owned by the UPR special fund and any remaining amount will be used to support additional research and academic programs.

Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

[http://www.engineering.uprm.edu/opitt/?page_id=77]

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. 

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds about 35 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awarded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying. This space is called: Startup Lab. UPRM Start Up Lab, component of the UPRM E-Ship Network, was founded to promote the development of emerging startups created by students of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. In partnership with the Puerto Rico Techno Economic Corridor (PRTEC) we have a site in VITEC2 Technology Business Accelerator. The 400 square feet co-working space is equipped giving the tools our students needed for the commercialization process of their ventures. Also, we bring them an entrepreneurship environment with access to a network of experienced mentors.

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico_-_Mayaguez_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-14T23:28:59Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb|Uprm logo.jpg]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities with internal champions and external collaborators:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair
*W2Socials

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*[https://www.facebook.com/IdeaPlatformPR/ Idea Platform] (Achieve-Elicit-AppCreatrs-Empower3D-Visionary-WearTech)
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

The Chancellor of our University has stated multiple times that “I&E is one of his most important priorities on campus”. However, changing decades of institutional culture is not something that happens in a year. Institutional policies sometimes impede faculty innovation and entrepreneurship through research. An example of these policies are that if a professor chooses to give a selected number of hours of class, say 12hrs a week, institutional policies don’t encourage him to do research. Likewise, those professors that do develop research possess the entrepreneurship mindset in the sense that they search for funding outside the university, but whether they spin-out and commercialize their projects is still in construction. In the other hand, some professors are not aware of the commercialization potential of their projects because they have not been exposed enough to know the indicated processes. In order to change the impact that the disorientation can cause, preparation and training for professors that have research projects in every faculty should be a high priority.
<div>Despite the challenges, the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez has a group of champions in the faculty that keeps growing. This group has been submitting proposals for courses, programs, researches, among other successful initiatives that promote I&E. This group is the spark that will illuminate other professors and administrators to keep the momentum.</div>
= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office.The Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office (IPTTO) of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, ascribed to the College of Engineering, facilitates the development, protection and commercialization of intellectual property such as research and inventions of the faculty, students and personnel of the UPRM.

The University of Puerto Rico receives the gross income that is generated from the patents and its respective commercialization through the Vice President’s Office, which has overall responsibility for interpreting the IP Policy, and resolving questions and disputes concerning it.
<div>Under UPR’s policy (Cert. 132, 2002-03) the University owns IP that is generated through research conducted with the use of its facilities and resources. This University-wide policy applies to all investigators who use UPR facilities or resources or who participate in university research and develop intellectual property. This includes all full- and part-time faculty and staff; students who participate in research and us UPR facilities; research fellows; and visitors to UPR’s faculties and schools from other universities or collaborators from industry.</div>
All royalties and most fees resulting from the IP are shared between UPR and the individuals involved in its discovery. Ownership of the intellectual property is divided in the following manner: 33 1/3% of the IP is owned by the inventor(s), 56 2/3% of the IP is owned by the inventor’s UPR unit(s), 10% of the IP is owned by the UPR special fund and any remaining amount will be used to support additional research and academic programs.

Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

[http://www.engineering.uprm.edu/opitt/?page_id=77]

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. 

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds about 35 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awarded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying. This space is called: Startup Lab. UPRM Start Up Lab, component of the UPRM E-Ship Network, was founded to promote the development of emerging startups created by students of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. In partnership with the Puerto Rico Techno Economic Corridor (PRTEC) we have a site in VITEC2 Technology Business Accelerator. The 400 square feet co-working space is equipped giving the tools our students needed for the commercialization process of their ventures. Also, we bring them an entrepreneurship environment with access to a network of experienced mentors.

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico_-_Mayaguez_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-14T23:26:55Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb|Uprm logo.jpg]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities with internal champions and external collaborators:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair
*W2Socials

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*[https://www.facebook.com/IdeaPlatformPR/ Idea Platform] (Achieve-Elicit-AppCreatrs-Empower3D-Visionary-WearTech)
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

The Chancellor of our University has stated multiple times that “I&E is one of his most important priorities on campus”. However, changing decades of institutional culture is not something that happens in a year. Institutional policies sometimes impede faculty innovation and entrepreneurship through research. An example of these policies are that if a professor chooses to give a selected number of hours of class, say 12hrs a week, institutional policies don’t encourage him to do research. Likewise, those professors that do develop research possess the entrepreneurship mindset in the sense that they search for funding outside the university, but whether they spin-out and commercialize their projects is still in construction. In the other hand, some professors are not aware of the commercialization potential of their projects because they have not been exposed enough to know the indicated processes. In order to change the impact that the disorientation can cause, preparation and training for professors that have research projects in every faculty should be a high priority.
<div>Despite the challenges, the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez has a group of champions in the faculty that keeps growing. This group has been submitting proposals for courses, programs, researches, among other successful initiatives that promote I&E. This group is the spark that will illuminate other professors and administrators to keep the momentum.</div>
= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office.The Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office (IPTTO) of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, ascribed to the College of Engineering, facilitates the development, protection and commercialization of intellectual property such as research and inventions of the faculty, students and personnel of the UPRM.

The University of Puerto Rico receives the gross income that is generated from the patents and its respective commercialization through the Vice President’s Office, which has overall responsibility for interpreting the IP Policy, and resolving questions and disputes concerning it.
<div>Under UPR’s policy (Cert. 132, 2002-03) the University owns IP that is generated through research conducted with the use of its facilities and resources. This University-wide policy applies to all investigators who use UPR facilities or resources or who participate in university research and develop intellectual property. This includes all full- and part-time faculty and staff; students who participate in research and us UPR facilities; research fellows; and visitors to UPR’s faculties and schools from other universities or collaborators from industry.</div>
All royalties and most fees resulting from the IP are shared between UPR and the individuals involved in its discovery. Ownership of the intellectual property is divided in the following manner: 33 1/3% of the IP is owned by the inventor(s), 56 2/3% of the IP is owned by the inventor’s UPR unit(s), 10% of the IP is owned by the UPR special fund and any remaining amount will be used to support additional research and academic programs.

Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

[http://www.engineering.uprm.edu/opitt/?page_id=77]

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. 

