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School:Bucknell University

2014-04-13T15:02:12Z

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[http://www.bucknell.edu Bucknell University] is a private liberal arts institution that was founded in 1846. With the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Management, Bucknell has always been aiming to educate well-rounded college graduates with an interdisciplinary mindset.

= Introduction =

[http://www.bucknell.edu Bucknell University] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

= Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

== Student ==

=== Curricular Activities ===

----

'''B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers''' The B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers would provide a structure for students to develop problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and an understanding of the design process as well the opportunity to combine these fundamentals in engineering with an entrepreneurially minded set of courses within the College of Engineering, the School of Management, and the College of Arts & Sciences. Required courses may include:

*MGMT 100: Management Past, Present, and Future
*ECON 103: Economic Principles and Problems
*MGMT 201: Marketing
*MIDE 300: Marketing, Innovation, and Design
*MIDE 303: Entrepreneurship
*Two IDEAS Design Studios within the College of Engineering

 [https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/school-of-management/degree-programs/curriculum-basics/markets-innovation-and-design.html Markets, Innovation, & Design (MIDE) Program] The largest of the School of Management’s four new academic majors is a dedicated track designed to prepare students for a wide range of careers related to the creation and marketing of innovative products and services. The program’s design includes a series of courses focused on how to identify consumer needs, how to realize innovative ideas and analyze their market potential, and how to bring products and services to market through existing marketing organizations or through new ventures. The MIDE program includes a dedicated course in entrepreneurship, MIDE 303.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/x44757.xml Management 101] Bucknell's collaborative, experiential organization and management project course teaches about how, when, and why people work together to accomplish tasks. In the course, students create and manage companies. These companies are not "simulations" or "games.” They operate with a budget of $3,000-5,000 in order to deliver real services to clients and develop and sell real products to customers. Currently, one in every four Bucknell graduates takes MGMT 101, and over the past thirty years, literally thousands of Bucknellians have started their careers in this one course. For aspiring entrepreneurs, MGMT 101 already comprises one possible gateway to gain skills and take a first step toward engaging with the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/chemical-engineering.html CHEG 475/MIDE 375/UNIV 375: Should We Start This Company?] Professor Erin Jablonski (Chemical Engineering) offers a cross-listed course on entrepreneurship. This is a projectcentered course in entrepreneurship, generating new business ideas, and product or service design and development through business planning that was first offered in the fall of 2012.

'''K-WIDE (KEEN Winter Interdisciplinary Design Experience)'''
<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto">
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TCrprLHndCI|width=800p|height=400p}}
</div>
[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/arts-entrepreneurship-minor.html Arts Entrepreneurship Minor] This minor offers an opportunity to acquire entrepreneurial acumen in the field of arts management. Students interested in working in and with the arts will acquire practical tools by which to become arts professionals — to manage, market, and promote individual businesses, community arts organizations, and not-for-profit arts endeavors in the visual, performing, media, and/or literary arts. The minor bridges the gap between the disciplinary depth of each arts-based major with a pragmatic skill set that can facilitate entry into various entrepreneurial endeavors in the arts. The core anchor course in arts entrepreneurship is currently being offered as ENGL 290: Arts Entrepreneurship.

=== Student Affairs / Co-Curricular ===

----

'''Residential Colleges''' The Residential Colleges provide a living and learning community experience to first-year students at Bucknell. Currently there are eight different themes and a ninth has been approved for the Fall of 2013. The current “Society and Technology” themed Residential College and recently approved “Discovery College” render themselves well to being incorporated into Bucknell’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''Affinity Housing Program''' The AHP provides a unique living and learning experience that enables a group of students to live together while exploring a common area of interest. Student groups ranging from a cadre of like-minded individuals to members of the same student organization apply to live together in one of Bucknell University’s Small Houses or residence halls. Two Affinity Housing Programs have been approved for the year 2013 – 2014 that should be considered part of Bucknell’s emerging Ecology of Entrepreneurship. These are the “Technology for a Sustainable Environment” and “Engineering and Innovation” programs.

'''Entrepreneurial Club''' The Entrepreneurial Club is recognized by the Bucknell Student Government and falls under the umbrella of Campus Activities and Programs. The group articulates a mission to “promote an entrepreneurial mindset on Bucknell’s campus through interaction with other similarly minded organizations and through providing opportunities for students to collaborate with one another over the topic.” The Club’s activities include bringing entrepreneurs to campus to speak to students.

'''Bucknell Business Leaders''' Bucknell Business Leaders is an ambitious student run organization that provides students with real-life business experiences. Every semester, Bucknell Business Leaders will brainstorm, research, design, order, and sell at least one product that hopefully a wide range of Bucknellians will love. Participation in this organization will give students a glimpse of many aspects of a real business: product research and design, finance, marketing, advertising, sales, and teamwork. Students who participate in this campus organization, management and non-management majors, will not only learn a great deal about business but have lots of fun.

'''Bucknell Business Pitch Competition''' The Business Pitch Competition was launched in 2012 to inspire and engage aspiring student entrepreneurs. Student entrepreneurs create and deliver a professional and engaging business pitch presenting an innovative and marketable business concept. The inaugural event engaged over fifty students on 18 venture teams, attracted $10,000 in alumni giving towards prizes and promotions, featured nine faculty and staff members as preliminary round judges, and engaged six distinguished alumni as judges and mentors for the final round of competitors. Winners were awarded monetary prizes and offers of informal mentorship from the alumni judges. The first prize winner also received a one year residency in Bucknell’s Entrepreneurs Incubator.

'''Venture Plan Competition''' A competition offered for undergraduate students to promote entrepreneurship and new ventures. The competition was started in 2009 at Bucknell University and has awarded more than $17,000 to students creating new ventures. Students participating in the competition are responsible for creating a full written Venture Plan and have an opportunity to present it to a panel of seasoned judges that come from a variety of backgrounds including start-ups, business strategy, and venture capital. Venture Plan Competition offers students a complementary and expanded experience to the pitch competition and pits Bucknell students against students from Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) partner institutions Bloomsburg and Susquehanna Universities. This competition is currently organized by the Greater Susquehanna KIZ.

== Faculty ==

[http://bucknellinnovationgroup.blogs.bucknell.edu/ Bucknell Innovation Group] The Bucknell Innovation Group (BIG) is made up of Bucknell professors representing academic disciplines such as, art and art history, comparative humanities, education, engineering, English, management, music, and theater and dance. The principle behind BIG is to “make an impact” through a campus-wide innovation initiative. BIG aims to create an environment that supports those for whom innovation is a primary focus and helps others discover their innovative impulses.

= University Technology Transfer Function =

== [http://www.bucknell.edu/x7025.xml Small Business Development Center (SBDC)] ==

The Bucknell SBDC provides free consulting, information, and low-cost educational programs to entrepreneurs and small businesses, including student entrepreneurs and ventures. It offers a business pitch competition for students, internships, and facilitates class projects engaging students with area entrepreneurs and small firms. The SBDC is part of statewide and national networks of centers offering these core services and various specialty programs and received support from DCED, Bucknell, and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Bucknell’s SBDC provides Engineering Development Services to assist clients with product development and commercialization.

== [https://www.bucknell.edu/about-bucknell/administrative-offices/small-business-development-center/entrepreneurs-incubator.html Entrepreneurs Incubator] ==

The Bucknell University Entrepreneurs Incubator provides space for students, faculty, and community members to start their business ventures. Located in downtown Lewisburg on the second floor of the Dewitt Building, the incubator offers affordable office space, bundled office services, and opportunities for consulting and networking to earlystage companies in the Susquehanna Valley Region. Its close proximity to the University and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) allows entrepreneurs to access these resources conveniently and efficiently. The incubator is situated within the Greater Susquehanna Keystone Innovation Zone (GSKIZ). Qualifying businesses that locate there may be eligible for GSKIZ assistance and benefits, including loans, grants, and tax-credits. The role of the incubator in the ecosystem is still evolving as the space may be used in different ways to support student, community, and alumni facing activities.

== Engineering Laboratories ==

'''Project Development Lab (PDL)''' The Project Development Lab is a manufacturing facility located in the ground floor of Dana Engineering building. It is designed to support senior design projects, produce new lab equipment, and support the Small Business Development Center with design and fabrication needs. The lab consist of conventional machine tools (generally directly operation controlled), and non-conventional machining equipment (computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM).

'''Mooney Innovation Laboratory''' This laboratory consists primarily of a large project development space, a design studio, and a manufacturing space dedicated principally to welding, grinding and brazing.

= University-Industry Collaboration =

[http://www.geisinger.org/ Geisinger] is a physician-led health care system, dedicated to health care, education, research, and service. Geisinger and Bucknell have partnered on a Healthcare Research Initiative, and Geisinger also provides opportunities for biomedical engineering students to work with surgeons to create cutting-edge medical devices to solve real-world problems.

[http://www.lsgpa.com/ Life Science Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania (LSGPA)] is a public/private venture whose mission is to commercialize bioscience technologies. The LSGPA can facilitate faculty research commercialization through early-stage investment, targeted business development services, and connections to strategic partners.

= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

== [http://www.bucknell.edu/x7025.xml Small Business Development Center (SBDC)] ==

The Bucknell University SBDC is the first in the nation to be hosted by a College of Engineering and provides Engineering Development Services. Not only it utilizes Bucknell's Engineering specialty helped many local small businesses, but also it provides an opportunity for students having real-world consulting experiences.

= Landscape Canvas =

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= References =
K. Buffinton, D. Foreman, K. Horissian, M. Johnson-Cramer, N. Sharif, S. Stumbris, M. Toole, ''"Report of the Working Group on Bucknell’s Ecosystem for Entrepreneurship"'', May 6, 2013

= Related Links =

[[Bucknell University Student Priorities]]

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[[Category:Universities]]

School:Bucknell University

2014-04-13T15:01:50Z

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<div style="float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 10em; margin-right: 10em">[[File:Bucknell University Seal.jpg]]</div>
[http://www.bucknell.edu Bucknell University] is a private liberal arts institution that was founded in 1846. With the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Management, Bucknell has always been aiming to educate well-rounded college graduates with an interdisciplinary mindset.

= Introduction =

[http://www.bucknell.edu Bucknell University] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

= Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

== Student ==

=== Curricular Activities ===

----

'''B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers''' The B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers would provide a structure for students to develop problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and an understanding of the design process as well the opportunity to combine these fundamentals in engineering with an entrepreneurially minded set of courses within the College of Engineering, the School of Management, and the College of Arts & Sciences. Required courses may include:

*MGMT 100: Management Past, Present, and Future
*ECON 103: Economic Principles and Problems
*MGMT 201: Marketing
*MIDE 300: Marketing, Innovation, and Design
*MIDE 303: Entrepreneurship
*Two IDEAS Design Studios within the College of Engineering

 [https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/school-of-management/degree-programs/curriculum-basics/markets-innovation-and-design.html Markets, Innovation, & Design (MIDE) Program] The largest of the School of Management’s four new academic majors is a dedicated track designed to prepare students for a wide range of careers related to the creation and marketing of innovative products and services. The program’s design includes a series of courses focused on how to identify consumer needs, how to realize innovative ideas and analyze their market potential, and how to bring products and services to market through existing marketing organizations or through new ventures. The MIDE program includes a dedicated course in entrepreneurship, MIDE 303.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/x44757.xml Management 101] Bucknell's collaborative, experiential organization and management project course teaches about how, when, and why people work together to accomplish tasks. In the course, students create and manage companies. These companies are not "simulations" or "games.” They operate with a budget of $3,000-5,000 in order to deliver real services to clients and develop and sell real products to customers. Currently, one in every four Bucknell graduates takes MGMT 101, and over the past thirty years, literally thousands of Bucknellians have started their careers in this one course. For aspiring entrepreneurs, MGMT 101 already comprises one possible gateway to gain skills and take a first step toward engaging with the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/chemical-engineering.html CHEG 475/MIDE 375/UNIV 375: Should We Start This Company?] Professor Erin Jablonski (Chemical Engineering) offers a cross-listed course on entrepreneurship. This is a projectcentered course in entrepreneurship, generating new business ideas, and product or service design and development through business planning that was first offered in the fall of 2012.

'''K-WIDE (KEEN Winter Interdisciplinary Design Experience)'''
<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto">
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TCrprLHndCI|width=800p|height=400p}}
</div>
[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/arts-entrepreneurship-minor.html Arts Entrepreneurship Minor] This minor offers an opportunity to acquire entrepreneurial acumen in the field of arts management. Students interested in working in and with the arts will acquire practical tools by which to become arts professionals — to manage, market, and promote individual businesses, community arts organizations, and not-for-profit arts endeavors in the visual, performing, media, and/or literary arts. The minor bridges the gap between the disciplinary depth of each arts-based major with a pragmatic skill set that can facilitate entry into various entrepreneurial endeavors in the arts. The core anchor course in arts entrepreneurship is currently being offered as ENGL 290: Arts Entrepreneurship.

=== Student Affairs / Co-Curricular ===

----

'''Residential Colleges''' The Residential Colleges provide a living and learning community experience to first-year students at Bucknell. Currently there are eight different themes and a ninth has been approved for the Fall of 2013. The current “Society and Technology” themed Residential College and recently approved “Discovery College” render themselves well to being incorporated into Bucknell’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''Affinity Housing Program''' The AHP provides a unique living and learning experience that enables a group of students to live together while exploring a common area of interest. Student groups ranging from a cadre of like-minded individuals to members of the same student organization apply to live together in one of Bucknell University’s Small Houses or residence halls. Two Affinity Housing Programs have been approved for the year 2013 – 2014 that should be considered part of Bucknell’s emerging Ecology of Entrepreneurship. These are the “Technology for a Sustainable Environment” and “Engineering and Innovation” programs.

'''Entrepreneurial Club''' The Entrepreneurial Club is recognized by the Bucknell Student Government and falls under the umbrella of Campus Activities and Programs. The group articulates a mission to “promote an entrepreneurial mindset on Bucknell’s campus through interaction with other similarly minded organizations and through providing opportunities for students to collaborate with one another over the topic.” The Club’s activities include bringing entrepreneurs to campus to speak to students.

'''Bucknell Business Leaders''' Bucknell Business Leaders is an ambitious student run organization that provides students with real-life business experiences. Every semester, Bucknell Business Leaders will brainstorm, research, design, order, and sell at least one product that hopefully a wide range of Bucknellians will love. Participation in this organization will give students a glimpse of many aspects of a real business: product research and design, finance, marketing, advertising, sales, and teamwork. Students who participate in this campus organization, management and non-management majors, will not only learn a great deal about business but have lots of fun.

'''Bucknell Business Pitch Competition''' The Business Pitch Competition was launched in 2012 to inspire and engage aspiring student entrepreneurs. Student entrepreneurs create and deliver a professional and engaging business pitch presenting an innovative and marketable business concept. The inaugural event engaged over fifty students on 18 venture teams, attracted $10,000 in alumni giving towards prizes and promotions, featured nine faculty and staff members as preliminary round judges, and engaged six distinguished alumni as judges and mentors for the final round of competitors. Winners were awarded monetary prizes and offers of informal mentorship from the alumni judges. The first prize winner also received a one year residency in Bucknell’s Entrepreneurs Incubator.

'''Venture Plan Competition''' A competition offered for undergraduate students to promote entrepreneurship and new ventures. The competition was started in 2009 at Bucknell University and has awarded more than $17,000 to students creating new ventures. Students participating in the competition are responsible for creating a full written Venture Plan and have an opportunity to present it to a panel of seasoned judges that come from a variety of backgrounds including start-ups, business strategy, and venture capital. Venture Plan Competition offers students a complementary and expanded experience to the pitch competition and pits Bucknell students against students from Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) partner institutions Bloomsburg and Susquehanna Universities. This competition is currently organized by the Greater Susquehanna KIZ.

== Faculty ==

[http://bucknellinnovationgroup.blogs.bucknell.edu/ Bucknell Innovation Group] The Bucknell Innovation Group (BIG) is made up of Bucknell professors representing academic disciplines such as, art and art history, comparative humanities, education, engineering, English, management, music, and theater and dance. The principle behind BIG is to “make an impact” through a campus-wide innovation initiative. BIG aims to create an environment that supports those for whom innovation is a primary focus and helps others discover their innovative impulses.

= University Technology Transfer Function =

== [http://www.bucknell.edu/x7025.xml Small Business Development Center (SBDC)] ==

The Bucknell SBDC provides free consulting, information, and low-cost educational programs to entrepreneurs and small businesses, including student entrepreneurs and ventures. It offers a business pitch competition for students, internships, and facilitates class projects engaging students with area entrepreneurs and small firms. The SBDC is part of statewide and national networks of centers offering these core services and various specialty programs and received support from DCED, Bucknell, and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Bucknell’s SBDC provides Engineering Development Services to assist clients with product development and commercialization.

== [https://www.bucknell.edu/about-bucknell/administrative-offices/small-business-development-center/entrepreneurs-incubator.html Entrepreneurs Incubator] ==

The Bucknell University Entrepreneurs Incubator provides space for students, faculty, and community members to start their business ventures. Located in downtown Lewisburg on the second floor of the Dewitt Building, the incubator offers affordable office space, bundled office services, and opportunities for consulting and networking to earlystage companies in the Susquehanna Valley Region. Its close proximity to the University and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) allows entrepreneurs to access these resources conveniently and efficiently. The incubator is situated within the Greater Susquehanna Keystone Innovation Zone (GSKIZ). Qualifying businesses that locate there may be eligible for GSKIZ assistance and benefits, including loans, grants, and tax-credits. The role of the incubator in the ecosystem is still evolving as the space may be used in different ways to support student, community, and alumni facing activities.

== Engineering Laboratories ==

'''Project Development Lab (PDL)''' The Project Development Lab is a manufacturing facility located in the ground floor of Dana Engineering building. It is designed to support senior design projects, produce new lab equipment, and support the Small Business Development Center with design and fabrication needs. The lab consist of conventional machine tools (generally directly operation controlled), and non-conventional machining equipment (computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM).

'''Mooney Innovation Laboratory''' This laboratory consists primarily of a large project development space, a design studio, and a manufacturing space dedicated principally to welding, grinding and brazing.

= University-Industry Collaboration =

[http://www.geisinger.org/ Geisinger] is a physician-led health care system, dedicated to health care, education, research, and service. Geisinger and Bucknell have partnered on a Healthcare Research Initiative, and Geisinger also provides opportunities for biomedical engineering students to work with surgeons to create cutting-edge medical devices to solve real-world problems.

[http://www.lsgpa.com/ Life Science Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania (LSGPA)] is a public/private venture whose mission is to commercialize bioscience technologies. The LSGPA can facilitate faculty research commercialization through early-stage investment, targeted business development services, and connections to strategic partners.

= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

== [http://www.bucknell.edu/x7025.xml Small Business Development Center (SBDC)] ==

The Bucknell University SBDC is the first in the nation to be hosted by a College of Engineering and provides Engineering Development Services. Not only it utilizes Bucknell's Engineering specialty helped many local small businesses, but also it provides an opportunity for students having real-world consulting experiences.

= Landscape Canvas =

{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=0AgHBY23xvE2CdGZxUldxRUp5em56ZjZyRVVkSmNpY0E|width=1300|height=700}}

= References =
K. Buffinton, D. Foreman, K. Horissian, M. Johnson-Cramer, N. Sharif, S. Stumbris, M. Toole, ''Report of the Working Group on Bucknell’s Ecosystem for Entrepreneurship'', May 6, 2013
= Related Links =

[[Bucknell University Student Priorities]]

[[User:Yifan Ge|Yifan Ge]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Bucknell University

2014-02-03T06:09:21Z

Yifan Ge: Undo revision 4243 by 178.202.255.59 (talk)

<div style="float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 10em; margin-right: 10em">[[File:Bucknell University Seal.jpg]]</div>
[http://www.bucknell.edu Bucknell University] is a private liberal arts institution that was founded in 1846. With the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Management, Bucknell has always been aiming to educate well-rounded college graduates with an interdisciplinary mindset.

= Introduction =

[http://www.bucknell.edu Bucknell University] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

= Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

== Student ==

=== Curricular Activities ===

----

'''B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers''' The B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers would provide a structure for students to develop problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and an understanding of the design process as well the opportunity to combine these fundamentals in engineering with an entrepreneurially minded set of courses within the College of Engineering, the School of Management, and the College of Arts & Sciences. Required courses may include:

*MGMT 100: Management Past, Present, and Future
*ECON 103: Economic Principles and Problems
*MGMT 201: Marketing
*MIDE 300: Marketing, Innovation, and Design
*MIDE 303: Entrepreneurship
*Two IDEAS Design Studios within the College of Engineering

 [https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/school-of-management/degree-programs/curriculum-basics/markets-innovation-and-design.html Markets, Innovation, & Design (MIDE) Program] The largest of the School of Management’s four new academic majors is a dedicated track designed to prepare students for a wide range of careers related to the creation and marketing of innovative products and services. The program’s design includes a series of courses focused on how to identify consumer needs, how to realize innovative ideas and analyze their market potential, and how to bring products and services to market through existing marketing organizations or through new ventures. The MIDE program includes a dedicated course in entrepreneurship, MIDE 303.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/x44757.xml Management 101] Bucknell's collaborative, experiential organization and management project course teaches about how, when, and why people work together to accomplish tasks. In the course, students create and manage companies. These companies are not "simulations" or "games.” They operate with a budget of $3,000-5,000 in order to deliver real services to clients and develop and sell real products to customers. Currently, one in every four Bucknell graduates takes MGMT 101, and over the past thirty years, literally thousands of Bucknellians have started their careers in this one course. For aspiring entrepreneurs, MGMT 101 already comprises one possible gateway to gain skills and take a first step toward engaging with the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/chemical-engineering.html CHEG 475/MIDE 375/UNIV 375: Should We Start This Company?] Professor Erin Jablonski (Chemical Engineering) offers a cross-listed course on entrepreneurship. This is a projectcentered course in entrepreneurship, generating new business ideas, and product or service design and development through business planning that was first offered in the fall of 2012.

'''K-WIDE (KEEN Winter Interdisciplinary Design Experience)'''
<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto">
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=TCrprLHndCI|width=800p|height=400p}}
</div>
[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/arts-entrepreneurship-minor.html Arts Entrepreneurship Minor] This minor offers an opportunity to acquire entrepreneurial acumen in the field of arts management. Students interested in working in and with the arts will acquire practical tools by which to become arts professionals — to manage, market, and promote individual businesses, community arts organizations, and not-for-profit arts endeavors in the visual, performing, media, and/or literary arts. The minor bridges the gap between the disciplinary depth of each arts-based major with a pragmatic skill set that can facilitate entry into various entrepreneurial endeavors in the arts. The core anchor course in arts entrepreneurship is currently being offered as ENGL 290: Arts Entrepreneurship.

