School:Wake Forest University

2013-10-18T05:56:38Z

Michael Tantum:

== Student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

The Wake Forest Center for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship (CICE) leads the entrepreneurship community at Wake Forest University. This center was developed in 2003 and since then has grown to be the most popular minor on campus. The Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship is considered an academic program which has allowed the Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise (ESE) minor to brand itself on campus. By this I mean that students recognize the minor because it is not hidden in the business school or in a large academic department. This center has developed its niche on campus and expanded throughout all disciplines and across all majors on campus. Students at Wake Forest University have found this minor extremely useful, practical and fun. It allows the science and liberal arts students to develop their passion into a venture or practical entity in which they can make an impact. Each year, more students declare an ESE minor showing the growing importance of innovation and entrepreneurship to students.  

The three focuses of this program for students has been as follows:

1) Cultivation of widespread innovation and entrepreneurship on campus

This goal has raised awareness of the importance of entrepreneurship across disciplines in the 21st century. Students at Wake Forest avail themselves of the collaborative environment on campus to create an impact and improve their university, community and region. Each year about 4 to 8 startups are founded through the CICE program on campus. These ventures span from efficient door-to-door  laundry services (Wake Wash) to a buy back company for broken cell phones (Buyback Boss) all of which provide credence to the healthy I&E environment on campus.  Furthermore, students in the liberal arts and science colleges are able to learn about grant writing, business plans, industry analysis, and forecasting through Seed Grant Workshops conducted by the ESE program each semester. These workshops prepare students for grant writing and pitching ideas to CICE faculty for seed grants funds. Students are provided with guidance from CICE faculty, the advisory counsel, and connections through the university. In the spring, the Entrepreneurship community will welcome its first Entrepreneur in Residence who will co-teach classes and provide students with an invaluable resource. Lastly, large events have such as Global Entrepreneurship Week, I.C.E Speaker Series, and TEDxWakeForestU have added to the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem at Wake Forest. 

2) Strength the value and relevance of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship in a liberal arts education

Through this goal students are exposed to a wide variety of classes, clubs, and possible internships. The ESE minor requires core courses but also allows students to branch out and take a multitude of interdisciplinary courses which expose students to how they can mix innovation and entrepreneurship into their passion. Furthermore, two major clubs, the E-Society and Enactus have developed this program into a prominent entity on campus for student entrepreneurs. Lastly, the Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship bolsters this sense of combining entrepreneurship into your passion by allocating funds for summer internship stipends. This allows students to start their own venture over the summer or work for a venture anywhere in the world while having some financial support. 

3) Augmentation of the social entrepreneurship scene through new experiential learning

The University motto of Pro Humanitate (For Humanity) is held dear to many of us here at Wake Forest. We believe that social impact and entrepreneurship can lead to great impact on campus and throughout our local community. The CICE has focused on providing students with classes to learn more about potential social opportunities as well as how to make social impacts vs. commercial impacts. This distinction can sometimes be difficult; however, with new reinvented programs and classes, the Center for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship hopes to educate students keeping the idea of Pro Humanitate in the forefront. 

Overall, I am extremely hopeful for the student innovation and entrepreneurship on Wake Forest's campus. For the future, I see several changes that can increase student collaboration, opportunity, and entrepreneurship on campus

== Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

Looking at the big picture which encompasses both the Wake Forest campus, Wake Forest Baptist Medical School, and Wake Forest Biotech Place there is a great deal of faculty innovation and entrepreneurship. Through a newly developed biotech place, faculty from the Medical School and Undergraduate Campus are able to find space and resources needed to grow their ideas. This 242,000 square foot and 100 million dollar building now provides the best most cutting edge technology needed to innovate and bring technology to market. 

Specifically on the Undergraduate Campus, 25 different faculty members across many areas of interest/disciplines come together to teach students about creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship because they see the importance of a diversified education. As of now, the entrepreneurship community has one endowed chair, Dr. Bill Conner Farr Professor of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. He leads the academic side of entrepreneurship on campus and plays an active role advocating for faculty entrepreneurship on the Undergraduate Campus.  In the future, I would like to see more innovation and entrepreneurship come from faculty outside of science disciplines. I think it is important for students to see how their interests can be transferred in innovative ways in order to make an impact. In the spring, Wake Forest will welcome its first Entrepreneur in Residence which will provide students with an important resource and hopefully set an example to faculty as entrepreneurs. 

