School:Texas A & M University

2013-10-18T05:39:04Z

Gleslie07:

2013-10-18T05:36:08Z

School:Texas A & M University

2013-10-18T05:35:32Z

Gleslie07:

== Student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Texas A&M has support for students to learn about and become involved with entrepreneurship.  These programs, like Startup Aggielandand Aggies in Business,are generally new and constantly evolving.

The Mays Business School Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurshipprovides undergraduate and graduate certificates for entrepreneurship.  They support student entrepreneurship as well as faculty and the local community with competitions and lecture series to inspire and educate. [[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/ http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/]]
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<li>[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/ideas-challenge/ Ideas Challenge]- idea competition where 40 finalist ideas are chosen, and the top 3 ideas receive a cash prize (1st - $3,000, 2nd - $2,00, 3rd - $1000)</li>
<li>[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/3DS/ 3 Day Startup]- a weekend event where students collaborate to form businesses and demo a prototype to a panel of judges including investors</li>
<li>[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/lunch-learn/ Lunch and Learn]- lunch speaker events</li>
<li>[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/start-up-101/ Startup 101]- a weekly lesson spanning 3 or 4 weeks featuring presentations from business leaders, marketers, and IP attorneys and their advice on startup creation</li>
</ul>

Startup Aggielandis a brand new student incubator designed to provide students with launch-ready concepts, the opportunity to receive co-working spaces, mentors, and a supportive community.  They lack laboratories, equipment, and funding. [[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/accelerator/ http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/accelerator/]]

 Aggies in Business (AiB)is another brand new program that provides business consulting for local businesses, and enables students to be employed by the university to perform this  consulting work.  The student employees are overseen by leadership.  [[http://www.txaib.org/images/txaib/pages/aib_consulting.html http://www.txaib.org/images/txaib/pages/aib_consulting.html]]

== Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

== University technology transfer function ==

== University-Industry collaboration ==

== Regional and local economic development efforts ==

== Other ==

[[Category:Universities]]

Resource:How to create and administer an undergraduate student incubator and fund

2013-10-11T17:04:25Z

Gleslie07:

<pre>
Contact: Jack Goodwin, UCSD</pre>
== Introduction ==

As with any large change in a university, you need a university individual with influence to help champion your idea. Establishing an undergraduate student incubator is no different. University officials are infinitely more likely to support an idea already supported by a prominent university figure then they are to support enthusiastic students. The trick is to land that first influential supporter and then expand from there.

<cite>It's all about that first influential connection.</cite>

== Who to connect with? ==

The leaders of the engineering school(s), as well as the business and medicine departments come first. Leaders of the entire university work as well, such as the presidential role, but these are rare and, surprisingly, not as valuable in the early stages. The value lies in the ability to influence others to agree that developing an incubator is a good idea. Sometimes, presidents in a college are not as influential as the leader of an engineering, business or medical department head in this regard. However, everyone has to come on board during the late stages of a given incubators opening to show a strong community level of support.

<cite>Many will doubt your cause initially but then will readily join in on the band wagon once some other noteworthy person has supported you.</cite>

== What is needed before getting started? ==

#Why do you want an incubator?
#What can it do for the school?
#What is needed to open it?
#Why is it a good investment?
#When is the soonest it can be open?
#How can [who you are presenting to] help?

<cite>Never discount the value of a good presentation for why an incubator is a good thing.</cite>

== What is the process for building the incubator and fund? ==

Perhaps the easiest way to build the incubator and fund is to at this point, shift the initiation from the students to the administration.  If by now you've convinced the University that they '''need '''an incubator, you can network the different interested departments together to take a joint effort in developing the center.  

The University will need funding to launch the incubator and fund.  Internally (within a large University), departments within the university generally don't have any money to spare, but at the college level you might be able to find some funding -- if you have aligned the incubator's purpose with the college's goals.  Externally, a charitable donation will fufill the needs.  Also, look in to other external methods of funding, like [[Dorm Room Fund|Dorm Room Fund]], or [[Blackstone LaunchPad|Blackstone LaunchPad]].

== What should the incubator provide? ==

*Networking
**Attorney that will provide pro-bono trademarks and patents
**Local angel investors
**Any and all local investment networks
**Any and all local startup communities
**Mentors (alumni are often happy to help)
*Web hosting services (see [http://rackspacestartups.com/ Rackspace Startup Program])
*Community work space
*Consultation
*Entrepreneurial learning ecosystem
*Opportunities to practice pitching and recieve feedback
**Pitch competitions (with prizes, invited investors)

== What should the incubator require? ==

*Student involvement
*Semester-based reevaluation

== What continued involvement is required? ==

*Keep funding flowing
*Continued reevaluation of internal processes
*Continued evaluation of progress of student startups
*Continued presence expansion
*Remain a good investment in the University's vision

== What is the timeline? ==

USCD's incubator was launched in just six months.  This is quite a fast example, but it can be done.

Resource:How to create and administer an undergraduate student incubator and fund

2013-10-11T16:54:05Z

Gleslie07:

== Introduction ==

As with any large change in a university, you need a university individual with influence to help champion your idea. Establishing an undergraduate student incubator is no different. University officials are infinitely more likely to support an idea already supported by a prominent university figure then they are to support enthusiastic students. The trick is to land that first influential supporter and then expand from there.

