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<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">The </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;"> 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: 25px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">2020 Strategies</span></span><br/> =
= <span id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e"><span style="font-size: 21px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Project: Techstars Chicago Startup Week</span></span><br/> =
= <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/> =
=== <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Team Leader: Pranav Nair</span><span><span style="font-size: 23px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> </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;">Why:</span></span> ===
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<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>
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<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;">Every school has their pool of ambitious and motivated students, and the more we can spread that contagious spirit across campuses, the more likely students will be unafraid to take risks There is no existing active relationship between Illinois Tech I&E student groups and try something. “If they can do it, why can’t other university's I?”&E Groups</span></span></span></li>
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<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;">Rather than focusing on entrepreneur’s achievements, we want There is a lack of opportunity for entrepreneurs in Chicago to focus on their legacy give back to the community: enterprise, dreams and innovation. How will these entrepreneurs inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs? Illinois Tech students </span></span></span></li>
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=== <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 20px; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Team Leader: Jack Pio</span><span><span style="font-size: 23px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> </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 1Why: Send out a form to students at all universities in Chicago to get feedback and provide the best events </span></span> ===
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<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 Students don't see entrepreneurship as a successful career path </span></span></span></li>
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=== <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>
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