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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 ~~devloped~~ developed the following strategies to nurture the creative potential of our campus.{{#Widget:Youtube|id=UtdLLHRVGPA}}= 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 ==

Objective: At Illinois Institute of Technology, there are various and some what random leadership seminars held throughout  the year on campus. Most of these leadership events are hosted by The Leadership Academy whose main target audience are its own Leadership Scholars, and the rest of the student population is forgotten. Even though these seminars are open to everywhere, most of the students who attend are the Leadership Scholars themselves, since it is a required component for remaining a scholar. After much research, I found that the speakers come from entrepreneurial backgrounds and can help in better IIT’s overall ecosystem. Therefore, the best way to get all students to attend these is by making them apart of the major curriculum. Students will be required to attend these seminars and in return receive a grade for them in their design related major courses.  Furthermore, engineering curriculums should also require their students to attend a conference or lecture during their undergraduate career which will help them gain a better grasp on entrepreneurship and innovation.

=== Tactic #1: IPRO 397 and 497 Make Attending at Least One of the Leadership Academy’s Monthly Seminars a Required Component of the Course. ===

<li>IPROs at IIT are designed to introduce students to concepts of design thinking and product design. However, these courses don’t provide any guidance for launching their product or concept on the course ends. This is where the Leadership Academy’s seminars come in. The speakers are these seminar are usually entrepreneurs themselves and their lectures cover topics such as ethics and  how-to-lectures on launching good leadership in your work/university place. Making this a required course component will help students in taking the first step to becoming entrepreneurs</li>

=== Tactic # 2: All Engineering Departments Should Make it Required for Students to Attend at Least Both One Entrepreneurial/ Innovation Themed Conference and Lecture Their Undergraduate Years. ===

<li>IIT engineering programs offer various levels of design classes during a student’s senior year of college. However, the students just speed through these classes in order to finish the requirement and graduate, there isn’t much learning going on. Therefore, departments should make it required for students to attend one conference and lecture related to their major. These conferences (such as the RSNA for biomedical engineers) offer tons of knowledge and learning experiences for students which they won’t receive in the classroom. For example, the RSNA features the newest in MRI and Ultrasound machines as well as innovation opportunities for undergrads, to assist these companies through internships.</li>

=== Tactic # 3: Each Engineering Department Should Create at Least One Entrepreneurial and Innovation Based Course specific to Their Department. ===

<li>For example, biomedical engineering will have an entrepreneurial course which will teach students how to patent, launch and design their ideas. Since the goal of engineering is to innovate and design a better world, engineering graduates will most likely at least once in their careers encounter a situation in which they will need to design something. Thus, these engineers should have some prior knowledge as to how to go about launching and implementing their product. Taking a course doing their undergraduate years which teaches them just that will be extremely useful.</li>

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

== Team Leader: Gabriel Conners ==

Overview: Pegasus is a crowdfunding network built on the momentum of an ecosystem of social support for student ideas. In our landscape canvass of 2015 at the Illinois Institute of Technology(IIT), we found a bell curve of support for innovation and entrepreneurship, where we had good opportunities in the areas of learning and experimenting, while we were found lacking in the outer categories of discovery, pursuit, and spin out. The ultimate and simple goal of Pegasus is to provide students with seed funding for their ideas, thus bolstering our ability to pursue ideas. In order to make this platform sustainable and highly visible, it must hold a foundation of self volunteering of content and a vibrant peer-to-peer idea exchange. This system of exchange will then contribute to the culture of discovery for innovation and entrepreneurship at IIT.