== University technology transfer function ==

== University-Industry collaboration ==

== Regional and local economic development efforts ==

== Other ==

[http://tedxwakeforestu.com/ TEDxWakeForest] is has become a signature event in showcasing innovation and entrepreneurship at Wake Forest. University Innovation Fellow Christina Oelsner and her two TEDx co-chairs attracted over 1,000 participants with a slate of speakers that included alumn Ricky Van Ween, founder of CollegeHumor.com.

TEDxWakeForest began in 2012 spearheaded by University Innovation Fellow Lucy Lan and her team who attracted close to 1,400 participants featuring TED Fellow and Wake scientist Anthony Atala who is known for his work in 3D-printing a human kidney using stem cells.

The first University Innovation Fellow at Wake Forest was Billy Oelsner.

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Wake Forest University

2013-10-18T05:35:53Z

Michael Tantum:

== Student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

The Wake Forest Center for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship (CICE) leads the entrepreneurship community at Wake Forest University. This center was developed in 2003 and since then has grown to be the most popular minor on campus. The Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship is considered an academic program which has allowed the Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise (ESE) minor to brand itself on campus. By this I mean that students recognize the minor because it is not hidden in the business school or in a large academic department. This center has developed its niche on campus and expanded throughout all disciplines and across all majors on campus. Students at Wake Forest University have found this minor extremely useful, practical and fun. It allows the science and liberal arts students to develop their passion into a venture or practical entity in which they can make an impact. Each year, more students declare an ESE minor showing the growing importance of innovation and entrepreneurship to students.  

The three focuses of this program for students has been as follows:

1) Cultivation of widespread innovation and entrepreneurship on campus

This goal has raised awareness of the importance of entrepreneurship across disciplines in the 21st century. Students at Wake Forest avail themselves of the collaborative environment on campus to create an impact and improve their university, community and region. Each year about 4 to 8 startups are founded through the CICE program on campus. These ventures span from efficient door-to-door  laundry services (Wake Wash) to a buy back company for broken cell phones (Buyback Boss) all of which provide credence to the healthy I&E environment on campus.  Furthermore, students in the liberal arts and science colleges are able to learn about grant writing, business plans, industry analysis, and forecasting through Seed Grant Workshops conducted by the ESE program each semester. These workshops prepare students for grant writing and pitching ideas to CICE faculty for seed grants funds. Students are provided with guidance from CICE faculty, the advisory counsel, and connections through the university. In the spring, the Entrepreneurship community will welcome its first Entrepreneur in Residence who will co-teach classes and provide students with an invaluable resource. Lastly, large events have such as Global Entrepreneurship Week, I.C.E Speaker Series, and TEDxWakeForestU have added to the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem at Wake Forest. 

2) Strength the value and relevance of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship in a liberal arts education

Through this goal students are exposed to a wide variety of classes, clubs, and possible internships. The ESE minor requires core courses but also allows students to branch out and take a multitude of interdisciplinary courses which expose students to how they can mix innovation and entrepreneurship into their passion. Furthermore, two major clubs, the E-Society and Enactus have developed this program into a prominent entity on campus for student entrepreneurs. Lastly, the Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship bolsters this sense of combining entrepreneurship into your passion by allocating funds for summer internship stipends. This allows students to start their own venture over the summer or work for a venture anywhere in the world while having some financial support. 

3) Augmentation of the social entrepreneurship scene through new experiential learning

The University motto of Pro Humanitate (For Humanity) is held dear to many of us here at Wake Forest. We believe that social impact and entrepreneurship can lead to great impact on campus and throughout our local community. The CICE has focused on providing students with classes to learn more about potential social opportunities as well as how to make social impacts vs. commercial impacts. This distinction can sometimes be difficult; however, with new reinvented programs and classes, the Center for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship hopes to educate students keeping the idea of Pro Humanitate in the forefront. 