=== Student Affairs / Co-Curricular ===

----

'''Residential Colleges''' The Residential Colleges provide a living and learning community experience to first-year students at Bucknell. Currently there are eight different themes and a ninth has been approved for the Fall of 2013. The current “Society and Technology” themed Residential College and recently approved “Discovery College” render themselves well to being incorporated into Bucknell’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''Affinity Housing Program''' The AHP provides a unique living and learning experience that enables a group of students to live together while exploring a common area of interest. Student groups ranging from a cadre of like-minded individuals to members of the same student organization apply to live together in one of Bucknell University’s Small Houses or residence halls. Two Affinity Housing Programs have been approved for the year 2013 – 2014 that should be considered part of Bucknell’s emerging Ecology of Entrepreneurship. These are the “Technology for a Sustainable Environment” and “Engineering and Innovation” programs.

'''Entrepreneurial Club''' The Entrepreneurial Club is recognized by the Bucknell Student Government and falls under the umbrella of Campus Activities and Programs. The group articulates a mission to “promote an entrepreneurial mindset on Bucknell’s campus through interaction with other similarly minded organizations and through providing opportunities for students to collaborate with one another over the topic.” The Club’s activities include bringing entrepreneurs to campus to speak to students.

'''Bucknell Business Leaders''' Bucknell Business Leaders is an ambitious student run organization that provides students with real-life business experiences. Every semester, Bucknell Business Leaders will brainstorm, research, design, order, and sell at least one product that hopefully a wide range of Bucknellians will love. Participation in this organization will give students a glimpse of many aspects of a real business: product research and design, finance, marketing, advertising, sales, and teamwork. Students who participate in this campus organization, management and non-management majors, will not only learn a great deal about business but have lots of fun.

'''Bucknell Business Pitch Competition''' The Business Pitch Competition was launched in 2012 to inspire and engage aspiring student entrepreneurs. Student entrepreneurs create and deliver a professional and engaging business pitch presenting an innovative and marketable business concept. The inaugural event engaged over fifty students on 18 venture teams, attracted $10,000 in alumni giving towards prizes and promotions, featured nine faculty and staff members as preliminary round judges, and engaged six distinguished alumni as judges and mentors for the final round of competitors. Winners were awarded monetary prizes and offers of informal mentorship from the alumni judges. The first prize winner also received a one year residency in Bucknell’s Entrepreneurs Incubator.

'''Venture Plan Competition''' A competition offered for undergraduate students to promote entrepreneurship and new ventures. The competition was started in 2009 at Bucknell University and has awarded more than $17,000 to students creating new ventures. Students participating in the competition are responsible for creating a full written Venture Plan and have an opportunity to present it to a panel of seasoned judges that come from a variety of backgrounds including start-ups, business strategy, and venture capital. Venture Plan Competition offers students a complementary and expanded experience to the pitch competition and pits Bucknell students against students from Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) partner institutions Bloomsburg and Susquehanna Universities. This competition is currently organized by the Greater Susquehanna KIZ.

== Faculty ==

[http://bucknellinnovationgroup.blogs.bucknell.edu/ Bucknell Innovation Group] The Bucknell Innovation Group (BIG) is made up of Bucknell professors representing academic disciplines such as, art and art history, comparative humanities, education, engineering, English, management, music, and theater and dance. The principle behind BIG is to “make an impact” through a campus-wide innovation initiative. BIG aims to create an environment that supports those for whom innovation is a primary focus and helps others discover their innovative impulses.

= University Technology Transfer Function =

== [http://www.bucknell.edu/x7025.xml Small Business Development Center (SBDC)] ==

The Bucknell SBDC provides free consulting, information, and low-cost educational programs to entrepreneurs and small businesses, including student entrepreneurs and ventures. It offers a business pitch competition for students, internships, and facilitates class projects engaging students with area entrepreneurs and small firms. The SBDC is part of statewide and national networks of centers offering these core services and various specialty programs and received support from DCED, Bucknell, and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Bucknell’s SBDC provides Engineering Development Services to assist clients with product development and commercialization.

== [https://www.bucknell.edu/about-bucknell/administrative-offices/small-business-development-center/entrepreneurs-incubator.html Entrepreneurs Incubator] ==

The Bucknell University Entrepreneurs Incubator provides space for students, faculty, and community members to start their business ventures. Located in downtown Lewisburg on the second floor of the Dewitt Building, the incubator offers affordable office space, bundled office services, and opportunities for consulting and networking to earlystage companies in the Susquehanna Valley Region. Its close proximity to the University and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) allows entrepreneurs to access these resources conveniently and efficiently. The incubator is situated within the Greater Susquehanna Keystone Innovation Zone (GSKIZ). Qualifying businesses that locate there may be eligible for GSKIZ assistance and benefits, including loans, grants, and tax-credits. The role of the incubator in the ecosystem is still evolving as the space may be used in different ways to support student, community, and alumni facing activities.

== Engineering Laboratories ==

'''Project Development Lab (PDL)''' The Project Development Lab is a manufacturing facility located in the ground floor of Dana Engineering building. It is designed to support senior design projects, produce new lab equipment, and support the Small Business Development Center with design and fabrication needs. The lab consist of conventional machine tools (generally directly operation controlled), and non-conventional machining equipment (computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM).

'''Mooney Innovation Laboratory''' This laboratory consists primarily of a large project development space, a design studio, and a manufacturing space dedicated principally to welding, grinding and brazing.

= University-Industry Collaboration =

[http://www.geisinger.org/ Geisinger] is a physician-led health care system, dedicated to health care, education, research, and service. Geisinger and Bucknell have partnered on a Healthcare Research Initiative, and Geisinger also provides opportunities for biomedical engineering students to work with surgeons to create cutting-edge medical devices to solve real-world problems.

[http://www.lsgpa.com/ Life Science Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania (LSGPA)] is a public/private venture whose mission is to commercialize bioscience technologies. The LSGPA can facilitate faculty research commercialization through early-stage investment, targeted business development services, and connections to strategic partners.

= Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts =

== [http://www.bucknell.edu/x7025.xml Small Business Development Center (SBDC)] ==

The Bucknell University SBDC is the first in the nation to be hosted by a College of Engineering and provides Engineering Development Services. Not only it utilizes Bucknell's Engineering specialty helped many local small businesses, but also it provides an opportunity for students having real-world consulting experiences.

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= Related Links =

[[Bucknell University Student Priorities]]

[[User:Yifan Ge|Yifan Ge]]

[[Category:Universities]]

Organization:Team Awareness

2013-12-10T19:19:49Z

Yifan Ge: /* Meeting Notes and Shared Resources */

Organization:Team Awareness

2013-11-18T21:31:03Z

Yifan Ge: /* Standing Meeting Time */

Organization:Team Venture Forth

2013-11-18T00:24:37Z

Yifan Ge: /* Meeting Notes and Shared Resources */

= Overview =

Team Venture Forth works on strategies to support teams to advance a specific opportunity acheive commercial success. Resources serving such university-based ventures incubate, accelerate and bootcamps. Seed funding sources and grant-writing resources, as well as pro-active and helpful technology transfer offices support venture teams seeking to gain marketplace traction and spin out of a University setting. Linkages to regional and statewide industry resources provide pathways to growth and scale.

= Standing Meeting Time =

Bi-weekly meetings, likely Wednesday after noon EST.  Still waiting to confirm time with rest of group. 

= Team Members =

Team Leaders:

To Be Determined, after we have a few weeks of work under our belt. 

Team Members:

*[[Breanne Przestrzelski]], [[Clemson University]]
*[[Brittany Wouden]], [[Washington State University Vancouver]]
*[[Andrew Dalman]], [[North Dakota State University]]
*[[Mary Wilcox]], [[Arizona State University Tempe]]
*[[Nathan Smialek]], [[University of Pittsburgh]]
*[[Brian Rhindress]], [[University of Pittsburgh]]
*[[Derek Dashti]], [[Tulane University]]
*[[Katelyn Stenger]], [[Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology]]
*[[Terrence Agbi]], [[Polytechnic Institute of New York University]]
*[[User:Yifan Ge|Yifan Ge]], [[Bucknell University]]

= Topics =

*Incubators, accelerators and bootcamps
*Infrastructure (startup space)
*Seed funding sources
*Technology transfer resources
*Grant-writing, legal and other venture assistance
*Off-campus space
*Regional sources of capital
*Mentoring, business and/or advisory networks

= Meeting Notes and Shared Resources =

'''Meeting Notes:'''
<div>'''This group will serve primarily as a forum to alert each other of our successes and struggles. The success of our group is dependent on the strength of our network.'''</div>
'''The format of our communications will be written updates online supplemented by informal presentations in a WebEx when necessary.  ''''''During this time, students can offer up advice, highlight struggles, and identify obstacles in an interactive environment to which every student can relate and apply their needs.'''

'''The exact topic of our talks will vary, but we discussed focusing on: IP policy changes, curriculum changes, incubator spaces, and general visibility.'''

'''Lastly, we said that special guests/speakers could include former/current UI Fellows with relevant experience, I&E team members from on campus, Tech Office employees, etc. We would love to use Humera as a resource on a case-by-case basis, as we don't want to take too much of her time.'''

'''Realized Value Strengths and Weaknesses of Campuses Within the Team'''

'''Derek Dashti- Tulane University'''

'''Strengths:'''

'''- Good sources for incubator startups locally (i.e. NOBIC, Propellor)'''

''-''Tech transfer</span'''office is easily accessible'''

'''Weaknesses:'''

'''- Need more incubator spaces on campus (Flower Hall only)'''

'''- Need more seed funding sources both locally and on campus'''

'''Brian Rhindress- University of Pittsburgh'''

'''Strengths:'''

'''-Active and thriving Office of Technology Management/Enterprise Realization'''

'''-Seed Funding Availability (especially in medical- Coulter, CMI)'''

'''-City of Pittsburgh startup culture'''

'''Weaknesses:'''

'''-Mobilization/awareness at Undergraduate level'''

'''-No design space'''

'''-Little collaboration across departments/schools'''

'''Bre Przestrzelski- Clemson University'''

'''Strengths:'''

'''-Extensive incubator or venture spaces'''

'''-Regional Small Businesss Development Center'''

'''-Two major sources of state SEED funding sources'''

Weaknesses

'''-Technology Transfer Office is not easily accessible'''

''-''No m'''entorship through legal counsel, How-To workshops, seminars'''

'''-Student awareness of incubator spaces and other resources'''

Mary Wilcox - Arizona State University

Strengths:

- Ample resources for technology transfers, research, and venture creation

- Seed funding availability

- Large university/industry network

Weaknesses:

- Physical resources are inconvenient or inaccessible for students

- Poor collaboration across departments and schools

- Funding is inaccessible to students





-Katelyn Stenger - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Strengths:

- Strong history of continuous innovation in culture

- Resources available for students interested in research and physical creation

- Administration willing to evolve with student interests

Weeknesses:

-Poor collaboration across departments

-Students do not know where resources are

-No physical space for students to pursue entrepreneurship

Yifan Ge - Bucknell University
*Strengths
**increasing number of entrepreneurial programs
**great support from all aspects of academic and administrative offices
*Weakness
**still early stage in entrepreneur promotion
**relative weak entrepreneurial culture and participation

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-11-05T04:11:25Z

Yifan Ge: /* Impact */

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-11-05T04:05:53Z

Yifan Ge: /* Related Links */

Organization:Team Awareness

2013-11-01T09:28:54Z

Yifan Ge: /* Wednesday October 30, 2013 */

Organization:Team Awareness

2013-11-01T09:20:05Z

Yifan Ge: /* Meeting Notes and Shared Resources */

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-11-01T08:03:52Z

Yifan Ge: /* Calling all students */

File:IsBucknellReadyForEntrepreneurs.PNG

2013-11-01T08:02:14Z

Yifan Ge: Poster for Bucknell Entrepreneur Ecosystem Info. Session.

Poster for Bucknell Entrepreneur Ecosystem Info. Session.

Organization:Team Awareness

2013-11-01T07:24:19Z

Yifan Ge: /* Standing Meeting Time */

= Overview =

Team Awareness works on strategies to reach other students with the message that Innovation and Entrepreneurship are important activities to engage in while at college. Expanding one's entrepreneurial mindset allows students to explore their creative and innovative potential, work on projects that acheive social impact, build one's project/resume portfolio and cultivates the skill sets that contribute to one's future employer, be it a business or non-profit setting.

= Standing Meeting Time =
''The Team meeting is organized '''bi-weekly'''.''

'''''Regular Meeting Time''''': 
Wednesdays 7PM EST (4PM PST)

'''''Next meeting''''': 
Wednesday November 13, 2013 
7PM EST (4PM PST)

= Team Members =

*'''[[User:Yifan Ge|Yifan Ge]]''', ''[[Bucknell University]]'' ''--Team Leader''
*'''[[Brittany Wouden]]''', [[Washington State University Vancouver]] ''--Team Leader''
*'''[[Nolan Nicholson]]''', [[University of Nevada, Reno]]
*'''[[Valerie Sherry]]''', [[University of Maryland College Park]]
*'''[[Dean Tate]]''', [[Texas A & M University]]
*'''[[Graham Leslie]]''', [[Texas A & M University]]
*'''[[Katelyn Stenger]]''', [[Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology]]
*'''[[Mridul Bhandari]]''', [[Pennsylvania State University]]
*'''[[Ellery Addington-White]]''', [[Beloit College]]
*'''[[Jennifer Mayo]]''', [[Oklahoma State University]]

= Topics =

*Events That Inspire
*Courses
*How-to Workshops

= Meeting Notes and Shared Resources =

'''Meeting Format: '''Brainstorm projects and ideas with Team Members. Discuss challenges faced and possible solutions.

'''Team Discussion:'''

'''Focus Question(s):'''

*"What is the format of our get-together. Does each person report out on their most important project in this Strategy? Or, does each member use the opportunity to highlight their struggles and ask for advice?

Ellery

*Most helpful to see successful examples of programs, entrepreneurial tour of the area
*See what successful incubators and taking advantage of what resources present such as:On campus Groups & Classes--- take advantage of network of students and professors in the community
*Emphasize the success in the community. <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 
*<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sustainability + Community + Entrepreneurship =Success!

Nolan

*When people see the good that the I&E world in action they become inspired
*Programs help professionally and help the innovators help others. Suggestion for spreading this message: shadows, tours anything that lets people get directly into the action.  

Mridul

*Ultimate Trader Challenge etc to insipre I&E in community
*Some of the things missing are '''workshops''' so not much that students can do as far as workshops to do.  There’s no way to get experience out there.  She is working to build a website to increase communication between students, alumni, local entrepreneurs to get people pumped up for entrepreneurship.  

Yifan

*Leverage the infrastructure and bring people together
*Proposing a weekly event to bring people together to share ideas and create synergy.  

Katelyn

*Also wants to establish a 'Maker's Space" on campus. Allow for multidisiplinary thinking.

Jennifer 

*Encourage current entrepreneurship clubs, activities, and entrepreneurship center to pursue social impact ventures. 
*Give opportunites for students to develop thier social impact ideas in a competition or grant. 

MAJOR FOCUS: Compile Resources

If clubs work together and cooperate they can do more work and more good combined.

- Katelyn is looking into designing an interactive map of resources on campus and where to find them. -- see bcsstartup.com, one of the resources for A&M (Graham)

Ellery

*Speaker Series- Successful entrepreneurs share “horror” stories and various aspects of success in the Entrepreneurial pursuit
*Give speakers direction- narrow the topic and answer questions students would have
*Have a facilitator. Get graduate students involved.  Use the resources readily available.

Nolan

*one of the coolest thing is that its like a flywheel - feedback loop which goes on and on forever.  Lots of options.  

<div </div>
<div>'''Focus Question(s):''' </div>
Are their any sub-groups that should form to advance specific interests ex: holding a TEDx, championing changes to IP policy, etc.?

IP Policy/Patents

*Brittany- IP Policy -- Great suggestions from everyone about the differences in policy from campus to campus.  Really pushed the idea of transparency in IP
*Katelyn - Interested in Presentations on Patents (possible collaboration with Brittany) and Workshops for SEED Grant Funding

TEDx Events

*Yifan is working on TEDx
*Mridul
*Jennifer (has been a speaker)
*Ellery
*Graham is helping to aggressively launch a TEDx this semester in A&M community

Social Impact

*Jennifer is interested in Social Impact
*Brittany
*Nolan
*Katelyn (offering a class in it)

Student Organization

*Graham is forming a student organization on campus to divide and conquer to find departmental gaps and fill them with UIF resources (hard to tackle 55k students without help)



'''Focus:'''

*Identify any special guests, speakers or resources you would like to invite to future meetings.

'''''''''Spud Marshall and Christian''' : Co.Space founder ([http://thecospace.com/ http://thecospace.com/]) {Super awesome people to talk to!}

Someone who has successfully started an incubator space and raised the money for it:

*Fletcher Richman, Graham was one of the first clients of his campus incubator and is familiar with the board and those responsible for launching

'''Amber Case''' - Cyborg Bootcamp for social entrepreneurship

 '''Focus Question: '''

*How frequently does this group meet and what is its regular meeting date/time (including the very next meeting time scheduled)?

Once every two weeks - Around 7 pm EST (4 pm PST)

Doodle poll to pick day of the week and then time on that day aiming for evening.

'''Focus Question:'''

*Who does the group elect to serve as the team-leaders (recommend 2)?

Yifan

Brittany '''Focus Question:'''

Do you want Humera to attend any of these sessions? Every other one? Or, on a case-by-case basis?

 Case-by-case

<div> </div>

Organization:Team Awareness

2013-11-01T07:16:31Z

Yifan Ge: /* Standing Meeting Time */

= Overview =

Team Awareness works on strategies to reach other students with the message that Innovation and Entrepreneurship are important activities to engage in while at college. Expanding one's entrepreneurial mindset allows students to explore their creative and innovative potential, work on projects that acheive social impact, build one's project/resume portfolio and cultivates the skill sets that contribute to one's future employer, be it a business or non-profit setting.

= Standing Meeting Time =

'''''Next meeting''''': 
Wednesday November 13, 2013 
7PM EST (4PM PST)

= Team Members =

*'''[[User:Yifan Ge|Yifan Ge]]''', ''[[Bucknell University]]'' ''--Team Leader''
*'''[[Brittany Wouden]]''', [[Washington State University Vancouver]] ''--Team Leader''
*'''[[Nolan Nicholson]]''', [[University of Nevada, Reno]]
*'''[[Valerie Sherry]]''', [[University of Maryland College Park]]
*'''[[Dean Tate]]''', [[Texas A & M University]]
*'''[[Graham Leslie]]''', [[Texas A & M University]]
*'''[[Katelyn Stenger]]''', [[Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology]]
*'''[[Mridul Bhandari]]''', [[Pennsylvania State University]]
*'''[[Ellery Addington-White]]''', [[Beloit College]]
*'''[[Jennifer Mayo]]''', [[Oklahoma State University]]

= Topics =

*Events That Inspire
*Courses
*How-to Workshops

= Meeting Notes and Shared Resources =

'''Meeting Format: '''Brainstorm projects and ideas with Team Members. Discuss challenges faced and possible solutions.

'''Team Discussion:'''

'''Focus Question(s):'''

*"What is the format of our get-together. Does each person report out on their most important project in this Strategy? Or, does each member use the opportunity to highlight their struggles and ask for advice?

Ellery

*Most helpful to see successful examples of programs, entrepreneurial tour of the area
*See what successful incubators and taking advantage of what resources present such as:On campus Groups & Classes--- take advantage of network of students and professors in the community
*Emphasize the success in the community. <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 
*<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sustainability + Community + Entrepreneurship =Success!

Nolan

*When people see the good that the I&E world in action they become inspired
*Programs help professionally and help the innovators help others. Suggestion for spreading this message: shadows, tours anything that lets people get directly into the action.  

Mridul

*Ultimate Trader Challenge etc to insipre I&E in community
*Some of the things missing are '''workshops''' so not much that students can do as far as workshops to do.  There’s no way to get experience out there.  She is working to build a website to increase communication between students, alumni, local entrepreneurs to get people pumped up for entrepreneurship.  

Yifan

*Leverage the infrastructure and bring people together
*Proposing a weekly event to bring people together to share ideas and create synergy.  

Katelyn

*Also wants to establish a 'Maker's Space" on campus. Allow for multidisiplinary thinking.

Jennifer 

*Encourage current entrepreneurship clubs, activities, and entrepreneurship center to pursue social impact ventures. 
*Give opportunites for students to develop thier social impact ideas in a competition or grant. 

MAJOR FOCUS: Compile Resources

If clubs work together and cooperate they can do more work and more good combined.

- Katelyn is looking into designing an interactive map of resources on campus and where to find them. -- see bcsstartup.com, one of the resources for A&M (Graham)

Ellery

*Speaker Series- Successful entrepreneurs share “horror” stories and various aspects of success in the Entrepreneurial pursuit
*Give speakers direction- narrow the topic and answer questions students would have
*Have a facilitator. Get graduate students involved.  Use the resources readily available.

Nolan

*one of the coolest thing is that its like a flywheel - feedback loop which goes on and on forever.  Lots of options.  

<div </div>
<div>'''Focus Question(s):''' </div>
Are their any sub-groups that should form to advance specific interests ex: holding a TEDx, championing changes to IP policy, etc.?

IP Policy/Patents

*Brittany- IP Policy -- Great suggestions from everyone about the differences in policy from campus to campus.  Really pushed the idea of transparency in IP
*Katelyn - Interested in Presentations on Patents (possible collaboration with Brittany) and Workshops for SEED Grant Funding

TEDx Events

*Yifan is working on TEDx
*Mridul
*Jennifer (has been a speaker)
*Ellery
*Graham is helping to aggressively launch a TEDx this semester in A&M community

Social Impact

*Jennifer is interested in Social Impact
*Brittany
*Nolan
*Katelyn (offering a class in it)

Student Organization

*Graham is forming a student organization on campus to divide and conquer to find departmental gaps and fill them with UIF resources (hard to tackle 55k students without help)



'''Focus:'''

*Identify any special guests, speakers or resources you would like to invite to future meetings.

'''''''''Spud Marshall and Christian''' : Co.Space founder ([http://thecospace.com/ http://thecospace.com/]) {Super awesome people to talk to!}

Someone who has successfully started an incubator space and raised the money for it:

*Fletcher Richman, Graham was one of the first clients of his campus incubator and is familiar with the board and those responsible for launching

'''Amber Case''' - Cyborg Bootcamp for social entrepreneurship

 '''Focus Question: '''

*How frequently does this group meet and what is its regular meeting date/time (including the very next meeting time scheduled)?

Once every two weeks - Around 7 pm EST (4 pm PST)

Doodle poll to pick day of the week and then time on that day aiming for evening.

'''Focus Question:'''

*Who does the group elect to serve as the team-leaders (recommend 2)?

