University Innovation Fellows - User contributions [en]

Priorities:Georgia Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2014-04-07T02:48:23Z

Msaha3:

= Georgia Tech Student Vision:  =

      We believe GT students can change the world. Our campus offers many resources and even better faculty to help innovation and creativity on campus. We need to connect the GT community by creating an umbrella organization to help students flow into these resources on campus, and create channels for student-faculty relationships. 

= University Innovation Council: =

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Despite the many great resources Georgia Tech currently has, the innovation and entrepreneurial movement, which is currently overtaking the nation, has been stalled on our campus due to lack of organization.

Students are unsure and mostly unaware of the opportunities that they can utilize beyond big names resources such as the Invention Studio or the inVenture Competition.

Organizations are struggling to grow, hold large events, or simply stay operational because of the lack of assisted communication and constant overlap.

Professors are additionally wasting large amounts of time trying to connect to students due to a lack of protocol and standardized connection.

Our program will exists to foster a passion and define a sustainability for innovative and entrepreneurial (I&E) among all members of the Georgia Tech community.

The University Innovation Council will support three main areas: the student body, current campus organizations, and faculty/administration.  This will improve the community by: eliminating overlap, bringing students of all backgrounds and ages together, and encouraging administrative involvement. This will be done in the following ways.
<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>'''Student Members of the Georgia Tech Community'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Provide access to a umbrella calendar of I&E events</li>
<li>Connect individual student interests to the I&E movement with others in the Georgia Tech community</li>
<li>Formulate methods to encourage innovation at Tech</li>
<li>Provide updates and other opportunities on a regular basis</li>
</ul></li>
<li>'''I&E Campus Organizations'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Host Forums</li>
<li>Connect I&E organizations</li>
<li>Provide consulting advice, support, and membership numbers</li>
<li>Provide a yearly I&E wheel featuring individual organizations</li>
</ul></li>
<li>'''Administration'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Dissolve the communication barrier between students, organisations, and the administration</li>
<li>Form strategic partnerships with supporters of entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Provide ‘voice’ of I&E for consulting</li>
<li>Create a mentoring program for faculty to get involved in helping students develop ideas and turn them into a reality</li>
</ul></li>
</ol>

Additionally, please refer to our Campus Landscape Map for both on-campus and off-campus resources, and local Atlanta-based resources:

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=0]

This illustrates all of the resource on Georgia Tech’s campus for undergraduates, graduates, organizations, and faculty through perceived, potential, applied, realized, reframing, and institutional resources.Through this map, we will be able to fully maximize student to faculty, undergraduate, and graduate student interactions and improve it for the future based on our knowledge of the current environment.

= Student-Faculty Relations: =

Through the University Innovation Council, student-faculty interaction will be facilitated in three main ways:

'''1. '''Students interested in getting involved in the I&E movement will be connect with a professor directly based on their idea, needs, and goals. This introduction will save valuable time for the student by removing the searching process. This will also save time for the professor by introduction them to a student who is serious about their work and eager to network.

'''2.''' Faculty will be able to directly interact and engage with movements on campus that organizations and students are working on. Instead of having to be directed by several groups of people, they will know all I&E related movements are being directed by the University Innovation Council hub.

'''3. '''Resource for both students and faculty will be maximized due to the lack of overlap. The process of starting and I&E movement will be able to be streamlined through our organization.

= Wide Net Impact: =

By creating a centralized hub, the University Innovation Council will be able to run all I&E movements that Georgia Tech is starting. Our organization is one that will exist for the betterment of the University; Not just one major, one club, or even one type of student.

Many undergraduate students are being inspired to create projects and invent in their classes and many graduate students are being encouraged to turn their research and theses into entrepreneurial companies. This would really help graduate students network with undergraduates to easily allocate research positions, internships, and special projects as well as vise versa. It is a much more desirable way for them to see what students are passionate about instead of just going off of resumes and shallow connections.

Again, by providing an overarching umbrella, students will be able to focus on their ideas and goals rather than finding the resources. The unique characteristic about I&E is that its not limited to undergraduate or graduate students.   

= Sustainable Impact: =

By providing a council and infrastructure for I&E to operate under, new students will not have to worry about finding resources or connections (because they will already be provided). They will be able to just focus on the movement and their ideas, goals, and design processes. It will make the entrepreneurial experience less of a trial and error process and more success stories will come out of the Georgia Tech entrepreneurial landscape. In addition, it will create a foundation on campus for other I&E movements to be built off of.

Through the University Innovation Council students and faculty will be able to grow I&E on campus together and facilitates movements going forward together. This means that they will become more reliant and trusting of each other. If both students and faculty are invested in the same issue and working together to make change, Georgia Tech's campus landscape in I&E will continue to grow going forward which will only perpetuate the success of the I&E campus.

= Funds Needed: =

This budget is based off a $10,000 fund.

1. $500 - Organizing Umbrella Reaching Out

2. $2500 - Connect with Purpose

3. $2000 - I&E for Dummies

4. $5000 - GT Innovation Month

= Timeline: =

[[File:Timeline.png]]

= GT Innovation Month: =

We hope to structure GT Innovation Month similarly to NYU UIF Terrence did for his school. We aim to showcase unique I&E entities across campus and off-campus in the Atlanta area by holding programs in their respective spaces. This will increase awareness of I&E, gain students for the campus movement, and allow the I&E community at GT to be strengthned and centralized.

[[File:Innovation Month.png]]

= GT Video UIF Pitch: =

Click the link to get access to our GT student pitch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbUSzMxnAFM&feature=youtu.be

Priorities:Georgia Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2014-04-07T02:06:04Z

Msaha3:

= Georgia Tech Student Vision:  =

      We believe GT students can change the world. Our campus offers many resources and even better faculty to help innovation and creativity on campus. We need to connect the GT community by creating an umbrella organization to help students flow into these resources on campus, and create channels for student-faculty relationships. 

= University Innovation Council: =

----

Despite the many great resources Georgia Tech currently has, the innovation and entrepreneurial movement, which is currently overtaking the nation, has been stalled on our campus due to lack of organization.

Students are unsure and mostly unaware of the opportunities that they can utilize beyond big names resources such as the Invention Studio or the inVenture Competition.

Organizations are struggling to grow, hold large events, or simply stay operational because of the lack of assisted communication and constant overlap.

Professors are additionally wasting large amounts of time trying to connect to students due to a lack of protocol and standardized connection.

Our program will exists to foster a passion and define a sustainability for innovative and entrepreneurial (I&E) among all members of the Georgia Tech community.

The University Innovation Council will support three main areas: the student body, current campus organizations, and faculty/administration.  This will improve the community by: eliminating overlap, bringing students of all backgrounds and ages together, and encouraging administrative involvement. This will be done in the following ways.
<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>'''Student Members of the Georgia Tech Community'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Provide access to a umbrella calendar of I&E events</li>
<li>Connect individual student interests to the I&E movement with others in the Georgia Tech community</li>
<li>Formulate methods to encourage innovation at Tech</li>
<li>Provide updates and other opportunities on a regular basis</li>
</ul></li>
<li>'''I&E Campus Organizations'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Host Forums</li>
<li>Connect I&E organizations</li>
<li>Provide consulting advice, support, and membership numbers</li>
<li>Provide a yearly I&E wheel featuring individual organizations</li>
</ul></li>
<li>'''Administration'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Dissolve the communication barrier between students, organisations, and the administration</li>
<li>Form strategic partnerships with supporters of entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Provide ‘voice’ of I&E for consulting</li>
<li>Create a mentoring program for faculty to get involved in helping students develop ideas and turn them into a reality</li>
</ul></li>
</ol>

Additionally, please refer to our Campus Landscape Map for both on-campus and off-campus resources, and local Atlanta-based resources:

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=0]

This illustrates all of the resource on Georgia Tech’s campus for undergraduates, graduates, organizations, and faculty through perceived, potential, applied, realized, reframing, and institutional resources.Through this map, we will be able to fully maximize student to faculty, undergraduate, and graduate student interactions and improve it for the future based on our knowledge of the current environment.

