<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">The American Marketing Association (AMA) is the professional association for individuals and organizations who are leading the practice, teaching, and development of marketing worldwide. Through relevant information, comprehensive education and targeted networking, the AMA assists marketers in deepening their marketing expertise, elevating their careers and ultimately, achieving better results.</span>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"></span><u>'''Alpha Kappa Psi'''</u>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">AKΨ is the world's first and largest co-ed professional business fraternity. Founded in 1904, AKΨ focuses its activities on professional development, brotherhood and this year specifically they focus on Innovation as seen by their innovation challenge event this semester.</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"></span>
= Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> =
*Entrepreneurship (General, open to all majors)
*Special Topics: Entrepreneurship (Mass Communications and Media Studies)
*Lean Launch Pad course: This course offers teaches students the key steps to build a start up. The main idea of the course is teaching students to rapidly develop and test ideas by gathering massive amounts of customer and marketplace feedback. The student must then find prober solucitons to thier problems and and establish suitable business models.
*Mobile App Developement- Teaches students the basics in app developement so that they can make their own app.
= Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function =
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<li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4;">Kauffman Campuses Initiative</span></li>
<li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4;">Google In-Residence</span></li>
<li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.4;">Yahoo-Computer Lab</span></li>
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= Enganging Engaging with Regional and Local Development Efforts <br/> =
==== [http://www.innovatewashington.org <u>Innovate Washington</u>] ====
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[https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0By3dnjIxAwoDalFnNmF3ZzI4QjA&usp=sharing&tid=0B9GRsz4i6ggaVVo0VWZBNDJXQms https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0By3dnjIxAwoDalFnNmF3ZzI4QjA&usp=sharing&tid=0B9GRsz4i6ggaVVo0VWZBNDJXQms]
== Want To Know More? ==
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:SarahJones [Sarah Jones]]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Howard_University_Student_Priorities [Student Priorities]]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsHWUZVt8dA [YouTube Project Pitch]]
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