Yifan

Brittany '''Focus Question:'''

Do you want Humera to attend any of these sessions? Every other one? Or, on a case-by-case basis?

 Case-by-case

<div> </div>

Organization:Team Awareness

2013-11-01T07:12:09Z

Yifan Ge: /* Team Members */

= Overview =

Team Awareness works on strategies to reach other students with the message that Innovation and Entrepreneurship are important activities to engage in while at college. Expanding one's entrepreneurial mindset allows students to explore their creative and innovative potential, work on projects that acheive social impact, build one's project/resume portfolio and cultivates the skill sets that contribute to one's future employer, be it a business or non-profit setting.

= Standing Meeting Time =

Next meeting:

Wednesday November 13, 2013

7PM EST (4PM PST)

= Team Members =

*'''[[User:Yifan Ge|Yifan Ge]]''', ''[[Bucknell University]]'' ''--Team Leader''
*'''[[Brittany Wouden]]''', [[Washington State University Vancouver]] ''--Team Leader''
*'''[[Nolan Nicholson]]''', [[University of Nevada, Reno]]
*'''[[Valerie Sherry]]''', [[University of Maryland College Park]]
*'''[[Dean Tate]]''', [[Texas A & M University]]
*'''[[Graham Leslie]]''', [[Texas A & M University]]
*'''[[Katelyn Stenger]]''', [[Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology]]
*'''[[Mridul Bhandari]]''', [[Pennsylvania State University]]
*'''[[Ellery Addington-White]]''', [[Beloit College]]
*'''[[Jennifer Mayo]]''', [[Oklahoma State University]]

= Topics =

*Events That Inspire
*Courses
*How-to Workshops

= Meeting Notes and Shared Resources =

'''Meeting Format: '''Brainstorm projects and ideas with Team Members. Discuss challenges faced and possible solutions.

'''Team Discussion:'''

'''Focus Question(s):'''

*"What is the format of our get-together. Does each person report out on their most important project in this Strategy? Or, does each member use the opportunity to highlight their struggles and ask for advice?

Ellery

*Most helpful to see successful examples of programs, entrepreneurial tour of the area
*See what successful incubators and taking advantage of what resources present such as:On campus Groups & Classes--- take advantage of network of students and professors in the community
*Emphasize the success in the community. <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 
*<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sustainability + Community + Entrepreneurship =Success!

Nolan

*When people see the good that the I&E world in action they become inspired
*Programs help professionally and help the innovators help others. Suggestion for spreading this message: shadows, tours anything that lets people get directly into the action.  

Mridul

*Ultimate Trader Challenge etc to insipre I&E in community
*Some of the things missing are '''workshops''' so not much that students can do as far as workshops to do.  There’s no way to get experience out there.  She is working to build a website to increase communication between students, alumni, local entrepreneurs to get people pumped up for entrepreneurship.  

Yifan

*Leverage the infrastructure and bring people together
*Proposing a weekly event to bring people together to share ideas and create synergy.  

Katelyn

*Also wants to establish a 'Maker's Space" on campus. Allow for multidisiplinary thinking.

Jennifer 

*Encourage current entrepreneurship clubs, activities, and entrepreneurship center to pursue social impact ventures. 
*Give opportunites for students to develop thier social impact ideas in a competition or grant. 

MAJOR FOCUS: Compile Resources

If clubs work together and cooperate they can do more work and more good combined.

- Katelyn is looking into designing an interactive map of resources on campus and where to find them. -- see bcsstartup.com, one of the resources for A&M (Graham)

Ellery

*Speaker Series- Successful entrepreneurs share “horror” stories and various aspects of success in the Entrepreneurial pursuit
*Give speakers direction- narrow the topic and answer questions students would have
*Have a facilitator. Get graduate students involved.  Use the resources readily available.

Nolan

*one of the coolest thing is that its like a flywheel - feedback loop which goes on and on forever.  Lots of options.  

<div </div>
<div>'''Focus Question(s):''' </div>
Are their any sub-groups that should form to advance specific interests ex: holding a TEDx, championing changes to IP policy, etc.?

IP Policy/Patents

*Brittany- IP Policy -- Great suggestions from everyone about the differences in policy from campus to campus.  Really pushed the idea of transparency in IP
*Katelyn - Interested in Presentations on Patents (possible collaboration with Brittany) and Workshops for SEED Grant Funding

TEDx Events

*Yifan is working on TEDx
*Mridul
*Jennifer (has been a speaker)
*Ellery
*Graham is helping to aggressively launch a TEDx this semester in A&M community

Social Impact

*Jennifer is interested in Social Impact
*Brittany
*Nolan
*Katelyn (offering a class in it)

Student Organization

*Graham is forming a student organization on campus to divide and conquer to find departmental gaps and fill them with UIF resources (hard to tackle 55k students without help)



'''Focus:'''

*Identify any special guests, speakers or resources you would like to invite to future meetings.

'''''''''Spud Marshall and Christian''' : Co.Space founder ([http://thecospace.com/ http://thecospace.com/]) {Super awesome people to talk to!}

Someone who has successfully started an incubator space and raised the money for it:

*Fletcher Richman, Graham was one of the first clients of his campus incubator and is familiar with the board and those responsible for launching

'''Amber Case''' - Cyborg Bootcamp for social entrepreneurship

 '''Focus Question: '''

*How frequently does this group meet and what is its regular meeting date/time (including the very next meeting time scheduled)?

Once every two weeks - Around 7 pm EST (4 pm PST)

Doodle poll to pick day of the week and then time on that day aiming for evening.

'''Focus Question:'''

*Who does the group elect to serve as the team-leaders (recommend 2)?

Yifan

Brittany '''Focus Question:'''

Do you want Humera to attend any of these sessions? Every other one? Or, on a case-by-case basis?

 Case-by-case

<div> </div>

Organization:Team Awareness

2013-11-01T07:01:24Z

Yifan Ge: /* Team Members */

= Overview =

Team Awareness works on strategies to reach other students with the message that Innovation and Entrepreneurship are important activities to engage in while at college. Expanding one's entrepreneurial mindset allows students to explore their creative and innovative potential, work on projects that acheive social impact, build one's project/resume portfolio and cultivates the skill sets that contribute to one's future employer, be it a business or non-profit setting.

= Standing Meeting Time =

Next meeting:

Wednesday November 13, 2013

7PM EST (4PM PST)

= Team Members =

Team Leaders:
*[[User:Yifan Ge|Yifan Ge]], [[Bucknell University]]
*[[Brittany Wouden]], [[Washington State University Vancouver]]

Team Members:
*[[Nolan Nicholson]], [[University of Nevada, Reno]]
*[[Valerie Sherry]], [[University of Maryland College Park]]
*[[Dean Tate]], [[Texas A & M University]]
*[[Graham Leslie]], [[Texas A & M University]]
*[[Katelyn Stenger]], [[Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology]]
*[[Mridul Bhandari]], [[Pennsylvania State University]]
*[[Ellery Addington-White]], [[Beloit College]]
*[[Jennifer Mayo]], [[Oklahoma State University]]

= Topics =

*Events That Inspire
*Courses
*How-to Workshops

= Meeting Notes and Shared Resources =

'''Meeting Format: '''Brainstorm projects and ideas with Team Members. Discuss challenges faced and possible solutions.

'''Team Discussion:'''

'''Focus Question(s):'''

*"What is the format of our get-together. Does each person report out on their most important project in this Strategy? Or, does each member use the opportunity to highlight their struggles and ask for advice?

Ellery

*Most helpful to see successful examples of programs, entrepreneurial tour of the area
*See what successful incubators and taking advantage of what resources present such as:On campus Groups & Classes--- take advantage of network of students and professors in the community
*Emphasize the success in the community. <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 
*<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sustainability + Community + Entrepreneurship =Success!

Nolan

*When people see the good that the I&E world in action they become inspired
*Programs help professionally and help the innovators help others. Suggestion for spreading this message: shadows, tours anything that lets people get directly into the action.  

Mridul

*Ultimate Trader Challenge etc to insipre I&E in community
*Some of the things missing are '''workshops''' so not much that students can do as far as workshops to do.  There’s no way to get experience out there.  She is working to build a website to increase communication between students, alumni, local entrepreneurs to get people pumped up for entrepreneurship.  

Yifan

*Leverage the infrastructure and bring people together
*Proposing a weekly event to bring people together to share ideas and create synergy.  

Katelyn

*Also wants to establish a 'Maker's Space" on campus. Allow for multidisiplinary thinking.

Jennifer 

*Encourage current entrepreneurship clubs, activities, and entrepreneurship center to pursue social impact ventures. 
*Give opportunites for students to develop thier social impact ideas in a competition or grant. 

MAJOR FOCUS: Compile Resources

If clubs work together and cooperate they can do more work and more good combined.

- Katelyn is looking into designing an interactive map of resources on campus and where to find them. -- see bcsstartup.com, one of the resources for A&M (Graham)

Ellery

*Speaker Series- Successful entrepreneurs share “horror” stories and various aspects of success in the Entrepreneurial pursuit
*Give speakers direction- narrow the topic and answer questions students would have
*Have a facilitator. Get graduate students involved.  Use the resources readily available.

Nolan

*one of the coolest thing is that its like a flywheel - feedback loop which goes on and on forever.  Lots of options.  

<div </div>
<div>'''Focus Question(s):''' </div>
Are their any sub-groups that should form to advance specific interests ex: holding a TEDx, championing changes to IP policy, etc.?

IP Policy/Patents

*Brittany- IP Policy -- Great suggestions from everyone about the differences in policy from campus to campus.  Really pushed the idea of transparency in IP
*Katelyn - Interested in Presentations on Patents (possible collaboration with Brittany) and Workshops for SEED Grant Funding

TEDx Events

*Yifan is working on TEDx
*Mridul
*Jennifer (has been a speaker)
*Ellery
*Graham is helping to aggressively launch a TEDx this semester in A&M community

Social Impact

*Jennifer is interested in Social Impact
*Brittany
*Nolan
*Katelyn (offering a class in it)

Student Organization

*Graham is forming a student organization on campus to divide and conquer to find departmental gaps and fill them with UIF resources (hard to tackle 55k students without help)



'''Focus:'''

*Identify any special guests, speakers or resources you would like to invite to future meetings.

'''''''''Spud Marshall and Christian''' : Co.Space founder ([http://thecospace.com/ http://thecospace.com/]) {Super awesome people to talk to!}

Someone who has successfully started an incubator space and raised the money for it:

*Fletcher Richman, Graham was one of the first clients of his campus incubator and is familiar with the board and those responsible for launching

'''Amber Case''' - Cyborg Bootcamp for social entrepreneurship

 '''Focus Question: '''

*How frequently does this group meet and what is its regular meeting date/time (including the very next meeting time scheduled)?

Once every two weeks - Around 7 pm EST (4 pm PST)

Doodle poll to pick day of the week and then time on that day aiming for evening.

'''Focus Question:'''

*Who does the group elect to serve as the team-leaders (recommend 2)?

Yifan

Brittany '''Focus Question:'''

Do you want Humera to attend any of these sessions? Every other one? Or, on a case-by-case basis?

 Case-by-case

<div> </div>

Organization:Team Awareness

2013-11-01T07:01:06Z

Yifan Ge: /* Team Members */

= Overview =

Team Awareness works on strategies to reach other students with the message that Innovation and Entrepreneurship are important activities to engage in while at college. Expanding one's entrepreneurial mindset allows students to explore their creative and innovative potential, work on projects that acheive social impact, build one's project/resume portfolio and cultivates the skill sets that contribute to one's future employer, be it a business or non-profit setting.

= Standing Meeting Time =

Next meeting:

Wednesday November 13, 2013

7PM EST (4PM PST)

= Team Members =

Team Leaders:
#[[User:Yifan Ge|Yifan Ge]], [[Bucknell University]]
#[[Brittany Wouden]], [[Washington State University Vancouver]]

Team Members:
*[[Nolan Nicholson]], [[University of Nevada, Reno]]
*[[Valerie Sherry]], [[University of Maryland College Park]]
*[[Dean Tate]], [[Texas A & M University]]
*[[Graham Leslie]], [[Texas A & M University]]
*[[Katelyn Stenger]], [[Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology]]
*[[Mridul Bhandari]], [[Pennsylvania State University]]
*[[Ellery Addington-White]], [[Beloit College]]
*[[Jennifer Mayo]], [[Oklahoma State University]]

= Topics =

*Events That Inspire
*Courses
*How-to Workshops

= Meeting Notes and Shared Resources =

'''Meeting Format: '''Brainstorm projects and ideas with Team Members. Discuss challenges faced and possible solutions.

'''Team Discussion:'''

'''Focus Question(s):'''

*"What is the format of our get-together. Does each person report out on their most important project in this Strategy? Or, does each member use the opportunity to highlight their struggles and ask for advice?

Ellery

*Most helpful to see successful examples of programs, entrepreneurial tour of the area
*See what successful incubators and taking advantage of what resources present such as:On campus Groups & Classes--- take advantage of network of students and professors in the community
*Emphasize the success in the community. <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 
*<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sustainability + Community + Entrepreneurship =Success!

Nolan

*When people see the good that the I&E world in action they become inspired
*Programs help professionally and help the innovators help others. Suggestion for spreading this message: shadows, tours anything that lets people get directly into the action.  

Mridul

*Ultimate Trader Challenge etc to insipre I&E in community
*Some of the things missing are '''workshops''' so not much that students can do as far as workshops to do.  There’s no way to get experience out there.  She is working to build a website to increase communication between students, alumni, local entrepreneurs to get people pumped up for entrepreneurship.  

Yifan

*Leverage the infrastructure and bring people together
*Proposing a weekly event to bring people together to share ideas and create synergy.  

Katelyn

*Also wants to establish a 'Maker's Space" on campus. Allow for multidisiplinary thinking.

Jennifer 

*Encourage current entrepreneurship clubs, activities, and entrepreneurship center to pursue social impact ventures. 
*Give opportunites for students to develop thier social impact ideas in a competition or grant. 

MAJOR FOCUS: Compile Resources

If clubs work together and cooperate they can do more work and more good combined.

- Katelyn is looking into designing an interactive map of resources on campus and where to find them. -- see bcsstartup.com, one of the resources for A&M (Graham)

Ellery

*Speaker Series- Successful entrepreneurs share “horror” stories and various aspects of success in the Entrepreneurial pursuit
*Give speakers direction- narrow the topic and answer questions students would have
*Have a facilitator. Get graduate students involved.  Use the resources readily available.

Nolan

*one of the coolest thing is that its like a flywheel - feedback loop which goes on and on forever.  Lots of options.  

<div </div>
<div>'''Focus Question(s):''' </div>
Are their any sub-groups that should form to advance specific interests ex: holding a TEDx, championing changes to IP policy, etc.?

IP Policy/Patents

*Brittany- IP Policy -- Great suggestions from everyone about the differences in policy from campus to campus.  Really pushed the idea of transparency in IP
*Katelyn - Interested in Presentations on Patents (possible collaboration with Brittany) and Workshops for SEED Grant Funding

TEDx Events

*Yifan is working on TEDx
*Mridul
*Jennifer (has been a speaker)
*Ellery
*Graham is helping to aggressively launch a TEDx this semester in A&M community

Social Impact

*Jennifer is interested in Social Impact
*Brittany
*Nolan
*Katelyn (offering a class in it)

Student Organization

*Graham is forming a student organization on campus to divide and conquer to find departmental gaps and fill them with UIF resources (hard to tackle 55k students without help)



'''Focus:'''

*Identify any special guests, speakers or resources you would like to invite to future meetings.

'''''''''Spud Marshall and Christian''' : Co.Space founder ([http://thecospace.com/ http://thecospace.com/]) {Super awesome people to talk to!}

Someone who has successfully started an incubator space and raised the money for it:

*Fletcher Richman, Graham was one of the first clients of his campus incubator and is familiar with the board and those responsible for launching

'''Amber Case''' - Cyborg Bootcamp for social entrepreneurship

 '''Focus Question: '''

*How frequently does this group meet and what is its regular meeting date/time (including the very next meeting time scheduled)?

Once every two weeks - Around 7 pm EST (4 pm PST)

Doodle poll to pick day of the week and then time on that day aiming for evening.

'''Focus Question:'''

*Who does the group elect to serve as the team-leaders (recommend 2)?

Yifan

Brittany '''Focus Question:'''

Do you want Humera to attend any of these sessions? Every other one? Or, on a case-by-case basis?

 Case-by-case

<div> </div>

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-30T09:22:51Z

Yifan Ge: /* Overview */

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T14:55:21Z

Yifan Ge:

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T14:54:50Z

Yifan Ge:

<div style="float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 10em; margin-right: 10em">[[File:Bucknell University Seal.jpg]]</div>
[[Bucknell University]] is a private liberal arts institution that was founded in 1846. With the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Management, Bucknell has always been aiming to educate well-rounded college graduates with an interdisciplinary mindset.

== Overview ==

[http://www.bucknell.edu Bucknell University] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

At the same time, Bucknell's small size and rural location inherited some limitations on its ecosystem. Two most prominent gaps are insufficient entrepreneur awareness on campus, and weak financial and network support.

''Insufficient Entrepreneur Awareness''
Although we have a lot of resources available for students, yet most of students are unaware of their existence. Events are not arranged frequently; students don't show up; lack of followup events. These are all the problems that current Bucknell problems are struggling. To increase the student awareness and benefit most from the existing facility are the key to a growing ecosystem.

''Weak Financial and Network Support''
Since Bucknell doesn't have any fund resources for student ventures, looking for the first seed fund is very hard for student entrepreneurs. The most financial support that a student can get from Bucknell is by winning the Business competition which gives $1,500 to the first place, $1,000 to the second, and the third gets $500. Considering making a minimum viable product for a software app can easily go up to $5,000, these financial input couldn't help much.

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:

{{#Widget:Prezis|id=abhrqjmgzdcs|width=600p|height=400p}}

== Calling all students ==

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

*Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href="[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]">[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]</a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]
*When: [Date, Time]
*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]

== Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Student Residential Weekend Workshop ===
*Description: Currently at Bucknell, there are six distinct themed Residential Colleges and many affinity houses. Some of them are closely related to I&E, such as Social Technology Residential College and the Engineering & Innovation House. Students chose to live in those houses are interested in I&E. By creating weekend workshop gatherings, we can foster the collaboration between students and help them start working on their ideas. Getting started is always the first hurdle. This will help students who are already interested in I&E to overcome the get started dilemma.
*Team Leader:: RAs
*Milestones:
** Arrange the first Meeting with RAs on related residential halls and houses.
** Reserve the workshop space and get permission from school.
** RAs arrange the interest meeting on their individual hall.
** Propose a year long weekly events based on student's interests.
** Start the project.

=== Tactic #2: TEDx Event ===
*Description: Bucknell currently has a speaker series called: Tech/No. It invites famous authors, businessman, managers to have a open one-on-one interview. Students showed a lot interests in those event. Having a TEDx event will further foster the innovation ecosystem at Bucknell.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Apply TEDx event license
** Invite speakers
** Reserve event space
** Advertise the event on campus
** Hold the TEDx event

=== Tactic #3: Student focused Start-up Workshop ===
*Description: Although Small Business Development Center holds start-up workshops regularly, most of these workshops are community oriented. Many of them are off campus and unknown by students. This workshop series will be student focus. Inform interested students with how to start a business, and show them the current available resources. This event will be an introductory event.
*Team Leader:: SBDC student consultants
*Milestones:
** Meet with SBDC director
** Reserve room for workshop
** Invite speakers: Professors, Alumni entrepreneurs, SBDC consultants, etc.
** Advertising the event on campus, fliers, posters, emails
** Holding the workshop

== Strategy #2: Strengthen Realization Supports ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Establish Student Venture Fund ===

*Description: Starting a company, finding seed fund is always the most difficult task, especially for student entrepreneurs. Student Venture Fund can help solve this problem by invest enough amount capital to help student entrepreneurs make their first minimum viable product to show their ideas. This can largely help students who do not have the money to implement their ideas and make them ready for a larger stage.
*Team Leader:: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Get school permission
** Register the organization
** Find advisers
** Seeking funding from interested student, faculty, alumni or staff
** Make a fund at endowment office
** Plan the first call for proposal and advertise
** Hold a proposal review session
** Select one project per year and connect the advisers with the student entrepreneurs

=== Tactic #2: Student and Alumni Entrepreneur Network ===

*Description: Bucknell has a large successful alumni network. A lot of them are working in finance industry. Also, Bucknell does have one Alumni Entrepreneur Network. However, the students are loosely connect with them. The purpose of this tactic is to bring students and alumni together. By holding gathering event, alumni can get to know the current student entrepreneurs on campus. Possibly they can help them get funding or connect with financial support with their network. They might even join the venture.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Contact Alumni Entrepreneur Network
** Contact Alumni Relations office
** Prepare events
** Hold events at Bucknell or New York City

=== Tactic #3: Software Development Office ===

*Description: Most of the start-up now are software based. One of the problem student entrepreneur facing are high cost for implementation. Although they may have great ideas, the high price to obtain even a minimum viable product may deter them from pursuing the venture. So this office is aim for providing an inexpensive software development assistant. This will greatly help entrepreneurs to explore new ideas and realize lean start-up.
*Team Leader: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Find developers
** Establish a website
** Get permissions
** Advertise

== Other ==

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T14:54:15Z

Yifan Ge:

<div style="float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 10em; margin-right: 10em">[[File:Bucknell University Seal.jpg]]</div>
[Bucknell University] is a private liberal arts institution that was founded in 1846. With the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Management, Bucknell has always been aiming to educate well-rounded college graduates with an interdisciplinary mindset.

== Overview ==

[http://www.bucknell.edu Bucknell University] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

At the same time, Bucknell's small size and rural location inherited some limitations on its ecosystem. Two most prominent gaps are insufficient entrepreneur awareness on campus, and weak financial and network support.

''Insufficient Entrepreneur Awareness''
Although we have a lot of resources available for students, yet most of students are unaware of their existence. Events are not arranged frequently; students don't show up; lack of followup events. These are all the problems that current Bucknell problems are struggling. To increase the student awareness and benefit most from the existing facility are the key to a growing ecosystem.

''Weak Financial and Network Support''
Since Bucknell doesn't have any fund resources for student ventures, looking for the first seed fund is very hard for student entrepreneurs. The most financial support that a student can get from Bucknell is by winning the Business competition which gives $1,500 to the first place, $1,000 to the second, and the third gets $500. Considering making a minimum viable product for a software app can easily go up to $5,000, these financial input couldn't help much.

