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'''<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">University Innovation Fellows at Washington State University</span></span>''' <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">University Innovation Fellow Spring 2017 Kevin Wolfrom, Kiera Rust, Alyssa Norris, Bardya Banihashemi&nbsp;</span>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKZtC5XPAvw&feature=em-upload_owner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKZtC5XPAvw&amp;feature=em-upload_owner] <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">University Innovation Fellow Spring 2016:&nbsp;</span>[http://universityinnovation.org/Mitchell%20Scott Mitchell Scott]<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">,&nbsp;</span>[http://universityinnovation.org/Ryan%20Pitzer Ryan Pitzer]<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">,&nbsp;</span>[http://universityinnovation.org/Parot%20Victor%20Charoonsophonsak Victor Charoonsophonsak] <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">University Innovation Fellow Spring 2014: Amber&nbsp;</span>Graviat <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">University Innovation Fellow Spring 2013: Viviana Tran</span> === <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span> === <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">At Washington State University, students are highly encouraged to explore innovation and entrepreneurship through various mediums on both the entrepreneurial perspective of the Carson College of Business and also the innovation Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture. &nbsp;Apart from these two colleges, there are many entrepreneurial activities and opportunities, however, they are seemingly separate from the rest of campus and there is not much opportunity for students of different disciplines, except for select students in the Carson College of Business and the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture. &nbsp;The college of business houses the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, an entrepreneurship major is offered along with an entrepreneurship minor for students not in the Carson College of Business here. The department also offers up various programming opportunities for entrepreneurship throughout the school year like the Business Plan Competition and Pizza and Pitch night events. From the innovation perspective, the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture provides students with maker spaces, research facilities, and student organizations to encourage innovation. These facilities and opportunities provide our students with the ability to develop innovative ideas.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Our campus is working hard to continually integrate and combine both aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship through programs such as the Harold Frank Fellows and the Boeing Scholars Program. These are the types of promotional events that encourage students to collaborate and come up with entrepreneurial and innovative ideas that change the world. &nbsp;While these opportunities exist, and are open to all students the biggest challenge is that students do not always know about these resources, and do not have the opportunity to colloborate together on projects.&nbsp;</span> === <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span> === <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The presentation above gives &nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">WSU Center for Entrepreneurial Studies has an incredible program to promote various faculty members and their venture ideas. Not only does this further the innovation and entrepreneurship idea throughout the faculty members, but this will also help in changing the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem here at WSU by encouraging students to also participate and further their ideas towards these goals as well. Through the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">WSU Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, faculty members who have created start-ups are able to mentor and provide guidance to students who are interested in pursuing their own start-up idea and having an overview impact to innovation and entrepreneurship here at WSU. &nbsp;This is a great addition and resources, however, it would be more beneficial if students were more involved in research with professors and were able to have a more hands-on experience.</span> === <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Actively supporting the university technology transfer function</span> === At Washington State University, we have several incredible resources to pursue venture ideas for students and faculty. The Office of Commercialization provides students and faculty to ensure that innovations and discoveries by WSU researchers are evaluated, protected where possible, and prepared for licensing by third parties. the office supports the goal of translating research discoveries into innovations into the marketplace. These funding sources and support truly assist in the pursue of innovation and entrepreneurship here at Washington State University but they are not currently advertised to students until they have graduated&nbsp;or come across it by chance.&nbsp; === <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Facilitating University-Industry collaboration</span> === Various technology spaces, regional sources of capital, and advisory efforts exist at Washington State University to facilitate the university and industry collaboration for the innovation and entrepreneurial ideas. Research labs such as the Engineering and Teaching Research Labs and the WSU Research Park provide students and faculty spaces to perform their research and find these innovative ideas. The MME Cougar Shop also provides a manufacturing space to create prototypes and test the innovation ideas that come about here at Washington State University. Sources such as the Washington Research Foundation and the Office of Commercialization assist in providing funding and capital investments to fund and further the ideas that originate from the research labs. Mentoring and advising as offered by the Harold Frank Office and the Development Office for the Voiland College of Engineering Architecture assist in pursuing those ideas and further the process of commercialization. &nbsp;There are also senior design courses that are partnerships between companies such as Boeing and KPFF that facilitate and encourage university and industry collaboration.