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== Student innovation and entrepreneurship ==
The Wake Forest Center for Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship (<span data-scaytid="1" data-scayt_word="cice">CICE</span>) leads the entrepreneurship community at Wake Forest University. This center was developed in 2003 and since then has grown to be the most popular minor on campus. The Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship is considered an academic program which has allowed the Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise (ESE) minor to brand itself on campus. By this I mean that students recognize the minor because it is not hidden in the business school or in a large academic department. This center has developed its niche on campus and expanded throughout all disciplines and across all majors on campus. Students at Wake Forest University have found this minor extremely useful, practical and fun. It allows the science and liberal arts students to develop their passion into a venture or practical entity in which they can make an impact. Each year, more students declare an ESE minor showing the growing importance of innovation and entrepreneurship to students. As of the 2015 academic year, the ESE minor is the most popular minor.
The three focuses of this program for students has been as follows:
The regional and local economic development efforts are very deep and complex in Winston Salem and Wake Forest University. Originally, Winston Salem was home to many tobacco factories where Reynolds cigarettes were rolled. Fast forwarding some decades after the cigarette industry began to move out of Winston Salem, the downtown area was completely abandon with large tobacco factories which were once economic hubs, now completely empty. Years later, in the 1990's a Wake Forest academic group moved to this downtown area and renovated a space to conduct their research. Slowly, a new idea hatched that would transform the old buildings that once fueled the Winston Salem economy, into a biotechnology research park. This research park would create a new innovative and entrepreneurial economy in Winston Salem. Now, after two decades we are seeing the product of a great vision of a new hub where science, technology, and business can all come together. The hope is that the energy and revitalization of the downtown area will bring a new spark to the Winston Salem economy and therefore regional/local development.
= Landscape Canvas =
[https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B844vlWIDJatZlZ5LUZJZ2k0cm8 Fall 2015 Landscape Canvas]
== Other ==
TEDxWakeForest began in 2012 spearheaded by University Innovation Fellow Lucy Lan and her team who attracted close to 1,400 participants featuring TED Fellow and Wake scientist Anthony Atala who is known for his work in 3D-printing a human kidney using stem cells.
The first University Innovation Fellow at Wake Forest was Billy Oelsner.
== Summary == Overall, the I&E ecosystem at Wake Forest has a very strong foundation to build on. The class selection through the ESE along with the various I&E resources throughout campus (TEDx, startup workshops, E-Society) have provided a solid layout for future University Innovation Resources Fellows to work on. ==Related Links == [[Wake Forest University]]
[[Wake Forest University Student Priorities]]
[[Michael Tantum]]
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/John_marbach John Marbach]
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