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds about 35 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awarded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying. This space is called: Startup Lab.

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico_-_Mayaguez_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-14T23:24:30Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb|Uprm logo.jpg]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities with internal champions and external collaborators:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair
*W2Socials

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform (Achieve-Elicit-AppCreatrs-Empower3D-Visionary-WearTech)
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

The Chancellor of our University has stated multiple times that “I&E is one of his most important priorities on campus”. However, changing decades of institutional culture is not something that happens in a year. Institutional policies sometimes impede faculty innovation and entrepreneurship through research. An example of these policies are that if a professor chooses to give a selected number of hours of class, say 12hrs a week, institutional policies don’t encourage him to do research. Likewise, those professors that do develop research possess the entrepreneurship mindset in the sense that they search for funding outside the university, but whether they spin-out and commercialize their projects is still in construction. In the other hand, some professors are not aware of the commercialization potential of their projects because they have not been exposed enough to know the indicated processes. In order to change the impact that the disorientation can cause, preparation and training for professors that have research projects in every faculty should be a high priority.
<div>Despite the challenges, the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez has a group of champions in the faculty that keeps growing. This group has been submitting proposals for courses, programs, researches, among other successful initiatives that promote I&E. This group is the spark that will illuminate other professors and administrators to keep the momentum.</div>
= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office.The Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office (IPTTO) of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, ascribed to the College of Engineering, facilitates the development, protection and commercialization of intellectual property such as research and inventions of the faculty, students and personnel of the UPRM.

The University of Puerto Rico receives the gross income that is generated from the patents and its respective commercialization through the Vice President’s Office, which has overall responsibility for interpreting the IP Policy, and resolving questions and disputes concerning it.
<div>Under UPR’s policy (Cert. 132, 2002-03) the University owns IP that is generated through research conducted with the use of its facilities and resources. This University-wide policy applies to all investigators who use UPR facilities or resources or who participate in university research and develop intellectual property. This includes all full- and part-time faculty and staff; students who participate in research and us UPR facilities; research fellows; and visitors to UPR’s faculties and schools from other universities or collaborators from industry.</div>
All royalties and most fees resulting from the IP are shared between UPR and the individuals involved in its discovery. Ownership of the intellectual property is divided in the following manner: 33 1/3% of the IP is owned by the inventor(s), 56 2/3% of the IP is owned by the inventor’s UPR unit(s), 10% of the IP is owned by the UPR special fund and any remaining amount will be used to support additional research and academic programs.

Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

[http://www.engineering.uprm.edu/opitt/?page_id=77]

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. 

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds about 35 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awarded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying. This space is called: Startup Lab.

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico_-_Mayaguez_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-14T23:23:34Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb|Uprm logo.jpg]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities with internal champions and external collaborators:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair
*W2Socials

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform (Achieve-Elicit-AppCreatrs-Empower3D-Visionary-WearTech)
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

The Chancellor of our University has stated multiple times that “I&E is one of his most important priorities on campus”. However, changing decades of institutional culture is not something that happens in a year. Institutional policies sometimes impede faculty innovation and entrepreneurship through research. An example of these policies are that if a professor chooses to give a selected number of hours of class, say 12hrs a week, institutional policies don’t encourage him to do research. Likewise, those professors that do develop research possess the entrepreneurship mindset in the sense that they search for funding outside the university, but whether they spin-out and commercialize their projects is still in construction. In the other hand, some professors are not aware of the commercialization potential of their projects because they have not been exposed enough to know the indicated processes. In order to change the impact that the disorientation can cause, preparation and training for professors that have research projects in every faculty should be a high priority.
<div>Despite the challenges, the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez has a group of champions in the faculty that keeps growing. This group has been submitting proposals for courses, programs, researches, among other successful initiatives that promote I&E. This group is the spark that will illuminate other professors and administrators to keep the momentum.</div>
= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office.The Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office (IPTTO) of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, ascribed to the College of Engineering, facilitates the development, protection and commercialization of intellectual property such as research and inventions of the faculty, students and personnel of the UPRM.

The University of Puerto Rico receives the gross income that is generated from the patents and its respective commercialization through the Vice President’s Office, which has overall responsibility for interpreting the IP Policy, and resolving questions and disputes concerning it.
<div>Under UPR’s policy (Cert. 132, 2002-03) the University owns IP that is generated through research conducted with the use of its facilities and resources. This University-wide policy applies to all investigators who use UPR facilities or resources or who participate in university research and develop intellectual property. This includes all full- and part-time faculty and staff; students who participate in research and us UPR facilities; research fellows; and visitors to UPR’s faculties and schools from other universities or collaborators from industry.</div>
All royalties and most fees resulting from the IP are shared between UPR and the individuals involved in its discovery. Ownership of the intellectual property is divided in the following manner: 33 1/3% of the IP is owned by the inventor(s), 56 2/3% of the IP is owned by the inventor’s UPR unit(s), 10% of the IP is owned by the UPR special fund and any remaining amount will be used to support additional research and academic programs.

Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. 

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds about 35 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awarded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying. This space is called: Startup Lab.

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico_-_Mayaguez_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-14T23:22:35Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb|Uprm logo.jpg]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities with internal champions and external collaborators:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair
*W2Socials

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform (Achieve-Elicit-AppCreatrs-Empower3D-Visionary-WearTech)
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

The Chancellor of our University has stated multiple times that “I&E is one of his most important priorities on campus”. However, changing decades of institutional culture is not something that happens in a year. Institutional policies sometimes impede faculty innovation and entrepreneurship through research. An example of these policies are that if a professor chooses to give a selected number of hours of class, say 12hrs a week, institutional policies don’t encourage him to do research. Likewise, those professors that do develop research possess the entrepreneurship mindset in the sense that they search for funding outside the university, but whether they spin-out and commercialize their projects is still in construction. In the other hand, some professors are not aware of the commercialization potential of their projects because they have not been exposed enough to know the indicated processes. In order to change the impact that the disorientation can cause, preparation and training for professors that have research projects in every faculty should be a high priority.
<div>Despite the challenges, the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez has a group of champions in the faculty that keeps growing. This group has been submitting proposals for courses, programs, researches, among other successful initiatives that promote I&E. This group is the spark that will illuminate other professors and administrators to keep the momentum.</div>
= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office.The Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office (IPTTO) of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, ascribed to the College of Engineering, facilitates the development, protection and commercialization of intellectual property such as research and inventions of the faculty, students and personnel of the UPRM.