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:

{{#Widget:Prezis|id=abhrqjmgzdcs|width=600p|height=400p}}

== Calling all students ==

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

*Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href="[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]">[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]</a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]
*When: [Date, Time]
*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]

== Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Student Residential Weekend Workshop ===
*Description: Currently at Bucknell, there are six distinct themed Residential Colleges and many affinity houses. Some of them are closely related to I&E, such as Social Technology Residential College and the Engineering & Innovation House. Students chose to live in those houses are interested in I&E. By creating weekend workshop gatherings, we can foster the collaboration between students and help them start working on their ideas. Getting started is always the first hurdle. This will help students who are already interested in I&E to overcome the get started dilemma.
*Team Leader:: RAs
*Milestones:
** Arrange the first Meeting with RAs on related residential halls and houses.
** Reserve the workshop space and get permission from school.
** RAs arrange the interest meeting on their individual hall.
** Propose a year long weekly events based on student's interests.
** Start the project.

=== Tactic #2: TEDx Event ===
*Description: Bucknell currently has a speaker series called: Tech/No. It invites famous authors, businessman, managers to have a open one-on-one interview. Students showed a lot interests in those event. Having a TEDx event will further foster the innovation ecosystem at Bucknell.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Apply TEDx event license
** Invite speakers
** Reserve event space
** Advertise the event on campus
** Hold the TEDx event

=== Tactic #3: Student focused Start-up Workshop ===
*Description: Although Small Business Development Center holds start-up workshops regularly, most of these workshops are community oriented. Many of them are off campus and unknown by students. This workshop series will be student focus. Inform interested students with how to start a business, and show them the current available resources. This event will be an introductory event.
*Team Leader:: SBDC student consultants
*Milestones:
** Meet with SBDC director
** Reserve room for workshop
** Invite speakers: Professors, Alumni entrepreneurs, SBDC consultants, etc.
** Advertising the event on campus, fliers, posters, emails
** Holding the workshop

== Strategy #2: Strengthen Realization Supports ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Establish Student Venture Fund ===

*Description: Starting a company, finding seed fund is always the most difficult task, especially for student entrepreneurs. Student Venture Fund can help solve this problem by invest enough amount capital to help student entrepreneurs make their first minimum viable product to show their ideas. This can largely help students who do not have the money to implement their ideas and make them ready for a larger stage.
*Team Leader:: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Get school permission
** Register the organization
** Find advisers
** Seeking funding from interested student, faculty, alumni or staff
** Make a fund at endowment office
** Plan the first call for proposal and advertise
** Hold a proposal review session
** Select one project per year and connect the advisers with the student entrepreneurs

=== Tactic #2: Student and Alumni Entrepreneur Network ===

*Description: Bucknell has a large successful alumni network. A lot of them are working in finance industry. Also, Bucknell does have one Alumni Entrepreneur Network. However, the students are loosely connect with them. The purpose of this tactic is to bring students and alumni together. By holding gathering event, alumni can get to know the current student entrepreneurs on campus. Possibly they can help them get funding or connect with financial support with their network. They might even join the venture.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Contact Alumni Entrepreneur Network
** Contact Alumni Relations office
** Prepare events
** Hold events at Bucknell or New York City

=== Tactic #3: Software Development Office ===

*Description: Most of the start-up now are software based. One of the problem student entrepreneur facing are high cost for implementation. Although they may have great ideas, the high price to obtain even a minimum viable product may deter them from pursuing the venture. So this office is aim for providing an inexpensive software development assistant. This will greatly help entrepreneurs to explore new ideas and realize lean start-up.
*Team Leader: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Find developers
** Establish a website
** Get permissions
** Advertise

== Other ==

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T14:53:34Z

Yifan Ge:

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T14:52:08Z

Yifan Ge: /* Overview */

== Overview ==

[http://www.bucknell.edu Bucknell University] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

At the same time, Bucknell's small size and rural location inherited some limitations on its ecosystem. Two most prominent gaps are insufficient entrepreneur awareness on campus, and weak financial and network support.

''Insufficient Entrepreneur Awareness''
Although we have a lot of resources available for students, yet most of students are unaware of their existence. Events are not arranged frequently; students don't show up; lack of followup events. These are all the problems that current Bucknell problems are struggling. To increase the student awareness and benefit most from the existing facility are the key to a growing ecosystem.

''Weak Financial and Network Support''
Since Bucknell doesn't have any fund resources for student ventures, looking for the first seed fund is very hard for student entrepreneurs. The most financial support that a student can get from Bucknell is by winning the Business competition which gives $1,500 to the first place, $1,000 to the second, and the third gets $500. Considering making a minimum viable product for a software app can easily go up to $5,000, these financial input couldn't help much.

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:

{{#Widget:Prezis|id=abhrqjmgzdcs|width=600p|height=400p}}

== Calling all students ==

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

*Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href="[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]">[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]</a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]
*When: [Date, Time]
*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]

== Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Student Residential Weekend Workshop ===
*Description: Currently at Bucknell, there are six distinct themed Residential Colleges and many affinity houses. Some of them are closely related to I&E, such as Social Technology Residential College and the Engineering & Innovation House. Students chose to live in those houses are interested in I&E. By creating weekend workshop gatherings, we can foster the collaboration between students and help them start working on their ideas. Getting started is always the first hurdle. This will help students who are already interested in I&E to overcome the get started dilemma.
*Team Leader:: RAs
*Milestones:
** Arrange the first Meeting with RAs on related residential halls and houses.
** Reserve the workshop space and get permission from school.
** RAs arrange the interest meeting on their individual hall.
** Propose a year long weekly events based on student's interests.
** Start the project.

=== Tactic #2: TEDx Event ===
*Description: Bucknell currently has a speaker series called: Tech/No. It invites famous authors, businessman, managers to have a open one-on-one interview. Students showed a lot interests in those event. Having a TEDx event will further foster the innovation ecosystem at Bucknell.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Apply TEDx event license
** Invite speakers
** Reserve event space
** Advertise the event on campus
** Hold the TEDx event

=== Tactic #3: Student focused Start-up Workshop ===
*Description: Although Small Business Development Center holds start-up workshops regularly, most of these workshops are community oriented. Many of them are off campus and unknown by students. This workshop series will be student focus. Inform interested students with how to start a business, and show them the current available resources. This event will be an introductory event.
*Team Leader:: SBDC student consultants
*Milestones:
** Meet with SBDC director
** Reserve room for workshop
** Invite speakers: Professors, Alumni entrepreneurs, SBDC consultants, etc.
** Advertising the event on campus, fliers, posters, emails
** Holding the workshop

== Strategy #2: Strengthen Realization Supports ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Establish Student Venture Fund ===

*Description: Starting a company, finding seed fund is always the most difficult task, especially for student entrepreneurs. Student Venture Fund can help solve this problem by invest enough amount capital to help student entrepreneurs make their first minimum viable product to show their ideas. This can largely help students who do not have the money to implement their ideas and make them ready for a larger stage.
*Team Leader:: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Get school permission
** Register the organization
** Find advisers
** Seeking funding from interested student, faculty, alumni or staff
** Make a fund at endowment office
** Plan the first call for proposal and advertise
** Hold a proposal review session
** Select one project per year and connect the advisers with the student entrepreneurs

=== Tactic #2: Student and Alumni Entrepreneur Network ===

*Description: Bucknell has a large successful alumni network. A lot of them are working in finance industry. Also, Bucknell does have one Alumni Entrepreneur Network. However, the students are loosely connect with them. The purpose of this tactic is to bring students and alumni together. By holding gathering event, alumni can get to know the current student entrepreneurs on campus. Possibly they can help them get funding or connect with financial support with their network. They might even join the venture.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Contact Alumni Entrepreneur Network
** Contact Alumni Relations office
** Prepare events
** Hold events at Bucknell or New York City

=== Tactic #3: Software Development Office ===

*Description: Most of the start-up now are software based. One of the problem student entrepreneur facing are high cost for implementation. Although they may have great ideas, the high price to obtain even a minimum viable product may deter them from pursuing the venture. So this office is aim for providing an inexpensive software development assistant. This will greatly help entrepreneurs to explore new ideas and realize lean start-up.
*Team Leader: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Find developers
** Establish a website
** Get permissions
** Advertise

== Other ==

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T14:51:45Z

Yifan Ge: /* Overview */

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T14:51:22Z

Yifan Ge: /* Overview */

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T14:35:18Z

Yifan Ge: /* Strategy #2: Strengthen the realization support */

== Overview ==

[http://www.bucknell.edu Bucknell University] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

At the same time, Bucknell's small size and rural location inherited some limitations on its ecosystem. Two most prominent gaps are insufficient entrepreneur awareness on campus, and

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:

{{#Widget:Prezis|id=abhrqjmgzdcs|width=600p|height=400p}}

== Calling all students ==

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

*Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href="[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]">[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]</a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]
*When: [Date, Time]
*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]

== Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Student Residential Weekend Workshop ===
*Description: Currently at Bucknell, there are six distinct themed Residential Colleges and many affinity houses. Some of them are closely related to I&E, such as Social Technology Residential College and the Engineering & Innovation House. Students chose to live in those houses are interested in I&E. By creating weekend workshop gatherings, we can foster the collaboration between students and help them start working on their ideas. Getting started is always the first hurdle. This will help students who are already interested in I&E to overcome the get started dilemma.
*Team Leader:: RAs
*Milestones:
** Arrange the first Meeting with RAs on related residential halls and houses.
** Reserve the workshop space and get permission from school.
** RAs arrange the interest meeting on their individual hall.
** Propose a year long weekly events based on student's interests.
** Start the project.

=== Tactic #2: TEDx Event ===
*Description: Bucknell currently has a speaker series called: Tech/No. It invites famous authors, businessman, managers to have a open one-on-one interview. Students showed a lot interests in those event. Having a TEDx event will further foster the innovation ecosystem at Bucknell.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Apply TEDx event license
** Invite speakers
** Reserve event space
** Advertise the event on campus
** Hold the TEDx event

=== Tactic #3: Student focused Start-up Workshop ===
*Description: Although Small Business Development Center holds start-up workshops regularly, most of these workshops are community oriented. Many of them are off campus and unknown by students. This workshop series will be student focus. Inform interested students with how to start a business, and show them the current available resources. This event will be an introductory event.
*Team Leader:: SBDC student consultants
*Milestones:
** Meet with SBDC director
** Reserve room for workshop
** Invite speakers: Professors, Alumni entrepreneurs, SBDC consultants, etc.
** Advertising the event on campus, fliers, posters, emails
** Holding the workshop

== Strategy #2: Strengthen Realization Supports ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Establish Student Venture Fund ===

*Description: Starting a company, finding seed fund is always the most difficult task, especially for student entrepreneurs. Student Venture Fund can help solve this problem by invest enough amount capital to help student entrepreneurs make their first minimum viable product to show their ideas. This can largely help students who do not have the money to implement their ideas and make them ready for a larger stage.
*Team Leader:: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Get school permission
** Register the organization
** Find advisers
** Seeking funding from interested student, faculty, alumni or staff
** Make a fund at endowment office
** Plan the first call for proposal and advertise
** Hold a proposal review session
** Select one project per year and connect the advisers with the student entrepreneurs

=== Tactic #2: Student and Alumni Entrepreneur Network ===

*Description: Bucknell has a large successful alumni network. A lot of them are working in finance industry. Also, Bucknell does have one Alumni Entrepreneur Network. However, the students are loosely connect with them. The purpose of this tactic is to bring students and alumni together. By holding gathering event, alumni can get to know the current student entrepreneurs on campus. Possibly they can help them get funding or connect with financial support with their network. They might even join the venture.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Contact Alumni Entrepreneur Network
** Contact Alumni Relations office
** Prepare events
** Hold events at Bucknell or New York City

=== Tactic #3: Software Development Office ===

*Description: Most of the start-up now are software based. One of the problem student entrepreneur facing are high cost for implementation. Although they may have great ideas, the high price to obtain even a minimum viable product may deter them from pursuing the venture. So this office is aim for providing an inexpensive software development assistant. This will greatly help entrepreneurs to explore new ideas and realize lean start-up.
*Team Leader: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Find developers
** Establish a website
** Get permissions
** Advertise

== Other ==

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T14:34:46Z

Yifan Ge: /* Strategy #2: Realization */

== Overview ==

[http://www.bucknell.edu Bucknell University] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

At the same time, Bucknell's small size and rural location inherited some limitations on its ecosystem. Two most prominent gaps are insufficient entrepreneur awareness on campus, and

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:

{{#Widget:Prezis|id=abhrqjmgzdcs|width=600p|height=400p}}

== Calling all students ==

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

*Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href="[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]">[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]</a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]
*When: [Date, Time]
*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]

== Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Student Residential Weekend Workshop ===
*Description: Currently at Bucknell, there are six distinct themed Residential Colleges and many affinity houses. Some of them are closely related to I&E, such as Social Technology Residential College and the Engineering & Innovation House. Students chose to live in those houses are interested in I&E. By creating weekend workshop gatherings, we can foster the collaboration between students and help them start working on their ideas. Getting started is always the first hurdle. This will help students who are already interested in I&E to overcome the get started dilemma.
*Team Leader:: RAs
*Milestones:
** Arrange the first Meeting with RAs on related residential halls and houses.
** Reserve the workshop space and get permission from school.
** RAs arrange the interest meeting on their individual hall.
** Propose a year long weekly events based on student's interests.
** Start the project.

=== Tactic #2: TEDx Event ===
*Description: Bucknell currently has a speaker series called: Tech/No. It invites famous authors, businessman, managers to have a open one-on-one interview. Students showed a lot interests in those event. Having a TEDx event will further foster the innovation ecosystem at Bucknell.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Apply TEDx event license
** Invite speakers
** Reserve event space
** Advertise the event on campus
** Hold the TEDx event

=== Tactic #3: Student focused Start-up Workshop ===
*Description: Although Small Business Development Center holds start-up workshops regularly, most of these workshops are community oriented. Many of them are off campus and unknown by students. This workshop series will be student focus. Inform interested students with how to start a business, and show them the current available resources. This event will be an introductory event.
*Team Leader:: SBDC student consultants
*Milestones:
** Meet with SBDC director
** Reserve room for workshop
** Invite speakers: Professors, Alumni entrepreneurs, SBDC consultants, etc.
** Advertising the event on campus, fliers, posters, emails
** Holding the workshop

== Strategy #2: Strengthen the realization support ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Establish Student Venture Fund ===

*Description: Starting a company, finding seed fund is always the most difficult task, especially for student entrepreneurs. Student Venture Fund can help solve this problem by invest enough amount capital to help student entrepreneurs make their first minimum viable product to show their ideas. This can largely help students who do not have the money to implement their ideas and make them ready for a larger stage.
*Team Leader:: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Get school permission
** Register the organization
** Find advisers
** Seeking funding from interested student, faculty, alumni or staff
** Make a fund at endowment office
** Plan the first call for proposal and advertise
** Hold a proposal review session
** Select one project per year and connect the advisers with the student entrepreneurs

=== Tactic #2: Student and Alumni Entrepreneur Network ===

*Description: Bucknell has a large successful alumni network. A lot of them are working in finance industry. Also, Bucknell does have one Alumni Entrepreneur Network. However, the students are loosely connect with them. The purpose of this tactic is to bring students and alumni together. By holding gathering event, alumni can get to know the current student entrepreneurs on campus. Possibly they can help them get funding or connect with financial support with their network. They might even join the venture.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Contact Alumni Entrepreneur Network
** Contact Alumni Relations office
** Prepare events
** Hold events at Bucknell or New York City

=== Tactic #3: Software Development Office ===

*Description: Most of the start-up now are software based. One of the problem student entrepreneur facing are high cost for implementation. Although they may have great ideas, the high price to obtain even a minimum viable product may deter them from pursuing the venture. So this office is aim for providing an inexpensive software development assistant. This will greatly help entrepreneurs to explore new ideas and realize lean start-up.
*Team Leader: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Find developers
** Establish a website
** Get permissions
** Advertise

== Other ==

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T14:33:51Z

Yifan Ge: /* Overview */

== Overview ==

[http://www.bucknell.edu Bucknell University] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

At the same time, Bucknell's small size and rural location inherited some limitations on its ecosystem. Two most prominent gaps are insufficient entrepreneur awareness on campus, and

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:

{{#Widget:Prezis|id=abhrqjmgzdcs|width=600p|height=400p}}

== Calling all students ==

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

*Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href="[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]">[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]</a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]
*When: [Date, Time]
*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]

== Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Student Residential Weekend Workshop ===
*Description: Currently at Bucknell, there are six distinct themed Residential Colleges and many affinity houses. Some of them are closely related to I&E, such as Social Technology Residential College and the Engineering & Innovation House. Students chose to live in those houses are interested in I&E. By creating weekend workshop gatherings, we can foster the collaboration between students and help them start working on their ideas. Getting started is always the first hurdle. This will help students who are already interested in I&E to overcome the get started dilemma.
*Team Leader:: RAs
*Milestones:
** Arrange the first Meeting with RAs on related residential halls and houses.
** Reserve the workshop space and get permission from school.
** RAs arrange the interest meeting on their individual hall.
** Propose a year long weekly events based on student's interests.
** Start the project.

=== Tactic #2: TEDx Event ===
*Description: Bucknell currently has a speaker series called: Tech/No. It invites famous authors, businessman, managers to have a open one-on-one interview. Students showed a lot interests in those event. Having a TEDx event will further foster the innovation ecosystem at Bucknell.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Apply TEDx event license
** Invite speakers
** Reserve event space
** Advertise the event on campus
** Hold the TEDx event

=== Tactic #3: Student focused Start-up Workshop ===
*Description: Although Small Business Development Center holds start-up workshops regularly, most of these workshops are community oriented. Many of them are off campus and unknown by students. This workshop series will be student focus. Inform interested students with how to start a business, and show them the current available resources. This event will be an introductory event.
*Team Leader:: SBDC student consultants
*Milestones:
** Meet with SBDC director
** Reserve room for workshop
** Invite speakers: Professors, Alumni entrepreneurs, SBDC consultants, etc.
** Advertising the event on campus, fliers, posters, emails
** Holding the workshop

== Strategy #2: Realization ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Establish Student Venture Fund ===

*Description: Starting a company, finding seed fund is always the most difficult task, especially for student entrepreneurs. Student Venture Fund can help solve this problem by invest enough amount capital to help student entrepreneurs make their first minimum viable product to show their ideas. This can largely help students who do not have the money to implement their ideas and make them ready for a larger stage.
*Team Leader:: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Get school permission
** Register the organization
** Find advisers
** Seeking funding from interested student, faculty, alumni or staff
** Make a fund at endowment office
** Plan the first call for proposal and advertise
** Hold a proposal review session
** Select one project per year and connect the advisers with the student entrepreneurs

=== Tactic #2: Student and Alumni Entrepreneur Network ===

*Description: Bucknell has a large successful alumni network. A lot of them are working in finance industry. Also, Bucknell does have one Alumni Entrepreneur Network. However, the students are loosely connect with them. The purpose of this tactic is to bring students and alumni together. By holding gathering event, alumni can get to know the current student entrepreneurs on campus. Possibly they can help them get funding or connect with financial support with their network. They might even join the venture.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Contact Alumni Entrepreneur Network
** Contact Alumni Relations office
** Prepare events
** Hold events at Bucknell or New York City

=== Tactic #3: Software Development Office ===

*Description: Most of the start-up now are software based. One of the problem student entrepreneur facing are high cost for implementation. Although they may have great ideas, the high price to obtain even a minimum viable product may deter them from pursuing the venture. So this office is aim for providing an inexpensive software development assistant. This will greatly help entrepreneurs to explore new ideas and realize lean start-up.
*Team Leader: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Find developers
** Establish a website
** Get permissions
** Advertise

== Other ==

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T14:29:59Z

Yifan Ge: /* Overview */

== Overview ==

[http://www.bucknell.edu Bucknell University] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:

{{#Widget:Prezis|id=abhrqjmgzdcs|width=800p|height=600p}}

== Calling all students ==

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

*Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href="[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]">[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]</a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]
*When: [Date, Time]
*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]

== Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Student Residential Weekend Workshop ===
*Description: Currently at Bucknell, there are six distinct themed Residential Colleges and many affinity houses. Some of them are closely related to I&E, such as Social Technology Residential College and the Engineering & Innovation House. Students chose to live in those houses are interested in I&E. By creating weekend workshop gatherings, we can foster the collaboration between students and help them start working on their ideas. Getting started is always the first hurdle. This will help students who are already interested in I&E to overcome the get started dilemma.
*Team Leader:: RAs
*Milestones:
** Arrange the first Meeting with RAs on related residential halls and houses.
** Reserve the workshop space and get permission from school.
** RAs arrange the interest meeting on their individual hall.
** Propose a year long weekly events based on student's interests.
** Start the project.

=== Tactic #2: TEDx Event ===
*Description: Bucknell currently has a speaker series called: Tech/No. It invites famous authors, businessman, managers to have a open one-on-one interview. Students showed a lot interests in those event. Having a TEDx event will further foster the innovation ecosystem at Bucknell.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Apply TEDx event license
** Invite speakers
** Reserve event space
** Advertise the event on campus
** Hold the TEDx event

=== Tactic #3: Student focused Start-up Workshop ===
*Description: Although Small Business Development Center holds start-up workshops regularly, most of these workshops are community oriented. Many of them are off campus and unknown by students. This workshop series will be student focus. Inform interested students with how to start a business, and show them the current available resources. This event will be an introductory event.
*Team Leader:: SBDC student consultants
*Milestones:
** Meet with SBDC director
** Reserve room for workshop
** Invite speakers: Professors, Alumni entrepreneurs, SBDC consultants, etc.
** Advertising the event on campus, fliers, posters, emails
** Holding the workshop

== Strategy #2: Realization ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Establish Student Venture Fund ===

*Description: Starting a company, finding seed fund is always the most difficult task, especially for student entrepreneurs. Student Venture Fund can help solve this problem by invest enough amount capital to help student entrepreneurs make their first minimum viable product to show their ideas. This can largely help students who do not have the money to implement their ideas and make them ready for a larger stage.
*Team Leader:: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Get school permission
** Register the organization
** Find advisers
** Seeking funding from interested student, faculty, alumni or staff
** Make a fund at endowment office
** Plan the first call for proposal and advertise
** Hold a proposal review session
** Select one project per year and connect the advisers with the student entrepreneurs

=== Tactic #2: Student and Alumni Entrepreneur Network ===

*Description: Bucknell has a large successful alumni network. A lot of them are working in finance industry. Also, Bucknell does have one Alumni Entrepreneur Network. However, the students are loosely connect with them. The purpose of this tactic is to bring students and alumni together. By holding gathering event, alumni can get to know the current student entrepreneurs on campus. Possibly they can help them get funding or connect with financial support with their network. They might even join the venture.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Contact Alumni Entrepreneur Network
** Contact Alumni Relations office
** Prepare events
** Hold events at Bucknell or New York City

=== Tactic #3: Software Development Office ===

*Description: Most of the start-up now are software based. One of the problem student entrepreneur facing are high cost for implementation. Although they may have great ideas, the high price to obtain even a minimum viable product may deter them from pursuing the venture. So this office is aim for providing an inexpensive software development assistant. This will greatly help entrepreneurs to explore new ideas and realize lean start-up.
*Team Leader: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Find developers
** Establish a website
** Get permissions
** Advertise

== Other ==

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T14:29:45Z

Yifan Ge: /* Overview */

== Overview ==

[http://www.bucknell.edu Bucknell University] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:
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</div>

== Calling all students ==

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

*Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href="[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]">[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]</a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]
*When: [Date, Time]
*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]

== Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Student Residential Weekend Workshop ===
*Description: Currently at Bucknell, there are six distinct themed Residential Colleges and many affinity houses. Some of them are closely related to I&E, such as Social Technology Residential College and the Engineering & Innovation House. Students chose to live in those houses are interested in I&E. By creating weekend workshop gatherings, we can foster the collaboration between students and help them start working on their ideas. Getting started is always the first hurdle. This will help students who are already interested in I&E to overcome the get started dilemma.
*Team Leader:: RAs
*Milestones:
** Arrange the first Meeting with RAs on related residential halls and houses.
** Reserve the workshop space and get permission from school.
** RAs arrange the interest meeting on their individual hall.
** Propose a year long weekly events based on student's interests.
** Start the project.

