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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;"><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>
== <span style="font-size:medium;">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span> ==
== <span style="font-size:medium;">Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function</span> = == 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>
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== <span style="font-size:medium;">Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration</span> = = 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]]