<cite>It's all about that first influential connection.</cite>

== Who to connect with? ==

The leaders of the engineering school(s), as well as the business and medicine departments come first. Leaders of the entire university work as well, such as the presidential role, but these are rare and, surprisingly, not as valuable in the early stages. The value lies in the ability to influence others to agree that developing an incubator is a good idea. Sometimes, presidents in a college are not as influential as the leader of an engineering, business or medical department head in this regard. However, everyone has to come on board during the late stages of a given incubators opening to show a strong community level of support.

<cite>Many will doubt your cause initially but then will readily join in on the band wagon once some other noteworthy person has supported you.</cite>

== What is needed before getting started? ==

#Why do you want an incubator?
#What can it do for the school?
#What is needed to open it?
#Why is it a good investment?
#When is the soonest it can be open?
#How can [who you are presenting to] help?

<cite>Never discount the value of a good presentation for why an incubator is a good thing.</cite>

== What is the process for building the incubator and fund? ==

Perhaps the easiest way to build the incubator and fund is to at this point, shift the initiation from the students to the administration.  If by now you've convinced the University that they '''need '''an incubator, you can network the different interested departments together to take a joint effort in developing the center.  

The University will need funding to launch the incubator and fund.  Internally (within a large University), departments within the university generally don't have any money to spare, but at the college level you might be able to find some funding -- if you have aligned the incubator's purpose with the college's goals.  Externally, a charitable donation will fufill the needs.  Also, look in to other external methods of funding, like [[Dorm Room Fund|Dorm Room Fund]], or [[Blackstone LaunchPad|Blackstone LaunchPad]].

== What should the incubator provide? ==

*Networking
**Attorney that will provide pro-bono trademarks and patents
**Local angel investors
**Any and all local investment networks
**Any and all local startup communities
**Mentors (alumni are often happy to help)
*Web hosting services (see [http://rackspacestartups.com/ Rackspace Startup Program])
*Community work space
*Consultation
*Entrepreneurial learning ecosystem
*Opportunities to practice pitching and recieve feedback
**Pitch competitions (with prizes, invited investors)

== What should the incubator require? ==

*Student involvement
*Semester-based reevaluation

== What continued involvement is required? ==

*Keep funding flowing
*Continued reevaluation of internal processes
*Continued evaluation of progress of student startups
*Continued presence expansion
*Remain a good investment in the University's vision

== What is the timeline? ==

USCD's incubator was launched in just six months.  This is quite a fast example, but it can be done.

Resource:How to create and administer an undergraduate student incubator and fund

2013-10-11T16:49:11Z

Gleslie07:

== Introduction ==

As with any large change in a university, you need a university individual with influence to help champion your idea. Establishing an undergraduate student incubator is no different. University officials are infinitely more likely to support an idea already supported by a prominent university figure then they are to support enthusiastic students. The trick is to land that first influential supporter and then expand from there.

<cite>It's all about that first influential connection.</cite>

== Who to connect with? ==

The leaders of the engineering school(s), as well as the business and medicine departments come first. Leaders of the entire university work as well, such as the presidential role, but these are rare and, surprisingly, not as valuable in the early stages. The value lies in the ability to influence others to agree that developing an incubator is a good idea. Sometimes, presidents in a college are not as influential as the leader of an engineering, business or medical department head in this regard. However, everyone has to come on board during the late stages of a given incubators opening to show a strong community level of support.

<cite>Many will doubt your cause initially but then will readily join in on the band wagon once some other noteworthy person has supported you.</cite>

== What is needed before getting started? ==

#Why do you want an incubator?
#What can it do for the school?
#What is needed to open it?
#Why is it a good investment?
#When is the soonest it can be open?
#How can [who you are presenting to] help?

<cite>Never discount the value of a good presentation for why an incubator is a good thing.</cite>

== What is the process for building the incubator and fund? ==

Perhaps the easiest way to build the incubator and fund is to at this point, shift the initiation from the students to the administration.  If by now you've convinced the University that they '''need '''an incubator, you can network the different interested departments together to take a joint effort in developing the center.  

The University will need funding to launch the incubator and fund.  Internally (within a large University), departments within the university generally don't have any money to spare, but at the college level you might be able to find some funding -- if you have aligned the incubator's purpose with the college's goals.  Externally, a charitable donation will fufill the needs.  Also, look in to other external methods of funding, like [[Dorm Room Fund|Dorm Room Fund]], or [[Blackstone LaunchPad|Blackstone LaunchPad]].

== What should the incubator provide? ==

*Networking
**Attorney that will provide pro-bono trademarks and patents
**Local angel investors
**Any and all local investment networks
**Any and all local startup communities
**Mentors (alumni are often happy to help)
*Web hosting services (see [http://rackspacestartups.com/ Rackspace Startup Program])
*Community work space
*Consultation
*Entrepreneurial learning ecosystem
*Opportunities to practice pitching and recieve feedback
**Pitch competitions (with prizes, invited investors)

== What should the incubator require? ==

*Student involvement
*Semester-based reevaluation

== What is the timeline? ==

USCD's incubator was launched in just six months.  This is quite a fast example, but it can be done.