Overall, I am extremely hopeful for the student innovation and entrepreneurship on Wake Forest's campus. For the future, I see several changes that can increase student collaboration, opportunity, and entrepreneurship on campus

== Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

== University technology transfer function ==

== University-Industry collaboration ==

== Regional and local economic development efforts ==

== Other ==

[http://tedxwakeforestu.com/ TEDxWakeForest] is has become a signature event in showcasing innovation and entrepreneurship at Wake Forest. University Innovation Fellow Christina Oelsner and her two TEDx co-chairs attracted over 1,000 participants with a slate of speakers that included alumn Ricky Van Ween, founder of CollegeHumor.com.

TEDxWakeForest began in 2012 spearheaded by University Innovation Fellow Lucy Lan and her team who attracted close to 1,400 participants featuring TED Fellow and Wake scientist Anthony Atala who is known for his work in 3D-printing a human kidney using stem cells.

The first University Innovation Fellow at Wake Forest was Billy Oelsner.

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Wake Forest University

2013-10-18T05:34:00Z

Michael Tantum:

== Student innovation and entrepreneurship ==

The Wake Forest Center for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship (CICE) leads the entrepreneurship community at Wake Forest University. This center was developed in 2003 and since then has grown to be the most popular minor on campus. The Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship is considered an academic program which has allowed the Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise (ESE) minor to brand itself on campus. By this I mean that students recognize the minor because it is not hidden in the business school or in a large academic department. This center has developed its niche on campus and expanded throughout all disciplines and across all majors on campus. Students at Wake Forest University have found this minor extremely useful, practical and fun. It allows the science and liberal arts students to develop their passion into a venture or practical entity in which they can make an impact. Each year, more students declare an ESE minor showing the growing importance of innovation and entrepreneurship to students.  

The three focuses of this program for students has been as follows:

1) Cultivation of widespread innovation and entrepreneurship on campus

This goal has raised awareness of the importance of entrepreneurship across disciplines in the 21st century. Students at Wake Forest avail themselves of the collaborative environment on campus to create an impact and improve their university, community and region. Each year about 4 to 8 startups are founded through the CICE program on campus. These ventures span from efficient door-to-door  laundry services (Wake Wash) to a buy back company for broken cell phones (Buyback Boss) all of which provide credence to the healthy I&E environment on campus.  Furthermore, students in the liberal arts and science colleges are able to learn about grant writing, business plans, industry analysis, and forecasting through Seed Grant Workshops conducted by the ESE program each semester. These workshops prepare students for grant writing and pitching ideas to CICE faculty for seed grants funds. Students are provided with guidance from CICE faculty, the advisory counsel, and connections through the university. In the spring, the Entrepreneurship community will welcome its first Entrepreneur in Residence who will co-teach classes and provide students with an invaluable resource. Lastly, large events have such as Global Entrepreneurship Week, I.C.E Speaker Series, and TEDxWakeForestU have added to the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem at Wake Forest. 

2) Strength the value and relevance of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship in a liberal arts education

Through this goal students are exposed to a wide variety of classes, clubs, and possible internships. The ESE minor requires core courses but also allows students to branch out and take a multitude of interdisciplinary courses which expose students to how they can mix innovation and entrepreneurship into their passion. Furthermore, two major clubs, the E-Society and Enactus have developed this program into a prominent entity on campus for student entrepreneurs. Lastly, the Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship bolsters this sense of combining entrepreneurship into your passion by allocating funds for summer internship stipends. This allows students to start their own venture over the summer or work for a venture anywhere in the world while having some financial support. 

3) Augmentation of the social entrepreneurship scene through new experiential learning

The University motto of Pro Humanitate (For Humanity) is held dear to many of us here at Wake Forest. We believe that social impact and entrepreneurship can lead to great impact on campus and throughout our local community. The C.I.C.E. has focused on providing students with classes to learn more about potential social opportunities as well as how to make social impacts vs. commercial impacts. This distinction can sometimes be difficult; however, with new reinvented programs and classes, the Center for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship hopes to educate students keeping the idea of Pro Humanitate in the forefront. 

