<h2> = Overview <br/h2>= <p>[500 words about Penn State offers many Innovation and Entrepreneurship resources varying from classes, to organizations to attaining funding for entrepreneurial activities. Its biggest contributor of growth has been the positive aspects "Invent Penn State" initiative, started in 2015. It was a pet-project of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship ecosystem on campus current President, Eric Barron, and has lead to buildup of entreprenuerial resources in nearly every facet of Penn State life. There are over 150 classes offered in the two gaps you believe will enhance varying areas of entrepreneurship. There are 5 minors offered in the Iumbrella&nbsp;E ecosystem on your campus]</p><p>Link to Prezi overview topic of campus ecosystem:<span class=entrepreneurship, as well as "fck_mw_templateLaunchboxes"><span class="fck_mw_template">{{#Widget:Prezis|id=_sto8qf_0vcs}}<(innovation hubs/span></span></p><h2> Calling all students </h2><p>Informational Session incubators) at every campus in the ecosystem. Lots of the growth has been spurred on by various student organizations such as Innoblue (come hear plansthe primary entreprenuership club on campus), offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all studentsHackPSU (organizes by yearly hackathons with corporate sponsors)<ul><li>Where: Google Hangout On Air <, Enactus (a href="<project-based social entreprenuership club), and Happy Valley Capital (a href="http://wwwVC interest club).googlePenn State also has pitch competitions in nearly every academic discipline for startup ideas.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.htmlLastly, Penn State has a large industrial park, dubbed "Innovation Park">http://www, for local and university startups to operate.google Although Penn State has done a great job in building up these opportunities, there are still some ways we believe we can improve.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html</We would like to provide more inspiration for students to become entrepreneurs, provide a>">[1]</a></li><li>When: [Dategreater culture of entreprenuership, Time]</li><li>RSVP: [your email addressand increase the visibility of suitable entry points in to the community. We will carry out these goals by increasing VC presence, google formproviding entry information to freshmen, eventbrite or meetup link]and elevating successful entreprenuerial alumni. = <br/li></ul>=</p><h2> Gap = Strategy #1: ________ Inspiring Students to Take Part<br/h2>= <p>Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:</p><p>Strategy == Step #1: [Goal/Name of strategy]Exploring New Marketing Channels for Content ==</p><ul><li> *Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]</li><li> Team Leader:: [Either your nameThe current Invent Penn State marketing channels are good at keeping students engaged, TBD or create however we think that we need different outreach channels if we truly want to make our ideas a title assigned success and grow the ecosystem as whole.*Some ideas:*Postering Campaign (our poster prototypes worked well)*Pitching at Student Organizations*Banners?*Pushing students to join the person who volunteers]existing mailing list*Innoblue Website == Step #2: Alumni Centered Content == </li><li> Milestones*Description: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need We want to be executedtake stories from inspirational entreprenuerial alumni, along and share them with mm/yy]exisiting students in an easily accesible format. We hope that by showing students what their predeccesors have accomplished, it may inspire them to take a leap of faith in to entreprenuership. We will dispurse this information through the above marketing channels.</li></ul><p>= Strategy #2: [Goal/Name Creating a Buzzing Culture of strategy]I&E around Campus<br/p>=<ul><li> Description [250 words on why this strategy Following are an array of strategies that will solve this gap on your campus]fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period: </li><li> Team Leader== Primary Tactic:: [Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned to the person who volunteers]Increasing VC Presence == </li><li> Milestones*Description: [A set We have noticed that many of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need US Entreprenuership hubs have a booming VC environment to be executedaccompany the growing businesses. Our hope, along with mmis that by increasing visits from major VC partners/yy]<companies, we will enable more local/li></ul>university based startups to florish. This will in turn increase our reputation as a startup university and attract more VCs.<p>Strategy #3*Ideas: *Investor Bus Tours like [Goalhttps://Name www.events.revolution.com/ Rise of strategythe Rest]</p>*Elevating the few VC firms that are present at Penn State: 1855 Capital and Contrary Capital<ul><li> Description [250 words *Work to increase Contrary Capital's presence on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]</li><li> Team Leader== Secondary Tactic:Changing the Rules == *Description: [Either your name, TBD Penn State currently has a rule that no revenue generating business can be started or create a title assigned operated on campus. If we want to take our ecosystem to the person who volunteers]</li><li> Milestones: [A set of bullets next level, that characterize the work is something that would likely will really need to be executed, along with mm/yy]change.</li></ul><h2> Gap = Strategy #23: ________ </h2>Increasing Entry Point Quality and Visibility = <p>Following There are an array two main tactics we plan to employ for increasing ease of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year periodaccess to Penn State's I&E ecosystem: </p><p>Strategy == Tactic #1: [Name of strategy]Creating a Checklist ==</p><uldiv style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><libr/> Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]</lidiv><li> Team Leaderdiv style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:12pt; font-family: [Either your nameCalibri, Arial, Helvetica, TBD or sans-serif;">Description: We are hoping to create a title assigned small and easy to use checklist for Freshmen to use to explore the person who volunteers]I&E ecosystem. We want to include this resource in the NSO materials that accepted students receive when they first arrive on campus. The checklist will be a simple flyer with little tasks that students can accomplish to "get their feet wet" in the ecosystem.<br/li><li/div> Milestones<div style="caret-color: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executedrgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, along with mm/yy]sans-serif;"><br/li></uldiv><p>Strategy == Tactic #2: [Name of strategy]Spend A Summer Day ==</pdiv style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><ul><libr/> Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]</lidiv><li> Team Leaderdiv style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:12pt; font-family: [Either your nameCalibri, Arial, Helvetica, TBD sans-serif;">Description: The university has a "Spend A Summer Day" program that allows prospective students to explore academic disciplines or colleges that they may be interested in at Penn State. Given that Invent Penn State as nearly as many facets as a college, we believe that we can create an information session that students can attend which allows them to get a title assigned to taste for the PSU I&E resources. Additionally, students voluntarily sign up for these session, which means we would be getting in front of the person who volunteers]interested demographic.</lidiv><lidiv> Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]<br/li></uldiv><p>Strategy #3= Related Links = [[Pennsylvania State University]] '''Current Fellows: ''' [[Name of strategyMichael Miller|Michael Miller]] [[Hayden Long|Hayden Long]]</p><ul><li> Description '''Previous Fellows:''' [[250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campusMridul Bhandari]]</li><li> Team Leader[[Category: Student Priorities|p]][[Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned to the person who volunteersCategory:Student Priorities]]</li><li> Milestones[[Category: Student Priorities]][[A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yyCategory:Pennsylvania_State_University]]</li></ul>[[Category:Student_Priorities]]<h2> Other </h2>{{CatTree|Pennsylvania_State_University}}