= Student-Faculty Relations: =

Through the University Innovation Council, student-faculty interaction will be facilitated in three main ways:

'''1. '''Students interested in getting involved in the I&E movement will be connect with a professor directly based on their idea, needs, and goals. This introduction will save valuable time for the student by removing the searching process. This will also save time for the professor by introduction them to a student who is serious about their work and eager to network.

'''2.''' Faculty will be able to directly interact and engage with movements on campus that organizations and students are working on. Instead of having to be directed by several groups of people, they will know all I&E related movements are being directed by the University Innovation Council hub.

'''3. '''Resource for both students and faculty will be maximized due to the lack of overlap. The process of starting and I&E movement will be able to be streamlined through our organization.

= Wide Net Impact: =

By creating a centralized hub, the University Innovation Council will be able to run all I&E movements that Georgia Tech is starting. Our organization is one that will exist for the betterment of the University; Not just one major, one club, or even one type of student.

Many undergraduate students are being inspired to create projects and invent in their classes and many graduate students are being encouraged to turn their research and theses into entrepreneurial companies. This would really help graduate students network with undergraduates to easily allocate research positions, internships, and special projects as well as vise versa. It is a much more desirable way for them to see what students are passionate about instead of just going off of resumes and shallow connections.

Again, by providing an overarching umbrella, students will be able to focus on their ideas and goals rather than finding the resources. The unique characteristic about I&E is that its not limited to undergraduate or graduate students.   

= Sustainable Impact: =

By providing a council and infrastructure for I&E to operate under, new students will not have to worry about finding resources or connections (because they will already be provided). They will be able to just focus on the movement and their ideas, goals, and design processes. It will make the entrepreneurial experience less of a trial and error process and more success stories will come out of the Georgia Tech entrepreneurial landscape. In addition, it will create a foundation on campus for other I&E movements to be built off of.

Through the University Innovation Council students and faculty will be able to grow I&E on campus together and facilitates movements going forward together. This means that they will become more reliant and trusting of each other. If both students and faculty are invested in the same issue and working together to make change, Georgia Tech's campus landscape in I&E will continue to grow going forward which will only perpetuate the success of the I&E campus.

= Funds Needed: =

This budget is based off a $10,000 fund.

1. $500 - Organizing Umbrella Reaching Out

2. $2500 - Connect with Purpose

3. $2000 - I&E for Dummies

4. $5000 - GT Innovation Month

= Timeline: =

[[File:Timeline.png]]

= GT Innovation Month: =

We hope to structure GT Innovation Month similarly to NYU UIF Terrence did for his school. We aim to showcase unique I&E entities across campus and off-campus in the Atlanta area by holding programs in their respective spaces. This will increase awareness of I&E, gain students for the campus movement, and allow the I&E community at GT to be strengthned and centralized.

[[File:Innovation Month.png]]

Priorities:Georgia Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2014-04-07T02:03:32Z

Msaha3:

= =

= University Innovation Council: =

----

Despite the many great resources Georgia Tech currently has, the innovation and entrepreneurial movement, which is currently overtaking the nation, has been stalled on our campus due to lack of organization.

Students are unsure and mostly unaware of the opportunities that they can utilize beyond big names resources such as the Invention Studio or the inVenture Competition.

Organizations are struggling to grow, hold large events, or simply stay operational because of the lack of assisted communication and constant overlap.

Professors are additionally wasting large amounts of time trying to connect to students due to a lack of protocol and standardized connection.

Our program will exists to foster a passion and define a sustainability for innovative and entrepreneurial (I&E) among all members of the Georgia Tech community.

The University Innovation Council will support three main areas: the student body, current campus organizations, and faculty/administration.  This will improve the community by: eliminating overlap, bringing students of all backgrounds and ages together, and encouraging administrative involvement. This will be done in the following ways.
<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>'''Student Members of the Georgia Tech Community'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Provide access to a umbrella calendar of I&E events</li>
<li>Connect individual student interests to the I&E movement with others in the Georgia Tech community</li>
<li>Formulate methods to encourage innovation at Tech</li>
<li>Provide updates and other opportunities on a regular basis</li>
</ul></li>
<li>'''I&E Campus Organizations'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Host Forums</li>
<li>Connect I&E organizations</li>
<li>Provide consulting advice, support, and membership numbers</li>
<li>Provide a yearly I&E wheel featuring individual organizations</li>
</ul></li>
<li>'''Administration'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Dissolve the communication barrier between students, organisations, and the administration</li>
<li>Form strategic partnerships with supporters of entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Provide ‘voice’ of I&E for consulting</li>
<li>Create a mentoring program for faculty to get involved in helping students develop ideas and turn them into a reality</li>
</ul></li>
</ol>

Additionally, please refer to our Campus Landscape Map for both on-campus and off-campus resources, and local Atlanta-based resources:

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=0]

This illustrates all of the resource on Georgia Tech’s campus for undergraduates, graduates, organizations, and faculty through perceived, potential, applied, realized, reframing, and institutional resources.Through this map, we will be able to fully maximize student to faculty, undergraduate, and graduate student interactions and improve it for the future based on our knowledge of the current environment.

= Student-Faculty Relations: =

Through the University Innovation Council, student-faculty interaction will be facilitated in three main ways:

'''1. '''Students interested in getting involved in the I&E movement will be connect with a professor directly based on their idea, needs, and goals. This introduction will save valuable time for the student by removing the searching process. This will also save time for the professor by introduction them to a student who is serious about their work and eager to network.

'''2.''' Faculty will be able to directly interact and engage with movements on campus that organizations and students are working on. Instead of having to be directed by several groups of people, they will know all I&E related movements are being directed by the University Innovation Council hub.

'''3. '''Resource for both students and faculty will be maximized due to the lack of overlap. The process of starting and I&E movement will be able to be streamlined through our organization.

= Wide Net Impact: =

By creating a centralized hub, the University Innovation Council will be able to run all I&E movements that Georgia Tech is starting. Our organization is one that will exist for the betterment of the University; Not just one major, one club, or even one type of student.

Many undergraduate students are being inspired to create projects and invent in their classes and many graduate students are being encouraged to turn their research and theses into entrepreneurial companies. This would really help graduate students network with undergraduates to easily allocate research positions, internships, and special projects as well as vise versa. It is a much more desirable way for them to see what students are passionate about instead of just going off of resumes and shallow connections.

Again, by providing an overarching umbrella, students will be able to focus on their ideas and goals rather than finding the resources. The unique characteristic about I&E is that its not limited to undergraduate or graduate students.   