The University of Puerto Rico receives the gross income that is generated from the patents and its respective commercialization through the Vice President’s Office, which has overall responsibility for interpreting the IP Policy, and resolving questions and disputes concerning it.
<div>Under UPR’s policy (Cert. 132, 2002-03) the University owns IP that is generated through research conducted with the use of its facilities and resources. This University-wide policy applies to all investigators who use UPR facilities or resources or who participate in university research and develop intellectual property. This includes all full- and part-time faculty and staff; students who participate in research and us UPR facilities; research fellows; and visitors to UPR’s faculties and schools from other universities or collaborators from industry.</div>
All royalties and most fees resulting from the IP are shared between UPR and the individuals involved in its discovery. Ownership of the intellectual property is divided in the following manner: 33 1/3% of the IP is owned by the inventor(s), 56 2/3% of the IP is owned by the inventor’s UPR unit(s), 10% of the IP is owned by the UPR special fund and any remaining amount will be used to support additional research and academic programs.

Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. 

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds 18 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awarded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying. 

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico_-_Mayaguez_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-13T01:50:28Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities with internal champions and external collaborators:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair
*W2Socials

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform (Achieve-Elicit-AppCreatrs-Empower3D-Visionary-WearTech)
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

The Chancellor of our University has stated multiple times that “I&E is one of his most important priorities on campus”. However, changing decades of institutional culture is not something that happens in a year. Institutional policies sometimes impede faculty innovation and entrepreneurship through research. An example of these policies are that if a professor chooses to give a selected number of hours of class, say 12hrs a week, institutional policies don’t encourage him to do research. Likewise, those professors that do develop research possess the entrepreneurship mindset in the sense that they search for funding outside the university, but whether they spin-out and commercialize their projects is still in construction. In the other hand, some professors are not aware of the commercialization potential of their projects because they have not been exposed enough to know the indicated processes. In order to change the impact that the disorientation can cause, preparation and training for professors that have research projects in every faculty should be a high priority.
<div>Despite the challenges, the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez has a group of champions in the faculty that keeps growing. This group has been submitting proposals for courses, programs, researches, among other successful initiatives that promote I&E. This group is the spark that will illuminate other professors and administrators to keep the momentum.</div>
= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office. Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. 

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds 18 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awarded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying. 

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico_-_Mayaguez_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-13T01:49:55Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities with internal champions and external collaborators:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair
*W2Socials

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association of Programmers Entrepreneurs
*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform (Achieve-Elicit-AppCreatrs-Empower3D-Visionary-WearTech)
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

The Chancellor of our University has stated multiple times that “I&E is one of his most important priorities on campus”. However, changing decades of institutional culture is not something that happens in a year. Institutional policies sometimes impede faculty innovation and entrepreneurship through research. An example of these policies are that if a professor chooses to give a selected number of hours of class, say 12hrs a week, institutional policies don’t encourage him to do research. Likewise, those professors that do develop research possess the entrepreneurship mindset in the sense that they search for funding outside the university, but whether they spin-out and commercialize their projects is still in construction. In the other hand, some professors are not aware of the commercialization potential of their projects because they have not been exposed enough to know the indicated processes. In order to change the impact that the disorientation can cause, preparation and training for professors that have research projects in every faculty should be a high priority.
<div>Despite the challenges, the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez has a group of champions in the faculty that keeps growing. This group has been submitting proposals for courses, programs, researches, among other successful initiatives that promote I&E. This group is the spark that will illuminate other professors and administrators to keep the momentum.</div>
= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office. Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. 

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds 18 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awarded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying. 

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico_-_Mayaguez_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-13T01:47:12Z

Alex Herrero:

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-13T01:25:49Z

Alex Herrero:

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-13T00:48:51Z

Alex Herrero:

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-13T00:48:23Z

Alex Herrero:

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-12T20:55:39Z

Alex Herrero:

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

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Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

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Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

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Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

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Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

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Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

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Alex Herrero:

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-12T20:17:02Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair
*W2Socials

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association of Programmers Entrepreneurs
*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform (Achieve-Elicit-AppCreatrs-Empower3D-Visionary-WearTech)
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

The Chancellor of our University has stated multiple times that “I&E is one of his most important priorities on campus”. However, changing decades of institutional culture is not something that happens in a year. Institutional policies sometimes impede faculty innovation and entrepreneurship through research. An example of these policies are that if a professor chooses to give a selected number of hours of class, say 12hrs a week, institutional policies don’t encourage him to do research. Likewise, those professors that do develop research possess the entrepreneurship mindset in the sense that they search for funding outside the university, but whether they spin-out and commercialize their projects is still in construction. In the other hand, some professors are not aware of the commercialization potential of their projects because they have not been exposed enough to know the indicated processes. In order to change the impact that the disorientation can cause, preparation and training for professors that have research projects in every faculty should be a high priority.
<div>Despite the challenges, the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez has a group of champions in the faculty that keeps growing. This group has been submitting proposals for courses, programs, researches, among other successful initiatives that promote I&E. This group is the spark that will illuminate other professors and administrators to keep the momentum.</div>
= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office. Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. 

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds 18 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awarded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying. 

