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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">== ~~Introduction~~ =~~=

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a global research university with more than 13,200 students, 100,000 alumni and 5,000 faculty and staff.

CMU has been a birthplace of innovation since its founding in 1900.

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*For 2014-2015, the Times Higher Education of London ranked CMU No. 24 in the world, and No. 17 among U.S. universities.

*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.

=~~= ~~Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship~~~~ == ~~Carnegie Mellon offers many opportunities for students to explore innovation and entrepreneurship on campus:~~

Carnegie Mellon offers many opportunities for students to explore innovation and entrepreneurship on campus.

== Project Olympus ==

~~=Project Olympus=~~

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 research 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.

~~~~= McGinnis Venture Competition~~~~==

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.

~~~~= Undergraduate Innovation Scholars~~~~==

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.

This selective program attracts the next generation of innovative thinkers and doers.

=~~= ~~Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship~~~~ = = Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function =

== ~~Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function~~ CTTEC ==

Center For Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation (CTTEC) is Carnegie Mellon's Tech Transfer office. 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 workfitswell within the overall goals of commercialization.

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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 byfacultywhich in turn, results in benefits to the inventors, the universityand society in general. Additional activities include:

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=~~= ~~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: Spring 2016: [[Lauren Valley]]

~~== Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts ==~~

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