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Fellow:Kelly Leonard

2019-10-24T03:05:55Z

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<span style="font-size:medium;">Kelly Leonard is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate studying marketing at </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Throughout her first three years at Marshall University she focused her studies on marketing. It was not until her junior year that she found her p</span><span style="font-size: medium;">assion for Entrepreneu</span><span style="font-size: medium;">rship and Innovation after taking an Entrepreneurship course and then competing in two business model competitions.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Kelly enjoys Innovation and Entrepreneurship because they give her the tools to help solve big challenges in today’s world.</span> [[File:Kelly UIF.jpg|right]]

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Fellow:Kelly Leonard

2019-10-24T03:05:00Z

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<span style="font-size:medium;">Kelly Leonard is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate studying marketing at </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Throughout her first three years at Marshall University she focused her studies on marketing. It was not until her junior year that she found her p</span><span style="font-size: medium;">assion for Entrepreneu</span><span style="font-size: medium;">rship and Innovation after taking an Entrepreneurship course and then competing in two business model competitions.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">Kelly enjoys Innovation and Entrepreneurship because they give her the tools to help solve big challenges in today’s world.</span>
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Fellow:Kelly Leonard

2019-10-24T03:02:57Z

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<span style="font-size:medium;">[[File:Kelly UIF.jpg]]Kelly Leonard is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate studying marketing at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Throughout her first three years at Marshall University she focused her studies on marketing. It was not until her junior year that she found her passion for Entrepreneurship and Innovation after taking an Entrepreneurship course and then competing in two business model competitions. Kelly enjoys Innovation and Entrepreneurship because they give her the tools to help solve big challenges in today’s world.</span>

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<div>[[/Marshall University|Marshall University]]</div><div><br/></div><div>[[Marshall University Student Priorities|Marshall University Student Priorities]]<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>2019 Fellows:</div><div>'''Kelly Leonard'''</div><div><br/></div><div>[[Annika Behnke|Annika Behnke]]<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>[[McKenna Sunderland|McKenna Sunderland]]<br/></div>
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2019-10-24T03:02:25Z

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2019-10-24T02:58:07Z

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2019-10-24T02:56:09Z

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Fellow:Kelly Leonard

2019-10-24T02:51:43Z

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<span style="font-size:medium;">Kelly Leonard is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate studying marketing at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Throughout her first three years at Marshall University she focused her studies on marketing. It was not until her junior year that she found her passion for Entrepreneurship and Innovation after taking an Entrepreneurship course and then competing in two business model competitions. Kelly enjoys Innovation and Entrepreneurship because they give her the tools to help solve big challenges in today’s world.</span>

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<div>[[/Marshall University|Marshall University]]</div><div><br/></div><div>[[Marshall University Student Priorities|Marshall University Student Priorities]]<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>2019 Fellows:</div><div>'''Kelly Leonard'''</div><div><br/></div><div>[[Annika Behnke|Annika Behnke]]<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>[[McKenna Sunderland|McKenna Sunderland]]<br/></div>
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Fellow:Kelly Leonard

2019-10-23T14:49:16Z

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<span style="font-size:medium;">Kelly Leonard is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate studying marketing at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Throughout her first three years at Marshall University she focused her studies on marketing. It was not until her junior year that she found her passion for Entrepreneurship and Innovation after taking an Entrepreneurship course and then competing in two business model competitions. Kelly enjoys Innovation and Entrepreneurship because they give her the tools to help solve big challenges in today’s world.</span>

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Fellow:Kelly Leonard

2019-10-18T02:38:50Z

Leonard63: Kelly Leonard

= Kelly Leonard =

<span style="font-size:medium;">Kelly Leonard is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate studying marketing at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Throughout her first three years at Marshall University she focused her studies on marketing. It was not until her junior year that she found her passion for Entrepreneurship and Innovation after taking an Entrepreneurship course and then competing in two business model competitions. Kelly enjoys Innovation and Entrepreneurship because they give her the tools to help solve big challenges in today’s world.</span>

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2019-10-18T02:36:34Z

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2019-10-18T02:35:59Z

Leonard63: Kelly Leonard

= Kelly Leonard<br/> =

<span style="font-size:medium;">Kelly Leonard is a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate studying marketing at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Throughout her first three years at Marshall University she focused her studies on marketing. It was not until her junior year that she found her passion for Entrepreneurship and Innovation after taking an Entrepreneurship course and then competing in two business model competitions. Kelly enjoys Innovation and Entrepreneurship because they give her the tools to help solve big challenges in today’s world.</span>

Priorities:Marshall University Student Priorities

2019-10-04T04:05:52Z

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= Student Priorities =

'''<span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #1: Introducing Entrepreneurship to Everyone</span></span></span>'''