= Sustainable Impact: =

By providing a council and infrastructure for I&E to operate under, new students will not have to worry about finding resources or connections (because they will already be provided). They will be able to just focus on the movement and their ideas, goals, and design processes. It will make the entrepreneurial experience less of a trial and error process and more success stories will come out of the Georgia Tech entrepreneurial landscape. In addition, it will create a foundation on campus for other I&E movements to be built off of.

Through the University Innovation Council students and faculty will be able to grow I&E on campus together and facilitates movements going forward together. This means that they will become more reliant and trusting of each other. If both students and faculty are invested in the same issue and working together to make change, Georgia Tech's campus landscape in I&E will continue to grow going forward which will only perpetuate the success of the I&E campus.

= Funds Needed: =

This budget is based off a $10,000 fund.

1. $500 - Organizing Umbrella Reaching Out

2. $2500 - Connect with Purpose

3. $2000 - I&E for Dummies

4. $5000 - GT Innovation Month

= Timeline: =

[[File:Timeline.png]]

= GT Innovation Month: =

We hope to structure GT Innovation Month similarly to NYU UIF Terrence did for his school. We aim to showcase unique I&E entities across campus and off-campus in the Atlanta area by holding programs in their respective spaces. This will increase awareness of I&E, gain students for the campus movement, and allow the I&E community at GT to be strengthned and centralized.

[[File:Innovation Month.png]]

Priorities:Georgia Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2014-04-07T02:02:47Z

Msaha3:

= =

= =

= University Innovation Council: =

----

Despite the many great resources Georgia Tech currently has, the innovation and entrepreneurial movement, which is currently overtaking the nation, has been stalled on our campus due to lack of organization.

Students are unsure and mostly unaware of the opportunities that they can utilize beyond big names resources such as the Invention Studio or the inVenture Competition.

Organizations are struggling to grow, hold large events, or simply stay operational because of the lack of assisted communication and constant overlap.

Professors are additionally wasting large amounts of time trying to connect to students due to a lack of protocol and standardized connection.

Our program will exists to foster a passion and define a sustainability for innovative and entrepreneurial (I&E) among all members of the Georgia Tech community.

The University Innovation Council will support three main areas: the student body, current campus organizations, and faculty/administration.  This will improve the community by: eliminating overlap, bringing students of all backgrounds and ages together, and encouraging administrative involvement. This will be done in the following ways.
<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>'''Student Members of the Georgia Tech Community'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Provide access to a umbrella calendar of I&E events</li>
<li>Connect individual student interests to the I&E movement with others in the Georgia Tech community</li>
<li>Formulate methods to encourage innovation at Tech</li>
<li>Provide updates and other opportunities on a regular basis</li>
</ul></li>
<li>'''I&E Campus Organizations'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Host Forums</li>
<li>Connect I&E organizations</li>
<li>Provide consulting advice, support, and membership numbers</li>
<li>Provide a yearly I&E wheel featuring individual organizations</li>
</ul></li>
<li>'''Administration'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Dissolve the communication barrier between students, organisations, and the administration</li>
<li>Form strategic partnerships with supporters of entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Provide ‘voice’ of I&E for consulting</li>
<li>Create a mentoring program for faculty to get involved in helping students develop ideas and turn them into a reality</li>
</ul></li>
</ol>

Additionally, please refer to our Campus Landscape Map for both on-campus and off-campus resources, and local Atlanta-based resources:

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=0]

This illustrates all of the resource on Georgia Tech’s campus for undergraduates, graduates, organizations, and faculty through perceived, potential, applied, realized, reframing, and institutional resources.Through this map, we will be able to fully maximize student to faculty, undergraduate, and graduate student interactions and improve it for the future based on our knowledge of the current environment.



= Student-Faculty Relations: =

Through the University Innovation Council, student-faculty interaction will be facilitated in three main ways:

'''1. '''Students interested in getting involved in the I&E movement will be connect with a professor directly based on their idea, needs, and goals. This introduction will save valuable time for the student by removing the searching process. This will also save time for the professor by introduction them to a student who is serious about their work and eager to network.

'''2.''' Faculty will be able to directly interact and engage with movements on campus that organizations and students are working on. Instead of having to be directed by several groups of people, they will know all I&E related movements are being directed by the University Innovation Council hub.

'''3. '''Resource for both students and faculty will be maximized due to the lack of overlap. The process of starting and I&E movement will be able to be streamlined through our organization.

= Wide Net Impact: =

By creating a centralized hub, the University Innovation Council will be able to run all I&E movements that Georgia Tech is starting. Our organization is one that will exist for the betterment of the University; Not just one major, one club, or even one type of student.

Many undergraduate students are being inspired to create projects and invent in their classes and many graduate students are being encouraged to turn their research and theses into entrepreneurial companies. This would really help graduate students network with undergraduates to easily allocate research positions, internships, and special projects as well as vise versa. It is a much more desirable way for them to see what students are passionate about instead of just going off of resumes and shallow connections.

Again, by providing an overarching umbrella, students will be able to focus on their ideas and goals rather than finding the resources. The unique characteristic about I&E is that its not limited to undergraduate or graduate students.   

= Sustainable Impact: =

By providing a council and infrastructure for I&E to operate under, new students will not have to worry about finding resources or connections (because they will already be provided). They will be able to just focus on the movement and their ideas, goals, and design processes. It will make the entrepreneurial experience less of a trial and error process and more success stories will come out of the Georgia Tech entrepreneurial landscape. In addition, it will create a foundation on campus for other I&E movements to be built off of.

Through the University Innovation Council students and faculty will be able to grow I&E on campus together and facilitates movements going forward together. This means that they will become more reliant and trusting of each other. If both students and faculty are invested in the same issue and working together to make change, Georgia Tech's campus landscape in I&E will continue to grow going forward which will only perpetuate the success of the I&E campus.

= Funds Needed: =

This budget is based off a $10,000 fund.

1. $500 - Organizing Umbrella Reaching Out

2. $2500 - Connect with Purpose

3. $2000 - I&E for Dummies

4. $5000 - GT Innovation Month

= Timeline: =

[[File:Timeline.png]]

= GT Innovation Month: =

We hope to structure GT Innovation Month similarly to NYU UIF Terrence did for his school. We aim to showcase unique I&E entities across campus and off-campus in the Atlanta area by holding programs in their respective spaces. This will increase awareness of I&E, gain students for the campus movement, and allow the I&E community at GT to be strengthned and centralized.

[[File:Innovation Month.png]]

Priorities:Georgia Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2014-04-07T01:59:54Z

Msaha3:

= =

= =

= University Innovation Council: =

Despite the many great resources Georgia Tech currently has, the innovation and entrepreneurial movement, which is currently overtaking the nation, has been stalled on our campus due to lack of organization.

Students are unsure and mostly unaware of the opportunities that they can utilize beyond big names resources such as the Invention Studio or the inVenture Competition.

Organizations are struggling to grow, hold large events, or simply stay operational because of the lack of assisted communication and constant overlap.

Professors are additionally wasting large amounts of time trying to connect to students due to a lack of protocol and standardized connection.

Our program will exists to foster a passion and define a sustainability for innovative and entrepreneurial (I&E) among all members of the Georgia Tech community.

