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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;">[[File:UniversityofLouisville.jpg]]</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;">'''<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Campus Overview</span></span></span></span>'''</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;">'''<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">University of Louisville</span></span></span></span>'''</p><br/><span style="font-size: 14.6667pxlarger; "><span style="font-family: Arialarial,helvetica,sans-serif; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">University of LouisvillePromoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span></span></pspan>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1">'''<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; fontbackground-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)transparent; fontwhite-weightspace: 700; verticalpre-align: baselinewrap; whitefont-spacefamily: prearial, helvetica, sans-wrapserif; backgroundfont-colorsize: transparentlarger;">Promoting student Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span>'''

<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The University faculty of Louisville offers formal programs that channel students’ entrepreneurial skills, including an the entrepreneurship minor, entrepreneurship MBA, department is involved through engagement with businesses and organizations to promote entrepreneurship PhDon campus. &nbsp;There are a few classes offered that are open The Cardinal Venture Club (CVC) seeks to multiple disciplines built around entrepreneurshiphelp facilitate the entrepreneurial spirit here in Louisville by connecting Venture Capitalists, Entrepreneurs, as well as a number Government and the University of departments having a specific entrepreneurship class to their major. Louisville</span><span style="color: rgb(60, 120, 216); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">&nbsp;New partnerships are being created by the entrepreneurship department with other departments to provide additional collaborative programs in the future</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, benefiting both disciplines. &nbsp0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;There are currently ">Faculty has a few extra-curricular outlets and activities large focus on research, which in turn allows more involvement for students to take part engage in around entrepreneurshipreal-life experiences. Faculty, such as events especially those at FirstBuild (Hackathons, Design Thinking Workshop), Maker Faire, TEDxthe cancer center and renewable energy center, however they are not advertised well and tend allowed to only reach a portion do many things outside of engineering studentsthe university. There are many professors who start companies with things that were created by the university. The amount of faculty innovation and entrepreneurship in the community is amazing, but the students at the University aren’t as involved.</span></targeted to any extent.span></span></span>

<ul span style="marginfont-topsize:0ptlarger;margin"><span style="font-bottomfamily:0ptarial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-sizestyle: 14.6667pxitalic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Encouraging There are many policies that allow IP expansion by the university. The tech transfer office allows students to work outside the office in a collaborative way. There are currently applications to gain 200k in resources for a human-health research center. The tech transfer office mostly focuses on the available technologies in the medical field with tons of funding for both faculty innovation and staff. Nevertheless, there aren’t many options other than the medical field, especially the human sciences. The tech transfer office uses “ExCite” as a way of funding entrepreneurshipand it is slowly expanding to the non-medical field.</span></span></lispan></ulspan>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1">'''<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentlarger;">The faculty of the entrepreneurship department are involved through engagement with businesses and organizations to promote entrepreneurship on campus. The Cardinal Venture Club (CVC) seeks to help facilitate the entrepreneurial spirit here in Louisville by connecting Venture Capitalists, Entrepreneurs, Government and the University of Louisville</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(60arial, 120helvetica, 216); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; backgroundsans-color: transparentserif;">The Entrepreneurship&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Faculty has a large focus on research, which in turn allows more involvement for students to engage in real life experiences. Faculty, especially those at the cancer center and renewable energy center, they are allowed to do many things outside of the university. There are many professors who start companies with things that were created through the university. The amount of faculty innovation is amazing.Innovation Club</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Actively supporting the university technology transfer function</span></span></li></ul>'''

<span idstyle="docsfont-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1size:larger;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0arial, 0helvetica, 0); font-style: italic; verticalsans-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentserif;">There are many policies that allow IP expansion ''The entrepreneurship and innovation club was started by the universitya 2016 fellow in order to help foster change makers on campus. This club holds a series of workshops on varies topics. The tech transfer office allows Every week they host a design thinking workshop, where students to work outside take&nbsp;a problem&nbsp;and create a solution that the office in a collaborative wayclub will eventually&nbsp;enact. There are currently applications to gain 200k also elevator pitch workshops where students learn from faculty in resources for a human-health research centerthe area about different pitching techniques. The tech transfer office mostly focuses club also&nbsp;hosts&nbsp;different competitions that allow students to hone in on the available technologies their skills that they have learned in the medical field with tons of funding for both faculty and staffworkshops. Nevertheless, there aren’t many options other than the medical field, especially the human sciences. The tech transfer office uses “ExCite” as a way of funding entrepreneurship Overall&nbsp;this club really helps students gain valuable skills and it is slowly expanding allows them to interact with entrepreneurs in the non medical fieldscommunity.&nbsp;''</span></span>

<span idstyle="docsfont-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1size:larger;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0arial, 0helvetica, 0); font-weight: 700; verticalsans-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentserif;">'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</span></span>

