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<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">The&nbsp;</span></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">University Innovation Fellows at</span><span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">&nbsp;Illinois Institute of Technology have discovered ample opportunities to advance our culture and services of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our current 2015 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.</span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">​</span></span>{{#Widget:Youtube|id=D8h2NIPMQIE}}</p>

= <span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Strategy #1: Putting Illinois Tech on the Chicago Innovation and Entrepreneurship I/E map</span></span><br/> =

<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Illinois Tech Startup stories and innovations do not get enough attention. Illinois Tech currently lacks recognition among in the Chicago startup communityI&E ecosystem</span></span></span></li>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 1Why:</span></span> === <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: Develop a transparent;">There is no existing active relationship among the between Illinois Tech I&E student orgs at the universities in Chicagogroups and other university's I&E Groups</span></span></span> ===</li></ul> === <span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">How:</span></span> === <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 1: Develop a relationship among the I&E student orgs at the universities in Chicago</span></span></span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 2: We are going to meet with student leaders weekly/bi-weekly who represent the entrepreneurial communities at their schools.</span></span> ===</span></li><li><span style=== "color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 3: We are going to delegate different days of the week to each of the schools</span></span> ===</span></li><li><span style=== "color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 4: we are also going to fill a few leadership positions with students from other schools.</span></span> ===</span></li><li><span style=== "color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">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.</span></span> ===</span></li></ul>

<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span style== "color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 1: Making it There is a priority lack of opportunity for entrepreneurs in Chicago to give back to highlight start-up founders, specifically Illinois Tech students, within the startup week schedule. </span></span> ===</span></li></ul>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 2How: Focus on the entrepreneur’s journey and highlight the commonalities between them (i.e. lessons learned, unanswered questions, things they wish they were told) </span></span> ===

<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id= "docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 1: Making it a priority to highlight start-up founders, specifically students, within the startup week schedule. </span></span></span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 16px15px; vertical-align: baseline; fontwhite-familyspace: Arialpre-wrap; background-color: rgbtransparent;">Tactic 2: Focus on the entrepreneur’s journey and highlight the commonalities between them (0i.e. lessons learned, 0unanswered questions, 0things they wish they were told)</span></span></span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 3: Get students to interact directly with entrepreneurs. (i.e workshops, guest speakers, fireside chats, etc.) </span></span> ===</span></li></ul>

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 1Why: Send out a form to students at all universities in Chicago to get feedback and provide the best events </span></span> ===

=== <span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 2How: 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 </span></span> ===

<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 1: Send out a form to students at all universities in Chicago to get feedback and provide the best events </span></span></span></li><li><span style= "color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 16px15px; fontvertical-align: baseline; white-familyspace: Arialpre-wrap; background-color: rgb(0transparent;">Tactic 2: Bringing visionary speakers to the week to talk to students about their stories and change students mindsets, 0, 0)so that they can do whatever they believe in </span></span></span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 3: Creating intentional time within the events to foster deeper relationships among students, especially cross university lines </span></span> ===</span></li><li><span style=== "color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tactic 4: Creating tracks within the week to increase the time students spend with like minded students and create lasting connections beyond the week</span></span> ===</span></li></ul>