The University Innovation Council will support three main areas: the student body, current campus organizations, and faculty/administration.  This will improve the community by: eliminating overlap, bringing students of all backgrounds and ages together, and encouraging administrative involvement. This will be done in the following ways.
<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>'''Student Members of the Georgia Tech Community'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Provide access to a umbrella calendar of I&E events</li>
<li>Connect individual student interests to the I&E movement with others in the Georgia Tech community</li>
<li>Formulate methods to encourage innovation at Tech</li>
<li>Provide updates and other opportunities on a regular basis</li>
</ul></li>
<li>'''I&E Campus Organizations'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Host Forums</li>
<li>Connect I&E organizations</li>
<li>Provide consulting advice, support, and membership numbers</li>
<li>Provide a yearly I&E wheel featuring individual organizations</li>
</ul></li>
<li>'''Administration'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Dissolve the communication barrier between students, organisations, and the administration</li>
<li>Form strategic partnerships with supporters of entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Provide ‘voice’ of I&E for consulting</li>
<li>Create a mentoring program for faculty to get involved in helping students develop ideas and turn them into a reality</li>
</ul></li>
</ol>

Additionally, please refer to our Campus Landscape Map for both on-campus and off-campus resources, and local Atlanta-based resources:

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=0]

This illustrates all of the resource on Georgia Tech’s campus for undergraduates, graduates, organizations, and faculty through perceived, potential, applied, realized, reframing, and institutional resources.Through this map, we will be able to fully maximize student to faculty, undergraduate, and graduate student interactions and improve it for the future based on our knowledge of the current environment.

How will this idea improve Georgia Tech's student-faculty interaction?

Through the University Innovation Council, student-faculty interaction will be facilitated in three main ways:

'''1. '''Students interested in getting involved in the I&E movement will be connect with a professor directly based on their idea, needs, and goals. This introduction will save valuable time for the student by removing the searching process. This will also save time for the professor by introduction them to a student who is serious about their work and eager to network.

'''2.''' Faculty will be able to directly interact and engage with movements on campus that organizations and students are working on. Instead of having to be directed by several groups of people, they will know all I&E related movements are being directed by the University Innovation Council hub.

'''3. '''Resource for both students and faculty will be maximized due to the lack of overlap. The process of starting and I&E movement will be able to be streamlined through our organization.

How will this idea affect both undergraduate and graduate students?

By creating a centralized hub, the University Innovation Council will be able to run all I&E movements that Georgia Tech is starting. Our organization is one that will exist for the betterment of the University; Not just one major, one club, or even one type of student.

Many undergraduate students are being inspired to create projects and invent in their classes and many graduate students are being encouraged to turn their research and theses into entrepreneurial companies. This would really help graduate students network with undergraduates to easily allocate research positions, internships, and special projects as well as vise versa. It is a much more desirable way for them to see what students are passionate about instead of just going off of resumes and shallow connections.

Again, by providing an overarching umbrella, students will be able to focus on their ideas and goals rather than finding the resources. The unique characteristic about I&E is that its not limited to undergraduate or graduate students.   

How will this idea have a lasting impact?Explain how funding this idea now will impact Georgia Tech student-faculty interaction for years to come:

By providing a council and infrastructure for I&E to operate under, new students will not have to worry about finding resources or connections (because they will already be provided). They will be able to just focus on the movement and their ideas, goals, and design processes. It will make the entrepreneurial experience less of a trial and error process and more success stories will come out of the Georgia Tech entrepreneurial landscape. In addition, it will create a foundation on campus for other I&E movements to be built off of.

Through the University Innovation Council students and faculty will be able to grow I&E on campus together and facilitates movements going forward together. This means that they will become more reliant and trusting of each other. If both students and faculty are invested in the same issue and working together to make change, Georgia Tech's campus landscape in I&E will continue to grow going forward which will only perpetuate the success of the I&E campus.

Included below is a general outline of the financial aide that we have applied for through Georgia Tech's SGA Joint Finance Committee:

This budget is based off a $10,000 fund.

1. $500 - Organizing Umbrella Reaching Out

2. $2500 - Connect with Purpose

3. $2000 - I&E for Dummies

4. $5000 - GT Innovation Month

A rough implementation timeline for our proposal (deliverables):

[[File:Timeline.png]]

'''GT Innovation Month:'''

We hope to structure GT Innovation Month similarly to NYU UIF Terrence did for his school. We aim to showcase unique I&E entities across campus and off-campus in the Atlanta area by holding programs in their respective spaces. This will increase awareness of I&E, gain students for the campus movement, and allow the I&E community at GT to be strengthned and centralized.

[[File:Innovation Month.png]]

Priorities:Georgia Institute of Technology Student Priorities

2014-04-07T01:58:01Z

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= Team Priority: =

University Innovation Council

Please provide a description of your proposal:

Despite the many great resources Georgia Tech currently has, the innovation and entrepreneurial movement, which is currently overtaking the nation, has been stalled on our campus due to lack of organization.

Students are unsure and mostly unaware of the opportunities that they can utilize beyond big names resources such as the Invention Studio or the inVenture Competition.

Organizations are struggling to grow, hold large events, or simply stay operational because of the lack of assisted communication and constant overlap.

Professors are additionally wasting large amounts of time trying to connect to students due to a lack of protocol and standardized connection.

Our program will exists to foster a passion and define a sustainability for innovative and entrepreneurial (I&E) among all members of the Georgia Tech community.

The University Innovation Council will support three main areas: the student body, current campus organizations, and faculty/administration.  This will improve the community by: eliminating overlap, bringing students of all backgrounds and ages together, and encouraging administrative involvement. This will be done in the following ways.
<ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>'''Student Members of the Georgia Tech Community'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Provide access to a umbrella calendar of I&E events</li>
<li>Connect individual student interests to the I&E movement with others in the Georgia Tech community</li>
<li>Formulate methods to encourage innovation at Tech</li>
<li>Provide updates and other opportunities on a regular basis</li>
</ul></li>
<li>'''I&E Campus Organizations'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Host Forums</li>
<li>Connect I&E organizations</li>
<li>Provide consulting advice, support, and membership numbers</li>
<li>Provide a yearly I&E wheel featuring individual organizations</li>
</ul></li>
<li>'''Administration'''<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">
<li>Dissolve the communication barrier between students, organisations, and the administration</li>
<li>Form strategic partnerships with supporters of entrepreneurship</li>
<li>Provide ‘voice’ of I&E for consulting</li>
<li>Create a mentoring program for faculty to get involved in helping students develop ideas and turn them into a reality</li>
</ul></li>
</ol>

Additionally, please refer to our Campus Landscape Map for both on-campus and off-campus resources, and local Atlanta-based resources:

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=0]

This illustrates all of the resource on Georgia Tech’s campus for undergraduates, graduates, organizations, and faculty through perceived, potential, applied, realized, reframing, and institutional resources.Through this map, we will be able to fully maximize student to faculty, undergraduate, and graduate student interactions and improve it for the future based on our knowledge of the current environment.

How will this idea improve Georgia Tech's student-faculty interaction?

Through the University Innovation Council, student-faculty interaction will be facilitated in three main ways:

'''1. '''Students interested in getting involved in the I&E movement will be connect with a professor directly based on their idea, needs, and goals. This introduction will save valuable time for the student by removing the searching process. This will also save time for the professor by introduction them to a student who is serious about their work and eager to network.

'''2.''' Faculty will be able to directly interact and engage with movements on campus that organizations and students are working on. Instead of having to be directed by several groups of people, they will know all I&E related movements are being directed by the University Innovation Council hub.

'''3. '''Resource for both students and faculty will be maximized due to the lack of overlap. The process of starting and I&E movement will be able to be streamlined through our organization.