Overall, I am extremely hopeful for the student innovation and entrepreneurship on Wake Forest's campus. For the future, I see several changes that can increase student collaboration, opportunity, and entrepreneurship on campus

== Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==

== University technology transfer function ==

== University-Industry collaboration ==

== Regional and local economic development efforts ==

== Other ==

[http://tedxwakeforestu.com/ TEDxWakeForest] is has become a signature event in showcasing innovation and entrepreneurship at Wake Forest. University Innovation Fellow Christina Oelsner and her two TEDx co-chairs attracted over 1,000 participants with a slate of speakers that included alumn Ricky Van Ween, founder of CollegeHumor.com.

TEDxWakeForest began in 2012 spearheaded by University Innovation Fellow Lucy Lan and her team who attracted close to 1,400 participants featuring TED Fellow and Wake scientist Anthony Atala who is known for his work in 3D-printing a human kidney using stem cells.

The first University Innovation Fellow at Wake Forest was Billy Oelsner.

[[Category:Universities]]

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2013-10-18T04:32:20Z

Michael Tantum:

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2013-10-18T04:28:54Z

Michael Tantum:

2013-10-11T01:17:17Z

Michael Tantum:

== Introduction ==

Creating a new design or innovation space on campus at first appears to be a daunting task. This task can involve manpower, money, hours of time, and a delirious passion for making an impact on campus. Instead of talking about a blueprint of how to build an on-campus innovation space, a current University Innovation Fellow Jared Karp, discussed exactly what bring a design and innovation space to campus really means. Furthermore, he endeavored into the questions of why and how this space can be used to empower students to generate their own vision and execute on their own ideas. While I interviewed Jared, I came across many interesting tips for helping start up an innovation space; however, talking to him showed me that creating an innovation space is much more than fitting a set model to a new campus. The action of creating this space takes entrepreneurial spirit itself! Nevertheless, I realized the enormous positive impact an innovate space can have on student entrepreneurs. The goal of this space is not only to ideate, tinker, and network but also inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs. Through this how to guide, I hope you get a sense of not just what is going on within this space and how to built it, but WHY it is absolutely necessary for your campus. 

== Need and Goals ==

The need comes from students wanting to collaborate and work together in a forward thinking, creative, and innovative environment. On-campus innovation space creates a place where students can aggregate around the common interest of being curious or passionate about an idea. Many campuses, especially mine at Wake Forest University have a number of entrepreneurs; however, they have minimal interaction with each other. This is where I see the need. Bring these students together would create a supportive environment allowing team formation,  collecting of resources, campus wide networking. Students could motivate each other and push through set backs along their process. The need that an innovation space fundamentally fills is that of a collaborative work environment. To access this need, surveys to students can be done, focus groups, questionnaires, or  interviews with students. At the same time, student leaders can also see the growing need  and act upon it by attempt to take on the challenge of implementing an on-campus innovation space.

The goal of building an on-campus innovation space is to fulfill a vision of student entrepreneurs working together from across many disciplines to solve common problems. Building a physical space on-campus also gives entrepreneurship a location, face, and identity on-campus which can be lost in the mix of other influential organization.  Another goal would be to allow students to think and work outside the classroom. This real life hands on experience is invaluable for student entrepreneurs entering into post graduation life. 

== Academic Permission ==

Academic permission is the tough part of creating an on-campus innovation space. This process is also difficult to write an exact "how to guide" because each campus has a different process and permission steps. While talking to the co-found of Design Engineering Collaborative at UC Berkeley, Jared Karp, I was able to find some ways to overcome this hurdle. Jared first stated that you should find the person that can say yes. By this meant that universities are filled with people who will love your idea and tell you to reach for the stars; however, very few of them have the authority to sign off and say...yes! It is important to find this person or find someone who can introduce you to this person. Jared also suggested that you should be prepared for this conversations with all the materials you would need to show that this is NEEDED and it is VIABLE. These are key points that anyone will want to know before signing off. Hard evidence like your market research and cost analysis could go a long way towards that signature. Furthermore, you must give off a feeling of infectious excitement, enthusiasm, and passion for what you are doing/about to do. This is contagious and most people will not be able to say no. Lastly, as Jared said, "do everything with a smile." If you are passionate about changing your campus, making an impact, and have a vision then you definitely have something to smile about.   