=== Tactic #2: TEDx Event ===
*Description: Bucknell currently has a speaker series called: Tech/No. It invites famous authors, businessman, managers to have a open one-on-one interview. Students showed a lot interests in those event. Having a TEDx event will further foster the innovation ecosystem at Bucknell.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Apply TEDx event license
** Invite speakers
** Reserve event space
** Advertise the event on campus
** Hold the TEDx event

=== Tactic #3: Student focused Start-up Workshop ===
*Description: Although Small Business Development Center holds start-up workshops regularly, most of these workshops are community oriented. Many of them are off campus and unknown by students. This workshop series will be student focus. Inform interested students with how to start a business, and show them the current available resources. This event will be an introductory event.
*Team Leader:: SBDC student consultants
*Milestones:
** Meet with SBDC director
** Reserve room for workshop
** Invite speakers: Professors, Alumni entrepreneurs, SBDC consultants, etc.
** Advertising the event on campus, fliers, posters, emails
** Holding the workshop

== Strategy #2: Realization ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Establish Student Venture Fund ===

*Description: Starting a company, finding seed fund is always the most difficult task, especially for student entrepreneurs. Student Venture Fund can help solve this problem by invest enough amount capital to help student entrepreneurs make their first minimum viable product to show their ideas. This can largely help students who do not have the money to implement their ideas and make them ready for a larger stage.
*Team Leader:: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Get school permission
** Register the organization
** Find advisers
** Seeking funding from interested student, faculty, alumni or staff
** Make a fund at endowment office
** Plan the first call for proposal and advertise
** Hold a proposal review session
** Select one project per year and connect the advisers with the student entrepreneurs

=== Tactic #2: Student and Alumni Entrepreneur Network ===

*Description: Bucknell has a large successful alumni network. A lot of them are working in finance industry. Also, Bucknell does have one Alumni Entrepreneur Network. However, the students are loosely connect with them. The purpose of this tactic is to bring students and alumni together. By holding gathering event, alumni can get to know the current student entrepreneurs on campus. Possibly they can help them get funding or connect with financial support with their network. They might even join the venture.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Contact Alumni Entrepreneur Network
** Contact Alumni Relations office
** Prepare events
** Hold events at Bucknell or New York City

=== Tactic #3: Software Development Office ===

*Description: Most of the start-up now are software based. One of the problem student entrepreneur facing are high cost for implementation. Although they may have great ideas, the high price to obtain even a minimum viable product may deter them from pursuing the venture. So this office is aim for providing an inexpensive software development assistant. This will greatly help entrepreneurs to explore new ideas and realize lean start-up.
*Team Leader: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Find developers
** Establish a website
** Get permissions
** Advertise

== Other ==

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T14:26:57Z

Yifan Ge: /* Overview */

== Overview ==

[500 words about the positive aspects of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship ecosystem on campus and the two gaps you believe will enhance the I&E ecosystem on your campus]

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:

{{#Widget:Prezis|id=abhrqjmgzdcs}}

== Calling all students ==

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

*Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href="[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]">[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]</a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]
*When: [Date, Time]
*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]

== Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Student Residential Weekend Workshop ===
*Description: Currently at Bucknell, there are six distinct themed Residential Colleges and many affinity houses. Some of them are closely related to I&E, such as Social Technology Residential College and the Engineering & Innovation House. Students chose to live in those houses are interested in I&E. By creating weekend workshop gatherings, we can foster the collaboration between students and help them start working on their ideas. Getting started is always the first hurdle. This will help students who are already interested in I&E to overcome the get started dilemma.
*Team Leader:: RAs
*Milestones:
** Arrange the first Meeting with RAs on related residential halls and houses.
** Reserve the workshop space and get permission from school.
** RAs arrange the interest meeting on their individual hall.
** Propose a year long weekly events based on student's interests.
** Start the project.

=== Tactic #2: TEDx Event ===
*Description: Bucknell currently has a speaker series called: Tech/No. It invites famous authors, businessman, managers to have a open one-on-one interview. Students showed a lot interests in those event. Having a TEDx event will further foster the innovation ecosystem at Bucknell.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Apply TEDx event license
** Invite speakers
** Reserve event space
** Advertise the event on campus
** Hold the TEDx event

=== Tactic #3: Student focused Start-up Workshop ===
*Description: Although Small Business Development Center holds start-up workshops regularly, most of these workshops are community oriented. Many of them are off campus and unknown by students. This workshop series will be student focus. Inform interested students with how to start a business, and show them the current available resources. This event will be an introductory event.
*Team Leader:: SBDC student consultants
*Milestones:
** Meet with SBDC director
** Reserve room for workshop
** Invite speakers: Professors, Alumni entrepreneurs, SBDC consultants, etc.
** Advertising the event on campus, fliers, posters, emails
** Holding the workshop

== Strategy #2: Realization ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Establish Student Venture Fund ===

*Description: Starting a company, finding seed fund is always the most difficult task, especially for student entrepreneurs. Student Venture Fund can help solve this problem by invest enough amount capital to help student entrepreneurs make their first minimum viable product to show their ideas. This can largely help students who do not have the money to implement their ideas and make them ready for a larger stage.
*Team Leader:: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Get school permission
** Register the organization
** Find advisers
** Seeking funding from interested student, faculty, alumni or staff
** Make a fund at endowment office
** Plan the first call for proposal and advertise
** Hold a proposal review session
** Select one project per year and connect the advisers with the student entrepreneurs

=== Tactic #2: Student and Alumni Entrepreneur Network ===

*Description: Bucknell has a large successful alumni network. A lot of them are working in finance industry. Also, Bucknell does have one Alumni Entrepreneur Network. However, the students are loosely connect with them. The purpose of this tactic is to bring students and alumni together. By holding gathering event, alumni can get to know the current student entrepreneurs on campus. Possibly they can help them get funding or connect with financial support with their network. They might even join the venture.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Contact Alumni Entrepreneur Network
** Contact Alumni Relations office
** Prepare events
** Hold events at Bucknell or New York City

=== Tactic #3: Software Development Office ===

*Description: Most of the start-up now are software based. One of the problem student entrepreneur facing are high cost for implementation. Although they may have great ideas, the high price to obtain even a minimum viable product may deter them from pursuing the venture. So this office is aim for providing an inexpensive software development assistant. This will greatly help entrepreneurs to explore new ideas and realize lean start-up.
*Team Leader: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Find developers
** Establish a website
** Get permissions
** Advertise

== Other ==

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T11:30:45Z

Yifan Ge: /* Strategy #2: Realization */

== Overview ==

[500 words about the positive aspects of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship ecosystem on campus and the two gaps you believe will enhance the I&E ecosystem on your campus]

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:

{{#Widget:Prezis|id=_sto8qf_0vcs}}

== Calling all students ==

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

*Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href="[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]">[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]</a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]
*When: [Date, Time]
*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]

== Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Student Residential Weekend Workshop ===
*Description: Currently at Bucknell, there are six distinct themed Residential Colleges and many affinity houses. Some of them are closely related to I&E, such as Social Technology Residential College and the Engineering & Innovation House. Students chose to live in those houses are interested in I&E. By creating weekend workshop gatherings, we can foster the collaboration between students and help them start working on their ideas. Getting started is always the first hurdle. This will help students who are already interested in I&E to overcome the get started dilemma.
*Team Leader:: RAs
*Milestones:
** Arrange the first Meeting with RAs on related residential halls and houses.
** Reserve the workshop space and get permission from school.
** RAs arrange the interest meeting on their individual hall.
** Propose a year long weekly events based on student's interests.
** Start the project.

=== Tactic #2: TEDx Event ===
*Description: Bucknell currently has a speaker series called: Tech/No. It invites famous authors, businessman, managers to have a open one-on-one interview. Students showed a lot interests in those event. Having a TEDx event will further foster the innovation ecosystem at Bucknell.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Apply TEDx event license
** Invite speakers
** Reserve event space
** Advertise the event on campus
** Hold the TEDx event

=== Tactic #3: Student focused Start-up Workshop ===
*Description: Although Small Business Development Center holds start-up workshops regularly, most of these workshops are community oriented. Many of them are off campus and unknown by students. This workshop series will be student focus. Inform interested students with how to start a business, and show them the current available resources. This event will be an introductory event.
*Team Leader:: SBDC student consultants
*Milestones:
** Meet with SBDC director
** Reserve room for workshop
** Invite speakers: Professors, Alumni entrepreneurs, SBDC consultants, etc.
** Advertising the event on campus, fliers, posters, emails
** Holding the workshop

== Strategy #2: Realization ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Establish Student Venture Fund ===

*Description: Starting a company, finding seed fund is always the most difficult task, especially for student entrepreneurs. Student Venture Fund can help solve this problem by invest enough amount capital to help student entrepreneurs make their first minimum viable product to show their ideas. This can largely help students who do not have the money to implement their ideas and make them ready for a larger stage.
*Team Leader:: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Get school permission
** Register the organization
** Find advisers
** Seeking funding from interested student, faculty, alumni or staff
** Make a fund at endowment office
** Plan the first call for proposal and advertise
** Hold a proposal review session
** Select one project per year and connect the advisers with the student entrepreneurs

=== Tactic #2: Student and Alumni Entrepreneur Network ===

*Description: Bucknell has a large successful alumni network. A lot of them are working in finance industry. Also, Bucknell does have one Alumni Entrepreneur Network. However, the students are loosely connect with them. The purpose of this tactic is to bring students and alumni together. By holding gathering event, alumni can get to know the current student entrepreneurs on campus. Possibly they can help them get funding or connect with financial support with their network. They might even join the venture.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Contact Alumni Entrepreneur Network
** Contact Alumni Relations office
** Prepare events
** Hold events at Bucknell or New York City

=== Tactic #3: Software Development Office ===

*Description: Most of the start-up now are software based. One of the problem student entrepreneur facing are high cost for implementation. Although they may have great ideas, the high price to obtain even a minimum viable product may deter them from pursuing the venture. So this office is aim for providing an inexpensive software development assistant. This will greatly help entrepreneurs to explore new ideas and realize lean start-up.
*Team Leader: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Find developers
** Establish a website
** Get permissions
** Advertise

== Other ==

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T11:30:32Z

Yifan Ge: /* Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness */

== Overview ==

[500 words about the positive aspects of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship ecosystem on campus and the two gaps you believe will enhance the I&E ecosystem on your campus]

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:

{{#Widget:Prezis|id=_sto8qf_0vcs}}

== Calling all students ==

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

*Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href="[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]">[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]</a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]
*When: [Date, Time]
*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]

== Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Student Residential Weekend Workshop ===
*Description: Currently at Bucknell, there are six distinct themed Residential Colleges and many affinity houses. Some of them are closely related to I&E, such as Social Technology Residential College and the Engineering & Innovation House. Students chose to live in those houses are interested in I&E. By creating weekend workshop gatherings, we can foster the collaboration between students and help them start working on their ideas. Getting started is always the first hurdle. This will help students who are already interested in I&E to overcome the get started dilemma.
*Team Leader:: RAs
*Milestones:
** Arrange the first Meeting with RAs on related residential halls and houses.
** Reserve the workshop space and get permission from school.
** RAs arrange the interest meeting on their individual hall.
** Propose a year long weekly events based on student's interests.
** Start the project.

=== Tactic #2: TEDx Event ===
*Description: Bucknell currently has a speaker series called: Tech/No. It invites famous authors, businessman, managers to have a open one-on-one interview. Students showed a lot interests in those event. Having a TEDx event will further foster the innovation ecosystem at Bucknell.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Apply TEDx event license
** Invite speakers
** Reserve event space
** Advertise the event on campus
** Hold the TEDx event

=== Tactic #3: Student focused Start-up Workshop ===
*Description: Although Small Business Development Center holds start-up workshops regularly, most of these workshops are community oriented. Many of them are off campus and unknown by students. This workshop series will be student focus. Inform interested students with how to start a business, and show them the current available resources. This event will be an introductory event.
*Team Leader:: SBDC student consultants
*Milestones:
** Meet with SBDC director
** Reserve room for workshop
** Invite speakers: Professors, Alumni entrepreneurs, SBDC consultants, etc.
** Advertising the event on campus, fliers, posters, emails
** Holding the workshop

== Strategy #2: Realization ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Establish Student Venture Fund ===

*Description: Starting a company, finding seed fund is always the most difficult task, especially for student entrepreneurs. Student Venture Fund can help solve this problem by invest enough amount capital to help student entrepreneurs make their first minimum viable product to show their ideas. This can largely help students who do not have the money to implement their ideas and make them ready for a larger stage.
*Team Leader:: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Get school permission
** Register the organization
** Find advisers
** Seeking funding from interested student, faculty, alumni or staff
** Make a fund at endowment office
** Plan the first call for proposal and advertise
** Hold a proposal review session
** Select one project per year and connect the advisers with the student entrepreneurs

=== Tactic #2: Student and Alumni Entrepreneur Network ===

*Description: Bucknell has a large successful alumni network. A lot of them are working in finance industry. Also, Bucknell does have one Alumni Entrepreneur Network. However, the students are loosely connect with them. The purpose of this tactic is to bring students and alumni together. By holding gathering event, alumni can get to know the current student entrepreneurs on campus. Possibly they can help them get funding or connect with financial support with their network. They might even join the venture.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Contact Alumni Entrepreneur Network
** Contact Alumni Relations office
** Prepare events
** Hold events at Bucknell or New York City

=== Tactic #3: Software Development Office ===

*Description: Most of the start-up now are software based. One of the problem student entrepreneur facing are high cost for implementation. Although they may have great ideas, the high price to obtain even a minimum viable product may deter them from pursuing the venture. So this office is aim for providing an inexpensive software development assistant. This will greatly help entrepreneurs to explore new ideas and realize lean start-up.
*Team Leader: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Find developers
** Establish a website
** Get permissions
** Advertise

== Other ==

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T11:30:19Z

Yifan Ge: /* Strategy #2: Realization */

== Overview ==

[500 words about the positive aspects of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship ecosystem on campus and the two gaps you believe will enhance the I&E ecosystem on your campus]

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:

{{#Widget:Prezis|id=_sto8qf_0vcs}}

== Calling all students ==

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

*Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href="[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]">[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]</a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]
*When: [Date, Time]
*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]

== Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness ==

Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:

=== Tactic #1: Student Residential Weekend Workshop ===
*Description: Currently at Bucknell, there are six distinct themed Residential Colleges and many affinity houses. Some of them are closely related to I&E, such as Social Technology Residential College and the Engineering & Innovation House. Students chose to live in those houses are interested in I&E. By creating weekend workshop gatherings, we can foster the collaboration between students and help them start working on their ideas. Getting started is always the first hurdle. This will help students who are already interested in I&E to overcome the get started dilemma.
*Team Leader:: RAs
*Milestones:
** Arrange the first Meeting with RAs on related residential halls and houses.
** Reserve the workshop space and get permission from school.
** RAs arrange the interest meeting on their individual hall.
** Propose a year long weekly events based on student's interests.
** Start the project.

=== Tactic #2: TEDx Event ===
*Description: Bucknell currently has a speaker series called: Tech/No. It invites famous authors, businessman, managers to have a open one-on-one interview. Students showed a lot interests in those event. Having a TEDx event will further foster the innovation ecosystem at Bucknell.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Apply TEDx event license
** Invite speakers
** Reserve event space
** Advertise the event on campus
** Hold the TEDx event

=== Tactic #3: Student focused Start-up Workshop ===
*Description: Although Small Business Development Center holds start-up workshops regularly, most of these workshops are community oriented. Many of them are off campus and unknown by students. This workshop series will be student focus. Inform interested students with how to start a business, and show them the current available resources. This event will be an introductory event.
*Team Leader:: SBDC student consultants
*Milestones:
** Meet with SBDC director
** Reserve room for workshop
** Invite speakers: Professors, Alumni entrepreneurs, SBDC consultants, etc.
** Advertising the event on campus, fliers, posters, emails
** Holding the workshop

== Strategy #2: Realization ==
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
=== Tactic #1: Establish Student Venture Fund ===

*Description: Starting a company, finding seed fund is always the most difficult task, especially for student entrepreneurs. Student Venture Fund can help solve this problem by invest enough amount capital to help student entrepreneurs make their first minimum viable product to show their ideas. This can largely help students who do not have the money to implement their ideas and make them ready for a larger stage.
*Team Leader:: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Get school permission
** Register the organization
** Find advisers
** Seeking funding from interested student, faculty, alumni or staff
** Make a fund at endowment office
** Plan the first call for proposal and advertise
** Hold a proposal review session
** Select one project per year and connect the advisers with the student entrepreneurs

=== Tactic #2: Student and Alumni Entrepreneur Network ===

*Description: Bucknell has a large successful alumni network. A lot of them are working in finance industry. Also, Bucknell does have one Alumni Entrepreneur Network. However, the students are loosely connect with them. The purpose of this tactic is to bring students and alumni together. By holding gathering event, alumni can get to know the current student entrepreneurs on campus. Possibly they can help them get funding or connect with financial support with their network. They might even join the venture.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Contact Alumni Entrepreneur Network
** Contact Alumni Relations office
** Prepare events
** Hold events at Bucknell or New York City

=== Tactic #3: Software Development Office ===

*Description: Most of the start-up now are software based. One of the problem student entrepreneur facing are high cost for implementation. Although they may have great ideas, the high price to obtain even a minimum viable product may deter them from pursuing the venture. So this office is aim for providing an inexpensive software development assistant. This will greatly help entrepreneurs to explore new ideas and realize lean start-up.
*Team Leader: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Find developers
** Establish a website
** Get permissions
** Advertise

== Other ==

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T11:30:02Z

Yifan Ge: /* Strategy #2: Realization */

== Overview ==

[500 words about the positive aspects of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship ecosystem on campus and the two gaps you believe will enhance the I&E ecosystem on your campus]

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:

{{#Widget:Prezis|id=_sto8qf_0vcs}}

== Calling all students ==

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

*Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href="[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]">[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]</a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]
*When: [Date, Time]
*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]

== Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness ==

Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:

=== Tactic #1: Student Residential Weekend Workshop ===
*Description: Currently at Bucknell, there are six distinct themed Residential Colleges and many affinity houses. Some of them are closely related to I&E, such as Social Technology Residential College and the Engineering & Innovation House. Students chose to live in those houses are interested in I&E. By creating weekend workshop gatherings, we can foster the collaboration between students and help them start working on their ideas. Getting started is always the first hurdle. This will help students who are already interested in I&E to overcome the get started dilemma.
*Team Leader:: RAs
*Milestones:
** Arrange the first Meeting with RAs on related residential halls and houses.
** Reserve the workshop space and get permission from school.
** RAs arrange the interest meeting on their individual hall.
** Propose a year long weekly events based on student's interests.
** Start the project.

=== Tactic #2: TEDx Event ===
*Description: Bucknell currently has a speaker series called: Tech/No. It invites famous authors, businessman, managers to have a open one-on-one interview. Students showed a lot interests in those event. Having a TEDx event will further foster the innovation ecosystem at Bucknell.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Apply TEDx event license
** Invite speakers
** Reserve event space
** Advertise the event on campus
** Hold the TEDx event

=== Tactic #3: Student focused Start-up Workshop ===
*Description: Although Small Business Development Center holds start-up workshops regularly, most of these workshops are community oriented. Many of them are off campus and unknown by students. This workshop series will be student focus. Inform interested students with how to start a business, and show them the current available resources. This event will be an introductory event.
*Team Leader:: SBDC student consultants
*Milestones:
** Meet with SBDC director
** Reserve room for workshop
** Invite speakers: Professors, Alumni entrepreneurs, SBDC consultants, etc.
** Advertising the event on campus, fliers, posters, emails
** Holding the workshop

== Strategy #2: Realization ==

Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:

=== Tactic #1: Establish Student Venture Fund ===

*Description: Starting a company, finding seed fund is always the most difficult task, especially for student entrepreneurs. Student Venture Fund can help solve this problem by invest enough amount capital to help student entrepreneurs make their first minimum viable product to show their ideas. This can largely help students who do not have the money to implement their ideas and make them ready for a larger stage.
*Team Leader:: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Get school permission
** Register the organization
** Find advisers
** Seeking funding from interested student, faculty, alumni or staff
** Make a fund at endowment office
** Plan the first call for proposal and advertise
** Hold a proposal review session
** Select one project per year and connect the advisers with the student entrepreneurs

=== Tactic #2: Student and Alumni Entrepreneur Network ===

*Description: Bucknell has a large successful alumni network. A lot of them are working in finance industry. Also, Bucknell does have one Alumni Entrepreneur Network. However, the students are loosely connect with them. The purpose of this tactic is to bring students and alumni together. By holding gathering event, alumni can get to know the current student entrepreneurs on campus. Possibly they can help them get funding or connect with financial support with their network. They might even join the venture.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Contact Alumni Entrepreneur Network
** Contact Alumni Relations office
** Prepare events
** Hold events at Bucknell or New York City

=== Tactic #3: Software Development Office ===

*Description: Most of the start-up now are software based. One of the problem student entrepreneur facing are high cost for implementation. Although they may have great ideas, the high price to obtain even a minimum viable product may deter them from pursuing the venture. So this office is aim for providing an inexpensive software development assistant. This will greatly help entrepreneurs to explore new ideas and realize lean start-up.
*Team Leader: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Find developers
** Establish a website
** Get permissions
** Advertise

== Other ==

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T11:29:24Z

Yifan Ge: /* Strategy #2: ________ */

== Overview ==

[500 words about the positive aspects of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship ecosystem on campus and the two gaps you believe will enhance the I&E ecosystem on your campus]

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:

{{#Widget:Prezis|id=_sto8qf_0vcs}}

== Calling all students ==

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

*Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href="[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]">[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]</a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]
*When: [Date, Time]
*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]

== Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness ==

Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:

=== Tactic #1: Student Residential Weekend Workshop ===
*Description: Currently at Bucknell, there are six distinct themed Residential Colleges and many affinity houses. Some of them are closely related to I&E, such as Social Technology Residential College and the Engineering & Innovation House. Students chose to live in those houses are interested in I&E. By creating weekend workshop gatherings, we can foster the collaboration between students and help them start working on their ideas. Getting started is always the first hurdle. This will help students who are already interested in I&E to overcome the get started dilemma.
*Team Leader:: RAs
*Milestones:
** Arrange the first Meeting with RAs on related residential halls and houses.
** Reserve the workshop space and get permission from school.
** RAs arrange the interest meeting on their individual hall.
** Propose a year long weekly events based on student's interests.
** Start the project.

