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<parsererror style="display: block; white-space: pre; border: 2px solid #c77; padding: 0 1em 0 1em; margin: 1em; background-color: #fdd; color: black">== <span style="font-size:medium;">Introduction</span> ==
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span> <span style="font-size: medium;">Project Olympus:</span>==
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<span style=="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; font-size: medium;">McGinnis Venture Competition</span>==
<span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; font-size: medium;"></span> <span style="color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px; font-size: medium;">Undergraduate Innovation Scholars</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> ==
== <span style="font-size[[Category:medium;">Related Links</span> ==Universities|c]][[Category:Schools]][[Category:Carnegie_Mellon_University]]{{CatTree|Carnegie_Mellon_University}}
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<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>
*<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>
== <span style="font-size:medium;">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span> == <span style="font-size:medium;">Carnegie Mellon offers many opportunities for students to explore innovation and entrepreneurship on campus:</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;">Carnegie Mellon offers many opportunities for students to explore innovation and entrepreneurship on campus.</span>
<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="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>
<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;">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;">Encouraging Faculty Innovation 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 Entrepreneurshipstreamlining 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]] University Innovation Fellow:
