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= 2020 Overview = The University Innovation Fellows at Illinois Institute of Technology have discovered ample opportunities to advance our culture and services of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our current 2020 leadership circle of five hold a variety of backgrounds and majors, an advantage that reveals itself in the variety of strategic plans presented below. Informed by our work through the Landscape Canvass, a tool to evaluate the presence and distribution of innovative and entrepreneurial offerings at our university, we have developed the following strategies to nurture the creative potential of our campus.{{#Widget:Youtube|id=D8h2NIPMQIE}} = 2020 Strategies == Project: Techstars Chicago Startup Week = = Strategy #1: Putting Illinois Tech on the Chicago I/E map ==== Team Leader: Pranav Nair  ====== Why: === <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Illinois Tech lacks recognition in the Chicago I&E ecosystem</li></ul> === How: === <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Tactic 1: Highlighting some of IIT's unique opportunities(IPROS,Kaplan Institute, Special Degree Programs) within the startup week program</li><li>Tactic 2: Intinium, one of Illinois Tech's student community is running the event! But in addition, we’ll get exposure through the events that we host (i.e. competitions)</li><li>Tactic 3: Partner with Innovative Hubs and be featured on their social media (i.e. podcasts)</li><li>Tactic 4: Press Releases (i.e. local Chicago News, Facebook/Google Ads, Google Search Results)</li></ul> = Strategy #2: Build a standard of collaboration among universities and establish them as the drivers of the next entrepreneurial generation in Chicago. ==== Team Leader: Katja Berthold  === === Why: === <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>There is no existing active relationship between Illinois Tech I&E student groups and other university's I&E Groups</li></ul> === How: === <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Tactic 1: Develop a relationship among the I&E student orgs at the universities in Chicago</li><li>Tactic 2: We are going to meet with student leaders weekly/bi-weekly who represent the entrepreneurial communities at their schools.</li><li>Tactic 3: We are going to delegate different days of the week to each of the schools</li><li>Tactic 4: we are also going to fill a few leadership positions with students from other schools.</li><li>Tactic 5: We hope to not only build relationships with student leaders across several universities, but build strong ties to entrepreneurial and innovative organizations at those respective schools.</li></ul> = Strategy #3: Provide entrepreneurs a platform to give back to their community by sharing their knowledge and experiences while creating relationships within the Chicago innovation space ==== Team Leader: André Guardia  ====== Why: === <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>There is a lack of opportunity for entrepreneurs in Chicago to give back to Illinois Tech students </li></ul> === How: === <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Tactic 1: Making it a priority to highlight start-up founders, specifically students, within the startup week schedule. </li><li>Tactic 2: Focus on the entrepreneur’s journey and highlight the commonalities between them (i.e. lessons learned, unanswered questions, things they wish they were told)</li><li>Tactic 3: Get students to interact directly with entrepreneurs. (i.e workshops, guest speakers, fireside chats, etc.)</li></ul> = Strategy #4: Give students a unique opportunity to dream bigger by developing their innovative mindset and expanding their entrepreneurial network within the academic community ==== Team Leader: Jack Pio  === === Why: === <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Illinois Tech Students don't see entrepreneurship as a successful career path </li></ul> === How: === <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>Tactic 1: Send out a form to students at all universities in Chicago to get feedback and provide the best events </li><li>Tactic 2: Bringing visionary speakers to the week to talk to students about their stories and change students mindsets, so that they can do whatever they believe in </li><li>Tactic 3: Creating intentional time within the events to foster deeper relationships among students, especially cross university lines</li><li>Tactic 4: Creating tracks within the week to increase the time students spend with like minded students and create lasting connections beyond the week</li></ul> = 2015 Overview =

The University Innovation Fellows at Illinois Institute of Technology have discovered ample opportunities to advance our culture and services of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our current 2015 leadership circle of five hold a variety of backgrounds and majors, an advantage that reveals itself in the variety of strategic plans presented below. Informed by our work through the Landscape Canvass, a tool to evaluate the presence and distribution of innovative and entrepreneurial offerings at our university, we have developed the following strategies to nurture the creative potential of our campus.

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= 2015 Strategies =

= Strategy #1: Finding Methods of Appeal to All Students That Introduce the Potential of Entrepreneurship =

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= Strategy #4: Leadership Seminars and Conferences Required by Course Instructors and Engineering Departments =

== Strategy Leader: Syeda Fatima ==

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= Strategy #5: Pegasus Idea Exchange and Crowdfunding Network =

