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== Emerging Medical Technology Ventures (EMTV)<br/> ==
<div>EMTV is a student run group at UVa that seeks to spark excitement and hands on participation in health care and medical technology entrepreneurship. EMTV is an organization that hosts events such as talks from health care entrepreneurs and medical hackathons that aim to inspire students to address unmet medical needs. The ultimate goal of EMTV is to have the formation of student teams and projects from these events.</div><div><br/></div><div>
*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">College of Arts and Sciences</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Business</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Education</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Social Entrepreneurship</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Health System</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School The top five projects in each of Commerce</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helveticathe five tracks will be awarded $1000 each,sans-serif;">School for a total of Law</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica$25,sans-serif000 in awards. ">UVa Wise</span>*<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">School of Engineering</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>The Discovery stage will require teams to do more customer discovery.
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The first-place team or individual from each semi-final competition goes on Launch stage will provide seed capital to compete in the Entrepreneurship Cup final that takes place in Novembermost compelling student ventures.. All presenting teams receive valuable, third-parrty feedback from investors and other competition judges, with winning teams also receiving cash prizes to further their concepts. The Entrepreneurship Cup is a registered activity of [http://www.unleashingideas.org/ Global Entrepreneurship Week], held in November each year, which “connects young people everywhere through local, national and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.”</span></div><div>[http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about http://innovation.virginia.edu/events/ecup/about]</div><div><br/></div><div>
<span style="font-size:medium;">[https://docs.google.com/aspreadsheets/virginia.edud/spreadsheet1fHQYOFJzW7_KUyWBhZJfJjGnwXOQ91hFkKrns4aAFmE/ccc?key=0AkrqaIK8NuM2dGtDQjYwZ2U5U25MckZ4SktmcFhOLWc&usp=drive_webedit#gid=0/ <font size="3">Landscape Analysis</font>] = Student Priorities<br/> = [[UVA_University_Student_Priorities|<span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">UVA Student Priorities</span>]]
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== Enactus ==
<div>[http://enactusatuva.org/ Enactus ]is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world.</div><div>ENtrepreneurial—having the perspective to see an opportunity and the talent to create value from that opportunity;</div><div>ACTion—the willingness to do something and the commitment to see it through even when the outcome is not guaranteed;</div><div>US —a group of people who see themselves connected in some important way; individuals that are part of a greater whole.</div><div>Their mission as a team is to empower individuals to construct their own wealth by enriching their minds with invaluable knowledge and skills that will stimulate and sustain a spirit of free enterprise, and inspire them to live an environmentally sustainable lifestyle, ultimately leading to the economic security and the betterment of their quality of life and standard of living.<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>== Entrepreneurship Group at UVA The Inventor's Society ==<div>[http://uva-entrepreneurs.com/ The Entrepreneurship Group Inventor's Society at UVA] engages the University of Virginia was founded in 2013 with the goal of giving students with high-quality programmingreal world hands on engineering experience while also innovating for the community. This organization invites world-class speakers They strive to create solutions for challengeing problems within the UVA and entrepreneurs to speak to our Charlottesville communities. Projects that the considers come from its members about their experiences. In addition, they offer informational + recruiting sessions for startups and high-tech firmslocal organizations, such as an annual Google Leadership Lab. EG empowers students to expand upon traditional methods of learning businesses and doingindividuals. EG's officers organize creative The society also sponsors workshops that are meant to educate students in design thinking on practical engineering topics like electronics and rapid prototyping3D printing. Furthermore, EG's members are encouraged Guest speakers will also be invited to participate in ideation and pitch seminars that are based on constructive critique. EG consistently seeks give talks about topics such as how to establish effectively lead a network group of students driven towards entrepreneurial action at U.Va. This organization creates a forum for studentsengineers, professors, and alumni how to engage in discussion. It connects Commerce, Engineering, Architecture, and other students with those who share turn an idea into a passion for entrepreneurship.</div></div><div><br/></div>== Parfait ==<div>[http://parfaitmobiledev.blogspot.com/ Parfait ]is UVA’s first club dedicated solely to mobile development (Android and iOS). Created with the goal of connecting teams of student programmers with mobile projectsreal product, Parfait will create a framework for programmers interested in mobile development to work together and carry a project to completionhow ideas invented by society can be protected. Parfait is a student run mobile development club at the University of Virginia. The group caters to students of all backgrounds who are interested in mobile dev and have some prior coding knowledge.</div><div><br/> </div>
== Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED)<br/> ==
<div>[http://www.seedatuva.com/ Social Entrepreneurs for Economic Development (SEED) ]is a passionate group of students committed to fostering sustainable development in communities around the world. They do this by giving free consulting services to NGOs and social entrepreneurs wherever they need them, with an emphasis on sound microfinance. By forging long-term relationships, they are able to increase the efficacy and efficiency of their partners, and intensify the positive social change in their communities. They also seek educational and personal development within the University of Virginia. Through working in teams to solve problems for their partners, students are able to broaden their knowledge horizons while actively practicing the skills they learn in class. By developing a partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce, SEED has been able to utilize the full resources offered to them, while still maintaining the UVA motto of student self-governance. With over 250+ members working on projects for NGOs around the world, SEED has now established itself in the University of Virginia community, attracting members from all schools and disciplines within the University.</div><div><br/></div><div>
== University of Virginia Entrepreneurship Cup<br/> ==
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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The [http://entrepreneurshipcup.com Entrepreneurship Cup ] is a business-concept competition open to all U.Va. undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Sponsored by [http://www.thirdsecurity.com/ Third Security LLC], this This annual competition seeks to enrich the area's entrepreneurial community by encouraging new ventures with the potential to address unmet needs, solve social and economic problems, and do so in an interdisciplinary way. Participating teams and individuals develop their entrepreneurial chops by submitting formal business concepts to a selected track, with qualifying teams pitching their concepts at that track's semi-final competition. This year, the competition will be taking on a slightly different format with three seperate parts.</span>
<span stylefont face="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There will be the Concept phase of the competition where teams are 9 total encouraged to submit their concepts. This competition encourages students to come up with out-of-the-box ideas that can be translated into compelling projects. Submissions are not expected to have a full business plan, a working prototype etc. </font></div><div></div><div>The Concept competition will be organized into five tracks:</spandiv>*Health Care*Social Entrepeneurship*Consumer/Business - to - Business*Science/Engineering*UVA Wise
== BME Advanced Design ==
BME Advanced Design is an undergraduate design course offered to BME majors though students of other majors may enroll by demonstrating strong interest. This class emphasizes the importance of finding unmet and specific clinical needs. More than half of the courses is devoted to sending students into clinics and shadowing physicians and nurses as well as performing extensive background research on a specific disease state. Additionally, the latter part of the course delves into rapid prototyping of possible solutions to the unmet clinical needs. Student in this course often continue to pursue their Advanced Design Project for their Capstone Projects. Some students projects have even resulted in the formation of startup companies!