== Support ==

Support is an interesting part of the "How to guide." Most of us think of support as financial backing, advisors, teachers, and whatever else support may consist of. In this case, I think support really needs to be a critical mass of students that show their support for an on-campus innovation space. The most important part of this (which also leads to academic permission) is that the administration is going to want a large number of students interested in this space. The ideal goal would be to form a team of students who you closely work with to get this idea rolling. You then want to get as many students as possible behind this movement, somewhat like a nuclear chain reaction, you must reach critical mass. This has to be a point where the administration ''has'' to listen to the student body. In Jared's case, he developed the idea from a place called IDEO and also saw what Stanford was doing with their d-school. He figured that UC Berkeley could use the same type of space on-campus. Jared organized a team and then student leaders from all related groups and formed a large movement on campus. 

== Location ==

Location is an important aspect of your on-campus innovation space. Jared and I both agreed that the ideal place for a design location is somewhere centrally located on campus. This place would be somewhere students could stop by for 10 minutes or hours at a time. This central location idea also breaks the idea that only science, business, or engineering students could use this space. In fact, it should be somewhere on campus where every students interacts with one another. Unfortunately, not all campuses have been build with having an on-campus innovation space in mind. Sometimes, any place must do and that is exactly what Jared found. While wondering around campus one day, he found himself in a building that had several unused classrooms. Jared found who was in charge of the empty rooms and was able to get privileges to renovate the space. He has now turned this location into his campus' innovation space he calls the student hub for engineering and design (SHED). 

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== Activities ==

There are a number of activities that can go on in an on-campus innovation space. Students can come together and work collaboratively or also individually on ideas they are curious about. Innovation spaces allow students to create ideas using white board space and then take this idea and begin creating a rudimentary prototype. Furthermore, this space provides teachers with an area to teach innovate through design and engineering, Classes could be taught to facilitate students in the entrepreneurial process as they create plans for their venture. In addition, meetings for groups can be held in this space. The SHED at UC Berkeley is used for all of these things including weekly meetings Jared explained. He said that each week they come together and do an ICE breaker activity, another creative/innovative activity, and have presentations by individuals wishing to form teams. To join this group, Jared said that there is an application process along with a membership fee. This allows them to get small supplies that support the group as well as get the students invested in the space. Overall, the activities can consist anything that the members of its community wish to hold. 

[http://dec.berkeley.edu/space.html#prettyPhoto http://dec.berkeley.edu/space.html#prettyPhoto]

== Materials ==

Materials to outfit an on-campus innovation space consist of simple tools, some electronics, computers (sometimes), lounging space, whiteboards, and building materials. Anything that would be needed to do some simple tinkering and getting an idea off the ground. Jared stressed that materials could start out being as little as markers and whiteboards. It is more about the space and people than the materials within it. 

== Management ==

Management of an on-campus innovation space can vary depending on the desires of the members. The area is managed by the group and is thought of as group owned where anyone can use anything. There is an atmosphere of respect for each other and the tools that belong in that space. It basically takes care of itself. Sometimes groups have an elected "space captain" as Jared called it, to oversee the area and make sure tools are functioning property. The key point is that this is about community and wanting to build, innovate, and create. Mutual respect for one another and unification under a common vision are all keys to effectively managing an on-campus innovation space. 

== Launch ==

Jared described the launch of Design Engineer Collaborative as big, flashy, and making a statement. His underlying message though was really that this needs to be something everyone knows about. Start by word of mouth of campus, use social media, make presentations, run through your academic quad like a wild banshee, or whatever it takes to get your message out there. Make sure that your launch is active and shows that you are really passionate about the space, the organization, and the people. 

== Lessons and Tips ==

I can summarize a few lessons Jared learned and I think that I learned from Jared as well. 

1. 

Design Engineer Collaborative:

[http://dec.berkeley.edu/index.html http://dec.berkeley.edu/index.html]

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