= ~~Strategy #5 Pegasus Crowdfunding Network = ~~Fellow on Point~~Tactic 1: ~~Gabriel Conners~~Laying the Foundation of Storytelling ~~Pegasus is a crowdfunding network built on the momentum of an ecosystem of social support for student ideas. In our landscape canvass of 2015 at the Illinois Institute of Technology(IIT), we found a bell curve of support for innovation and entrepreneurship, where we had good opportunities in the areas of learning and experimenting, while we were found lacking in the outer categories of discovery, pursuit, and spin out. The ultimate and simple goal of Pegasus is to provide students with seed funding for their ideas, thus bolstering our ability to pursue ideas. In order to make this platform sustainable and highly visible, it must hold a foundation of self volunteering of content and a vibrant peer-to-peer idea exchange. This system of exchange will then contribute to the culture of discovery for innovation and entrepreneurship at IIT.=

<li>=~~Laying the Foundation~~ Achieve Visibility of ~~Storytelling~~Student Innovators (03/2015) ==</li>

<li>Identify and promote the innovative research, projects, and entrepreneurship currently happening on campus</li><li>~~Tactic 1~~Innovation Spotlights: ~~Achieve Visibility of Student Innovators (03~~weekly posting highlighting one student or team’s work</~~2015)~~span> ~~===~~</li>

<li~~>Identify and promote the innovative research, projects, and entrepreneurship currently happening on campus.<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li~~>Innovation Spotlights: weekly posting highlighting one student or team’s work<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)</li><li>Spotlight Posters in every building on campus</li>

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</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><ulstyle="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: ~~Crowdsource~~ The Idea Exchange ===<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Launch Platform to Facilitate Conversations on Student Ideas (Pegasus Idea ~~Promotion~~Exchange) (10/2015)</li><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li>Students can volunteer their ideas and projects and then comment, share, ~~Achieve Sustainable Storytelling~~ or otherwise have conversations on other student postings.</li></ul><li>Add "Needs and Resources" Database (081/~~2015~~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>

<li~~>Establish the culture and mechanisms that promote individuals to self-volunteer and share their “creative edge.”<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li~~>~~Create~~ Students collaborating on the Pegasus Exchange can form teams to more intensively critique and ~~promote a public use “hastag” for all campus innovation and entrepreneurship~~construct ideas.</~~li><li><~~span ~~id="docs-internal-guid-88765a78-3e3a-43cb-20f7-86dc8c2399ca"~~>~~Solicit student suggestions for Spotlight features~~</~~span~~li></~~span~~ul></liul>~~<li>~~Create live feed of student-submitted(or tagged) data</span~~>~~</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li><li>~~== ~~The Idea ExchangeTactic 3: A Horse and its Wings ===

<li>==~~Tactic 3: Launch~~ Partner with or Build a Crowdfunding Platform ~~to Facilitate Conversations on Student Ideas (~~into Pegasus ~~Idea Exchange)~~ (108/~~2015~~2016) ~~===~~</li>

<li>~~Students can volunteer their~~ Leverage the social sharing community of Pegasus to promote ideas ~~and projects and then comment~~to broader funding bases. (Alumni, faculty, family, ~~share~~businesses, ~~or otherwise have conversations on other student postings.~~communities)</li></ul></li><lispan style="color:#000000;">~~===~~ ~~Tactic 4: Add “Needs and Resource” Database~~ Relationship-Matching Algorithm (1/~~2016~~2017) ~~===~~</li>

<li>~~Students can more easily navigate~~ Develop a relationship matching algorithm to streamline student-idea discovery and ~~contribute input~~ team formation.</li><li>Integrate an Alumni interest database into Pegasus to improve relationship matching between student ideas ~~that solicit their skills or~~ and Alumni.</li><li>Map out interestsand social missions of businesses to build into relationship matching algorithm so students know what organizations to target in solicitation of funding.</li></ul></liul> = <lispan id="docs-internal-guid-9125b343-397b-0dab-9441-3e9e9db5343e">Strategy #6: Competitions that Involve I&E and Symposiums that Give an Insight to Students of the Early Stages of a Startup= === ~~Tactic~~ Team Leader: Faizan Ahmad == Objective: College is the place to make big changes in life. Students know that the job market is evolving. A lot of students do not want to work on a 9 to 5job. A lot of students want to be entrepreneurs and have businesses of their own. However, they face problems in the early stages of their businesses. Our objective is to provide them an insight of how work is done in a professional environment. The purpose is to let them know what steps they need to take and what type of management they need to perform when commencing their businesses and startups. For instance, competitions like Startup, Pitch competitions, Lean Startup competitions and Hackathons will help them learn how they need to perform proactively within a team. This will help them understand how they should organize their efforts while developing a product. Symposiums are very important too. We could have somebody like Balaji Srinivasan come in and explain to students what he learnt about the early stages of his startup. This will make it easier to understand what procedures do entrepreneurs go through when starting a business. They can communicate their ideas and understand how entrepreneurs perform risk-analysis. This is essential as the first step is one of the hardest ones for any business. === Tactic 1~~/2016)~~: Make attending such symposiums highly recommended and mandatory for those who are part of the entrepreneurship and related society on campus. ===