== Health UnBound == Health Unbound was formed in the Summer of 2014 by the UIF Leadership Circle of 2014 to provide students interested in pursuing clinical innovations at the University of Virginia. We help students access resources such as space and project management for health innovation projects and sponsor students to attend workshops and conferences to build their skill sets. We also facilitate students to explore different career opportunities in health by facilitating networking between health fields and students via events such as medical hackathons and making connections between students and companies. == ReinventED Lab == ReinventED Lab is a Charlottesville-based organization for creative problem-solving in education, supported by 4.0 Schools' Community Catalyst program. Charlottesville has been selected for the Community Catalyst program to join 5 other cities (New Orleans, New York, DC, Birmingham, and Austin) in a growing national network of education innovation organizations. <p style="text-align: center;"></p></div>></div></div></div>
= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =
The E*Society an organization that connects entrepreneurial students and faculty from all colleges of The University of Virginia, as well as like-minded members of the greater Charlottesville community. The group’s goal is to aggregate resources, people, and information from every corner of the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and promote a culture of collaboration and action for new ventures. This is all about high energy, interdisciplinary thinking and initiative. The E*Society hosts a variety of events with the intention of bringing people with similar interests, but different areas of expertise together. These include guest speakers and speaker panels, networking events, competitions, educational workshops, and member presentations.
== Works-in-progress ==
A newly refurbished room in the school of engineering at the University of Virginia. The idea behind Works-in-progress is to build a community of entrepeneurial projects. The new program has so far hosted workshops with topics ranging from idea generation to marketing and beyond. Currently the program seeks to aid participants in applying to the annual Enterpenuership cup. After this competition, the program will provide active mentoring to the projects.
= Academic Programs in Entrepreneurship<br/> =
== <span style="font-size:large;">Undergraduate Courses </span><br/> ==
BME 2000 - Design and Discovery
BME 4550 - Advanced Design
STS 2500 - Business Fundamental Engineers
STS 2500 - Start Up Operations for Engineers
STS 2500 - Engineers as Entrepreneurs
STS 2500 - Presentations Strategies for Entrepreneurship
STS 2500 - Entrepreneurship and Financing
STS 4500 - Business of Product Development
SYS 2048 - Integrated Systems Design
COMM 2610 - Startup
PPOL 4735 - Experiential Social Entrepreneurship
ENGR 3580 - Entrpreneurship Seminar
ENGR 4010 - Multidiciplinary Design and Development
== <span style="font-size:large;">Graduate Courses (Darden School of Business) </span><br/> ==
GBUS 7108 -Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Growth
GBUS 7609 - Entrepreneurial Thinking
GBUS 7613 - Sustainability, Thinking and Entrepreneurship
GBUS 7615 - Develop an Entrepreneur's Mindset
GBUS 7618 - Effectual Entrepreneurship
GBUS 8060 - Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship
GBUS 8306 - Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship
GBUS 8427 - Entrepreneur as Change Agent
GBUS 8469 - Entrepreneurs Taking Action
GBUS 8484 - Creativity and Design Thinking
GBUS 9340 - Seminar in Entrepreneurship II
= University Technology Transfer Function<br/> =
= UVA Innovation and Entrepreneurship Landscape Analysis =
= Related Links<br/> =
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/UVA_University_Student_Priorities University of Virginia Student Priorities]
<span style="font-size:larger;"><u>Prior UIF Members:</u></span>
[[Anish Dalal|Anish Dalal]]
[[Kelly Thomas|Kelly Thomas]]
[[Angela Liu|Angela Liu]]
[[Ben Matthews|Ben Matthews]]
[[Anthony Sung|Anthony Sung]]
[[Katie Yi Tong Kan|Katie Kan]]
<u style="font-size: 14.4px;">Current UIF Candidates:</u>
[[Tarun kalakoti|Tarun Kalakoti]]
[[Justis Midura|Justis Midura]]
[[Keaton_Wadzinski|Keaton Wadzinski]]
[[Arnab Sarker|Arnab Sarker]]
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