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<span class="s1">Beyond classes that focus on design and innovation, the school Cooper Union has one leading an intensive accelerator program for entrepreneurship which takes place over the summercalled Invention Factory. This The selective programguides 20 students through a rigorous process of invention: Participants conceive of and prototype inventions, called Entrepreneur Factorypresent their inventions each week to guest evaluators, file a provisional patent application and participate in a competition at which a panel of distinguished designers, inventors, pays students engineers and patent attorneys choose the best inventions. Students are payed to participate, and work in teams to create a the “best” patentable, novel, and innovative invention. This program started in the summer of 2013 and has since been appended by a program called Invention Factory which aims to bring these inventions to market. Invention Factory will be running for its fifth consecutive year in June 2017.</span>