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<br/span id="docs-internal-guid-17ac748a-7fff-d97c-8b95-36b5200e17ad" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-size:large11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship:'''</span> </span> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:medium11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;">The University of Richmond provides many valuable resources for students to learn and pursue their path of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our school has developed Living-Learning Programs, such as Richmond Endeavor and Sophomore Scholars in Residence. Many professors also incorporate elements of innovation and entrepreneurship into their courses. So, many students are learning the concepts of innovation and entrepreneurship from their classes. Additionally, we hold inspirational events for students to engage with I&E in-depth, including speaker series, symposiums, and Jepson Leadership Forum. Our school also offers how-to workshops to teach students how to apply our knowledge to real-world contexts. Our Marketing and Communication strategies effectively help the school let students know these opportunities on campus. Media, such as Spiderbytes, UR Collegian Newspaper and Forum Magazine, presents a clear image of what students can learn and achieve on campus.</span>  <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:medium11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;">The University of Richmond helps enable students’ passion for innovation and entrepreneurship by directly creating courses for this specific category in both undergraduate and graduate levels. Students themselves also create extracurricular activities related to I&E, such as Entrepreneurship Club and Seeds Project. Additionally, students have access to a variety of extracurricular mentorship organizations, both social and professional, that foster personal growth while at the university. Some of these organizations are major or interest-specific, while others have a broader focus on adjusting to university life. Examples of these organizations include Alpha Sigma Kappa (Women in STEM), the Robins Mentoring Program, and so on.  Students are encouraged to enhance their learning by participating in extracurricular competitions such as the Business Pitch Competition, Jepson Ethics Bowl, and more. The Career Service Services at the University of Richmond also offers students tour to the Virginia Startups, where many startups gather. More importantly, the University of Richmond emphasizes how students apply what they have already learned to practicethrough the Richmond Guarantee and by serving in the community. For example, some student organizations, such as Lakeside Consulting Group, leverage students talents for the good of the greater Richmond community by offering their services to local business. The school provides fundings called Richmond Guarantee for students to start participate in research with professors and internships at different corporations. There During their time at Richmond, there are hundreds of places where students can gain hands-on experiences, such as brainstorming activities, group projects, experiments, prototypes, and technical training. In addition to the spaces on campus, student employment offers students to experience the real-life work environment and helps them get ready for their professional careers after graduation, beyond what Career Services programming offers.Career consulting, mock interviews, on-campus recruiting, and resume checks are all facilitated by Career Services with the aim of providing students with internship and job opportunities </span> <br/><br/> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:large11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;">'''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship:'''</span><br/><br/><br/> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:large11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;">'''Actively supporting The University of Richmond can be characterized as a place where faculty are more recently being supported and urged to be entrepreneurial. While this is true, there seems to be more short-term institutional support compared to long-term. Just last year, the Robins School of Business opened the EY Innovation Lab which is intended for student and faculty use. The purpose is for faculty and students alike to have a creative space in which to brainstorm and prototype their ideas, with unique features such as all whiteboard walls and plenty of screen space. Because of this, faculty in the business school have often opted to hold classes in the room and urge students to take advantage of it. Additionally, while there is a Spatial Analysis lab and various departmental research labs, there are no related graduate or certificate programs. Furthermore, there is a Creativity-Innovation-Entrepreneurship Faculty Committee which is led by the Office of the President. While faculty are more recently being pushed towards entrepreneurship and innovation, students at the University of Richmond seem to have more support and encouragement in this realm. It is also of note that the university technology transfer function:'''Robins School of Business may be pushed more heavily in this direction.</span><br/p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br/><br/span id="docs-internal-guid-17ac748a-7fff-d97c-8b95-36b5200e17ad" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="font-size:large11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Facilitating university-industry collaboration:'''</span> </span ></p><p dir="ltr" style="fontline-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-sizebottom:large0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:medium11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The University of Richmond currently has 2 sustained options that prepare provides opportunities for students for long term venturesto engage innovation and entrepreneurship in a number of different ways. The Business Pitch Compeition and most significant is through the McWick Case Competition provide various departmental lab spaces that are available for student use on campus. Frequently, students with the opportunity in Arts and Sciences courses utilize these research spaces to either develop sensible, sound business plan or evaluate a business casesomething new. Both The Digital Research and Spatial Analysis labs also provide opportunities provide for students a short term learning experience that aids to engage in cutting edge-research. UR also dedicates $2 Million each year in skill developmentNatural Sciences Research Grants for undergraduate students. Both projects project monetary prizesThese are great resources for current students; however, but to our knowledge these prizes resources are not enough extended to sustain or kickalumni use. Post-start a fullly fleshed out venturegraduation, the University does not provide much opportunity for students to engage innovation. The University of Richmond There are currently lacks no resources related to raising capital at the university, although it is surrounded both regionally and infastructure that provides seed, locally by a number of venture or capital funding for individaul firms. In general, most students ventures outside of academic research. Although a varitey of funds do not utilize the limited networks that are available for academic researchtheir development, these funds if they are typically awarded on the basis of stringent requirements being met and mostly do not appeal to students who posess the interest in developing a long-term business or ventureaware that those networks exist. The University of Richmond does not maintain For example, if a technology transfer office student wishes, they may reach out to members of any sort as it does not seem fesaible the Alumni Network for the University to operate with limited patentssupport, copyrightsadvice, inventionsand potential job or internship opportunities. However, etc it is suspected that are a result not many students take advantage of University designthese opportunities.&nbsp;</span><br/>&nbsp;<br/span></spanp><br/> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size:large11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;">'''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts:'''&nbsp;</span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-17ac748a-7fff-d97c-8b95-36b5200e17ad" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard;"> <span style="font-size:medium11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of Richmond approaches regional and local innovation and entrepreneurship in very limited ways. Upon review, the University of Richmond offers connections with a variety of regional innovation opportunities and networks such as the Greater Richmond Chamber, The Venture Forum, and Feast RVA. These networks and organizations provide some resources to University of Richmond students, but looking at current student outcomes, it seems that these services and networks are not highly utilized or even highlighted or pointed out to students who might possesses an interest in exploring or developing a startup culture after the completion of the undergraduate studies.</span> <br/span><br/p><br/span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;">The University of Richmond approaches regional and local innovation and entrepreneurship in very limited ways. Upon review, the University of Richmond offers connections with a variety of regional innovation opportunities and networks such as the Greater Richmond Chamber, The Venture Forum, and Feast RVA. These networks and organizations provide some resources to University of Richmond students, but looking at current student outcomes, it seems that these services and networks are not highly utilized or even highlighted or pointed out to students who might possesses an interest in exploring or developing a startup culture after the completion of the undergraduate studies.<br/span> <br/span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;">The University has implemented some initiatives to have greater regional impact, which could possibly act as outlets for entrepreneurship and innovation in the university community. The biggest initiative of the university to engage with the greater community is through UR Downtown, which offers students a 'shared learning environment and platform for engaging together in the heart of a diverse metropolitan area.' It is meant to support cross-sector collaboration and economic impact in the Richmond City, and also facilitate new learning opportunities using Richmond's entrepreneurial, governmental and legal hubs downtown.&nbsp;<br/span> <br/span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;">UR also has the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement to connect students, faculty, staff and community stakeholders in social change efforts utilizing the knowledge and potential of these communities. Bonner Scholars are named, and do social work in the area. 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