=== Tactic #2: TEDx Event ===
*Description: Bucknell currently has a speaker series called: Tech/No. It invites famous authors, businessman, managers to have a open one-on-one interview. Students showed a lot interests in those event. Having a TEDx event will further foster the innovation ecosystem at Bucknell.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Apply TEDx event license
** Invite speakers
** Reserve event space
** Advertise the event on campus
** Hold the TEDx event

=== Tactic #3: Student focused Start-up Workshop ===
*Description: Although Small Business Development Center holds start-up workshops regularly, most of these workshops are community oriented. Many of them are off campus and unknown by students. This workshop series will be student focus. Inform interested students with how to start a business, and show them the current available resources. This event will be an introductory event.
*Team Leader:: SBDC student consultants
*Milestones:
** Meet with SBDC director
** Reserve room for workshop
** Invite speakers: Professors, Alumni entrepreneurs, SBDC consultants, etc.
** Advertising the event on campus, fliers, posters, emails
** Holding the workshop

== Strategy #2: Realization ==

Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:

Tactic #1: Establish Student Venture Fund

*Description: Starting a company, finding seed fund is always the most difficult task, especially for student entrepreneurs. Student Venture Fund can help solve this problem by invest enough amount capital to help student entrepreneurs make their first minimum viable product to show their ideas. This can largely help students who do not have the money to implement their ideas and make them ready for a larger stage.
*Team Leader:: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Get school permission
** Register the organization
** Find advisers
** Seeking funding from interested student, faculty, alumni or staff
** Make a fund at endowment office
** Plan the first call for proposal and advertise
** Hold a proposal review session
** Select one project per year and connect the advisers with the student entrepreneurs

Tactic #2: Student and Alumni Entrepreneur Network

*Description: Bucknell has a large successful alumni network. A lot of them are working in finance industry. Also, Bucknell does have one Alumni Entrepreneur Network. However, the students are loosely connect with them. The purpose of this tactic is to bring students and alumni together. By holding gathering event, alumni can get to know the current student entrepreneurs on campus. Possibly they can help them get funding or connect with financial support with their network. They might even join the venture.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Contact Alumni Entrepreneur Network
** Contact Alumni Relations office
** Prepare events
** Hold events at Bucknell or New York City

Tactic #3: Software Development Office

*Description: Most of the start-up now are software based. One of the problem student entrepreneur facing are high cost for implementation. Although they may have great ideas, the high price to obtain even a minimum viable product may deter them from pursuing the venture. So this office is aim for providing an inexpensive software development assistant. This will greatly help entrepreneurs to explore new ideas and realize lean start-up.
*Team Leader: Yifan Ge
*Milestones:
** Find developers
** Establish a website
** Get permissions
** Advertise

== Other ==

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T11:03:15Z

Yifan Ge: /* Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness */

== Overview ==

[500 words about the positive aspects of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship ecosystem on campus and the two gaps you believe will enhance the I&E ecosystem on your campus]

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:

{{#Widget:Prezis|id=_sto8qf_0vcs}}

== Calling all students ==

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

*Where: [Google Hangout On Air <a href="<a href="[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]">[http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html]</a>">[1]</a> or other existing meeting of students interested in I&E in Engineering.]
*When: [Date, Time]
*RSVP: [your email address, google form, eventbrite or meetup link]

== Strategy #1: Improve Entrepreneurship Awareness ==

Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:

=== Tactic #1: Student Residential Weekend Workshop ===
*Description: Currently at Bucknell, there are six distinct themed Residential Colleges and many affinity houses. Some of them are closely related to I&E, such as Social Technology Residential College and the Engineering & Innovation House. Students chose to live in those houses are interested in I&E. By creating weekend workshop gatherings, we can foster the collaboration between students and help them start working on their ideas. Getting started is always the first hurdle. This will help students who are already interested in I&E to overcome the get started dilemma.
*Team Leader:: RAs
*Milestones:
** Arrange the first Meeting with RAs on related residential halls and houses.
** Reserve the workshop space and get permission from school.
** RAs arrange the interest meeting on their individual hall.
** Propose a year long weekly events based on student's interests.
** Start the project.

=== Tactic #2: TEDx Event ===
*Description: Bucknell currently has a speaker series called: Tech/No. It invites famous authors, businessman, managers to have a open one-on-one interview. Students showed a lot interests in those event. Having a TEDx event will further foster the innovation ecosystem at Bucknell.
*Team Leader:: TBA
*Milestones:
** Apply TEDx event license
** Invite speakers
** Reserve event space
** Advertise the event on campus
** Hold the TEDx event

=== Tactic #3: Student focused Start-up Workshop ===
*Description: Although Small Business Development Center holds start-up workshops regularly, most of these workshops are community oriented. Many of them are off campus and unknown by students. This workshop series will be student focus. Inform interested students with how to start a business, and show them the current available resources. This event will be an introductory event.
*Team Leader:: SBDC student consultants
*Milestones:
** Meet with SBDC director
** Reserve room for workshop
** Invite speakers: Professors, Alumni entrepreneurs, SBDC consultants, etc.
** Advertising the event on campus, fliers, posters, emails
** Holding the workshop

== Strategy #2: ________ ==

Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:

Tactic #1: [Name of tactic]

*Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]
*Team Leader:: [Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned to the person who volunteers]
*Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]

Tactic #2: [Name of tactic]

*Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]
*Team Leader:: [Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned to the person who volunteers]
*Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]

Tactic #3: [Name of tactic]

*Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]
*Team Leader: [Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned to the person who volunteers]
*Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]

== Other ==

Priorities:Bucknell University Student Priorities

2013-10-25T10:23:49Z

Yifan Ge: /* Strategy #1: ________ */

School:Bucknell University

2013-10-18T12:11:26Z

Yifan Ge:

<div style="float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 10em; margin-right: 10em">[[File:Bucknell_University_Seal.jpg]]</div>

[http://www.bucknell.edu '''Bucknell University'''] is a private liberal arts institution that was founded in 1846. With the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Management, Bucknell has always been aiming to educate well-rounded college graduates with an interdisciplinary mindset.

== Introduction ==
[http://www.bucknell.edu '''Bucknell University'''] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

== Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
=== Student ===
==== Curricular Activities ====
----
'''B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers'''
The B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers would provide a structure for students to develop problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and an understanding of the design process as well the opportunity to combine these fundamentals in engineering with an entrepreneurially minded set of courses within the College of Engineering, the School of Management, and the College of Arts & Sciences. Required courses may include:
*MGMT 100: Management Past, Present, and Future
*ECON 103: Economic Principles and Problems
*MGMT 201: Marketing
*MIDE 300: Marketing, Innovation, and Design
*MIDE 303: Entrepreneurship
*Two IDEAS Design Studios within the College of Engineering

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/school-of-management/degree-programs/curriculum-basics/markets-innovation-and-design.html '''Markets, Innovation, & Design (MIDE) Program''']
The largest of the School of Management’s four new academic majors is a dedicated track designed to prepare students for a wide range of careers related to the creation and marketing of innovative products and services. The program’s design includes a series of courses focused on how to identify consumer needs, how to realize innovative ideas and analyze their market potential, and how to bring products and services to market through existing marketing organizations or through new ventures. The MIDE program includes a dedicated course in entrepreneurship, MIDE 303.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/x44757.xml '''Management 101''']
Bucknell's collaborative, experiential organization and management project
course teaches about how, when, and why people work together to accomplish tasks. In the course, students create and manage companies. These companies are not "simulations" or
"games.” They operate with a budget of $3,000-5,000 in order to deliver real services to clients and develop and sell real products to customers. Currently, one in every four Bucknell graduates takes MGMT 101, and over the past thirty years, literally thousands of Bucknellians have started their careers in this one course. For aspiring entrepreneurs, MGMT 101 already comprises one possible gateway to gain skills and take a first step toward engaging with the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/chemical-engineering.html '''CHEG 475/MIDE 375/UNIV 375: ''Should We Start This Company?''''']
Professor Erin Jablonski
(Chemical Engineering) offers a cross-listed course on entrepreneurship. This is a projectcentered course in entrepreneurship, generating new business ideas, and product or service design and development through business planning that was first offered in the fall of 2012.

'''K-WIDE (KEEN Winter Interdisciplinary Design Experience)'''
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</div>

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/arts-entrepreneurship-minor.html '''Arts Entrepreneurship Minor''']
This minor offers an opportunity to acquire entrepreneurial acumen in the field of arts management. Students interested in working in and with the arts will acquire practical tools by which to become arts professionals — to manage, market, and promote individual businesses, community arts organizations, and not-for-profit arts endeavors in the visual, performing, media, and/or literary arts. The minor bridges the gap between the disciplinary depth of each arts-based major with a pragmatic skill set that can facilitate entry into various entrepreneurial endeavors in the arts. The core anchor course in arts entrepreneurship is currently being offered as ENGL 290: Arts Entrepreneurship.

==== Student Affairs / Co-Curricular ====
----

'''Residential Colleges'''
The Residential Colleges provide a living and learning community experience to first-year students at Bucknell. Currently there are eight different themes and a ninth has been approved for the Fall of 2013. The current “Society and Technology” themed Residential College and recently approved “Discovery College” render themselves well to being incorporated into Bucknell’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''Affinity Housing Program'''
The AHP provides a unique living and learning experience that enables a group of students to live together while exploring a common area of interest. Student groups ranging from a cadre of like-minded individuals to members of the same student organization apply to live together in one of Bucknell University’s Small Houses or residence halls. Two Affinity Housing Programs have been approved for the year 2013 – 2014 that should
be considered part of Bucknell’s emerging Ecology of Entrepreneurship. These are the “Technology for a Sustainable Environment” and “Engineering and Innovation” programs.

'''Entrepreneurial Club'''
The Entrepreneurial Club is recognized by the Bucknell Student Government and falls under the umbrella of Campus Activities and Programs. The
group articulates a mission to “promote an entrepreneurial mindset on Bucknell’s campus through interaction with other similarly minded organizations and through providing opportunities for students to collaborate with one another over the topic.” The Club’s activities include bringing entrepreneurs to campus to speak to students.

'''Bucknell Business Leaders'''
Bucknell Business Leaders is an ambitious student run organization that provides
students with real-life business experiences. Every semester, Bucknell Business
Leaders will brainstorm, research, design, order, and sell at least one product that
hopefully a wide range of Bucknellians will love. Participation in this organization will give
students a glimpse of many aspects of a real business: product research and design,
finance, marketing, advertising, sales, and teamwork. Students who participate in this
campus organization, management and non-management majors, will not only learn a
great deal about business but have lots of fun.

'''Bucknell Business Pitch Competition'''
The Business Pitch Competition was launched in 2012 to inspire and engage aspiring student entrepreneurs. Student entrepreneurs create and deliver a professional and engaging business pitch presenting an innovative and marketable business concept. The inaugural event engaged over fifty students on 18 venture teams, attracted $10,000 in alumni giving towards prizes and promotions, featured nine faculty and staff members as preliminary round judges, and engaged six distinguished alumni as judges and mentors for the final round of competitors. Winners were awarded monetary prizes and offers of informal mentorship from the alumni judges. The first prize winner also received a one year residency in Bucknell’s Entrepreneurs Incubator.

'''Venture Plan Competition'''
A competition offered for undergraduate students to promote entrepreneurship and new ventures. The competition was started in 2009 at Bucknell University and has awarded more than $17,000 to students creating new ventures. Students participating in the competition are responsible for creating a full written Venture Plan and have an opportunity to present it to a panel of seasoned judges that come from a variety of
backgrounds including start-ups, business strategy, and venture capital.
Venture Plan Competition offers students a complementary and expanded experience to the pitch competition and pits Bucknell students against students from Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) partner institutions Bloomsburg and Susquehanna Universities. This competition is currently organized by the Greater Susquehanna KIZ.

=== Faculty ===
[http://bucknellinnovationgroup.blogs.bucknell.edu/ '''Bucknell Innovation Group''']
The Bucknell Innovation Group (BIG) is made up of Bucknell professors representing academic disciplines such as, art and art history, comparative humanities, education, engineering, English, management, music, and theater and dance. The principle behind BIG is to “make an impact” through a campus-wide innovation initiative. BIG aims to create an environment that supports those for whom innovation is a primary focus and helps others discover their innovative impulses.

== University technology transfer function ==
=== [http://www.bucknell.edu/x7025.xml Small Business Development Center (SBDC)] ===
The Bucknell SBDC provides free consulting, information, and low-cost educational programs to entrepreneurs and small businesses, including student entrepreneurs and ventures. It offers a business pitch competition for students, internships, and facilitates class projects engaging students with area entrepreneurs and small firms. The SBDC is part of statewide and national networks of centers offering these core services and various specialty programs and received support from DCED, Bucknell, and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Bucknell’s SBDC provides Engineering Development Services to assist clients with product development and commercialization.

=== [https://www.bucknell.edu/about-bucknell/administrative-offices/small-business-development-center/entrepreneurs-incubator.html Entrepreneurs Incubator] ===
The Bucknell University Entrepreneurs Incubator provides space for students, faculty, and community members to start their business ventures. Located in downtown Lewisburg on the second floor of the Dewitt Building, the incubator offers affordable office space, bundled office services, and opportunities for consulting and networking to earlystage companies in the Susquehanna Valley Region. Its close proximity to the University and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) allows entrepreneurs to access these resources conveniently and efficiently. The incubator is situated within the Greater Susquehanna Keystone Innovation Zone (GSKIZ). Qualifying businesses that locate there may be eligible for GSKIZ assistance and benefits, including loans, grants, and tax-credits. The role of the incubator in the ecosystem is still evolving as the space may be used in different ways to support student, community, and alumni facing activities.

=== Engineering Laboratories ===
'''Project Development Lab (PDL)'''
The Project Development Lab is a manufacturing facility located in the ground floor of Dana Engineering building. It is designed to support senior design projects, produce new lab equipment, and support the Small Business Development Center with design and fabrication needs. The lab consist of conventional machine tools (generally directly operation controlled), and non-conventional machining equipment (computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM).

'''Mooney Innovation Laboratory'''
This laboratory consists primarily of a large project development space, a design studio, and a manufacturing space dedicated principally to welding, grinding and brazing.

== University-Industry collaboration ==
[http://www.geisinger.org/ '''Geisinger''']
is a physician-led health care system, dedicated to health care, education, research, and service. Geisinger and Bucknell have partnered on a Healthcare Research Initiative, and Geisinger also provides opportunities for biomedical engineering students to work with surgeons to create cutting-edge medical devices to solve real-world problems.

[http://www.lsgpa.com/ '''Life Science Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania (LSGPA)''']
is a public/private venture whose mission is to commercialize bioscience technologies. The LSGPA can facilitate faculty research commercialization through early-stage investment, targeted business development services, and connections to strategic partners.

== Regional and local economic development efforts ==
=== [http://www.bucknell.edu/x7025.xml Small Business Development Center (SBDC)] ===
The Bucknell University SBDC is the first in the nation to be hosted by a College of Engineering and provides Engineering Development Services. Not only it utilizes Bucknell's Engineering specialty helped many local small businesses, but also it provides an opportunity for students having real-world consulting experiences.

== Other ==

School:Bucknell University

2013-10-18T12:07:49Z

Yifan Ge:

<div style="float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 10em; margin-right: 10em">[[File:Bucknell_University_Seal.jpg]]</div>

[http://www.bucknell.edu '''Bucknell University'''] is a private liberal arts institution that was founded in 1846. With the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Management, Bucknell has always been aiming to educate well-rounded college graduates with an interdisciplinary mindset.

== Introduction ==
[http://www.bucknell.edu '''Bucknell University'''] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

== Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
=== Student ===
==== Curricular Activities ====
----
'''B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers'''
The B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers would provide a structure for students to develop problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and an understanding of the design process as well the opportunity to combine these fundamentals in engineering with an entrepreneurially minded set of courses within the College of Engineering, the School of Management, and the College of Arts & Sciences. Required courses may include:
*MGMT 100: Management Past, Present, and Future
*ECON 103: Economic Principles and Problems
*MGMT 201: Marketing
*MIDE 300: Marketing, Innovation, and Design
*MIDE 303: Entrepreneurship
*Two IDEAS Design Studios within the College of Engineering

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/school-of-management/degree-programs/curriculum-basics/markets-innovation-and-design.html '''Markets, Innovation, & Design (MIDE) Program''']
The largest of the School of Management’s four new academic majors is a dedicated track designed to prepare students for a wide range of careers related to the creation and marketing of innovative products and services. The program’s design includes a series of courses focused on how to identify consumer needs, how to realize innovative ideas and analyze their market potential, and how to bring products and services to market through existing marketing organizations or through new ventures. The MIDE program includes a dedicated course in entrepreneurship, MIDE 303.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/x44757.xml '''Management 101''']
Bucknell's collaborative, experiential organization and management project
course teaches about how, when, and why people work together to accomplish tasks. In the course, students create and manage companies. These companies are not "simulations" or
"games.” They operate with a budget of $3,000-5,000 in order to deliver real services to clients and develop and sell real products to customers. Currently, one in every four Bucknell graduates takes MGMT 101, and over the past thirty years, literally thousands of Bucknellians have started their careers in this one course. For aspiring entrepreneurs, MGMT 101 already comprises one possible gateway to gain skills and take a first step toward engaging with the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/chemical-engineering.html '''CHEG 475/MIDE 375/UNIV 375: ''Should We Start This Company?''''']
Professor Erin Jablonski
(Chemical Engineering) offers a cross-listed course on entrepreneurship. This is a projectcentered course in entrepreneurship, generating new business ideas, and product or service design and development through business planning that was first offered in the fall of 2012.

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/arts-entrepreneurship-minor.html '''Arts Entrepreneurship Minor''']
This minor offers an opportunity to acquire entrepreneurial acumen in the field of arts management. Students interested in working in and with the arts will acquire practical tools by which to become arts professionals — to manage, market, and promote individual businesses, community arts organizations, and not-for-profit arts endeavors in the visual, performing, media, and/or literary arts. The minor bridges the gap between the disciplinary depth of each arts-based major with a pragmatic skill set that can facilitate entry into various entrepreneurial endeavors in the arts. The core anchor course in arts entrepreneurship is currently being offered as ENGL 290: Arts Entrepreneurship.

==== Student Affairs / Co-Curricular ====
----

'''Residential Colleges'''
The Residential Colleges provide a living and learning community experience to first-year students at Bucknell. Currently there are eight different themes and a ninth has been approved for the Fall of 2013. The current “Society and Technology” themed Residential College and recently approved “Discovery College” render themselves well to being incorporated into Bucknell’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''Affinity Housing Program'''
The AHP provides a unique living and learning experience that enables a group of students to live together while exploring a common area of interest. Student groups ranging from a cadre of like-minded individuals to members of the same student organization apply to live together in one of Bucknell University’s Small Houses or residence halls. Two Affinity Housing Programs have been approved for the year 2013 – 2014 that should
be considered part of Bucknell’s emerging Ecology of Entrepreneurship. These are the “Technology for a Sustainable Environment” and “Engineering and Innovation” programs.

'''Entrepreneurial Club'''
The Entrepreneurial Club is recognized by the Bucknell Student Government and falls under the umbrella of Campus Activities and Programs. The
group articulates a mission to “promote an entrepreneurial mindset on Bucknell’s campus through interaction with other similarly minded organizations and through providing opportunities for students to collaborate with one another over the topic.” The Club’s activities include bringing entrepreneurs to campus to speak to students.

'''Bucknell Business Leaders'''
Bucknell Business Leaders is an ambitious student run organization that provides
students with real-life business experiences. Every semester, Bucknell Business
Leaders will brainstorm, research, design, order, and sell at least one product that
hopefully a wide range of Bucknellians will love. Participation in this organization will give
students a glimpse of many aspects of a real business: product research and design,
finance, marketing, advertising, sales, and teamwork. Students who participate in this
campus organization, management and non-management majors, will not only learn a
great deal about business but have lots of fun.

'''Bucknell Business Pitch Competition'''
The Business Pitch Competition was launched in 2012 to inspire and engage aspiring student entrepreneurs. Student entrepreneurs create and deliver a professional and engaging business pitch presenting an innovative and marketable business concept. The inaugural event engaged over fifty students on 18 venture teams, attracted $10,000 in alumni giving towards prizes and promotions, featured nine faculty and staff members as preliminary round judges, and engaged six distinguished alumni as judges and mentors for the final round of competitors. Winners were awarded monetary prizes and offers of informal mentorship from the alumni judges. The first prize winner also received a one year residency in Bucknell’s Entrepreneurs Incubator.

'''Venture Plan Competition'''
A competition offered for undergraduate students to promote entrepreneurship and new ventures. The competition was started in 2009 at Bucknell University and has awarded more than $17,000 to students creating new ventures. Students participating in the competition are responsible for creating a full written Venture Plan and have an opportunity to present it to a panel of seasoned judges that come from a variety of
backgrounds including start-ups, business strategy, and venture capital.
Venture Plan Competition offers students a complementary and expanded experience to the pitch competition and pits Bucknell students against students from Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) partner institutions Bloomsburg and Susquehanna Universities. This competition is currently organized by the Greater Susquehanna KIZ.

=== Faculty ===
[http://bucknellinnovationgroup.blogs.bucknell.edu/ '''Bucknell Innovation Group''']
The Bucknell Innovation Group (BIG) is made up of Bucknell professors representing academic disciplines such as, art and art history, comparative humanities, education, engineering, English, management, music, and theater and dance. The principle behind BIG is to “make an impact” through a campus-wide innovation initiative. BIG aims to create an environment that supports those for whom innovation is a primary focus and helps others discover their innovative impulses.

== University technology transfer function ==
=== [http://www.bucknell.edu/x7025.xml Small Business Development Center (SBDC)] ===
The Bucknell SBDC provides free consulting, information, and low-cost educational programs to entrepreneurs and small businesses, including student entrepreneurs and ventures. It offers a business pitch competition for students, internships, and facilitates class projects engaging students with area entrepreneurs and small firms. The SBDC is part of statewide and national networks of centers offering these core services and various specialty programs and received support from DCED, Bucknell, and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Bucknell’s SBDC provides Engineering Development Services to assist clients with product development and commercialization.