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Marshall University, First Year Seminar is a required class that every student must take, normally in their first semester. This is a critical thinking course designed to teach lifelong learning through critical, integrative, intercultural, inquiry based, and metacognitive thinking. The </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(19, 23, 22); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">goal of this class is to start practicing using the tools and skills that any college graduate will need in work and life.</span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many students believe that if they are business majors, they do not need to be introduced to Entrepreneurship or Innovation. Our first strategy is to include Design Thinking into every First Year Seminar. Therefore, every single student can use innovation and entrepreneurship in their everyday life, regardless of their major. This can lead to students focusing on the impact and as a result, making a difference in the community.</span>

'''<span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #2 Pre-seed Funding for Entreprenurial Students</span></span></span>'''

<span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marshall University’s Entrepreneurship program focuses on innovative solutions for big problems. Our university successfully inspires creativity and innovation in entrepreneurial students, yet students struggle with finding financial funding to begin their startup. Our second strategy is called Startup Marshall, which is a way for Entrepreneurship students to create their own pre-seed fund and grow their funds through alumni donations. </span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Startup Marshall is an optional program for Entrepreneurship students. Each semester, students who opt-in the program, are accessed a $250 fee each semester. This fee funds into an account that the entrepreneurship major can use for the development of their startup during college and after they graduate. By opening an account, alumni can view a student’s profile. The profile indicates the student’s major, passions, skills, and interests. Alumni can then donate to student accounts. This strategy is an effort to increase the startup culture at Marshall University and ensure that students have the funds to start their own businesses. </span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kelly Leonard will lead this project but will need the assistance of fellow students, McKenna Sunderland and Annika Benke. </span></span>

'''''<span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #3</span></span></span>'''' '''''<span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Increasing accesiblity to iCenter</span></span></span>'''

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marshall University has an entrepreneurship major and minor that only business students can access. Entrepreneurial students, whether they be engineers, designers, manufacturers, do not have access to I&E mentoring and coaching. To help bridge this gap, Marshall University’s Lewis College of Business opened the iCenter. The iCenter is an innovation center that any student or community member can receive design thinking workshops and help with their startup. </span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Currently, the iCenter is renovating spaces in the business hall. The iCenter, however, does not have open office hours for those seeking help with their businesses. Our priority is to open visiting hours and create ways to make the iCenter accessible for everyone. We want to create online workshops so students and community members can access them at any time.</span>

'''<span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #4 Small Business Crawl</span></span></span>'''

<span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All great ideas start with a spark. While Marshall University is beginning to get the resources that it needs to allow students to pursue these ideas, we must also provide the inspiration. Entrepreneurs come from a variety of different backgrounds, and we want to encourage all of Marshall’s students, regardless of their major, to incorporate entrepreneurship into their lives, too!</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our fourth strategy, the Small Business Crawl, invites students to spend the evening visiting several different local small businesses. At each visit, they will learn the story of how the business began, challenges that they’ve faced, and ways that they’ve solved problems. Not only will this help to spark students’ imaginations, it will also help to provide them with contacts in the community that they can reach out to should they need assistance. In this way, we can work to create more local businesses in our area, and further both intellectual and economic growth.</span></span>
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Priorities:Marshall University Student Priorities

2019-10-04T04:05:04Z

Leonard63:

= Student Priorities =

'''<span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #1: Introducing Entrepreneurship to Everyone</span></span></span>'''

<span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At Marshall University, First Year Seminar is a required class that every student must take, normally in their first semester. This is a critical thinking course designed to teach lifelong learning through critical, integrative, intercultural, inquiry based, and metacognitive thinking. The </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(19, 23, 22); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">goal of this class is to start practicing using the tools and skills that any college graduate will need in work and life.</span>

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(19, 23, 22); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many students believe that if they are business majors, they do not need to be introduced to Entrepreneurship or Innovation. Our first strategy is to include Design Thinking into every First Year Seminar. Therefore, every single student can use innovation and entrepreneurship in their everyday life, regardless of their major. This can lead to students focusing on the impact and as a result, making a difference in the community.</span>

'''<span style="font-size:large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #2 Pre-seed Fudning for Entreprenurial Students</span></span></span>'''

<span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marshall University’s Entrepreneurship program focuses on innovative solutions for big problems. Our university successfully inspires creativity and innovation in entrepreneurial students, yet students struggle with finding financial funding to begin their startup. Our second strategy is called Startup Marshall, which is a way for Entrepreneurship students to create their own pre-seed fund and grow their funds through alumni donations. </span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Startup Marshall is an optional program for Entrepreneurship students. Each semester, students who opt-in the program, are accessed a $250 fee each semester. This fee funds into an account that the entrepreneurship major can use for the development of their startup during college and after they graduate. By opening an account, alumni can view a student’s profile. The profile indicates the student’s major, passions, skills, and interests. Alumni can then donate to student accounts. This strategy is an effort to increase the startup culture at Marshall University and ensure that students have the funds to start their own businesses. </span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kelly Leonard will lead this project but will need the assistance of fellow students, McKenna Sunderland and Annika Benke. </span></span>