&nbsp; === <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts</span> === <span style="color: rgb(55, 62, 77); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are a few different ways in which Washington State University can be more involved with local economic development efforts. First, there are two incubators in the region which help foster high-tech startups. Many of the companies in these incubators have alumni from Washington State University. Second, there are large economic development efforts from Spokane, Washington. Getting involved with the Spokane Angel alliance with be a productive way of engaging with the local economy. Currently, the most engaged local company is Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories which hires students and helps with many university events.</span><div style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Lucida Grande's Entrepreneurial , 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, san-serif;"></div> = <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Programs Offered at WSU</span> = === <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Business Plan Competition</span> === <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The WSU College of Business hosts the Business Plan competition. The competition exists to give student entrepreneurs the opportunity to practice business in a real-world setting. The Business Plan Competition is key to rounding out academic and outreach efforts—bridging theory and application for students who participate.</span><div style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The business competition has expanded and reaches out past WSU. Competitiors from different schools and Innovation oppertunitiesaround the world come to Pullman to present their ideas for the future..&nbsp;</span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Learn more about the competition by contacting Marie Mayes at&nbsp;[mailto:mmayes@wsu.edu mmayes@wsu.edu]<u>&nbsp;</u> information can also be found at&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">[http://www.business.wsu.edu/businessplancompetition2014/Pages/bpc_home.aspx http://www.business.wsu.edu/businessplancompetition2014/Pages/bpc_home.aspx]</span></span> === <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">WSU Harold Frank Entrepreneurship Program</span> === <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 42, 45); line-height: 19. Below 200000762939453px;">The Harold Frank Engineering Entrepreneurship Institute conssits of engineering and business students who are some interested in technological entrepreneurship. The program refines the business skills of WSU students ad promotes innovation whem designing business plans.&nbsp;</span></span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 42, 45); line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">More information can be found at&nbsp;</span>[http://www.cea.wsu.edu/entrepreneurship http://www.cea.wsu.edu/entrepreneurship]</span> === <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Innovation Assessment Center</span> === <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Washington State Innovation Assessment Center (IAC) has provided evaluation services to individuals and small businesses throughout the world. An IAC early stage market assessment will help one to make changes to their product for a brighter innovated future.</span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">More information can be found at&nbsp;[http://www.business.wsu.edu/organizations/iac/Pages/index.aspx http://www.business.wsu.edu/organizations/iac/Pages/index.aspx]</span> = <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Student Priorities</span> = === <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: smaller;">Overview</span> === <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Washington State University is a college that focuses on programs and opportunities in innovation for the student body. All the programs offered on the campus are focused around specific disciplines and give each student the opportunity to network within their field of interest. Even though Washington State University has limited connections due to its location, there is a strong alumni base that offers various opportunities to students.</span></span><br/><br/><br/>&nbsp;{{#Widget:Prezis|id=ewpo7wstbtur}} = <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Strategic Plan #1: Increasing Awareness in more detail Innovation and&nbsp;Entrepreneurship</span></span> = <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">These opportunities that are available have the potential to shift the way WSU teaches Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the classroom.</span></span> === <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pitch Workshop</span></span> === <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Many students at WSU Pullmanhave great ideas for engineering designs, potential businesses, or interesting projects to work on. The problem, however, is that many of these students do not know how to refine their ideas or access some of the resource's campus that focuses we have on capmus. Our plan is to create the first WSU pitch workshop where students will have the ability to work with like minded individuals on an idea while also getting coaching from experts in various fields. At the development ptich work shops, there will be a special focus on promoting awareness for WSU resources.&nbsp;</span></span> === <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Resource Nights</span></span> === <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Resource Nights are part of a 6-week program that offers studentsthe chance to talk to alumni who have created start-ups. They are held in the Spring and run the first 6 weeks into the Spring semester. The speakers' business skillsbackgrounds are varied and they offer valuable insight on various topics. This program is limited to students who are taking specific courses at WSU. The goal would be to open this up to all disciplines on the campus and give students within STEM programs the opportunities to gain the same knowledge.&nbsp;</span></span>