<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">There is a strong co-op placement program in the Speed School of Engineering that provides students with opportunities to become exposed to and build relationships with companies on the cutting edge of innovation and product development. &nbsp;General Electric is one such company that also has FirstBuild, a microfactory micro factory - an online and physical community dedicated to designing, engineering, building, and selling the next generation of major home appliances that welcomes all community members, industry experts , and students. &nbsp;The amount of research park in Louisville are few and far between, however , there are a lot of different maker spaces. LVL 1 is a an independently run maker spaces that focuses focus on personal projects of the community. It is just like FirstBuild, but without the connections and large corporation backing.</span></span></span></span>

<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1">''<span style="fontbackground-sizecolor: 14.6667pxtransparent; vertical-aligncolor: baselinergb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; backgroundfont-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-colorsize: transparentlarger;">Engaging One of the things great about the community of Louisville is the amount of interests by the community. The community has a strong fundamental backing in the arts and humanities. The community was built as an industrial town, but never really expanded in that field and has slowly built a great cultural in the arts and humanities. The community is slowly trying to expand their ideas into the sciences with regional maker spaces such as LVL 1, FirstBuild(1B), and local economic development efforts</span>eventually water step. The community great uses and to some extents abuses these avenues. Nevertheless, you would assume the University would help, but sadly this isn’t the case. The university doesn’t seem to focus too much on the community, which is a place where it would seem to be a natural connection. The events at the maker spaces are rarely attended by any students to any great extent.</span></li></ul>''

'''<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Changes from 2016 - 2017</span>''' <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''<span style="color: rgb(59, 59, 59); white-space: pre-wrap;">Throughout the UIF program we learned a lot about the process of applying innovation within organizations; And as we applied the fundamental principles that we learned in the sessions, we noticed consistent results from week to week. We applied these principles to not only expand our current E&I program, but also add additional resources for the university.</span>''</span></span><br/><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''<span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a915aef1e-68a3597b-fca5d3cd-57d9d2c4-37d23d8067e12e20b381724c"><span style="color: rgb(59, 59, 59); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span>''</span></span> <span style="font-size: 14.6667pxlarger; "><span style="font-family: Arialarial,helvetica,sans-serif; ">''<span><span style="color: rgb(059, 059, 059); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">One of the things great about key aspects of the program that really helped us brainstorm our ideas was the community of Louisville landscape canvas. &nbsp;The reason this is, is the amount because it helped us break down our thoughts into categories and really think about each attribute of interests by the communityprograms. The community has Using this helped us not only further develop the ideas but also approach them from a more ‘political’ perspective giving us a strong fundamental backing in better understanding of the arts and humanitieslogistics to actually make something happen. The community &nbsp;This concept was build as an industrial town, but never really expanded in that field and has slowly build a great cultural in best exemplified when we presented the canvas’ to our stakeholders. &nbsp;With the help of our stakeholders we were able to cut down our ideas down to the arts core and humanitiesfind what might be feasible for our projects. The community is slowly trying &nbsp;Not only that, we were able to expand their add ideas into the sciences with maker spaces that we might not of initially thought of to our projects, such as LVL 1, FirstBuild(1B), involving relevant RSOs and eventually waterstepclubs to help further our initiatives. The community &nbsp;Bottom line, it was a great uses and opportunity to get more eyes on the changes we are pushing to some extents abuses these avenuesmake at UofL. Nevertheless</span></span>''</span></span> <br/><span style="font-family:arial, you would assume helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">''<span id="docs-internal-guid-915aef1e-597b-d3cd-d2c4-2e20b381724c"><span style="color: rgb(59, 59, 59); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because we were able to work hand in hand with the University would helpprevious fellows, but sadly this isn’t it wasn’t too hard to build off of the casearchitecture they originally established. The university doesn’t seem to focus too much on &nbsp;Since we began the program we have noticed significant growth in our existing E&I club as well as increased numbers of students enrolling in the communityentrepreneurship minor at UofL. With that being said, which is it gives us a place where it would seem sense of accomplishment being able to contribute to be a natural connectionsomething bigger than us on campus. The events at Regarding the new ideas we planned to initiate within the maker spaces are rarely attended by any students 2017 fellowship, we have taken promising steps to any great extentapply the new programs in the next academic semester which we have good faith will further the E&I presence on UofLs campus even more.</span></span>''</span></span>   <divspan style="font-size:xx-large;">'''<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">RELATED LINKS</span><br/font>'''</divspan> ---- [[University of Louisville Student Priorities|University of Louisville]]   University Innovation Fellows:   Spring 2016: [[Brandon Young|Brandon Young]] [[Erin Yenney|Erin Yenney]] [[Beau Muniz|Beau Muniz]] [[Yuval Schaal|Yuval Schaal]]   Spring 2017: [[Haley Pfeiffer|Haley Pfeiffer]] [[Tim Burton|Tim Burton]] [[Allyssa Houston|Allyssa Houston]] [[Onajia Stubblefield|Onajia Stubblefield]][[Category:UniversitiesSchools]][[Category:University_of_Louisville]]{{CatTree|University_of_Louisville}}