<parsererror style="display: block; white-space: pre; border: 2px solid #c77; padding: 0 1em 0 1em; margin: 1em; background-color: #fdd; color: black">=== <br/> === === <br/> === == <span style="font-size:medium;">Introduction</span> ==
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a global research university with more than 13,200 students, 100,000 alumni and 5,000 faculty and staff. </span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">CMU has been a birthplace of innovation since its founding in 1900.</span>
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*<span style="font-size:medium;">For 2014-2015, the Times Higher Education of London ranked CMU No. 24 in the world, and No. 17 among U.S. universities.</span>
*<span style="font-size:medium;">With 100 percent of CMU’s electricity coming from green power sources, the university is ranked as a green power leader by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.</span>
=Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship = <span style="font-size:medium;">Carnegie Mellon offers many opportunities for students to explore innovation and entrepreneurship on campus.</span> == Project Olympus == <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;">Project Olympus, a Carnegie Mellon innovation center, operates at the earliest stages of the value creation chain. It aims to augment and accelerate the process of moving cutting-edge r</span><span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;">esearch and great ideas to development and business stages through licensing, creating start-ups, and through corporate collaboration and strategic partnerships. Olympus provides start-up advice, micro-grants, incubator space, and connections for faculty and students across campus and with the wider regional, national and global business communities.</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="font-size:medium;">A main</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;">goal is to create a climate, culture and community to enable talent and ideas to grow, creating a dynamic commercialization eco-system. An initiative of the School of Computer Science</span><span style= "color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;">, Project Olympus works collaboratively with all members of the university’s Innovation Eco-system. Based within the university’s academic sector, Olympus can easily tap into promising innovations that build on the wealth of university research and student ingenuity. Fostering collaborations, both on and off campus, Olympus leverages considerable community expertise and resources.</span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;">Promoting Student <span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;">Olympus PROBE projects (PRoblem-Oriented Business Explorations) are the centerpiece of the enterprise. Here teams of faculty and students from across campus explore the commercial potential of their research and ideas. Guidance is provided at every stage by the Olympus in-house Entrepreneurs-in-Residence and a network of economic development partners.</span></span> == McGinnis Venture Competition == <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;">The McGinnis Venture Competition brings together Carnegie Mellon's best and brightest student entrepreneurs to compete for $60k in investments. All participants receive crucial interaction with alumni entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, an opportunity to raise capital and valuable feedback about ventures.</span></span> == Undergraduate Innovation Scholars == <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;">This program fosters innovation and entrepreneurship and seeks to increase the number of successful start-up companies initiated by or involving Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students. </span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;">Scholars complete a two-year program integrating</span><ul style="margin: 4px 0px 9px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: none; color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;"><li><span style="font-size:medium;">academic coursework</span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;">work experience in a start-up company</span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;">networking</span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;">mentorship--given as well as received</span></li></ul> <span style="font-size:medium;">This selective program attracts the next generation of innovative thinkers and doers.</span> = Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship= = Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function = == CTTEC == <span style="font-size:medium;">Center For Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation (CTTEC) is Carnegie Mellon's Tech Transfer office. <span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;">CTTEC is responsible for facilitating and accelerating the movement of research and technology out of the university and into the marketplace. Our collaborative and problem-solving approach working with researchers to validate, challenge and extend their work</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="font-size:medium;">fits</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;">well within the overall goals of commercialization.</span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;">CTTEC provides a number of services to the research community at Carnegie Mellon. The most visible of these is the licensing of new technologies developed by</span></span><span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="font-size:medium;">faculty</span><span style="font-size:medium;">which in turn, results in benefits to the </span><span style="font-size:medium;">inventors</span><span style="font-size:medium;">, the </span><span style="font-size:medium;">university</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;">and society in general. Additional activities include:</span></span><ul style="margin: 4px 0px 9px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: none; color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;"><li><span style="font-size:medium;">Evaluating the commercial potential and patentability of new technologies</span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;">Managing the intellectual property protection process</span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;">Marketing and licensing patents, materials, software, and other technologies</span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;">Providing guidance on open source software licensing</span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;">Receiving and distributing royalties and other income to </span><span style="font-size:medium;">inventors</span><span style="font-size:medium;">and Carnegie Mellon schools and departments</span></li></ul> <span style="font-size:medium;">Other important services provided to the research community include:</span><ul style="margin: 4px 0px 9px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: none; color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;"><li><span style="font-size:medium;">Providing Research Material to organizations through various Material Transfer Agreements (MTA) or Research Use Licensing</span></li><li><span style="font-size:medium;">Assisting and streamlining the company start-up process</span></li></ul> = Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration = = Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts = = Related Links = [[Carnegie Mellon University]] [[Carnegie Mellon University Student Priorities]]
== <span style="font-sizeUniversity Innovation Fellow:medium;">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span> ==
== <span style="font-sizeSpring 2016:medium;">Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function</span> ==
== <span style="font-size:medium;">Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration</span> ==[[Lauren Valley]]
== <span style="font-size:medium;">Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts</span> ==
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