=== [https://www.bucknell.edu/about-bucknell/administrative-offices/small-business-development-center/entrepreneurs-incubator.html Entrepreneurs Incubator] ===
The Bucknell University Entrepreneurs Incubator provides space for students, faculty, and community members to start their business ventures. Located in downtown Lewisburg on the second floor of the Dewitt Building, the incubator offers affordable office space, bundled office services, and opportunities for consulting and networking to earlystage companies in the Susquehanna Valley Region. Its close proximity to the University and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) allows entrepreneurs to access these resources conveniently and efficiently. The incubator is situated within the Greater Susquehanna Keystone Innovation Zone (GSKIZ). Qualifying businesses that locate there may be eligible for GSKIZ assistance and benefits, including loans, grants, and tax-credits. The role of the incubator in the ecosystem is still evolving as the space may be used in different ways to support student, community, and alumni facing activities.

=== Engineering Laboratories ===
'''Project Development Lab (PDL)'''
The Project Development Lab is a manufacturing facility located in the ground floor of Dana Engineering building. It is designed to support senior design projects, produce new lab equipment, and support the Small Business Development Center with design and fabrication needs. The lab consist of conventional machine tools (generally directly operation controlled), and non-conventional machining equipment (computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM).

'''Mooney Innovation Laboratory'''
This laboratory consists primarily of a large project development space, a design studio, and a manufacturing space dedicated principally to welding, grinding and brazing.

== University-Industry collaboration ==
[http://www.geisinger.org/ '''Geisinger''']
is a physician-led health care system, dedicated to health care, education, research, and service. Geisinger and Bucknell have partnered on a Healthcare Research Initiative, and Geisinger also provides opportunities for biomedical engineering students to work with surgeons to create cutting-edge medical devices to solve real-world problems.

[http://www.lsgpa.com/ '''Life Science Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania (LSGPA)''']
is a public/private venture whose mission is to commercialize bioscience technologies. The LSGPA can facilitate faculty research commercialization through early-stage investment, targeted business development services, and connections to strategic partners.

== Regional and local economic development efforts ==
=== [http://www.bucknell.edu/x7025.xml Small Business Development Center (SBDC)] ===
The Bucknell University SBDC is the first in the nation to be hosted by a College of Engineering and provides Engineering Development Services. Not only it utilizes Bucknell's Engineering specialty helped many local small businesses, but also it provides an opportunity for students having real-world consulting experiences.

== Other ==

School:Bucknell University

2013-10-18T12:01:40Z

Yifan Ge:

<div style="float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 10em; margin-right: 10em">[[File:Bucknell_University_Seal.jpg]]</div>

[http://www.bucknell.edu '''Bucknell University'''] is a private liberal arts institution that was founded in 1846. With the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Management, Bucknell has always been aiming to educate well-rounded college graduates with an interdisciplinary mindset.

== Introduction ==
[http://www.bucknell.edu '''Bucknell University'''] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

== Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
=== Student ===
==== Curricular Activities ====
----
'''B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers'''
The B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers would provide a structure for students to develop problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and an understanding of the design process as well the opportunity to combine these fundamentals in engineering with an entrepreneurially minded set of courses within the College of Engineering, the School of Management, and the College of Arts & Sciences. Required courses may include:
*MGMT 100: Management Past, Present, and Future
*ECON 103: Economic Principles and Problems
*MGMT 201: Marketing
*MIDE 300: Marketing, Innovation, and Design
*MIDE 303: Entrepreneurship
*Two IDEAS Design Studios within the College of Engineering

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/school-of-management/degree-programs/curriculum-basics/markets-innovation-and-design.html '''Markets, Innovation, & Design (MIDE) Program''']
The largest of the School of Management’s four new academic majors is a dedicated track designed to prepare students for a wide range of careers related to the creation and marketing of innovative products and services. The program’s design includes a series of courses focused on how to identify consumer needs, how to realize innovative ideas and analyze their market potential, and how to bring products and services to market through existing marketing organizations or through new ventures. The MIDE program includes a dedicated course in entrepreneurship, MIDE 303.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/x44757.xml '''Management 101''']
Bucknell's collaborative, experiential organization and management project
course teaches about how, when, and why people work together to accomplish tasks. In the course, students create and manage companies. These companies are not "simulations" or
"games.” They operate with a budget of $3,000-5,000 in order to deliver real services to clients and develop and sell real products to customers. Currently, one in every four Bucknell graduates takes MGMT 101, and over the past thirty years, literally thousands of Bucknellians have started their careers in this one course. For aspiring entrepreneurs, MGMT 101 already comprises one possible gateway to gain skills and take a first step toward engaging with the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/chemical-engineering.html '''CHEG 475/MIDE 375/UNIV 375: ''Should We Start This Company?''''']
Professor Erin Jablonski
(Chemical Engineering) offers a cross-listed course on entrepreneurship. This is a projectcentered course in entrepreneurship, generating new business ideas, and product or service design and development through business planning that was first offered in the fall of 2012.

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/arts-entrepreneurship-minor.html '''Arts Entrepreneurship Minor''']
This minor offers an opportunity to acquire entrepreneurial acumen in the field of arts management. Students interested in working in and with the arts will acquire practical tools by which to become arts professionals — to manage, market, and promote individual businesses, community arts organizations, and not-for-profit arts endeavors in the visual, performing, media, and/or literary arts. The minor bridges the gap between the disciplinary depth of each arts-based major with a pragmatic skill set that can facilitate entry into various entrepreneurial endeavors in the arts. The core anchor course in arts entrepreneurship is currently being offered as ENGL 290: Arts Entrepreneurship.

==== Student Affairs / Co-Curricular ====
----

'''Residential Colleges'''
The Residential Colleges provide a living and learning community experience to first-year students at Bucknell. Currently there are eight different themes and a ninth has been approved for the Fall of 2013. The current “Society and Technology” themed Residential College and recently approved “Discovery College” render themselves well to being incorporated into Bucknell’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''Affinity Housing Program'''
The AHP provides a unique living and learning experience that enables a group of students to live together while exploring a common area of interest. Student groups ranging from a cadre of like-minded individuals to members of the same student organization apply to live together in one of Bucknell University’s Small Houses or residence halls. Two Affinity Housing Programs have been approved for the year 2013 – 2014 that should
be considered part of Bucknell’s emerging Ecology of Entrepreneurship. These are the “Technology for a Sustainable Environment” and “Engineering and Innovation” programs.

'''Entrepreneurial Club'''
The Entrepreneurial Club is recognized by the Bucknell Student Government and falls under the umbrella of Campus Activities and Programs. The
group articulates a mission to “promote an entrepreneurial mindset on Bucknell’s campus through interaction with other similarly minded organizations and through providing opportunities for students to collaborate with one another over the topic.” The Club’s activities include bringing entrepreneurs to campus to speak to students.

'''Bucknell Business Leaders'''
Bucknell Business Leaders is an ambitious student run organization that provides
students with real-life business experiences. Every semester, Bucknell Business
Leaders will brainstorm, research, design, order, and sell at least one product that
hopefully a wide range of Bucknellians will love. Participation in this organization will give
students a glimpse of many aspects of a real business: product research and design,
finance, marketing, advertising, sales, and teamwork. Students who participate in this
campus organization, management and non-management majors, will not only learn a
great deal about business but have lots of fun.

'''Bucknell Business Pitch Competition'''
The Business Pitch Competition was launched in 2012 to inspire and engage aspiring student entrepreneurs. Student entrepreneurs create and deliver a professional and engaging business pitch presenting an innovative and marketable business concept. The inaugural event engaged over fifty students on 18 venture teams, attracted $10,000 in alumni giving towards prizes and promotions, featured nine faculty and staff members as preliminary round judges, and engaged six distinguished alumni as judges and mentors for the final round of competitors. Winners were awarded monetary prizes and offers of informal mentorship from the alumni judges. The first prize winner also received a one year residency in Bucknell’s Entrepreneurs Incubator.

'''Venture Plan Competition'''
A competition offered for undergraduate students to promote entrepreneurship and new ventures. The competition was started in 2009 at Bucknell University and has awarded more than $17,000 to students creating new ventures. Students participating in the competition are responsible for creating a full written Venture Plan and have an opportunity to present it to a panel of seasoned judges that come from a variety of
backgrounds including start-ups, business strategy, and venture capital.
Venture Plan Competition offers students a complementary and expanded experience to the pitch competition and pits Bucknell students against students from Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) partner institutions Bloomsburg and Susquehanna Universities. This competition is currently organized by the Greater Susquehanna KIZ.

=== Faculty ===
[http://bucknellinnovationgroup.blogs.bucknell.edu/ '''Bucknell Innovation Group''']
The Bucknell Innovation Group (BIG) is made up of Bucknell professors representing academic disciplines such as, art and art history, comparative humanities, education, engineering, English, management, music, and theater and dance. The principle behind BIG is to “make an impact” through a campus-wide innovation initiative. BIG aims to create an environment that supports those for whom innovation is a primary focus and helps others discover their innovative impulses.

== University technology transfer function ==
=== [http://www.bucknell.edu/x7025.xml Small Business Development Center] ===
The Bucknell SBDC provides free consulting, information, and low-cost educational programs to entrepreneurs and small businesses, including student entrepreneurs and ventures. It offers a business pitch competition for students, internships, and facilitates class projects engaging students with area entrepreneurs and small firms. The SBDC is part of statewide and national networks of centers offering these core services and various specialty programs and received support from DCED, Bucknell, and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Bucknell’s SBDC provides Engineering Development Services to assist clients with product development and commercialization.

=== [https://www.bucknell.edu/about-bucknell/administrative-offices/small-business-development-center/entrepreneurs-incubator.html Entrepreneurs Incubator] ===
The Bucknell University Entrepreneurs Incubator provides space for students, faculty, and community members to start their business ventures. Located in downtown Lewisburg on the second floor of the Dewitt Building, the incubator offers affordable office space, bundled office services, and opportunities for consulting and networking to earlystage companies in the Susquehanna Valley Region. Its close proximity to the University and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) allows entrepreneurs to access these resources conveniently and efficiently. The incubator is situated within the Greater Susquehanna Keystone Innovation Zone (GSKIZ). Qualifying businesses that locate there may be eligible for GSKIZ assistance and benefits, including loans, grants, and tax-credits. The role of the incubator in the ecosystem is still evolving as the space may be used in different ways to support student, community, and alumni facing activities.

=== Engineering Laboratories ===
'''Project Development Lab (PDL)'''
The Project Development Lab is a manufacturing facility located in the ground floor of Dana Engineering building. It is designed to support senior design projects, produce new lab equipment, and support the Small Business Development Center with design and fabrication needs. The lab consist of conventional machine tools (generally directly operation controlled), and non-conventional machining equipment (computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM).

'''Mooney Innovation Laboratory'''
This laboratory consists primarily of a large project development space, a design studio, and a manufacturing space dedicated principally to welding, grinding and brazing.

== University-Industry collaboration ==
[http://www.geisinger.org/ '''Geisinger''']
is a physician-led health care system, dedicated to health care, education, research, and service. Geisinger and Bucknell have partnered on a Healthcare Research Initiative, and Geisinger also provides opportunities for biomedical engineering students to work with surgeons to create cutting-edge medical devices to solve real-world problems.

[http://www.lsgpa.com/ '''Life Science Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania (LSGPA)''']
is a public/private venture whose mission is to commercialize bioscience technologies. The LSGPA can facilitate faculty research commercialization through early-stage investment, targeted business development services, and connections to strategic partners.

== Regional and local economic development efforts ==

== Other ==

School:Bucknell University

2013-10-18T12:01:18Z

Yifan Ge:

<div style="float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 10em; margin-right: 10em">[[File:Bucknell_University_Seal.jpg]]</div>

[http://www.bucknell.edu '''Bucknell University'''] is a private liberal arts institution that was founded in 1846. With the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Management, Bucknell has always been aiming to educate well-rounded college graduates with an interdisciplinary mindset.

== Introduction ==
[http://www.bucknell.edu '''Bucknell University'''] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

== Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
=== Student ===
==== '''Curricular Activities''' ====
----
'''B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers'''
The B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers would provide a structure for students to develop problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and an understanding of the design process as well the opportunity to combine these fundamentals in engineering with an entrepreneurially minded set of courses within the College of Engineering, the School of Management, and the College of Arts & Sciences. Required courses may include:
*MGMT 100: Management Past, Present, and Future
*ECON 103: Economic Principles and Problems
*MGMT 201: Marketing
*MIDE 300: Marketing, Innovation, and Design
*MIDE 303: Entrepreneurship
*Two IDEAS Design Studios within the College of Engineering

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/school-of-management/degree-programs/curriculum-basics/markets-innovation-and-design.html '''Markets, Innovation, & Design (MIDE) Program''']
The largest of the School of Management’s four new academic majors is a dedicated track designed to prepare students for a wide range of careers related to the creation and marketing of innovative products and services. The program’s design includes a series of courses focused on how to identify consumer needs, how to realize innovative ideas and analyze their market potential, and how to bring products and services to market through existing marketing organizations or through new ventures. The MIDE program includes a dedicated course in entrepreneurship, MIDE 303.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/x44757.xml '''Management 101''']
Bucknell's collaborative, experiential organization and management project
course teaches about how, when, and why people work together to accomplish tasks. In the course, students create and manage companies. These companies are not "simulations" or
"games.” They operate with a budget of $3,000-5,000 in order to deliver real services to clients and develop and sell real products to customers. Currently, one in every four Bucknell graduates takes MGMT 101, and over the past thirty years, literally thousands of Bucknellians have started their careers in this one course. For aspiring entrepreneurs, MGMT 101 already comprises one possible gateway to gain skills and take a first step toward engaging with the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/chemical-engineering.html '''CHEG 475/MIDE 375/UNIV 375: ''Should We Start This Company?''''']
Professor Erin Jablonski
(Chemical Engineering) offers a cross-listed course on entrepreneurship. This is a projectcentered course in entrepreneurship, generating new business ideas, and product or service design and development through business planning that was first offered in the fall of 2012.

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/arts-entrepreneurship-minor.html '''Arts Entrepreneurship Minor''']
This minor offers an opportunity to acquire entrepreneurial acumen in the field of arts management. Students interested in working in and with the arts will acquire practical tools by which to become arts professionals — to manage, market, and promote individual businesses, community arts organizations, and not-for-profit arts endeavors in the visual, performing, media, and/or literary arts. The minor bridges the gap between the disciplinary depth of each arts-based major with a pragmatic skill set that can facilitate entry into various entrepreneurial endeavors in the arts. The core anchor course in arts entrepreneurship is currently being offered as ENGL 290: Arts Entrepreneurship.

==== '''Student Affairs / Co-Curricular''' ====
----

'''Residential Colleges'''
The Residential Colleges provide a living and learning community experience to first-year students at Bucknell. Currently there are eight different themes and a ninth has been approved for the Fall of 2013. The current “Society and Technology” themed Residential College and recently approved “Discovery College” render themselves well to being incorporated into Bucknell’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''Affinity Housing Program'''
The AHP provides a unique living and learning experience that enables a group of students to live together while exploring a common area of interest. Student groups ranging from a cadre of like-minded individuals to members of the same student organization apply to live together in one of Bucknell University’s Small Houses or residence halls. Two Affinity Housing Programs have been approved for the year 2013 – 2014 that should
be considered part of Bucknell’s emerging Ecology of Entrepreneurship. These are the “Technology for a Sustainable Environment” and “Engineering and Innovation” programs.

'''Entrepreneurial Club'''
The Entrepreneurial Club is recognized by the Bucknell Student Government and falls under the umbrella of Campus Activities and Programs. The
group articulates a mission to “promote an entrepreneurial mindset on Bucknell’s campus through interaction with other similarly minded organizations and through providing opportunities for students to collaborate with one another over the topic.” The Club’s activities include bringing entrepreneurs to campus to speak to students.

'''Bucknell Business Leaders'''
Bucknell Business Leaders is an ambitious student run organization that provides
students with real-life business experiences. Every semester, Bucknell Business
Leaders will brainstorm, research, design, order, and sell at least one product that
hopefully a wide range of Bucknellians will love. Participation in this organization will give
students a glimpse of many aspects of a real business: product research and design,
finance, marketing, advertising, sales, and teamwork. Students who participate in this
campus organization, management and non-management majors, will not only learn a
great deal about business but have lots of fun.

'''Bucknell Business Pitch Competition'''
The Business Pitch Competition was launched in 2012 to inspire and engage aspiring student entrepreneurs. Student entrepreneurs create and deliver a professional and engaging business pitch presenting an innovative and marketable business concept. The inaugural event engaged over fifty students on 18 venture teams, attracted $10,000 in alumni giving towards prizes and promotions, featured nine faculty and staff members as preliminary round judges, and engaged six distinguished alumni as judges and mentors for the final round of competitors. Winners were awarded monetary prizes and offers of informal mentorship from the alumni judges. The first prize winner also received a one year residency in Bucknell’s Entrepreneurs Incubator.

'''Venture Plan Competition'''
A competition offered for undergraduate students to promote entrepreneurship and new ventures. The competition was started in 2009 at Bucknell University and has awarded more than $17,000 to students creating new ventures. Students participating in the competition are responsible for creating a full written Venture Plan and have an opportunity to present it to a panel of seasoned judges that come from a variety of
backgrounds including start-ups, business strategy, and venture capital.
Venture Plan Competition offers students a complementary and expanded experience to the pitch competition and pits Bucknell students against students from Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) partner institutions Bloomsburg and Susquehanna Universities. This competition is currently organized by the Greater Susquehanna KIZ.

=== Faculty ===
[http://bucknellinnovationgroup.blogs.bucknell.edu/ '''Bucknell Innovation Group''']
The Bucknell Innovation Group (BIG) is made up of Bucknell professors representing academic disciplines such as, art and art history, comparative humanities, education, engineering, English, management, music, and theater and dance. The principle behind BIG is to “make an impact” through a campus-wide innovation initiative. BIG aims to create an environment that supports those for whom innovation is a primary focus and helps others discover their innovative impulses.

== University technology transfer function ==
=== [http://www.bucknell.edu/x7025.xml Small Business Development Center] ===
The Bucknell SBDC provides free consulting, information, and low-cost educational programs to entrepreneurs and small businesses, including student entrepreneurs and ventures. It offers a business pitch competition for students, internships, and facilitates class projects engaging students with area entrepreneurs and small firms. The SBDC is part of statewide and national networks of centers offering these core services and various specialty programs and received support from DCED, Bucknell, and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Bucknell’s SBDC provides Engineering Development Services to assist clients with product development and commercialization.

=== [https://www.bucknell.edu/about-bucknell/administrative-offices/small-business-development-center/entrepreneurs-incubator.html Entrepreneurs Incubator] ===
The Bucknell University Entrepreneurs Incubator provides space for students, faculty, and community members to start their business ventures. Located in downtown Lewisburg on the second floor of the Dewitt Building, the incubator offers affordable office space, bundled office services, and opportunities for consulting and networking to earlystage companies in the Susquehanna Valley Region. Its close proximity to the University and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) allows entrepreneurs to access these resources conveniently and efficiently. The incubator is situated within the Greater Susquehanna Keystone Innovation Zone (GSKIZ). Qualifying businesses that locate there may be eligible for GSKIZ assistance and benefits, including loans, grants, and tax-credits. The role of the incubator in the ecosystem is still evolving as the space may be used in different ways to support student, community, and alumni facing activities.

=== Engineering Laboratories ===
'''Project Development Lab (PDL)'''
The Project Development Lab is a manufacturing facility located in the ground floor of Dana Engineering building. It is designed to support senior design projects, produce new lab equipment, and support the Small Business Development Center with design and fabrication needs. The lab consist of conventional machine tools (generally directly operation controlled), and non-conventional machining equipment (computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM).

'''Mooney Innovation Laboratory'''
This laboratory consists primarily of a large project development space, a design studio, and a manufacturing space dedicated principally to welding, grinding and brazing.

== University-Industry collaboration ==
[http://www.geisinger.org/ '''Geisinger''']
is a physician-led health care system, dedicated to health care, education, research, and service. Geisinger and Bucknell have partnered on a Healthcare Research Initiative, and Geisinger also provides opportunities for biomedical engineering students to work with surgeons to create cutting-edge medical devices to solve real-world problems.

[http://www.lsgpa.com/ '''Life Science Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania (LSGPA)''']
is a public/private venture whose mission is to commercialize bioscience technologies. The LSGPA can facilitate faculty research commercialization through early-stage investment, targeted business development services, and connections to strategic partners.

== Regional and local economic development efforts ==

== Other ==

School:Bucknell University

2013-10-18T12:00:51Z

Yifan Ge:

<div style="float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 10em; margin-right: 10em">[[File:Bucknell_University_Seal.jpg]]</div>

[http://www.bucknell.edu '''Bucknell University'''] is a private liberal arts institution that was founded in 1846. With the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Management, Bucknell has always been aiming to educate well-rounded college graduates with an interdisciplinary mindset.

== Introduction ==
[http://www.bucknell.edu '''Bucknell University'''] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

== Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
=== Student ===
==== '''Curricular Activities''' ====
----
'''B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers'''
The B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers would provide a structure for students to develop problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and an understanding of the design process as well the opportunity to combine these fundamentals in engineering with an entrepreneurially minded set of courses within the College of Engineering, the School of Management, and the College of Arts & Sciences. Required courses may include:
*MGMT 100: Management Past, Present, and Future
*ECON 103: Economic Principles and Problems
*MGMT 201: Marketing
*MIDE 300: Marketing, Innovation, and Design
*MIDE 303: Entrepreneurship
*Two IDEAS Design Studios within the College of Engineering

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/school-of-management/degree-programs/curriculum-basics/markets-innovation-and-design.html '''Markets, Innovation, & Design (MIDE) Program''']
The largest of the School of Management’s four new academic majors is a dedicated track designed to prepare students for a wide range of careers related to the creation and marketing of innovative products and services. The program’s design includes a series of courses focused on how to identify consumer needs, how to realize innovative ideas and analyze their market potential, and how to bring products and services to market through existing marketing organizations or through new ventures. The MIDE program includes a dedicated course in entrepreneurship, MIDE 303.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/x44757.xml '''Management 101''']
Bucknell's collaborative, experiential organization and management project
course teaches about how, when, and why people work together to accomplish tasks. In the course, students create and manage companies. These companies are not "simulations" or
"games.” They operate with a budget of $3,000-5,000 in order to deliver real services to clients and develop and sell real products to customers. Currently, one in every four Bucknell graduates takes MGMT 101, and over the past thirty years, literally thousands of Bucknellians have started their careers in this one course. For aspiring entrepreneurs, MGMT 101 already comprises one possible gateway to gain skills and take a first step toward engaging with the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/chemical-engineering.html '''CHEG 475/MIDE 375/UNIV 375: ''Should We Start This Company?''''']
Professor Erin Jablonski
(Chemical Engineering) offers a cross-listed course on entrepreneurship. This is a projectcentered course in entrepreneurship, generating new business ideas, and product or service design and development through business planning that was first offered in the fall of 2012.

