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= Top Strategies for the Expansion of Innovation & Entrepreneurship =
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== <span style="color:#0000cd;">Bi-Monthly Workshops</span><br/> ==
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== Studio G Satelite Office <br/> ==
  
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The implementation of workshops related to innovation and entrepreneurship is one of the greatest key ideas for getting the students involved in these matters.&nbsp;As of today, many workshops are held on the Aggie Innovation Space, although more promotion for these events should be given, as well as a higher level of hands-on experience, probably by bringing in people who have specialized in these topics.</span></span>
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Studio G, the student incubator located in the Arrowhead Research park, has been looking for ways to engage students in a more proactive manner. With the recent completion of renovations to the Corbett Student Union, there is the potential for available space to be occupied for entrepreneurship and innovation. This space would allow university student mentors and Innovation Fellows the ability to meet with students in a central location directly on campus. Services to be provided would include a continuation of current operations underway at the Arrowhead Entrepreneurship Institute and Aggie Innovation Space: business model development, rapid prototyping, concept design, manufacturing assistance, and team develpment training.&nbsp;
  
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== Multidisciplinary Senior Design Classes (Capstone) <br/> ==
  
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">NMSU is hosting a 3 Day Startup (3DS) starting Sunday, April 13, 2014. This will definitely pull in students interested in developing ideas, and put them to work by making them participate in online-based workshops. By having at least a bi-monthly event like this, a high number of students would be exposed to the intent of this strategic plan.</span></span>
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Recognizing the global impact of education, it is essential for students to work on mulitdisciplinary projects throughout their student tenure. Through the Aggie Innovation Space, engineering students have begun collaborating and working in a more open and supportive environment where experiences have allowed for mentors to emerge. Over the past year, these mentors, from different majors, have worked together to guide a number of student projects through the design phase. Having seen the early success of this initiative, we are hoping to implement a university wide senior design course that will enable students from every college to work together to solve industry-based problems.
  
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== Pop-up Classes <br/> ==
  
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Building on early mentorship initiatives, it was determined that many students sought to learn in a non-traditional manner that would allow them to gain familiarity with new concepts quickly. These courses are desinged to help all university students learn the value behind innovation, and to provide them the essential tools for their project needs. &nbsp;These courses have been very well recieved by university faculty memebers who regularly attend and often teach these new pop-up courses. &nbsp;
  
== <span style="color:#0000cd;">Required courses on entrepreneurship and innovation that allows the student to develop hands-on experience&nbsp;</span> ==
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== Industry Reverse Sabbatical ==
  
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Currently, there are no specific courses targeting students who may be interested in innovation and entrepreneurship. There are courses related to some kind of business entrepreneurship, but they are merely theoretical and lack hands-on experience.</span></span>
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The newest concept being developed within the College of Engineering is an Industry sabbatical that will allow for people in industry to back on campus to teach a full course. &nbsp;The idea behind the initative is for students to gain familiarity with the practial applications of knowedge in industry. &nbsp;Course topics will range from circuit design to additive manufacturing, enabling interested students to get an early understanding of an industry that they may seek to work within.&nbsp;
 
 
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">By requiring all students, or at least students of some majors (for seeing how it actually works), to take at least 2 or 3 entrepreneurship courses with a higher level of difficulty, they could learn how to set their ideas into the ground. I would also suggest that students who are taking these classes should be required to form part of an Entrepreneuship & Innovation Student Organization and come up with a team project by the end of one of their courses.</span></span>
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
== <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);">Expansion of the current Aggie Innovation Space and creation of more Innovation Spaces</span> ==
 
 
 
<span style="font-size:larger;">The University has taken the first steps in launching an Innovation Space at the NMSU College of Engineering, but more input on this space is needed, as well as more spaces like this on campus.</span>
 
 
 
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Seeking future funding for Innovation Spaces like these, and making them more technologically up-to-date is a vital action.</span>
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
== <span style="color:#0000cd;">Think and Act BIG!</span> ==
 
 
 
<span style="font-size:larger;">-Organizing local TEDx events</span>
 
 
 
<span style="font-size: larger;">-Bringing recognized speakers to the school</span>
 
 
 
<span style="font-size: larger;">-Getting funding for Innovation Spaces from partnered companies</span><br/>
 
 
 
== <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);">Student and Faculty Coordination</span> ==
 
 
 
<span style="font-size:larger;">A partnership between the I&E Student Organization and faculty spaces, such as the Arrowhead Center, for working out some of the possible strategic plans (such as bi-monthly workshops) would help events and workshops be of greater quality, and would definitely attract more students.</span>
 
 
 
<span style="font-size: larger;">Coordination among students and faculty would allow I&E to be a bigger deal on campus, since both groups could place greater value on these matters.</span>
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
== <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);">Networking with other Universities</span> ==
 
 
 
<span style="font-size:larger;">Networking is the single most powerful tool and marketing strategy to accelerate and sustain success for any individual or organization. By working with fellow universities to implement and work on ideas together would allow them become feasible, and not let them remain mere plans.</span>
 
 
 
<span style="font-size: larger;">Getting advice from and providing advice to others can make projects be of a greater value than just sticking to your own ideas. As they say, two heads are better than one.</span>
 
  
 
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Revision as of 22:39, 25 September 2014

- Overview -

Founded in 1888 as a Land Grant institution New Mexico State University (NMSU) has a long history of entrepenurship and business development in the community.  As the second largest university in the state NMSU has a student population of nearly 18,000 students. Through the university discovery mission started by Dr. Carruthers, the Colleges of Business and Engineering have begun an initiative to integrate mulitdisciplinary learning across campus. This collaboration has encouraged students to take ownership of their learning, and has led to the creation of several dedicated innovation and design centers: The Aggie Innovation Space, Studio G, and Arrowhead Center.

- Strategies for Innovation & Entrepreneurship -

Studio G Satelite Office

Studio G, the student incubator located in the Arrowhead Research park, has been looking for ways to engage students in a more proactive manner. With the recent completion of renovations to the Corbett Student Union, there is the potential for available space to be occupied for entrepreneurship and innovation. This space would allow university student mentors and Innovation Fellows the ability to meet with students in a central location directly on campus. Services to be provided would include a continuation of current operations underway at the Arrowhead Entrepreneurship Institute and Aggie Innovation Space: business model development, rapid prototyping, concept design, manufacturing assistance, and team develpment training. 

Multidisciplinary Senior Design Classes (Capstone)

Recognizing the global impact of education, it is essential for students to work on mulitdisciplinary projects throughout their student tenure. Through the Aggie Innovation Space, engineering students have begun collaborating and working in a more open and supportive environment where experiences have allowed for mentors to emerge. Over the past year, these mentors, from different majors, have worked together to guide a number of student projects through the design phase. Having seen the early success of this initiative, we are hoping to implement a university wide senior design course that will enable students from every college to work together to solve industry-based problems.

Pop-up Classes

Building on early mentorship initiatives, it was determined that many students sought to learn in a non-traditional manner that would allow them to gain familiarity with new concepts quickly. These courses are desinged to help all university students learn the value behind innovation, and to provide them the essential tools for their project needs.  These courses have been very well recieved by university faculty memebers who regularly attend and often teach these new pop-up courses.  

Industry Reverse Sabbatical

The newest concept being developed within the College of Engineering is an Industry sabbatical that will allow for people in industry to back on campus to teach a full course.  The idea behind the initative is for students to gain familiarity with the practial applications of knowedge in industry.  Course topics will range from circuit design to additive manufacturing, enabling interested students to get an early understanding of an industry that they may seek to work within. 

Related Links

Mauricio Garcia

New Mexico State University