<li>~~Students collaborating~~ Entrepreneurship societies on ~~the Pegasus Exchange can form teams~~ campus, like College Entrepreneurial Organization at IIT, are a very effective way to ~~more intensively critique~~ communicating with students and ~~construct ideas~~allowing them to be part of related events.Introducing students to the symposiums is very important since students get a lot of information.</li></ul> <~~/li~~span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></ulspan></lispan> <lispan style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">='' ~~A Horse and its Wings~~Progressive Milestones'' ==

<li>Investigation of targeted speakers who will come in for the symposiums -April 2015</li><li>Setting up dates of the events to be held.-May 2015</li><li>Informing the boards of the societies and clubs of the information of upcoming symposiums and convincing them make the attendance mandatory.-June 2015</li><li>Working with the leadership academy to coordinate the events.- July 2015</li><li>Launch the event- August 2015</li><li>Get survey to see how students feel about this- October to December 2015</li></ul> === Tactic 62: ~~Partner with or Build a Crowdfunding Platform into Pegasus~~ Plan multiple competitions (~~8/2016~~HackIIT, Lean Startup at IIT)to be hosted by the University. ===

<li>~~Leverage~~ There are many societies at IIT that who attract students. The competitions can be coordinated with the help of the ~~social sharing community~~ member of ~~Pegasus to promote ideas~~ the societies. IIT has a great facility i.e The Idea Shop which acts as a working space and an incubator for IIT students. The Idea Shop can be used as the venue for such competitions. Companies like Microsoft and Cisco have sponsored Hackathons in the past. Students can also get their technology to ~~broader funding bases~~work with. ~~(Alumni, faculty, family, businesses, communities)~~</li></ul> </lispan><li/span> '' ~~Tactic 7: Relationship Matching Algorithm (1~~Progressive Milestones</~~2017)~~span>'' ~~===~~

<li>~~Develop a relationship matching algorithm~~ Setting up the budget and dates for the events to be hosted and presenting it to ~~streamline~~ the studentboard to be approved-April 2015</li><li>Contacting the companies and ~~team formation~~convince them for sponsorship.-May 2015</li><li>Approach the organizations to convince them to volunteer for the events.-~~20f7-86dc8c2399ca~~June 2015</li><li>~~Integrate an Alumni interest database into Pegasus~~ Work with different departments to reserve spaces for event to ~~improve relationship matching between student ideas~~ be held and ~~Alumni monies~~coordinate the events.-July 2015</li><li>Launch the events -~~20f7-86dc8c2399ca~~August 2015</li><li>~~Map out interests~~ Get surveys and ~~social missions of businesses to build into relationship matching algorithm so~~ reviews by the students ~~know what organizations to target in solicitation~~ of ~~funding~~how they feel about the events.- October to November 2015</li></ul> = Related Links = 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>

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Illinois Tech Innovation Fellows

~~&lt~~<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li>[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Katja_Berthold Katja Berthold(2020)]</li><li>[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Jack_Pio Jack Pio(2020)]</li><li>[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Andr%C3%A9_J_Guardia André J Guardia(2020)]</li><li>[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Pranav_Nair Pranav Nair(2020)]</li><li>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Faizan_Ahmad Faizan Ahmad(2015)]</li><li>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Bart_Grabowski Bart Grabowski(2015)]</li><li>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gabriel_Conners Gabriel Conners(2015)]</li><li>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Callie_Joncas Callie Joncas(2015)]</li~~&gt~~><li>[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Syeda_Fatima Syeda Fatima(2015)]</li></ul>

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