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico_-_Mayaguez_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-12T20:16:03Z

Alex Herrero:

= <kbd>Overview:</kbd> =

= <kbd>Student Projects:</kbd> =

= <kbd>Related links:</kbd> =

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SY3dQpl1TUS1-FQyYdtB6H1kqmYhmuHhInXZuGdqIYM/edit?usp=sharing Lanscape Canvas 2017]</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit#slide=id.p4 Lanscape Canvas 2015]</kbd>

<kbd>Business Model Canvas: TEDx UPRM</kbd>

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<kbd>Business Model Canvas: Computing Day with ACMs</kbd>

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<kbd>Business Model Canvas: Innovation Space</kbd>

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<kbd>Business Model Canvas: E-Ship</kbd>

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<kbd>Business Model Canvas: Startup Lab</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing]</kbd>

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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Puerto_Rico_-_Mayaguez <kbd>Mayaguez</kbd>]

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-12T20:13:45Z

Alex Herrero:

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-12T20:13:25Z

Alex Herrero:

= <tt><kbd>Overview:</kbd></tt> =

= <tt><kbd>Student Projects:</kbd></tt> =

= <tt><kbd>Related links:</kbd></tt> =

<tt><kbd>[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SY3dQpl1TUS1-FQyYdtB6H1kqmYhmuHhInXZuGdqIYM/edit?usp=sharing Lanscape Canvas 2017]</kbd></tt>

<tt><kbd>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit#slide=id.p4 Lanscape Canvas 2015]</kbd></tt>

<tt><kbd>Business Model Canvas: TEDx UPRM</kbd></tt>

<tt><kbd>[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3XrllkgFom61Q6pr9H2WlCR0DDqdIysL58/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3Xrll...]</kbd></tt>

<tt><kbd>Business Model Canvas: Computing Day with ACMs</kbd></tt>

<tt><kbd>[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1iH84Rq3uFsaeJZjgwy_h_cYbgXhs8/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1...]</kbd></tt>

<tt><kbd>Business Model Canvas: Innovation Space</kbd></tt>

<tt><kbd>[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiWzzqLhs81mfox8XvhdSJRII3tmvg https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiW...]</kbd></tt>

<tt><kbd>Business Model Canvas: E-Ship</kbd></tt>

<tt><kbd>[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit]</kbd></tt>

<tt><kbd>Business Model Canvas: Startup Lab</kbd></tt>

<tt><kbd>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing]</kbd></tt>

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-12T20:13:00Z

Alex Herrero:

= <kbd>Overview:</kbd> =

= <kbd>Student Projects:</kbd> =

= <kbd>Related links:</kbd> =

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SY3dQpl1TUS1-FQyYdtB6H1kqmYhmuHhInXZuGdqIYM/edit?usp=sharing Lanscape Canvas 2017]</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit#slide=id.p4 Lanscape Canvas 2015]</kbd>

<kbd>Business Model Canvas: TEDx UPRM</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3XrllkgFom61Q6pr9H2WlCR0DDqdIysL58/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3Xrll...]</kbd>

<kbd><tt>Business Model Canvas: Computing Day with ACMs</tt></kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1iH84Rq3uFsaeJZjgwy_h_cYbgXhs8/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1...]</kbd>

<kbd><tt>Business Model Canvas: Innovation Space</tt></kbd>

<kbd>[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiWzzqLhs81mfox8XvhdSJRII3tmvg https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiW...]</kbd>

<kbd>Business Model Canvas: E-Ship</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit]</kbd>

<kbd>Business Model Canvas: Startup Lab</kbd>

<kbd>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing]</kbd>

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-12T20:12:03Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview: =

= Student Projects: =

= Related links: =

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SY3dQpl1TUS1-FQyYdtB6H1kqmYhmuHhInXZuGdqIYM/edit?usp=sharing Lanscape Canvas 2017]

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit#slide=id.p4 Lanscape Canvas 2015]

Business Model Canvas: TEDx UPRM

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3XrllkgFom61Q6pr9H2WlCR0DDqdIysL58/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3Xrll...]

<tt>Business Model Canvas: Computing Day with ACMs</tt>

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1iH84Rq3uFsaeJZjgwy_h_cYbgXhs8/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1...]

<tt>Business Model Canvas: Innovation Space</tt>

[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiWzzqLhs81mfox8XvhdSJRII3tmvg https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiW...]

Business Model Canvas: E-Ship

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit]

Business Model Canvas: Startup Lab

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing]

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-12T20:11:12Z

Alex Herrero:

Overview

Student Projects:

Related links:

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SY3dQpl1TUS1-FQyYdtB6H1kqmYhmuHhInXZuGdqIYM/edit?usp=sharing Lanscape Canvas 2017]

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit#slide=id.p4 Lanscape Canvas 2015]

Business Model Canvas: TEDx UPRM

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3XrllkgFom61Q6pr9H2WlCR0DDqdIysL58/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3Xrll...]

<tt>Business Model Canvas: Computing Day with ACMs</tt>

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1iH84Rq3uFsaeJZjgwy_h_cYbgXhs8/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1...]

<tt>Business Model Canvas: Innovation Space</tt>

[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiWzzqLhs81mfox8XvhdSJRII3tmvg https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiW...]

Business Model Canvas: E-Ship

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit]

Business Model Canvas: Startup Lab

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing]

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-12T20:09:25Z

Alex Herrero:

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-12T20:08:27Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

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= Student Projects: =

= Related links =

=== Lanscape Canvas 2017 ===

=== [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit#slide=id.p4 <tt>Lanscape Canvas 2015</tt>] ===

<tt>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit?usp=sharing]</tt>

=== Business Model Canvas: TEDx UPRM ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3XrllkgFom61Q6pr9H2WlCR0DDqdIysL58/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3Xrll...]

=== <tt>Business Model Canvas: Computing Day with ACMs</tt> ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1iH84Rq3uFsaeJZjgwy_h_cYbgXhs8/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1...]

=== <tt>Business Model Canvas: Innovation Space</tt> ===

[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiWzzqLhs81mfox8XvhdSJRII3tmvg https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiW...]

=== Business Model Canvas: E-Ship ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit]

=== Business Model Canvas: Startup Lab ===

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing]

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== Related Links ==

[[University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez|University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez]]

'''Fellows'''

[[Alex Herrero|'''A'''lex Herrero]]

[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]

[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]

[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]

[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan_diaz_sepulveda]]

[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan Muñoz Vázquez]]

[[Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa|Emmanuel Oquendo]]

[[Angelisse Ramos Morales]]

[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo Romañach]]

[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie Torres]]

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Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-12T20:07:37Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

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= Student Projects: =

= Related links =

=== <tt></tt>Lanscape Canvas 2017 ===

=== <tt>Lanscape Canvas 2015</tt> ===

<tt>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit?usp=sharing]</tt>

=== Business Model Canvas: TEDx UPRM ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3XrllkgFom61Q6pr9H2WlCR0DDqdIysL58/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3Xrll...]

=== <tt>Business Model Canvas: Computing Day with ACMs</tt> ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1iH84Rq3uFsaeJZjgwy_h_cYbgXhs8/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1...]