University Innovation Fellow Srping 2013<span style="font-size: Viviana Transmall;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Plan of action:</span></span>

University Innovation Fellow Spring 2014*<span style="font-size: Amber Gravietsmall;"><div span style="colorfont-family: rgb(102arial, 102helvetica, 102)sans-serif;">Work with the College of Business and Engineering to gain speakers and to network</span></span>*<span style="font-size:small; "><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode'arial, Arialhelvetica, sansans-serif;">= Programs offered at WSU:Find local businesses that will support the events</span><br/span> =

= == <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Business Plan Competition&nbsp;Harold Frank Entrepreneurship Program</span></span> ===

The WSU College of Business hosts the Business Plan competition. The competition exists to give student entrepreneurs the opportunity to practice business in a real<span style="font-world setting. The Business Plan Competition is key to rounding out academic and outreach efforts—bridging theory and application for students who participate.</divsize:small;"><div span style="colorfont-family: rgb(102arial, 102helvetica, 102)sans-serif;">[http://www.cea.wsu.edu/entrepreneurship The Harold Frank Engineering Entrepreneurship Institute] is made up of junior-level engineering and business students who are interested in technological entrepreneurship. The program aims to give students the tools and experiences they need to pursue their ideas.&nbsp;This program also promotes students to be involved on-campus and apply for the business competition has expanded offered in the spring. It focuses on creating cohesion between the college of engineering and reaches out past WSUthe college of business. Competitiors This program gives the students a real experience of the process of working with others with different backgrounds while getting the experience of starting a business from different schools and around scratch. To be a part of this particular program, there is an application process; however, a majority of the world come classes in this program are offered to Pullman all students. The goal is to present their ideas for make students more aware of the future.courses within this program that available to them.&nbsp;</span></span>

Learn more about the competition by contacting Marie Mayes at&nbsp;[mailto:mmayes@wsu.edu mmayes@wsu.edu]<u>&nbsp;'''</u> information can also be found at&nbsp;<span stylefont face="linearial, helvetica, sans-height: 1.6em;serif" size="3">[httpFrank Innovtion Zone://www.business.wsu.edu/businessplancompetition2014/Pages/bpc_home.aspx http://www.business.wsu.edu/businessplancompetition2014/Pages/bpc_home.aspx]</spanfont>'''

=== <span stylefont face="color: rgb(38arial, 42helvetica, 45); font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sansans-serif; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" size="3">The Harold Frank Engineering Entrepreneurship Institute conssits of engineering and business students who are interested in technological entrepreneurship. The program refines the business skills of WSU students ad promotes innovation whem designing business plans.&nbsp;Speaker Events</spanfont>===

<span style="colorfont-size: rgb(38, 42, 45)small; "><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode'arial, Arialhelvetica, sansans-serif; line-height: 19">WSU has now hosted two TEDx's, however, there was some confusion about the requirements two years ago, so the university has now integrated some of the best parts of TEDx, including the style of presentations, with some of the things that students would like to see, including more panels.200000762939453px&nbsp;">More information can be found atOne major challenge with hosting TEDx was that there was a limited number of students who were able to attend, now with the modified events more students of all different backgrounds are able to attend.&nbsp;</span>[http:<//www.cea.wsu.edu/entrepreneurship http://www.cea.wsu.edu/entrepreneurship]span>

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<span style="font-family[http: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, san-serif;">The Washington State Innovation Assessment Center (IAC) has provided evaluation services to individuals and small businesses throughout the world//universityinnovation. An IAC early stage market assessment will help one to make changes to their product for a brighter innovated future.<org/wiki/span>Washington_State_University_Student_Priorities Student Priorities]

<span style="font-familyUniversity Innovation Fellows Spring 2017:&nbsp;[http: 'Lucida Grande'//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kevin_Wolfrom Kevin Wolfrom], 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, san-serif;">More information can be found at&nbsp;</span>[http://wwwuniversityinnovation.business.wsu.eduorg/organizationswiki/iacKiera_Rust Kiera Rust],&nbsp;[http:/Pages/indexuniversityinnovation.aspx httporg/wiki/Alyssa_Norris Alyssa Norris],&nbsp;Bardya&nbsp;Banihashemi&nbsp;[https://www.business.wsuyoutube.educom/organizationswatch?v=IKZtC5XPAvw&feature=em-upload_owner https:/iac/Pageswww.youtube.com/index.aspxwatch?v=IKZtC5XPAvw&amp;feature=em-upload_owner]

<University Innovation Fellow Spring 2014:&nbsp;[http:/div>/universityinnovation.org/Amber%20Graviet Amber Graviet]