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= Student Priorities<br/> =

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== Encouraging the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship Inspiring Design Thinking<br/> ==

Students are currently both intimidated by <span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-839fc19d-7fff-bb67-5bc9-c101daa120eb"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: 400; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Although the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship and encouraged at MSU has come a long way in the last few years, there’s still a lot of room to follow the corporate route in engineering at Michigan State Universitygrow. It is important that the campus culture encourages Many students , especially underclassmen, do not even have innovation and entrepreneurship on their radar, This unfortunate truth presents an opportunity to pursue their entrepreneurial goals as well as inspire capable provide students with accessible and innovative students exciting opportunities to follow the route of learn about innovation and entrepreneurship throughout their studies and&nbsp;following graduationearly on.</span></span></span>

=== &nbsp;Strategy #1: Work entrepreneurship into Encouraging the curriculum<br/> =Pursuit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

<span id="docs-internal-guid-4b6c6d04-7fff-2e83-eca8-1985415905dc"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students are currently becoming more and more interested by the process of &nbsp;The general curriculum engineers go through should inspire entrepreneurship yet aren’t encouraged to follow the this route in major degrees here at Michigan State University. It is important that the campus culture encourages students to seek out and pursue their entrepreneurial potential goals as well as inspire capable and make innovative students to follow the route of entrepreneurship throughout their studies and innovation accessible to all studentsfollowing graduation. === <br/span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-fad352da-7fff-f987-042b-5db2051a4244"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once students at Michigan State decide they have the confidence and a desire to follow entepreneurshippursue their innovation and entrepreneurship goals, then they quickly realize that they lack can begin to utilize the tools necessary to do soresources provided at MSU. A large part of the resources provided here are sustainable but may leave students unable to determine how to use this problem skill for their major. It is satisfied by the Innovation Center in the Business College, but it’s important that students leave the university with the tools necessary to maintain their innovation and entrepreneurship independently and successfullyto use in their future careers.</span></span>

==<span id="docs-internal-guid-5a4074b1-7fff-42c3-9bda-fd4d11a14e0a"><span style= &nbsp"font-size: 16pt;Strategy #1font-family: Provide an entrepreneurship concentration within all engineering majorsArial; specifically designed for entrepreneurship in their field<br/> === These specialized classes will focus on students who know that they eventually want to pursue entrepreneurship, but do not know what their next steps are. There will be business classes on business model development and how to get capitalcolor: rgb(0, as well as classes on what entrepreneurship looks like in their field0, some of which may range from patent writing and processes to software development and consumer testing. &nbsp0);&nbspbackground-color: transparent;&nbspfont-weight: 400;&nbspfont-variant-numeric: normal;&nbspfont-variant-east-asian: normal;&nbspvertical-align: baseline;&nbspwhite-space: pre-wrap;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; === ">Our Strategy #2: Provide seminars on business design and entrepreneurship strategies<br/span></span> === For those students that do not have the space in their curriculum to add entrepreneurship to their degree but still would like to add these skills to their skill set, or for those relatively familiar with the entire process and only need classes in specialized areas, independent co-curricular seminars should be held on isolated subjects. For instance, a brief seminar on patent writing may suit students better who are at a particular point in their entrepreneurial track but need a little extra information.