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The most paramount issue plaguing Villanova’s campus is the reputation of innovation and entrepreneurship. As a school that in many ways encourages the traditional path of education, graduate schooling and entry into the corporate world, many people do not respect the seemingly eccentric and unproductive façade that covers the world of innovation. Measures need to be taken to show students on campus, from nurses to business students, engineers to scientists, that innovation can help them progress professionally and personally to wherever they plan to be in the near or distant future. The way that this can be done is first through the transfer of knowledge. Innovation, as a mindset, a tool, or a method, will gain respect with the creation of an Innovation Council Board that can operate in tandem with the Villanova Entrepreneurial Society. The council can publicize under-appreciated events and opportunities at Villanova, as well as create their own. The innovation ecosystem can be further united through the creation of a comprehensive Entrepreneurship Minor Program, and the birth of a maker space on campus, in which students of all disciplines will be able to collaborate. Through these few methods, the terms and activities associated with "innovation" and "entrepreneurship" will lose their stigma and become more vibrant on campus, creating lasting changes that will effect thousands.
== Project Pitches ==
Villanova University UIF Spring 2017 Pitch
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Villanova University UIF Spring 2016 Pitch
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Villanova University UIF Spring 2015 Pitch
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<br/>Villanova University UIF Spring 2014 Pitch
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= Understanding Innovation & Uniting Campus =
== Strategy 2: Expanding the Reach of Innovation ==
As of date, Villanova has two minor that focus on entrepreneurship: the Engineering Entrepreneurship Minor which is open to all engineering students, and the Entrepreneurship Minor, which is open to the business and liberal arts and sciences students. There is nomajor no major which focuses on innovation. There are graduate degrees in sustainabilty, which have innovation heavy components. These courses are in the process of being filtered down into the undergraduate cirriculums. There is an increasing demand for more entrepreneurship and sustainabilty courses for undergraduates, and if these were offered as co-majors, they would be successful.
Between the two, entrepreneurial minors, most of the Villanova Campus has assess to innovative paths, however there is one group that is overlooked, the nursing students. The nurses do not have their own entrepreneurial minor, or innovation space. The only way that they can experience entrepreneurship is through the ICE CaPS program for sophomores, which only meets eight times throughout the course of a year.
*The School of Business has new innovation classroom and technological centers
*3d Printer and lab
*An Idea Accelerator and Tinkerer's Workshop
Some ideas that Villanova has planned for is in the futureprocess of pursing:
*Innovation Lab Wing and Student Commons at the College of Engineering
Ideas that Villanova has planned for the future:
*New technological center at the School of Business
Many students do not utilize the machine shop, 3D printer, and various other technologies made available to them because they are unaware of how to operate them. Workshops given by fellow students or instructors about how to operate all available machinery, or how to use certain programs, will help students take advantage of all that is available to them and gain the technical skills they need to create.
== Strategy 4: Idea Accelerator Expansion/Awareness ==
The Idea Accelerator will is a brand new facility that is starting to be available for more utilized by students accross all students to utilizedisciplines. There will be is space and equipment for entrepreneurs to designwhatever paper napkin idea that they have designed. Durineg During the weekends there will be are workshops and speakers to help interested students discover what they can gain from and what they can give to innovation and entrepreneurship. We hope to create more of a response and awareness at these events, bringing heavier crowds into the ICE Center. This area will help future innovators gain the knowledge and practice to make their ideas realities. With such a new building, it is necessay to make this resource known amongst the student body.
= Project Pitch Related Links =
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University Innovation Fellows:
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Albert_Tebbetts Albert Tebbetts]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Abbey_Buckenheimer Abbey BuckenheimerSarrah_Truong Sarrah Truong]
[httphttps://universityinnovationdocs.orggoogle.com/wikipresentation/d/Erik_Koehr Erik Koehr1B2z_wNylN0o5zljrdis5d1fLZQfZgaymPAhyy8eHFLg/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 Villanova Landscape Canvas Slidedeck]
[https://docs.google.com/a/villanova.edu/spreadsheets/d/1Hvd-bX6pyvB9o8QnK1iDfDTpL_9izCSe3zIGM_Z0TAk1TxSNL0wp4tmcl8llSiQnCGYTotwveQUCqwNHpPqyV4c/edit#gid=0 Villanova Landscape CanvasSpreadsheet]
[https://drive.google.com/a/villanova.edu/file/d/0B2tZENGpXGoEblpVM3lQY081eWs/view?usp=sharing Villanova Business Model Canvas]
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E8vm1iJa-tCHs_9oWbfrzNkoBnUA9KdaCCKN09F4nnI/edit?usp=sharing Villanova and Education in the New Age]
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