'''<span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #3</span></span></span>''''''<span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Increasing accesiblity to iCenter</span></span></span>'''

'''<span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span>'''<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marshall University has an entrepreneurship major and minor that only business students can access. Entrepreneurial students, whether they be engineers, designers, manufacturers, do not have access to I&E mentoring and coaching. To help bridge this gap, Marshall University’s Lewis College of Business opened the iCenter. The iCenter is an innovation center that any student or community member can receive design thinking workshops and help with their startup. </span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Currently, the iCenter is renovating spaces in the business hall. The iCenter, however, does not have open office hours for those seeking help with their businesses. Our priority is to open visiting hours and create ways to make the iCenter accessible for everyone. We want to create online workshops so students and community members can access them at any time.</span>

'''<span style="font-size: large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategy #4 Small Business Crawl</span></span></span>'''

<span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All great ideas start with a spark. While Marshall University is beginning to get the resources that it needs to allow students to pursue these ideas, we must also provide the inspiration. Entrepreneurs come from a variety of different backgrounds, and we want to encourage all of Marshall’s students, regardless of their major, to incorporate entrepreneurship into their lives, too!</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-6a816487-7fff-fc0b-dfa8-2c2e79249074"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our fourth strategy, the Small Business Crawl, invites students to spend the evening visiting several different local small businesses. At each visit, they will learn the story of how the business began, challenges that they’ve faced, and ways that they’ve solved problems. Not only will this help to spark students’ imaginations, it will also help to provide them with contacts in the community that they can reach out to should they need assistance. In this way, we can work to create more local businesses in our area, and further both intellectual and economic growth.</span></span>
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Priorities:Marshall University Student Priorities

2019-10-04T00:01:06Z

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School:Marshall University

2019-09-27T01:47:44Z

Leonard63: Marshall University is new to inspiring entrepreneurship and innovation.

<span style="font-size:x-large;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OVERVIEW</span></span></span>

<span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Promoting </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marshall University is located in Huntington, West Virginia. Huntington is not new to entrepreneurship, however, it is new to inspiring entrepreneurship and innovation. Although Marshall University would like its students to create the next Uber or Facebook, it understand that it first must teach the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and innovation. Within the last 4 years, Marshall University has created an Entrepreneurship major and minor offered through the Lewis College of Business. Last year, Marshall University started a chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization and hosted the West Virginia Innovation and Business Model Competition. This year, Marshall opened the Innovating for Impact Center for Entrepreneurship & Business Innovation (iCenter) which is a collaboration and maker’s space for students, faculty, and community members. In addition, Marshall University will open the Brad D. Smith Business Incubator in 2020. At Marshall University, students have the unique opportunity to be apart of the change occurring on campus and in Huntington. While we may still be establishing our entrepreneurial and innovative efforts, we are creative and scrappy, and most importantly, we are Marshall!</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In September 2019, former Intuit and Marshall alum, Brad Smith, hosted a workshop for the Lewis College of Business faculty. The faculty, although not involved in the entrepreneurship program, learned about innovation, design thinking, and inspiring their students. The faculty was given the challenge to teach their students to be more entrepreneurial and innovative despite their functional area. To support faculty innovation and entrepreneurship, Marshall University also provides access to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for Business and Economic Research </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and Marshall Institute for Interdisciplinary Research under the Marshall University Research Corporation. These centers can provide faculty with funding for their entrepreneurial pursuits and research. In addition, Marshall University faculty has access to the Icenter which provides design thinking workshops, prototyping materials, and a collaboration space.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Actively supporting the university technology transfer function</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each year at Marshall University, faculty, staff, and students create innovate products and services. These products and services have the potential to be profitable, and the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(19, 23, 22); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Technology Transfer Office helps support these endeavors. The Technology Transfer Office provides a variety of services including facilitating the invention disclosure process, obtaining IP protection documents, product and service marketing, and creating connections to industry partners. </span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facilitating university-industry collaboration</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marshall University is making great strides to facilitate industry-collaboration. Currently, Marshall University offers an internship program with Amazon and an apprenticeship program in manufacturing and design through the Robert C Byrd Institute. These opportunities connect students to their areas of interest and industry. In addition, the Huntington community offers students access to 3 industrial and makers’ spaces through the Robert C. Byrd Institute. </span></span>

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<span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are 3 regional sources of capital that Marshall University students can utilize. The first is the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), where students can connect with sources of funding. The second is the West Virginia Capital Access Program, which is offered by West Virginia Job Investment Trust Board and provides funding to entrepreneurs. The mission of this program is to improve the West Virginia economy through the creation of businesses. The third source of funding is StartUp West Virginia Venture, offered by TechConnectWV. StartUp West Virginia Venture funds technology innovators with the hope that they will help to advance the West Virginian economy. In addition, students seeking access to entrepreneurship and innovation mentorship can seek workshops and coaching by three different firms in Huntington.</span></span>
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