How will this idea affect both undergraduate and graduate students?

By creating a centralized hub, the University Innovation Council will be able to run all I&E movements that Georgia Tech is starting. Our organization is one that will exist for the betterment of the University; Not just one major, one club, or even one type of student.

Many undergraduate students are being inspired to create projects and invent in their classes and many graduate students are being encouraged to turn their research and theses into entrepreneurial companies. This would really help graduate students network with undergraduates to easily allocate research positions, internships, and special projects as well as vise versa. It is a much more desirable way for them to see what students are passionate about instead of just going off of resumes and shallow connections.

Again, by providing an overarching umbrella, students will be able to focus on their ideas and goals rather than finding the resources. The unique characteristic about I&E is that its not limited to undergraduate or graduate students.   

How will this idea have a lasting impact?Explain how funding this idea now will impact Georgia Tech student-faculty interaction for years to come:

By providing a council and infrastructure for I&E to operate under, new students will not have to worry about finding resources or connections (because they will already be provided). They will be able to just focus on the movement and their ideas, goals, and design processes. It will make the entrepreneurial experience less of a trial and error process and more success stories will come out of the Georgia Tech entrepreneurial landscape. In addition, it will create a foundation on campus for other I&E movements to be built off of.

Through the University Innovation Council students and faculty will be able to grow I&E on campus together and facilitates movements going forward together. This means that they will become more reliant and trusting of each other. If both students and faculty are invested in the same issue and working together to make change, Georgia Tech's campus landscape in I&E will continue to grow going forward which will only perpetuate the success of the I&E campus.

Included below is a general outline of the financial aide that we have applied for through Georgia Tech's SGA Joint Finance Committee:

This budget is based off a $10,000 fund.

1. $500 - Organizing Umbrella Reaching Out

2. $2500 - Connect with Purpose

3. $2000 - I&E for Dummies

4. $5000 - GT Innovation Month

A rough implementation timeline for our proposal (deliverables):

[[File:Timeline.png]]

'''GT Innovation Month:'''

We hope to structure GT Innovation Month similarly to NYU UIF Terrence did for his school. We aim to showcase unique I&E entities across campus and off-campus in the Atlanta area by holding programs in their respective spaces. This will increase awareness of I&E, gain students for the campus movement, and allow the I&E community at GT to be strengthned and centralized.

[[File:Innovation Month.png]]

Fellow:Megna Saha

2014-04-07T01:52:50Z

Msaha3:

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= Megna Saha: =

= Current:   =



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My name is Megna Saha and I am a 4th year at Georgia Institute of Technology wiht a Biomedical Engineering Major and a Pre-health and Computer Science minor. At Tech, I keep myself occupied with Chorale, Orientation Leader, SGA, and YEP(a tutoring program). I am very passionate about cardiovascular systems, but also how technology could be used in the medical industry. I also like gaming, design, and computers. I would pick an Apple product any day. I hope to get my MBA/MD one day.Some of my passions include photography, traveling, guitar, and social justice.

Contact Information:



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Megna Saha

msaha3@gatech.edu

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2014-04-07T01:52:21Z

Msaha3:

= [[File:MegnaSaha.jpg|border|Megna Saha]] =

= Megna Saha: =

= Current:   =

My name is Megna Saha and I am a 4th year at Georgia Institute of Technology wiht a Biomedical Engineering Major and a Pre-health and Computer Science minor. At Tech, I keep myself occupied with Chorale, Orientation Leader, SGA, and YEP(a tutoring program). I am very passionate about cardiovascular systems, but also how technology could be used in the medical industry. I also like gaming, design, and computers. I would pick an Apple product any day. I hope to get my MBA/MD one day.Some of my passions include photography, traveling, guitar, and social justice.



Contact Information: 

Megna Saha

msaha3@gatech.edu

School:Georgia Institute of Technology

2014-04-07T01:47:17Z

Msaha3:

= Background =

In April 2010, more than 140 leaders from higher education endorsed and submitted a letter to then Commerce Secretary Gary Locke through his National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE). These leaders, including Georgia Tech’s president, G.P. “Bud” Peterson, committed to work more closely with industry, private foundations, investors, and local, state, and federal governments to promote innovation, entrepreneurship, and the commercialization of research results. Underlying their commitment was a willingness to employ strategies, enhance existing activities, and expand efforts in several areas, including:

*Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship
*Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship
*Actively supporting the university technology transfer function
*Facilitating university – industry collaboration
*Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts

 The Department of Commerce’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE) recently followed up with the signatories to better understand their efforts to embody and implement the ideas contained within the letter, as well as to improve their ability to develop policies and programs that support innovation, entrepreneurship, and the commercialization of research results. OIE is conducting phone calls with every respondent to discuss their strategies and develop a general outline of each of their initiatives. 

For a select few institutions, including some who did not sign the NACIE letter, OIE has conducted a more thorough exploration of their strategies and initiatives. The goals of these “deep dives” are to discuss the historical and cultural context for the relevant work being done at leading institutions, highlight innovative practices, and uncover future trends. Through this exploration, OIE will be better equipped to advise on policies and develop future programs.

= Georgia Tech Campus Landscape 2014 =

The University Innovation Fellows of GT 2014, created a campus map that guides students on the ways they can engage in innovation and entrepreneurship on campus. 

To view the complete landscape canvas for Georgia Tech's campus, and surrounding Atlanta area, please follow the link below:

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkIeZwL27QHbdFY5bXZtWkZJcUhFQ0JiN2ZwbVZtclE&usp=drive_web#gid=0]

= Overview – A Focus on Industry and Collaboration4 =

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, is part of the University System of Georgia. Established in the 1880s on the heels of the Industrial Revolution, Georgia Tech’s mission has always focused on assisting industry. For example, the university’s basic and applied research efforts have been instrumental for the global aerospace industry, with Georgia Tech scientists playing key roles in the development of radar and other flight technologies. Georgia Tech focuses intently on the basic-to-applied research continuum throughout its comprehensive research programs in engineering, physical and life sciences, computing, and policy. Georgia Tech’s Strategic Vision and Plan () infuses a focus on innovation and entrepreneurism across the spectrum of basic and applied research as well as in its educational programs. Viewed in broad themes, research at Georgia Tech includes work in:

*Big Data;
*Biotechnology and Biomedicine;
*Electronics and Nanotechnology;
*Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics;
*Materials;
*National Security;
*Paper and Science Technology;
*People and Technology;
*Public Service, Leadership, and Policy;
*Robotics;
*Sustainable Infrastructure and Energy; and
*Systems.

 Georgia Tech’s culture embodies a collaborative approach. It enlists outside partners and contributors including academic, governmental, industry, and nonprofit institutions in an effort to better understand and ensure the benefit of research to the nation. In 1937, Georgia Tech established what is now the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC), an internal outpost for engineering experimentation and entrepreneurial applications of engineering, science, and technology. Georgia Tech also operates the oldest and largest university-based business incubator in the United States, the Advanced Technology Development Center, which was established in the 1980s to provide a range of services and facilities for entrepreneurs to launch and build new companies. Recognized by Forbes in 2010, the Advanced Technology Development Center has graduated 143 new companies, which have helped create millions of dollars in revenues and which together have attracted nearly $2.5 billion in capital activity. Capital activity includes venture capital funding, other investment, and the value of mergers and acquisitions.

