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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7932ca1c-5cd5-79fe-57bd-851903dac034"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">La Salle University is located in an innovation and entrepreneurial hotbed. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is one of the most dense university regions in the United States. As a lasallian school, we understand the values of innovation and entrepreneurship. As students, we believe that the values of innovation and entrepreneurship should flow consistently, regardless of your major. La Salle believes that in today’s competitive economic environment, people with entrepreneurial spirits will not only succeed in their chosen careers but also will drive business creation, growth, and job opportunities for the larger business community.</span></span></span></span>

Spring 2016

= Strategy 1: Establishing Innovation & Entrepreneurship Across the Curriculum<br/> =

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7932ca1c-5cd5-79fe-57bd-851903dac034"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students from the School of Business, Arts & Sciences and Nursing should be exposed to more courses that integrate the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship. Innovation applies not only to business students but to all. The real challenge is trying to merge the students academic focus into the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship. Students working towards a degree in business or science understand the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship.</span></span></span></span>

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: medium; background-color: transparent;">The plan of attack to tackle this issue is currently being investigated in the form of creating more courses that are interdisciplinary in their nature. A current example of this type of course being implemented at La Salle would be Life Science Innovation. This class is open to students of all majors, and currently contains students from The School of Business, The School of Arts and Sciences, as well as The School of Nursing.</span>

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;">As students who seek the drive to push for innovation entrepreneurship on campus, we understand the need for support from faculty and administrators. As future fellows, we understand that in order for successful implementation of our tactics, administrators need to see our vision. Therefore, we will soon embark on a unique strategic five year plan that we as fellows will propose to faculty and administrators. This plan will not only include our vision in regards to innovation & entrepreneurship on campus, but also tactics that we think will harness a culture of sustainable creativity.</span></span>

= Strategy 2: Establishing Long-Term Relationship Between Engineering Programs at Neighboring Universities through the University Innovation Fellows at each University.<br/> =

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); white-space: pre-wrap;">Creating student organizations that not only teach and inspire innovation but give students the chance to take the wheel with projects that will give them hands-on experience dealing with real life problems and allow them to solve them. &nbsp;(This includes: creating small business ideas and taking the steps to create them, and identifying problems within the world and creating think tanks to attempt to solve them)</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7932ca1c-5ce3-b51c-e5f6-552085723879"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Challenges built to have students compete with each other for prizes based on varying concepts from which they will develop ideas and attempt to create them and promote them. La Salle University currently holds an Open Minds Competition annually, as well as regular Innovation Challenges. The main focus would be to increase participation among the students in all majors and acquire additional faculty participation as well as an increased amount of monetary support.</span></span></span></span>

= Related Links =

University Innovation Fellows

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