=== <tt>Business Model Canvas: Innovation Space</tt> ===

[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiWzzqLhs81mfox8XvhdSJRII3tmvg https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiW...]

=== Business Model Canvas: E-Ship ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit]

=== Business Model Canvas: Startup Lab ===

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing]

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</ul>

== Related Links ==

[[University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez|University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez]]

'''Fellows'''

[[Alex Herrero|'''A'''lex Herrero]]

[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]

[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]

[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]

[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan_diaz_sepulveda]]

[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan Muñoz Vázquez]]

[[Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa|Emmanuel Oquendo]]

[[Angelisse Ramos Morales]]

[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo Romañach]]

[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie Torres]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-12T20:03:58Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb|Uprm logo.jpg]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair
*W2Socials

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association of Programmers Entrepreneurs
*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform (Achieve-Elicit-AppCreatrs-Empower3D-Visionary-WearTech)
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

The Chancellor of our University has stated multiple times that “I&E is one of his most important priorities on campus”. However, changing decades of institutional culture is not something that happens in a year. Institutional policies sometimes impede faculty innovation and entrepreneurship through research. An example of these policies are that if a professor chooses to give a selected number of hours of class, say 12hrs a week, institutional policies don’t encourage him to do research. Likewise, those professors that do develop research possess the entrepreneurship mindset in the sense that they search for funding outside the university, but whether they spin-out and commercialize their projects is still in construction. In the other hand, some professors are not aware of the commercialization potential of their projects because they have not been exposed enough to know the indicated processes. In order to change the impact that the disorientation can cause, preparation and training for professors that have research projects in every faculty should be a high priority.
<div>Despite the challenges, the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez has a group of champions in the faculty that keeps growing. This group has been submitting proposals for courses, programs, researches, among other successful initiatives that promote I&E. This group is the spark that will illuminate other professors and administrators to keep the momentum.</div>
= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office. Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. 

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds 18 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awarded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying. 

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-12T20:03:03Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair
*W2Socials

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association of Programmers Entrepreneurs
*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform (Achieve-Elicit-AppCreatrs-Empower3D-Visionary-WearTech)
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office. Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. 

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds 18 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awarded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying. 

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-12T20:01:22Z

Alex Herrero:

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= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair
*W2Socials

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association of Programmers Entrepreneurs
*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform (Achieve-Elicit-AppCreatrs-Empower3D-Visionary-WearTech)
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement.

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-12T19:56:09Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb|Uprm logo.jpg]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair
*W2Socials

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association of Programmers Entrepreneurs
*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform (Achieve-Elicit-AppCreatrs-Empower3D-Visionary-WearTech)
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office. Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. 

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds 18 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awarded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying. 

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-12T19:55:00Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb|Uprm logo.jpg]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair
*W2Socials

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association of Programmers Entrepreneurs
*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office. Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. 

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds 18 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awarded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying. 

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-12T19:54:41Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb|Uprm logo.jpg]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association of Programmers Entrepreneurs
*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office. Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. 

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds 18 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awarded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying. 

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-12T19:53:50Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb|Uprm logo.jpg]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association of Programmers Entrepreneurs
*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office. Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

Currently, the largest University-Industry collaboration event is the Job Fair. During the Job Fair, industries across the world come to UPRM in order to recruit students for internships, coops, or full-time positions. However, the Job Fair is also the best way for student run organizations to create partnerships with these industries. Most student organizations count with one or more sponsorships that are provided by recurring companies that come to Mayaguez to recruit. These sponsorhips can also fund labs and research projects. Another university-industry collaboration are the Capstone projects. In these projects, graduating engineering students are sent to an industry to solve a design problem which is assigned to them. The engineering student has to solve the industrial problem using all the knowledge aquired from their undergraduate studies and write a mini thesis in order to succesfully complete the course. 

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

Entities such as INprende, Guayacan, EntrePrize, and Parallel 18 are constantly visiting Mayaguez in college tours in order to see what the students of UPRM are up to in terms of entreprenuership and innovation, and to find local talents and startups to fund. Parallel 18 is a startup incubator and accelarator belonging to the Puerto Rico Science and Research Fund which finds 18 startups from Puerto Rico and the world to fund and mentor for a year. Parallel 18 has great connections with UPRM and the E-ship Network, and is very invested in the students and their ideas. There have been 3 startups that have entered Parallel 18 that have come directly from Mayaguez, and there are many students that work on their offices as interns. Another important entity is Vitech, a local startup accelerator which has its offices near campus. The Vitech offices include a space that is awareded to startups that come from the UPRM, even if the students are still studying. 

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-12T19:42:07Z

Alex Herrero:

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-12T19:30:33Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

 

 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association of Programmers Entrepreneurs
*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office. Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network. The University also counts with a Center for Patents & Trademarks.

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

ViTech

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-12T19:27:18Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb|Uprm logo.jpg]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact. In addition, and also composing the E-ship Network, Mayaguez counts with a variety of Innovation and Entrepreneurship opportunities:

=== Courses ===

*New Venture Design Experience
*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Product Design
*Technology Based Entrepreneurship
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development
*Creative Design
*Tools and Toys
*Game Theory
*Engineering Design Projects
*Capstone
*Research
*Special Projects

=== Activities ===

*TEDxUPRM
*Elicit Innovation
*VR Hackathon
*Arduino Day
*HackPR
*Hacker Socials
*Expo Ideas
*Capstone Exhibition
*H3
*Justas Empresariales
*Icorps PR
*Weekend Design Challenge
*Job Fair
*Startup Fair

=== Spaces ===

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center
*Vitech
*Parallel 18

=== Associations ===

*Association of Programmers Entrepreneurs
*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform
*Catalyst

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office. Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network.

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

ViTech

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-12T18:33:20Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

== UPRM E-Ship ==

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact.

== Education ==

=== I&E Courses ===

*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development

== Spaces ==

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center

== Associations ==

*Association of Programmers Entrepreneurs
*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

There is very little encouragement for the faculty to engage in innovation and entrepreneurship. Even though research commercialization exists, the process is tedious and burecrautic. Much of the faculty does not know about the research commercialization, and the rest does not attempt it due to its difficult and time consuming nature. Faculty that works in innovation and entrepreneurship is mostly self-driven, or it is an important part of the courses they are giving, which tends to be the case within the Business Administration Departement. 

= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

The Unviersity of Puerto Rico does count with an Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office. Additionally, the office staff in Mayaguez is very much in tune with the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem and are avid supporters and champions within the E-Ship Network.

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

ViTech

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

= Related Links =

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2018-01-12T18:12:22Z

Alex Herrero:

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-10T03:18:16Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

----

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship  =

----
In the university of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus the effort of promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is seen through the initiatives taken by campus students.
=== <tt>APE</tt> ===

APE( Association of Programmers and Entrepreneurs) is an organization whose goal is to help develop the new generation of programmers and entrepreneurs. APE firmly believes that through social experiences people and ideas develop much more organically instead of being an isolated experience. They developed a space called Hacker Socials in which students come together to program, socialize and create new things. They currently got Microsoft PR to help them in the endeavours of creating new software entrepreneurs.

=== <tt>ACM</tt> ===

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),  an organization whose main purpose is to develop students outside the curricular parameter, give the students challenging experiences that enrich the technical and professional skills of all its members. ACM has 4 chapters: Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration and Women. These chapters together will host the first serie of technical events with spearkers and hands on workshops.

=== <tt>Idea Platform</tt> ===

One of initiatives was to create the first passion driven student organization called Idea Platform.This organization provides a support network for passionate innovators. In operation, Idea Platform is a group of creative minds working through challenges to achieve the implementation of meaningful projects in the university campus. One of Idea Platform staggering projects is to create the first TEDx Event on the Mayaguez Campus. This event was brought under the intentions of providing a platform for students to share their ideas with the world.  

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship =

----

The Chancellor of our University has stated multiple times that “I&E is one of his most important priorities on campus”. However, changing decades of institutional culture is not something that happens in a year. Institutional policies sometimes impede faculty innovation and entrepreneurship through research. An example of these policies are that if a professor chooses to give a selected number of hours of class, say 12hrs a week, institutional policies don’t encourage him to do research. Likewise, those professors that do develop research possess the entrepreneurship mindset in the sense that they search for funding outside the university, but whether they spin-out and commercialize their projects is still in construction. In the other hand, some professors are not aware of the commercialization potential of their projects because they have not been exposed enough to know the indicated processes. In order to change the impact that the disorientation can cause, preparation and training for professors that have research projects in every faculty should be a high priority.

Despite the challenges, the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez has a group of champions in the faculty that keeps growing. This group has been submitting proposals for courses, programs, researches, among other successful initiatives that promote I&E. This group is the spark that will illuminate other professors and administrators to keep the momentum.

= =

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

----

Only recently has our university started to open their arms to the concept of a University-Industry relationship. Our school is a public institution in which the bureaucracy of the government is also transferred into our world. This level of bureaucracy has slowed things down to a point that we need to carefully plan everything so that it can progress with a positive outcome. We are currently developing programs in which students get the resources need to provide students the resources required to take their ideas into the industry. With the help of local incubator Vitec, the UPRM E-ship Network and our makerspace movement we hope to achieve what has been very difficult to do in our university. The relationship between the academia and the private sector.

= Student Projects: =



= Related links =

=== <tt>Lanscape Canvas</tt> ===

<tt>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit?usp=sharing]</tt>

=== Business Model Canvas: TEDx UPRM ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3XrllkgFom61Q6pr9H2WlCR0DDqdIysL58/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3Xrll...]

=== <tt>Business Model Canvas: Computing Day with ACMs</tt> ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1iH84Rq3uFsaeJZjgwy_h_cYbgXhs8/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1...]

=== <tt>Business Model Canvas: Innovation Space</tt> ===

[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiWzzqLhs81mfox8XvhdSJRII3tmvg https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiW...]

=== Business Model Canvas: E-Ship ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit]

=== Business Model Canvas: Startup Lab ===

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing]

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== Related Links ==

[[University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez|University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez]]

'''Fellows'''

[[Alex Herrero|'''A'''lex Herrero]]

[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]

[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]

[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]

[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan_diaz_sepulveda]]

[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan Muñoz Vázquez]]

[[Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa|Emmanuel Oquendo]]

[[Angelisse Ramos Morales]]

[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo Romañach]]

[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie Torres]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-10T03:05:18Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

----

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship  =

----
In the university of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus the effort of promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is seen through the initiatives taken by campus students.
=== <tt>APE</tt> ===

APE( Association of Programmers and Entrepreneurs) is an organization whose goal is to help develop the new generation of programmers and entrepreneurs. APE firmly believes that through social experiences people and ideas develop much more organically instead of being an isolated experience. They developed a space called Hacker Socials in which students come together to program, socialize and create new things. They currently got Microsoft PR to help them in the endeavours of creating new software entrepreneurs.

=== <tt>ACM</tt> ===

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),  an organization whose main purpose is to develop students outside the curricular parameter, give the students challenging experiences that enrich the technical and professional skills of all its members. ACM has 4 chapters: Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration and Women. These chapters together will host the first serie of technical events with spearkers and hands on workshops.

=== <tt>Idea Platform</tt> ===

One of initiatives was to create the first passion driven student organization called Idea Platform.This organization provides a support network for passionate innovators. In operation, Idea Platform is a group of creative minds working through challenges to achieve the implementation of meaningful projects in the university campus. One of Idea Platform staggering projects is to create the first TEDx Event on the Mayaguez Campus. This event was brought under the intentions of providing a platform for students to share their ideas with the world.  

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship =

----

The Chancellor of our University has stated multiple times that “I&E is one of his most important priorities on campus”. However, changing decades of institutional culture is not something that happens in a year. Institutional policies sometimes impede faculty innovation and entrepreneurship through research. An example of these policies are that if a professor chooses to give a selected number of hours of class, say 12hrs a week, institutional policies don’t encourage him to do research. Likewise, those professors that do develop research possess the entrepreneurship mindset in the sense that they search for funding outside the university, but whether they spin-out and commercialize their projects is still in construction. In the other hand, some professors are not aware of the commercialization potential of their projects because they have not been exposed enough to know the indicated processes. In order to change the impact that the disorientation can cause, preparation and training for professors that have research projects in every faculty should be a high priority.