Georgia Tech incorporates several strategies to ensure that it continually improves and expands its services to industry. To ensure it meets its fiduciary responsibilities and maintains public trust and confidence, the university continually strives to reduce bureaucratic barriers and modify underperforming initiatives. For example, the university has launched the Georgia Tech Integrated Program for Startups, GT:IPS™, which combines a streamlined licensing program with organized support for faculty and student inventor-entrepreneurs. The program provides information and education for entrepreneurs to help them form stronger, more successful companies, and the streamlined GT:IPS license agreement helps simplify negotiations and “take the drama off the table.”

Three of Georgia Tech’s more recent initiatives to promote innovation and entrepreneurship based on broad stakeholder partnerships include Flashpoint, NSF I-Corps, and the Global Center for Medical Innovation. Flashpoint, a Georgia Tech startup accelerator program established in 2011, encourages basic and applied research and facilitates their transfer to the marketplace through entrepreneurial education and access to experienced mentors, experts, investors, and stars in an open, immersive, shared-learning workspace.

In July 2012, Georgia Tech was named as a node for the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps program. NSF Director Subra Suresh describes I-Corps as a program to “leverage productive public-private partnerships and extend the impact of fundamental research discoveries.” He noted that it has “inspired the research and business communities to collaborate in new ways.” Georgia Tech is serving as a teaching site for the hands-on I-Corps curriculum.

Finally, the Global Center for Medical Innovation, which opened in 2012 with support from the Economic Development Authority’s i6 Program, will bring together core members of the medical device community — including universities, research centers, clinicians, established device and drug companies, investors, and early-stage companies — with the goal of accelerating the commercialization of innovative medical technology.

The NACIE commitment letter was broadly disseminated to Georgia Tech faculty and administrators and elicited general consensus prior to President Peterson’s endorsement. University stakeholders who were invited to review and comment on the letter were found to be already committed to its expressed ideas and goals. The letter’s real impact was to add “force” and “intentionality” to Georgia Tech’s innovation, entrepreneurship, and tech transfer strategic vision by providing a time scale for faculty and administration efforts, documenting their commitment, and holding them accountable.

Innovation and entrepreneurism are hallmarks of educational programs as well as research and technology transfer. Problem-based learning gives students an opportunity to develop ideas and technologies within their disciplines, and increasingly, activities such as the General Electric Smart Grid Challenge () provide a venue for companies to explore disruptive concepts through student engagement.

Below is an enumeration of several Georgia Tech programs and initiatives that support the five buckets in the NACIE sponsored university commitment letter.

= Student Entrepreneurship =

Students at Georgia Tech are an active part of research and discovery. In fact, over 70 percent of invention disclosures name one or more students among the inventors. As part of a broader effort to foster innovation and entrepreneurship within its student community, Georgia Tech has several initiatives, including:

*'''Georgia Tech Invention Studio '''— student-run design-build-play space open to all Georgia Tech students. It is staffed by University Lab Instructors, student volunteers who are on hand to train new students on machines and help with invention prototypes.The space provides resources for designing, prototyping, and sharing ideas through workshops, vendor networks, experienced guidance, and access to cutting edge machines.<div> </div><div> </div>
*'''Georgia Tech Integrated Program for Startups, GT:IPS''' — An initiative that supports faculty and student inventor-entrepreneurs through two components: '''''GT:IPS Facilitation''''', a graduated program of support, information, and education for new company founders; and '''''GT:IPS License''''', which offers the same terms to all Georgia Tech startups in the same field and provides them with transparency into Georgia Tech Research Corporation’s (GTRC) licensing processes.

 

*'''InVenture™ Prize —''' An annual competition that inspires undergraduate teams to create inventions that will be judged by experts for more than $30,000 in cash prizes from Georgia Tech and sponsoring corporations. First and second place winners receive patent filings funded by GTRC, and in March 2011, a “People’s Choice” award was sponsored by NCR Corporation.

 

*'''TI:GER''' — An award-winning program and partnership between Georgia Tech and Emory University School of Law that brings together PhD, MBA, and law students to experience the challenges of commercializing innovative technologies. Now approaching its 10th anniversary in 2012, TI:GER is expanding to global entrepreneurship and has become an established part of the entrepreneurial education of graduate students on both campuses.

 

*'''Business Plan Competition''' — An annual competition, now in its 11th year, held by the Scheller College of Business and the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship to foster entrepreneurship among Georgia Tech students and recent alumni. Since its inception, more than 650 participants have received approximately $570,000 in cash and services, and each year several teams launch companies to take their product concepts to market. To date, eight winning teams have been accepted into Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center.

 

*'''Ideas to SERVE (I2S)''' — An annual competition of ideas where creativity, imagination, and the use of technology are applied innovatively to solve community and social issues and sustain the environment. Started as a specialty track of the Business Plan Competition in 2009, I2S has quickly grown into a separate event, contributing to Georgia Tech’s portfolio of programs that foster entrepreneurship. I2S is open to Georgia Tech students and recent alumni.

*'''Georgia Tech Starter '''— The world’s first peer-reviewed, university-based crowdfunding platform for science and engineering projects. It is a platform for students, scientists, and engineers to engage directly with the world wide community, and to receive market feedback on their projects. GaTechStarter is also an experiment to see if the world is ready for a more active role in the scientific process. 

= Faculty Entrepreneurship =

Georgia Tech has several awards and programs to incentivize faculty to mentor graduate students, or themselves, to pursue innovative research and entrepreneurial ideas. These include:

*'''Bio-impact Commercialization Team (BCT)''' — An initiative focusing on research in biomedicine whereby faculty members and the venture capital community work closely with experts in the biomedical device space to facilitate translational research and commercialization. The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation will fund the BCT’s translational research and development projects.

 

*'''The Georgia Tech Fund for Innovation in Research and Education (GT FIRE)''' — A program that facilitates planning for large extramural proposals — those of strategic value to the Institute that have more than $500,000 in direct costs per year—and provides support for feasibility studies of transformative ideas in research and/or education. This past spring, faculty submitted 42 transformative proposals, from which three research-related ideas and four education-related ideas were selected for funding.

= University Technology Transfer Functions =

*'''The Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC)''' — The contracting entity responsible for several of the university’s tech transfer and licensing processes. GTRC also aims to accelerate the formation of robust Georgia Tech spinout companies and broaden participation in entrepreneurship among faculty and students. In addition, GTRC has revised master agreement terms and developed new template agreements to meet the needs of industry sponsors as technologies progress in development.

 

*'''Georgia Tech VentureLab''' — A one-stop-shop providing comprehensive assistance to faculty, research staff, and  students who want to take their technology innovations from the laboratory to the commercial market. VentureLab specialists help these innovators “start up” by assisting in business plan development, connecting them with experienced entrepreneurs, and locating sources of early-stage financing, including seed grants from the Georgia Research Alliance. The program has fostered, on average, one new spinout each month over the last three years.

 

*'''Georgia Tech Edison Fund — '''A source for modest investments into early-stage technology startups that have a strong connection to Georgia Tech. This fund makes use of targeted charitable contributions from Georgia Tech alumni and friends.

*'''Flashpoint  — '''Flashpoint creates better startups, faster, welcoming committed founders with domain knowledge and a passoin for responding to the needs of their customers. Flashpoint helps shape startups with true market + product fit, reduced risks, lower costs, and a better chance of high quality success. Flashpoint is not classfified as an incubator nor accelerator, but rather a rigorous management and education program that works closely with founders to creat companies.