=== Tactic 1: Laying the Foundation of Storytelling ===

<li>Achieve Visibility of Student Innovators (03/2015)</li><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">*<li></span~~>Identify and promote the innovative research, projects, and entrepreneurship currently happening on campus~~.&nbsp~~</li><li>Innovation Spotlights: weekly posting highlighting one student or team’s work</li><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**<li>Online Spotlight blog created and shared through popular IIT digital channels (Facebook groups, twitter posts, communications emails, MyIIT Student Portal)~~&nbsp</li><li>Spotlight Posters in every building on campus</li></ul></li></ul><li>Crowdsource Idea Promotion, Acheive Sustainable Storytelling (08/2015)</li><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Establish the culture and mechanisms that promote individuals to self-volunteer and share their “creative edge.”</li><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Create and promote a public use “hashtag” for all campus innovation and entrepreneurship</li><li>Solicit student suggestions for Spotlight features</li><li>Create live feed of student-submitted(or tagged) data</li></ul></ul></ul>=== Tactic 2: The Idea Exchange ===<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Launch Platform to Facilitate Conversations on Student Ideas (Pegasus Idea Exchange) (10/2015)</li><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Students can volunteer their ideas and projects and then comment, share, or otherwise have conversations on other student postings.</li></ul><li>Add "Needs and Resources" Database (1/2016)</li><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Students can more easily navigate and contribute input to ideas that solicit their skills or interests.</li></ul><li>Add Team Formation functionality (1/2016)</li><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Students collaborating on the Pegasus Exchange can form teams to more intensively critique and construct ideas.</li></ul></ul>

=== Tactic 3: A Horse and its Wings ===

*Crowdsource Idea Promotion, Acheive Sustainable Storytelling (08/2015)

**Establish the culture and mechanisms that promote individuals to self-volunteer and share their “creative edge.”

***Create and promote a public use “hastag” for all campus innovation and entrepreneurship

***Solicit student suggestions for Spotlight features

***Create live feed of student-submitted(or tagged) data

=== Tactic 2: The Idea Exchange ===

<li>~~Launch Platform to Facilitate Conversations on Student Ideas (Pegasus Idea Exchange) (10/2015)~~*~~Students can volunteer their ideas and projects and then comment, share, or otherwise have conversations on other student postings.</li>~~ *~~Add "Needs and Resources" Database~~ Partner with or Build a Crowdfunding Platform into Pegasus (18/2016)</li>**<~~span~~ ul style="~~font~~margin-~~size~~top: ~~16px~~0pt; ~~white~~margin-~~space~~bottom: ~~pre-wrap~~0pt; "><li></spanid="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-3da5-779f-b600-2a3be5901ae4">~~Students can more easily navigate and contribute input to ideas that solicit their skills or interests.~~*~~Add Team Formation functionality~~ Leverage the social sharing community of Pegasus to promote ideas to broader funding bases. (1Alumni, faculty, family, businesses, communities)</~~2016)~~span></li>**Students collaborating on the Pegasus Exchange can form teams to more intensively critique and construct ideas.</ul>~~===~~ <~~br/~~li>~~Tactic 3: A Horse and its Wings~~Relationship-Matching Algorithm (1/2017) ~~===~~</li>

<li>~~Partner with or Build~~ Develop a ~~Crowdfunding Platform into Pegasus (8~~relationship matching algorithm to streamline student-idea discovery and team formation.</~~2016)~~span></li>*<li>Integrate an Alumni interest database into Pegasus to improve relationship matching between student ideas and Alumni.~~Leverage the social sharing community of Pegasus to promote ideas to broader funding bases. (Alumni, faculty, family, businesses, communities)~~</li> *<li>~~Relationship-Matching Algorithm (1/2017)~~</spanid="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-3da5-779f-b600-2a3be5901ae4">**~~Develop a relationship matching algorithm to streamline student-idea discovery and team formation.~~**Integrate an Alumni interest database into Pegasus to improve relationship matching between student ideas and Alumni monies.**Map out interests and social missions of businesses to build into relationship matching algorithm so students know what organizations to target in solicitation of funding.</li></ul></ul>

= Strategy #6: Competitions that Involve I&E and Symposiums that Give an Insight to Students of the Early Stages of a Startup =

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= ~~~~Related Links~~~~ =

<spanstyle="color:#000000;"><span~~>Illinois Tech Main Page<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/School:Illinois_Institute_of_Technology Illinois Institute of Technology Main Page]</li></ul>Illinois Tech ~~Campus OverviewInnovation Fellows

<~~span><span~~ ul style="~~vertical~~margin-~~align~~top: ~~baseline~~0pt; ~~white~~margin-~~space~~bottom: ~~pre-wrap; background-color: transparent~~0pt;"><~~span~~li>[~~http~~https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/~~Illinois_Institute_of_Technology http~~Fellow:~~//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology~~Katja_Berthold Katja Berthold(2020)]</~~span~~li>~~~~ <~~span~~li>[https: ~~pre-wrap; background-color~~//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow: ~~transparent;"~~Jack_Pio Jack Pio(2020)]</li><~~span~~li>~~~~]<~~span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"~~/li>~~Illinois~~ <~~/span~~li>~~Tech Innovation Fellows<~~[https:/~~span><~~/~~span><~~universityinnovation.org/~~span><~~wiki/~~span>~~Fellow:Pranav_Nair Pranav Nair(2020)]</~~span~~li> ~~~~<~~span~~li>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad ~~http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad~~Faizan Ahmad(2015)]</~~span></span~~li> <~~span><span~~li>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski ~~http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski~~Bart Grabowski(2015)]</~~span></span~~li> <~~span><span~~li>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners ~~http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners~~Gabriel Conners(2015)]</~~span></span~~li> <~~span~~li>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas Callie Joncas(2015)]</li><li>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/~~Callie_Joncas http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas~~Syeda_Fatima Syeda Fatima(2015)]</~~span></span~~li></~~span~~ul>

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