Despite the challenges, the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez has a group of champions in the faculty that keeps growing. This group has been submitting proposals for courses, programs, researches, among other successful initiatives that promote I&E. This group is the spark that will illuminate other professors and administrators to keep the momentum.

= =

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

----

Only recently has our university started to open their arms to the concept of a University-Industry relationship. Our school is a public institution in which the bureaucracy of the government is also transferred into our world. This level of bureaucracy has slowed things down to a point that we need to carefully plan everything so that it can progress with a positive outcome. We are currently developing programs in which students get the resources need to provide students the resources required to take their ideas into the industry. With the help of local incubator Vitec, the UPRM E-ship Network and our makerspace movement we hope to achieve what has been very difficult to do in our university. The relationship between the academia and the private sector.

= Related links =

=== <tt>Lanscape Canvas</tt> ===

<tt>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit?usp=sharing]</tt>

=== Business Model Canvas: TEDx UPRM ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3XrllkgFom61Q6pr9H2WlCR0DDqdIysL58/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3Xrll...]

=== <tt>Business Model Canvas: Computing Day with ACMs</tt> ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1iH84Rq3uFsaeJZjgwy_h_cYbgXhs8/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1...]

=== <tt>Business Model Canvas: Innovation Space</tt> ===

[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiWzzqLhs81mfox8XvhdSJRII3tmvg https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiW...]

=== Business Model Canvas: E-Ship ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit]

=== Business Model Canvas: Startup Lab ===

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing]

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</ul>

== Related Links ==

[[University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez|University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez]]

'''Fellows'''

[[Alex Herrero|'''A'''lex Herrero]]

[[Rolando_Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]

[[Jaran_Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]

[[Alejandro_Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]

[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan_diaz_sepulveda]]

[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan Muñoz Vázquez]]

[[Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa|Emmanuel Oquendo]]

[[Angelisse Ramos Morales]]

[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo Romañach]]

[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie Torres]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-10T03:03:32Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

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= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship  =

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In the university of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus the effort of promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is seen through the initiatives taken by campus students.
=== <tt>APE</tt> ===

APE( Association of Programmers and Entrepreneurs) is an organization whose goal is to help develop the new generation of programmers and entrepreneurs. APE firmly believes that through social experiences people and ideas develop much more organically instead of being an isolated experience. They developed a space called Hacker Socials in which students come together to program, socialize and create new things. They currently got Microsoft PR to help them in the endeavours of creating new software entrepreneurs.

=== <tt>ACM</tt> ===

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),  an organization whose main purpose is to develop students outside the curricular parameter, give the students challenging experiences that enrich the technical and professional skills of all its members. ACM has 4 chapters: Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration and Women. These chapters together will host the first serie of technical events with spearkers and hands on workshops.

=== <tt>Idea Platform</tt> ===

One of initiatives was to create the first passion driven student organization called Idea Platform.This organization provides a support network for passionate innovators. In operation, Idea Platform is a group of creative minds working through challenges to achieve the implementation of meaningful projects in the university campus. One of Idea Platform staggering projects is to create the first TEDx Event on the Mayaguez Campus. This event was brought under the intentions of providing a platform for students to share their ideas with the world.  

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship =

----

The Chancellor of our University has stated multiple times that “I&E is one of his most important priorities on campus”. However, changing decades of institutional culture is not something that happens in a year. Institutional policies sometimes impede faculty innovation and entrepreneurship through research. An example of these policies are that if a professor chooses to give a selected number of hours of class, say 12hrs a week, institutional policies don’t encourage him to do research. Likewise, those professors that do develop research possess the entrepreneurship mindset in the sense that they search for funding outside the university, but whether they spin-out and commercialize their projects is still in construction. In the other hand, some professors are not aware of the commercialization potential of their projects because they have not been exposed enough to know the indicated processes. In order to change the impact that the disorientation can cause, preparation and training for professors that have research projects in every faculty should be a high priority.

Despite the challenges, the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez has a group of champions in the faculty that keeps growing. This group has been submitting proposals for courses, programs, researches, among other successful initiatives that promote I&E. This group is the spark that will illuminate other professors and administrators to keep the momentum.

= =

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

----

Only recently has our university started to open their arms to the concept of a University-Industry relationship. Our school is a public institution in which the bureaucracy of the government is also transferred into our world. This level of bureaucracy has slowed things down to a point that we need to carefully plan everything so that it can progress with a positive outcome. We are currently developing programs in which students get the resources need to provide students the resources required to take their ideas into the industry. With the help of local incubator Vitec, the UPRM E-ship Network and our makerspace movement we hope to achieve what has been very difficult to do in our university. The relationship between the academia and the private sector.

= Related links =

=== <tt>Lanscape Canvas</tt> ===

<tt>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit?usp=sharing]</tt>

=== Business Model Canvas: TEDx UPRM ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3XrllkgFom61Q6pr9H2WlCR0DDqdIysL58/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3Xrll...]

=== <tt>Business Model Canvas: Computing Day with ACMs</tt> ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1iH84Rq3uFsaeJZjgwy_h_cYbgXhs8/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1...]

=== <tt>Business Model Canvas: Innovation Space</tt> ===

[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiWzzqLhs81mfox8XvhdSJRII3tmvg https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiW...]

=== Business Model Canvas: E-Ship ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit]

=== Business Model Canvas: Startup Lab ===

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing]

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</ul>

== Related Links ==

[[University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez|University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez]]

'''Fellows'''

[[Alex_Herrero|'''A'''lex Herrero]]

[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan_diaz_sepulveda]]

[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan Muñoz Vázquez]]

[[Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa|Emmanuel Oquendo]]

[[Angelisse Ramos Morales]]

[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo Romañach]]

[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie Torres]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

Priorities:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Student Priorities

2018-01-10T03:01:11Z

Alex Herrero:

= =

= Overview =

----

= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship  =

----
In the university of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus the effort of promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship is seen through the initiatives taken by campus students.
=== <tt>APE</tt> ===

APE( Association of Programmers and Entrepreneurs) is an organization whose goal is to help develop the new generation of programmers and entrepreneurs. APE firmly believes that through social experiences people and ideas develop much more organically instead of being an isolated experience. They developed a space called Hacker Socials in which students come together to program, socialize and create new things. They currently got Microsoft PR to help them in the endeavours of creating new software entrepreneurs.