= University-Industry Collaboration =

*'''University-Industry Demonstration Partnership (UIDP)''' — An activity of the National Academies that works to demonstrate innovative approaches to research engagement and improve relationships with private industry for research and commercialization of inventions. Georgia Tech has been a member and active participant since the UIDP was founded in 2005. The recently published Researcher Guide, a collaborative effort of UIDP university and industry members, provides information for university and company scientists and engineers who wish to engage in sponsored or collaborative research.

 

*'''The Office of Industry Collaborations and Affiliated Licenses (ICAL)''' — An organization that works in close coordination with faculty, academic units, and university offices, including the Office of Sponsored Programs, Office of Innovation Commercialization and Translational Research, Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI²), and Advanced Technology Development Center, in their partnerships with private industry to help promote industry-sponsored research and further technology commercialization. Types of agreements facilitated by ICAL include nondisclosure, industry collaboration, consortium, memorandum of understanding, center bylaws, testing, and SBIR.

 

= Regional and Local Economic Development =

An economic impact study by the Selig Center for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business indicates that Georgia Tech made a $2.3 billion economic impact during the fiscal year 2011, the highest of any institution in the University System of Georgia (USG). The study also found that Georgia Tech generated 18,640 full- and part-time jobs. Most of the economic impact in the study consists of initial spending by USG institutions for salaries and benefits, supplies and expenses, and other budgeted expenditures, as well as spending by students who attend the institutions.

Georgia Tech also impacts the local and regional economy in several others ways, including:

*Research partnerships with business and industry in the state of Georgia and throughout the Southeast;
*Economic development services to help make Georgia’s small and medium-sized businesses and communities more innovative and efficient;
*The more than 48,000 Georgia Tech alumni who live and work in the state;
*Research labs that produce more than 300 invention disclosures annually;
*A strong patent portfolio, ranked eighth among the top 124 universities according to the 2009 Universities Patent Scorecard;
*Spinning off an average of ten new companies a year;
*The Economic Development Authority i6 grant, which we received in 2010 to support innovation and entrepreneurship and boost the quality of high-growth startups in the region. EDA funding has helped advance economic development activities through Georgia Tech’s University Center of Excellence and also through a recent Jobs Accelerator award, where Georgia Tech partners with Gwinnett Tech to prepare students for work in health information technology; and
*EI2, which serves Georgia through a network of industry specialists located in nine regions throughout the state. These specialists provide local businesses with direct technical and engineering assistance, professional education courses, networking opportunities, and connections to Georgia Tech resources.

 

During fiscal year 2011 alone, Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2):

*Evaluated 219 Georgia Tech innovations and helped form 17 new companies based on this intellectual property, which attracted nearly $100 million in investment;
*Helped manufacturing companies reduce operating costs by $35 million, increase sales by $191 million, and create or save 950 jobs through the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, a program funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership, the state of Georgia, and industry clients;
*Assisted 493 start-up technology companies through the Advanced Technology Development Center. These companies attracted nearly $100 million in venture capital investment and mergers/acquisitions; and

*Helped Georgia companies win $492 million in government contracts, creating an estimated 9,843 jobs through the Georgia Tech Procurement Assistance Center. 

 

= Deep-Dive Questions =

*Is innovation an integral part of Georgia Tech’s institutional culture?
*Why is it important? And how does it influence entrepreneurship and tech transfer?
*How do you envision your program in the future?
*What is your vision for each of the case study’s buckets?
*How does your institution leverage (or intend to leverage) geographic endowment?
*Are your innovation, entrepreneurship, and tech transfer programs integrated?
<ul style="margin-left: 40px; list-style-type: circle;">
<li>Why, or why not?</li>
</ul>

*Are there any unique successes (and or challenges) you may wish to highlight?

 

= Conclusion =

The Georgia Institute of Technology is a top-10 public research university and an Association of American Universities (AAU) member school. Jilda Garton’s comments have been instructive in better understanding Georgia Tech’s many entrepreneurship, research, and technology transfer programs, in addition to the impact of the NACIE commitment letter in framing Georgia Tech’s strategic plans and institutional culture.

The Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship thanks Georgia Tech’s assistance with this case study and looks forward to a continued close and collaborative relationship in building America’s innovation infrastructure.
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Economic Impact of University System Reaches $13.2 Billion: www.usg.edu/news/release/economic_impact_of_university_system_reaches_13.2_billion
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Tech's Economic Impact on Georgia:

 Source: "The Innovative and Entrepreneurial University: Higher Education, Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Focus", Department of Commerce, October 2013.
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My name is Megna Saha and I am a 4th year at Georgia Institute of Technology wiht a Biomedical Engineering Major and a Pre-health and Computer Science minor. At Tech, I keep myself occupied with Chorale, Orientation Leader, SGA, and YEP(a tutoring program). I am very passionate about cardiovascular systems, but also how technology could be used in the medical industry. I also like gaming, design, and computers. I would pick an Apple product any day. I hope to get my MBA/MD one day.Some of my passions include photography, traveling, guitar, and social justice.

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2014-03-13T23:29:11Z

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Megna Saha
Georgia Institute of Technology

Organization:Singularity Institute

2014-03-02T17:49:33Z

Msaha3:

'''Overview'''

[http://singularityu.org Singularity Institute's] mission is to educate, inspire and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.

 They educate and inspire their students to make global impacts and be agents of change. They also have a vast international network making them a very powerful resource for driving international solutions, Headquarted in Moffett Field, California. 

They offer three main programs :

'''The Graduate Studies Program (GSP)''' – convenes future leaders, entrepreneurs, and technologists for 10 weeks to work on team-based technology solutions to widespread global challenges.

'''The Executive Program (EP)''' – dives into the tools that corporate specialists and entrepreneurs need to ride the wave of accelerating change.

'''Exponential Medicine''' – explores the future of medicine with its intimate week-long look at breakthrough innovations in healthcare.

'''Purpose'''

"Singularity University, where the world's brightest minds convene to attack the world's toughest challenges."
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—BloombergTV

The goal of Singularity University is to positively impact humanity by educating, inspiring and empowering leaders across the globe to harness the power of exponential technologies to improve the lives of billions of people.

'''Distinct Differences From Other Offerings'''

''''''Singularity University’s programs have a deep focus on accelerating technologies, their intersections, and ability to help solve grand challenges in a largely collaborative, international, and interdisciplinary forum. This combination creates a unique and intense educational experience that complements the existing graduate and post-graduate programs from which we select many of our participants.

The core of SU is thier people– from faculty working at the edges of science and technology to participants from around the world, jointly dedicated to challenging problems in research, industries, non-profits, and more. Through their faculty, staff, and participants, Singularity University is able to revisit the curriculum each year, continuously discussing and building on past breakthroughs and applications of the fastest moving technologies.