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/arts-entrepreneurship-minor.html '''Arts Entrepreneurship Minor''']
This minor offers an opportunity to acquire entrepreneurial acumen in the field of arts management. Students interested in working in and with the arts will acquire practical tools by which to become arts professionals — to manage, market, and promote individual businesses, community arts organizations, and not-for-profit arts endeavors in the visual, performing, media, and/or literary arts. The minor bridges the gap between the disciplinary depth of each arts-based major with a pragmatic skill set that can facilitate entry into various entrepreneurial endeavors in the arts. The core anchor course in arts entrepreneurship is currently being offered as ENGL 290: Arts Entrepreneurship.

==== '''Student Affairs / Co-Curricular''' ====
----

'''Residential Colleges'''
The Residential Colleges provide a living and learning community experience to first-year students at Bucknell. Currently there are eight different themes and a ninth has been approved for the Fall of 2013. The current “Society and Technology” themed Residential College and recently approved “Discovery College” render themselves well to being incorporated into Bucknell’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''Affinity Housing Program'''
The AHP provides a unique living and learning experience that enables a group of students to live together while exploring a common area of interest. Student groups ranging from a cadre of like-minded individuals to members of the same student organization apply to live together in one of Bucknell University’s Small Houses or residence halls. Two Affinity Housing Programs have been approved for the year 2013 – 2014 that should
be considered part of Bucknell’s emerging Ecology of Entrepreneurship. These are the “Technology for a Sustainable Environment” and “Engineering and Innovation” programs.

'''Entrepreneurial Club'''
The Entrepreneurial Club is recognized by the Bucknell Student Government and falls under the umbrella of Campus Activities and Programs. The
group articulates a mission to “promote an entrepreneurial mindset on Bucknell’s campus through interaction with other similarly minded organizations and through providing opportunities for students to collaborate with one another over the topic.” The Club’s activities include bringing entrepreneurs to campus to speak to students.

'''Bucknell Business Leaders'''
Bucknell Business Leaders is an ambitious student run organization that provides
students with real-life business experiences. Every semester, Bucknell Business
Leaders will brainstorm, research, design, order, and sell at least one product that
hopefully a wide range of Bucknellians will love. Participation in this organization will give
students a glimpse of many aspects of a real business: product research and design,
finance, marketing, advertising, sales, and teamwork. Students who participate in this
campus organization, management and non-management majors, will not only learn a
great deal about business but have lots of fun.

'''Bucknell Business Pitch Competition'''
The Business Pitch Competition was launched in 2012 to inspire and engage aspiring student entrepreneurs. Student entrepreneurs create and deliver a professional and engaging business pitch presenting an innovative and marketable business concept. The inaugural event engaged over fifty students on 18 venture teams, attracted $10,000 in alumni giving towards prizes and promotions, featured nine faculty and staff members as preliminary round judges, and engaged six distinguished alumni as judges and mentors for the final round of competitors. Winners were awarded monetary prizes and offers of informal mentorship from the alumni judges. The first prize winner also received a one year residency in Bucknell’s Entrepreneurs Incubator.

'''Venture Plan Competition'''
A competition offered for undergraduate students to promote entrepreneurship and new ventures. The competition was started in 2009 at Bucknell University and has awarded more than $17,000 to students creating new ventures. Students participating in the competition are responsible for creating a full written Venture Plan and have an opportunity to present it to a panel of seasoned judges that come from a variety of
backgrounds including start-ups, business strategy, and venture capital.
Venture Plan Competition offers students a complementary and expanded experience to the pitch competition and pits Bucknell students against students from Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) partner institutions Bloomsburg and Susquehanna Universities. This competition is currently organized by the Greater Susquehanna KIZ.

=== Faculty ===
[http://bucknellinnovationgroup.blogs.bucknell.edu/ '''Bucknell Innovation Group''']
The Bucknell Innovation Group (BIG) is made up of Bucknell professors representing academic disciplines such as, art and art history, comparative humanities, education, engineering, English, management, music, and theater and dance. The principle behind BIG is to “make an impact” through a campus-wide innovation initiative. BIG aims to create an environment that supports those for whom innovation is a primary focus and helps others discover their innovative impulses.

== University technology transfer function ==
=== [http://www.bucknell.edu/x7025.xml Small Business Development Center] ===
The Bucknell SBDC provides free consulting, information, and low-cost educational programs to entrepreneurs and small businesses, including student entrepreneurs and ventures. It offers a business pitch competition for students, internships, and facilitates class projects engaging students with area entrepreneurs and small firms. The SBDC is part of statewide and national networks of centers offering these core services and various specialty programs and received support from DCED, Bucknell, and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Bucknell’s SBDC provides Engineering Development Services to assist clients with product development and commercialization.

=== [https://www.bucknell.edu/about-bucknell/administrative-offices/small-business-development-center/entrepreneurs-incubator.html Entrepreneurs Incubator] ===
The Bucknell University Entrepreneurs Incubator provides space for students, faculty, and community members to start their business ventures. Located in downtown Lewisburg on the second floor of the Dewitt Building, the incubator offers affordable office space, bundled office services, and opportunities for consulting and networking to earlystage companies in the Susquehanna Valley Region. Its close proximity to the University and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) allows entrepreneurs to access these resources conveniently and efficiently. The incubator is situated within the Greater Susquehanna Keystone Innovation Zone (GSKIZ). Qualifying businesses that locate there may be eligible for GSKIZ assistance and benefits, including loans, grants, and tax-credits. The role of the incubator in the ecosystem is still evolving as the space may be used in different ways to support student, community, and alumni facing activities.

=== Engineering Laboratories ===
'''Project Development Lab (PDL)'''
The Project Development Lab is a manufacturing facility located in the ground floor of Dana Engineering building. It is designed to support senior design projects, produce new lab equipment, and support the Small Business Development Center with design and fabrication needs. The lab consist of conventional machine tools (generally directly operation controlled), and non-conventional machining equipment (computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM).

'''Mooney Innovation Laboratory'''
This laboratory consists primarily of a large project development space, a design studio, and a manufacturing space dedicated principally to welding, grinding and brazing.

== University-Industry collaboration ==
[http://www.geisinger.org/ '''Geisinger''']
is a physician-led health care system, dedicated to health care, education, research, and service. Geisinger and Bucknell have partnered on a Healthcare Research Initiative, and Geisinger also provides opportunities for biomedical engineering students to work with surgeons to create cutting-edge medical devices to solve real-world problems.

[http://www.lsgpa.com/ Life Science Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania (LSGPA)]
is a public/private venture whose mission is to commercialize bioscience technologies. The LSGPA can facilitate faculty research commercialization through early-stage investment, targeted business development services, and connections to strategic partners.

== Regional and local economic development efforts ==

== Other ==

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<div style="float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 10em; margin-right: 10em">[[File:Bucknell_University_Seal.jpg]]</div>

[http://www.bucknell.edu '''Bucknell University'''] is a private liberal arts institution that was founded in 1846. With the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Management, Bucknell has always been aiming to educate well-rounded college graduates with an interdisciplinary mindset.

== Introduction ==
[http://www.bucknell.edu '''Bucknell University'''] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

== Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
=== Student ===
==== '''Curricular Activities''' ====
----
'''B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers'''
The B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers would provide a structure for students to develop problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and an understanding of the design process as well the opportunity to combine these fundamentals in engineering with an entrepreneurially minded set of courses within the College of Engineering, the School of Management, and the College of Arts & Sciences. Required courses may include:
*MGMT 100: Management Past, Present, and Future
*ECON 103: Economic Principles and Problems
*MGMT 201: Marketing
*MIDE 300: Marketing, Innovation, and Design
*MIDE 303: Entrepreneurship
*Two IDEAS Design Studios within the College of Engineering

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/school-of-management/degree-programs/curriculum-basics/markets-innovation-and-design.html '''Markets, Innovation, & Design (MIDE) Program''']
The largest of the School of Management’s four new academic majors is a dedicated track designed to prepare students for a wide range of careers related to the creation and marketing of innovative products and services. The program’s design includes a series of courses focused on how to identify consumer needs, how to realize innovative ideas and analyze their market potential, and how to bring products and services to market through existing marketing organizations or through new ventures. The MIDE program includes a dedicated course in entrepreneurship, MIDE 303.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/x44757.xml '''Management 101''']
Bucknell's collaborative, experiential organization and management project
course teaches about how, when, and why people work together to accomplish tasks. In the course, students create and manage companies. These companies are not "simulations" or
"games.” They operate with a budget of $3,000-5,000 in order to deliver real services to clients and develop and sell real products to customers. Currently, one in every four Bucknell graduates takes MGMT 101, and over the past thirty years, literally thousands of Bucknellians have started their careers in this one course. For aspiring entrepreneurs, MGMT 101 already comprises one possible gateway to gain skills and take a first step toward engaging with the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/chemical-engineering.html '''CHEG 475/MIDE 375/UNIV 375: ''Should We Start This Company?''''']
Professor Erin Jablonski
(Chemical Engineering) offers a cross-listed course on entrepreneurship. This is a projectcentered course in entrepreneurship, generating new business ideas, and product or service design and development through business planning that was first offered in the fall of 2012.

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/arts-entrepreneurship-minor.html '''Arts Entrepreneurship Minor''']
This minor offers an opportunity to acquire entrepreneurial acumen in the field of arts management. Students interested in working in and with the arts will acquire practical tools by which to become arts professionals — to manage, market, and promote individual businesses, community arts organizations, and not-for-profit arts endeavors in the visual, performing, media, and/or literary arts. The minor bridges the gap between the disciplinary depth of each arts-based major with a pragmatic skill set that can facilitate entry into various entrepreneurial endeavors in the arts. The core anchor course in arts entrepreneurship is currently being offered as ENGL 290: Arts Entrepreneurship.

==== '''Student Affairs / Co-Curricular''' ====
----

'''Residential Colleges'''
The Residential Colleges provide a living and learning community experience to first-year students at Bucknell. Currently there are eight different themes and a ninth has been approved for the Fall of 2013. The current “Society and Technology” themed Residential College and recently approved “Discovery College” render themselves well to being incorporated into Bucknell’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''Affinity Housing Program'''
The AHP provides a unique living and learning experience that enables a group of students to live together while exploring a common area of interest. Student groups ranging from a cadre of like-minded individuals to members of the same student organization apply to live together in one of Bucknell University’s Small Houses or residence halls. Two Affinity Housing Programs have been approved for the year 2013 – 2014 that should
be considered part of Bucknell’s emerging Ecology of Entrepreneurship. These are the “Technology for a Sustainable Environment” and “Engineering and Innovation” programs.

'''Entrepreneurial Club'''
The Entrepreneurial Club is recognized by the Bucknell Student Government and falls under the umbrella of Campus Activities and Programs. The
group articulates a mission to “promote an entrepreneurial mindset on Bucknell’s campus through interaction with other similarly minded organizations and through providing opportunities for students to collaborate with one another over the topic.” The Club’s activities include bringing entrepreneurs to campus to speak to students.

'''Bucknell Business Leaders'''
Bucknell Business Leaders is an ambitious student run organization that provides
students with real-life business experiences. Every semester, Bucknell Business
Leaders will brainstorm, research, design, order, and sell at least one product that
hopefully a wide range of Bucknellians will love. Participation in this organization will give
students a glimpse of many aspects of a real business: product research and design,
finance, marketing, advertising, sales, and teamwork. Students who participate in this
campus organization, management and non-management majors, will not only learn a
great deal about business but have lots of fun.

'''Bucknell Business Pitch Competition'''
The Business Pitch Competition was launched in 2012 to inspire and engage aspiring student entrepreneurs. Student entrepreneurs create and deliver a professional and engaging business pitch presenting an innovative and marketable business concept. The inaugural event engaged over fifty students on 18 venture teams, attracted $10,000 in alumni giving towards prizes and promotions, featured nine faculty and staff members as preliminary round judges, and engaged six distinguished alumni as judges and mentors for the final round of competitors. Winners were awarded monetary prizes and offers of informal mentorship from the alumni judges. The first prize winner also received a one year residency in Bucknell’s Entrepreneurs Incubator.

'''Venture Plan Competition'''
A competition offered for undergraduate students to promote entrepreneurship and new ventures. The competition was started in 2009 at Bucknell University and has awarded more than $17,000 to students creating new ventures. Students participating in the competition are responsible for creating a full written Venture Plan and have an opportunity to present it to a panel of seasoned judges that come from a variety of
backgrounds including start-ups, business strategy, and venture capital.
Venture Plan Competition offers students a complementary and expanded experience to the pitch competition and pits Bucknell students against students from Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) partner institutions Bloomsburg and Susquehanna Universities. This competition is currently organized by the Greater Susquehanna KIZ.

=== Faculty ===
[http://bucknellinnovationgroup.blogs.bucknell.edu/ '''Bucknell Innovation Group''']
The Bucknell Innovation Group (BIG) is made up of Bucknell professors representing academic disciplines such as, art and art history, comparative humanities, education, engineering, English, management, music, and theater and dance. The principle behind BIG is to “make an impact” through a campus-wide innovation initiative. BIG aims to create an environment that supports those for whom innovation is a primary focus and helps others discover their innovative impulses.

== University technology transfer function ==
=== [http://www.bucknell.edu/x7025.xml Small Business Development Center] ===
The Bucknell SBDC provides free consulting, information, and low-cost educational programs to entrepreneurs and small businesses, including student entrepreneurs and ventures. It offers a business pitch competition for students, internships, and facilitates class projects engaging students with area entrepreneurs and small firms. The SBDC is part of statewide and national networks of centers offering these core services and various specialty programs and received support from DCED, Bucknell, and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Bucknell’s SBDC provides Engineering Development Services to assist clients with product development and commercialization.

=== [https://www.bucknell.edu/about-bucknell/administrative-offices/small-business-development-center/entrepreneurs-incubator.html Entrepreneurs Incubator] ===
The Bucknell University Entrepreneurs Incubator provides space for students, faculty, and community members to start their business ventures. Located in downtown Lewisburg on the second floor of the Dewitt Building, the incubator offers affordable office space, bundled office services, and opportunities for consulting and networking to earlystage companies in the Susquehanna Valley Region. Its close proximity to the University and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) allows entrepreneurs to access these resources conveniently and efficiently. The incubator is situated within the Greater Susquehanna Keystone Innovation Zone (GSKIZ). Qualifying businesses that locate there may be eligible for GSKIZ assistance and benefits, including loans, grants, and tax-credits. The role of the incubator in the ecosystem is still evolving as the space may be used in different ways to support student, community, and alumni facing activities.

=== Engineering Laboratories ===
'''Project Development Lab (PDL)'''
The Project Development Lab is a manufacturing facility located in the ground floor of Dana Engineering building. It is designed to support senior design projects, produce new lab equipment, and support the Small Business Development Center with design and fabrication needs. The lab consist of conventional machine tools (generally directly operation controlled), and non-conventional machining equipment (computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM).

'''Mooney Innovation Laboratory'''
This laboratory consists primarily of a large project development space, a design studio, and a manufacturing space dedicated principally to welding, grinding and brazing.

== University-Industry collaboration ==
[http://www.geisinger.org/ '''Geisinger''']
is a physician-led health care system, dedicated to health care, education, research, and service. Geisinger and Bucknell have partnered on a Healthcare Research Initiative, and Geisinger also provides opportunities for biomedical engineering students to work with surgeons to create cutting-edge medical devices to solve real-world problems.

== Regional and local economic development efforts ==
== Other ==

School:Bucknell University

2013-10-18T11:35:12Z

Yifan Ge:

<div style="float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 10em; margin-right: 10em">[[File:Bucknell_University_Seal.jpg]]</div>

[http://www.bucknell.edu '''Bucknell University'''] is a private liberal arts institution that was founded in 1846. With the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the School of Management, Bucknell has always been aiming to educate well-rounded college graduates with an interdisciplinary mindset.

== Introduction ==
[http://www.bucknell.edu '''Bucknell University'''] has never lack of entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, President John Bravman's extensive support on improving the entrepreneurship on campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the article, the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the entrepreneurial endeavors.

== Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
=== Student ===
==== Curricular Activities ====
----

'''B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers'''
The B.A. in Entrepreneurial Studies for Engineers would provide a structure for students to develop problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and an understanding of the design process as well the opportunity to combine these fundamentals in engineering with an entrepreneurially minded set of courses within the College of Engineering, the School of Management, and the College of Arts & Sciences. Required courses may include:
*MGMT 100: Management Past, Present, and Future
*ECON 103: Economic Principles and Problems
*MGMT 201: Marketing
*MIDE 300: Marketing, Innovation, and Design
*MIDE 303: Entrepreneurship
*Two IDEAS Design Studios within the College of Engineering

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/school-of-management/degree-programs/curriculum-basics/markets-innovation-and-design.html '''Markets, Innovation, & Design (MIDE) Program''']
The largest of the School of Management’s four new academic majors is a dedicated track designed to prepare students for a wide range of careers related to the creation and marketing of innovative products and services. The program’s design includes a series of courses focused on how to identify consumer needs, how to realize innovative ideas and analyze their market potential, and how to bring products and services to market through existing marketing organizations or through new ventures. The MIDE program includes a dedicated course in entrepreneurship, MIDE 303.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/x44757.xml '''Management 101''']
Bucknell's collaborative, experiential organization and management project
course teaches about how, when, and why people work together to accomplish tasks. In the course, students create and manage companies. These companies are not "simulations" or
"games.” They operate with a budget of $3,000-5,000 in order to deliver real services to clients and develop and sell real products to customers. Currently, one in every four Bucknell graduates takes MGMT 101, and over the past thirty years, literally thousands of Bucknellians have started their careers in this one course. For aspiring entrepreneurs, MGMT 101 already comprises one possible gateway to gain skills and take a first step toward engaging with the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/chemical-engineering.html '''CHEG 475/MIDE 375/UNIV 375: ''Should We Start This Company?''''']
Professor Erin Jablonski
(Chemical Engineering) offers a cross-listed course on entrepreneurship. This is a projectcentered course in entrepreneurship, generating new business ideas, and product or service design and development through business planning that was first offered in the fall of 2012.

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/arts-entrepreneurship-minor.html '''Arts Entrepreneurship Minor''']
This minor offers an opportunity to acquire entrepreneurial acumen in the field of arts management. Students interested in working in and with the arts will acquire practical tools by which to become arts professionals — to manage, market, and promote individual businesses, community arts organizations, and not-for-profit arts endeavors in the visual, performing, media, and/or literary arts. The minor bridges the gap between the disciplinary depth of each arts-based major with a pragmatic skill set that can facilitate entry into various entrepreneurial endeavors in the arts. The core anchor course in arts entrepreneurship is currently being offered as ENGL 290: Arts Entrepreneurship.

==== Student Affairs / Co-Curricular ====
----

'''Residential Colleges'''
The Residential Colleges provide a living and learning community experience to first-year students at Bucknell. Currently there are eight different themes and a ninth has been approved for the Fall of 2013. The current “Society and Technology” themed Residential College and recently approved “Discovery College” render themselves well to being incorporated into Bucknell’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''Affinity Housing Program'''
The AHP provides a unique living and learning experience that enables a group of students to live together while exploring a common area of interest. Student groups ranging from a cadre of like-minded individuals to members of the same student organization apply to live together in one of Bucknell University’s Small Houses or residence halls. Two Affinity Housing Programs have been approved for the year 2013 – 2014 that should
be considered part of Bucknell’s emerging Ecology of Entrepreneurship. These are the “Technology for a Sustainable Environment” and “Engineering and Innovation” programs.

'''Entrepreneurial Club'''
The Entrepreneurial Club is recognized by the Bucknell Student Government and falls under the umbrella of Campus Activities and Programs. The
group articulates a mission to “promote an entrepreneurial mindset on Bucknell’s campus through interaction with other similarly minded organizations and through providing opportunities for students to collaborate with one another over the topic.” The Club’s activities include bringing entrepreneurs to campus to speak to students.

'''Bucknell Business Leaders'''
Bucknell Business Leaders is an ambitious student run organization that provides
students with real-life business experiences. Every semester, Bucknell Business
Leaders will brainstorm, research, design, order, and sell at least one product that
hopefully a wide range of Bucknellians will love. Participation in this organization will give
students a glimpse of many aspects of a real business: product research and design,
finance, marketing, advertising, sales, and teamwork. Students who participate in this
campus organization, management and non-management majors, will not only learn a
great deal about business but have lots of fun.

'''Bucknell Business Pitch Competition'''
The Business Pitch Competition was launched in 2012 to inspire and engage aspiring student entrepreneurs. Student entrepreneurs create and deliver a professional and engaging business pitch presenting an innovative and marketable business concept. The inaugural event engaged over fifty students on 18 venture teams, attracted $10,000 in alumni giving towards prizes and promotions, featured nine faculty and staff members as preliminary round judges, and engaged six distinguished alumni as judges and mentors for the final round of competitors. Winners were awarded monetary prizes and offers of informal mentorship from the alumni judges. The first prize winner also received a one year residency in Bucknell’s
Entrepreneurs Incubator.

'''Venture Plan Competition'''
A competition offered for undergraduate students to promote entrepreneurship and new ventures. The competition was started in 2009 at Bucknell University and has awarded more than $17,000 to students creating new ventures. Students participating in the competition are responsible for creating a full written Venture Plan and have an opportunity to present it to a panel of seasoned judges that come from a variety of
backgrounds including start-ups, business strategy, and venture capital.
Venture Plan Competition offers students a complementary and expanded experience to the pitch competition and pits Bucknell students against students from Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) partner institutions Bloomsburg and Susquehanna Universities. This competition is currently organized by the Greater Susquehanna KIZ.

=== Faculty ===
[http://bucknellinnovationgroup.blogs.bucknell.edu/ '''Bucknell Innovation Group''']
The Bucknell Innovation Group (BIG) is made up of Bucknell professors representing academic disciplines such as, art and art history, comparative humanities, education, engineering, English, management, music, and theater and dance. The principle behind BIG is to “make an impact” through a campus-wide innovation initiative. BIG aims to create an environment that supports those for whom innovation is a primary focus and
helps others discover their innovative impulses.

== University technology transfer function ==
=== Small Business Development Center ===

== University-Industry collaboration ==
=== Geisinger ===

== Regional and local economic development efforts ==
== Other ==

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== Introduction ==
== Student innovation and entrepreneurship ==
== Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==
== University technology transfer function ==
== University-Industry collaboration ==
== Regional and local economic development efforts ==
== Other ==