=== <tt>ACM</tt> ===

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),  an organization whose main purpose is to develop students outside the curricular parameter, give the students challenging experiences that enrich the technical and professional skills of all its members. ACM has 4 chapters: Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration and Women. These chapters together will host the first serie of technical events with spearkers and hands on workshops.

=== <tt>Idea Platform</tt> ===

One of initiatives was to create the first passion driven student organization called Idea Platform.This organization provides a support network for passionate innovators. In operation, Idea Platform is a group of creative minds working through challenges to achieve the implementation of meaningful projects in the university campus. One of Idea Platform staggering projects is to create the first TEDx Event on the Mayaguez Campus. This event was brought under the intentions of providing a platform for students to share their ideas with the world.  

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship =

----

The Chancellor of our University has stated multiple times that “I&E is one of his most important priorities on campus”. However, changing decades of institutional culture is not something that happens in a year. Institutional policies sometimes impede faculty innovation and entrepreneurship through research. An example of these policies are that if a professor chooses to give a selected number of hours of class, say 12hrs a week, institutional policies don’t encourage him to do research. Likewise, those professors that do develop research possess the entrepreneurship mindset in the sense that they search for funding outside the university, but whether they spin-out and commercialize their projects is still in construction. In the other hand, some professors are not aware of the commercialization potential of their projects because they have not been exposed enough to know the indicated processes. In order to change the impact that the disorientation can cause, preparation and training for professors that have research projects in every faculty should be a high priority.

Despite the challenges, the University of Puerto Rico- Mayaguez has a group of champions in the faculty that keeps growing. This group has been submitting proposals for courses, programs, researches, among other successful initiatives that promote I&E. This group is the spark that will illuminate other professors and administrators to keep the momentum.

= =

= Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration =

----

Only recently has our university started to open their arms to the concept of a University-Industry relationship. Our school is a public institution in which the bureaucracy of the government is also transferred into our world. This level of bureaucracy has slowed things down to a point that we need to carefully plan everything so that it can progress with a positive outcome. We are currently developing programs in which students get the resources need to provide students the resources required to take their ideas into the industry. With the help of local incubator Vitec, the UPRM E-ship Network and our makerspace movement we hope to achieve what has been very difficult to do in our university. The relationship between the academia and the private sector.

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts =

= Related links =

=== <tt>Lanscape Canvas</tt> ===

<tt>[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jWlK1PcUAl7fPDMfE_nJeNC5DQ7uiFKEhb78iJB5lqA/edit?usp=sharing]</tt>

=== Business Model Canvas: TEDx UPRM ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3XrllkgFom61Q6pr9H2WlCR0DDqdIysL58/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pRWIHdBWy3Xrll...]

=== <tt>Business Model Canvas: Computing Day with ACMs</tt> ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1iH84Rq3uFsaeJZjgwy_h_cYbgXhs8/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1ANCUPlQMtqm3M1...]

=== <tt>Business Model Canvas: Innovation Space</tt> ===

[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiWzzqLhs81mfox8XvhdSJRII3tmvg https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pRclhodnns6RuEiW...]

=== Business Model Canvas: E-Ship ===

[https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1eOJ-kKv55B0BDdMtOm6jOyA5B-EvKvT-hl_ude9H7Fc/edit]

=== Business Model Canvas: Startup Lab ===

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3FBn41mJzG9SNQFYhQ1i-cprT86qXlwlbYpPMOqvv4/edit?usp=sharing]

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</ul>

== Related Links ==

[[University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez|University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez]]

'''University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez Student Priorities'''

Fellows

[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan_diaz_sepulveda]]

[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan Muñoz Vázquez]]

[[Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa|Emmanuel Oquendo]]

[[Angelisse Ramos Morales]]

[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo Romañach]]

[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie Torres]]

[[Category:Student Priorities|u]]

School:University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez

2017-09-18T20:11:13Z

Alex Herrero:

= Overview =

[[File:Uprm logo.jpg|thumb]]

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM) is located in the city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. It was established on September 23, 1911. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.

Consists of four major colleges: Agricultural Sciences, Arts and Sciences, Business Administration and Engineering.  Offers over 50 bachelor's programs, more than 25 master's programs and 5 doctoral's programs. There are around 12,000 students enrolled. The Mayaguez Campus is ranked number 1 in the Caribbean. 

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= Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship: =

== UPRM E-Ship ==

UPRM E-Ship is the umbrella for all the efforts related to innovation and entrepreneurship. This project has the objective to link all the champions and initiatives in order to create a bigger impact.

== Education ==

=== I&E Courses ===

*Design Thinking
*Consumer Behavior
*Engineering Capstone
*Introduction to Business Development
*Creativity and Innovation
*New Business Development

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== Spaces ==

*Business Center
*Starting Point Makerspace
*Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
*Model Factory
*Research and Development Center

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== Associations ==

*Association of Programmers Entrepreneurs
*Association for Computing Machinery
*HackPR
*Enactus UPRM
*Idea Platform

= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship: =

Research commercialization exists.

= Actively supporting the university technology transfer function: =

Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer Office

= Facilitating university-industry collaboration: =

ViTech

= Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts: =

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2017 =

#[[Alejandro Aponte|Alejandro Aponte]]
#[[Jaran Arroyo|Jaran Arroyo]]
#[[Rolando Cruz-Ulloa|Rolando Cruz]]
#[[Alex Herrero|Alex Herrero]]

= University Innovation Fellows Candidates 2015 =

#[[Jonathan diaz sepulveda|Jonathan Díaz Sepulveda]]
#[[Angelisse Ramos|Angelisse_Ramos]]
#[[Jahannie Torres|Jahannie_Torres]]
#[[Rodolfo Romañach|Rodolfo_Romañach]]
#[[Bryan Muñoz|Bryan_Muñoz]]
#[http://universityinnovation.org/Emmanuel%20Oquendo-Rosa Emmanuel Oquendo-Rosa]

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= Related Links =

[http://www.uprm.edu/ http://www.uprm.edu/]

[https://wordpress.uprm.edu/eship/ [1]]

[[Category:Universities]]