Programs Offered:
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<li>[http://singularityu.org/graduate-studies-program/ '''SU Graduate Studies Program (GSP)'''] convenes future leaders, entrepreneurs, and technologists from around the world in a 10-week collaborative experience to develop team-based technology solutions to widespread global challenges.</li>
<li>[http://singularityu.org/executive-program/ '''SU Executive Program (EP)'''] is a 7-day intensive and interactive program for “C-level” business executives, covering the technologies and tools that corporate leaders and entrepreneurs need to understand the wave of accelerating change.</li>
<li>[http://www.futuremed2020.com/ '''SU FutureMed'''] explores the future of medicine and biotechnology in both one week and 3-day formats to look at breakthrough innovations in medicine and healthcare.</li>
<li>[http://singularityu.org/global/summits/ '''SU Global Summits'''] are two-day programs that showcases the opportunities of disruptive influences brought about by exponential technologies and global impact.</li>
<li>[http://www.ipp.biz/ '''Innovation Partnership Program (IPP)'''] is a joint venture of X PRIZE Foundation, SU and is presented by Deloitte. IPP provides C-Suite executives an overview and showcases the exponential organizational tools that will radically transform industries and society over the next decade and beyond.</li>
<li>SU also offers '''Customized Programs''' tailored to the needs of a specific industry and have delivered these worldwide for corporate, non-profit and government organizations.</li>
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'''Singularity University GSP Team Projects:''' During the GSP, SU challenges participants to design a sustainable global solution in the Team Project (“Ten to the Ninth Plus”), leveraging exponential trends, innovation and the power of entrepreneurship to positively impact 1 billion people in ten years. The problem spaces change from program to program, but will always be in areas of significance to the goals and vision of SU and the world.

Tracks: 

The program concentrates on exponentially growing technologies areas:
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<li>Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Robotics</li>
<li>Biotechnology & Bioinformatics</li>
<li>Energy & Environmental Systems</li>
<li>Medicine & Neuroscience</li>
<li>Nanotechnology</li>
<li>Networks & Computing Systems</li>
<li>Design</li>
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The Executive Program provides an understanding of how these accelerating technologies will transform your business and your industry by showing you what is in the lab today and where the technologies will be within the next 3 to 10 years.

= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus =

All applications are found online: singularityu.org or applicants can contact: [mailto:info@singularityu.org info@singularityu.org] and they will respond to your request personally. You must be 21 years or older. 

From media, a recent founding [http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/06/feature-bio-crime/the-bio-crime-prophecy The bio-crime prophecy: DNA hacking the biggest opportunity since cyber attacks]

All of their media information and global impact can be found on their website.

One of the biggest ways I think stuents can utilize this resource is by competing in their [http://gic.singularityu.org Global Impact Competitions]. 

They have multiple competitions from Asia to Isreal. If you win the competition then you are granted, free admission to their program. 

'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb9O5qmu19c]'''

'''''''''Watch this link if you are the slightest bit interested, the challenges are awesome.'''



= Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus =

Awareness is probably the biggest step for campus.

===== To contact an SU Ambassador on inquire about the Ambassador program, please email [mailto:global@singularityu.org global@singularityu.or]g =====

Also if your campus would like to compete in the competitions all the information is on the website and ready for you to start innovating and solving real global issues. 

= Contact Information =

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The cost for the 10-week GSP is US $30,000/per student, inclusive of all housing, food and tuition, but does not cover travel to/from SU. We encourage and assist our participants to use their contacts and ingenuity to raise funds from donors, corporate sponsors, and other organizations to cover a portion of their tuition.

The cost for the 7-day Executive Programs is $12,000 per participant. This fee is inclusive of all housing, food and tuition, but does not cover travel to and from SU. For information regarding costs of specialized Executive Programs, contact SU at [mailto:info@singularityu.org info@singularityu.org]

For in-depth information about all Singularity University Programs and Initiatives, see the specific pages for these programs on our web site: singularityu.org

'''CONTACTS:''' Applicants & General Questions: [mailto:info@singularityu.org info@singularityu.org] Media Contact: [mailto:pr@singularityu.org pr@singularityu.org] Careers: [mailto:info@singularityu.org info@singularityu.org]

'''MAILING ADDRESS''' Singularity University NASA Research Park Building 20, So. Akron Road MS 20-1 Moffett Field, California 94035-0001

'''TELEPHONE:''' +1.650.200.3434

Organization:Singularity Institute

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Overview

Roosevelt Institute Campus Network is the largest nonprofit student policy organization.

Through communication and collaboration with political actors and community members, students identify pressing issues facing their towns, counties and states. By utilizing resources on campus as well as Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, students engage in policy research and write sound, progressive proposals to policymakers and advocacy groups.

Headquartered in New York, Roosevelt Institute Campus Network currently has 8,500 active members and over 100 established chapters both in the United States and Canada.

[edit] Purpose Idea Incubator

"The three pillars of politics are money, bodies, and ideas." - Quinn Wilhelmi, Co-Founder

When asked for money, young citizens gave what little they could; and when asked for bodies they joined protests, voter-registration drives and neighborhood canvasses to get out the vote. But no one ever asked them for ideas. The purpose of Roosevelt Institute Campus Network is to establish the public policy think tank with the input from young people. By bridging the idea gap in communities and the nation, a new generation of progressive leadership could thrive and burst forth on the nation’s political stage.

 [edit] Distinct Differences From Other Offerings [edit] The Roosevelt Legacy As part of the Roosevelt Institute, Roosevelt Institute Campus Network holds the strong objective of promoting and carrying forward the legacy and values of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Campus Network has a strong connection with the other two members of the Roosevelt Institute family: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, and the Four Freedoms Center. With the influence of the Roosevelt legacy, the Institute has established a solid system of resources for policy making. It also brings to policy debate a variety of people, from students to influential thinkers and analysts such as Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, and Rober Johnson, former chief economist to the Senate Banking Committee.

[edit] The Student Focus Campus Network is the first student-run, bottom-up policy organization. Throughout 9 years of development, students have published thousands of ideas and held hundreds of events and conferences. While the same vision is shared across chapters, campaigns are designed and conducted with maximized freedom at each chapter. Students hold full responsibility for creating change.

[edit] Local Engagement Sometimes a policy change does not have to happen on Capitol Hill. A small change in a city or a community is enough to improve many lives. Campus Network has a special focus on addressing the long-term need of a community by creating sustainable and reproducible solutions,such as starting a mentorship program for juvenile offenders, updating the school bus route system in a community or advocating for minorities. A focus on local policy work enables Campus Network to test students’ ideas and radiate the best practices nationwide.

[edit] Impact Achieved For Students and Campus [edit] Publications From Young Think Tanks As one of the most important channels of idea dissemination, a variety of publications have played a key role in promoting policy changes. A few examples are the “10 ideas Series”, “Rooselvet|Thinks” and “Blueprint for Millennial America.” A student can submit publications as an individual or the chapter he/she belongs to.

[edit] Pipeline Fellows Program Roosevelt's Pipeline Fellow Program provides Millennials a unique way to promote their ideas for change in a community or a city. The Pipeline network unites an entire city of progressives together to work on local issues, with funding and supplies from the national headquarters in New York. Pipeline offers a great opportunity for people who already graduated from college to stay active with progressive movements while still maintaining a career.

[edit] Activities at Individual Chapters Many chapters have their own journals and projects, in which many are aimed at local issues. Students obtain firsthand experience of policy making by providing ideas for those issues.

[edit] Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus There are three ways to join the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network:

Start a chapter at your university -- get active. Publish your ideas. Apply to the summer program and other internships in New York. [edit] Contact Information Taylor Jo Esenberg National Director Roosevelt Institute 570 Lexington Ave., 5th Floor New York, NY 10022 Phone: (212) 444 - 9130 tisenberg@rooseveltinstitute.org