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== <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size:large"><span style="font13.999999999999998pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-familycolor:georgia,seriftransparent;">'''About Virginia Tech'''</span></span> ==

<span style="font-size:11ptsmall; "><span style="font-family:'Open Sans'arial,helvetica,sans-serif; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-aae9bcdf-11fc-bb87-15da-99c4b4bbdc88"><span style="color:#000000rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; fontvariant-styleligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; textvertical-decorationalign:nonebaseline; verticalwhite-alignspace:baselinepre-wrap;">Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly known as </span>[http://www.vt.edu / <span style="font-size:11pt12pt; font-family:&#039;Open SansTimes New Roman&#039;; color:#1155ccrgb(17, 85, 204); backgroundfont-variant-colorligatures:transparentnormal; font-weight:400; fontvariant-east-styleasian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Virginia Tech</span>]<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; fontvariant-styleligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; textvertical-decorationalign:nonebaseline; verticalwhite-alignspace:baselinepre-wrap;">, was established in 1872 in Blacksburg, VA. Virginia Tech is a public, land-grant university built around the campus motto, Ut Prosim, "That I May Serve." The campus mascot is the HokieBird who easily blends into the sea of maroon and orange provided by 33,000 Hokies, in 250 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. &nbsp;The university fulfills its land-grant mission of learning, discovery, and engagement, transforming knowledge to practice through technological leadership and by fueling economic growth and job creation locally, regionally, and across Virginia. VT is ranked 44th in university research in the United States.As of September, 2020 it has been recognized as the 13th best Engineering school in the United States.</span></span></span></span>

== <span style="font-size:largesmall;"><span style="font-family:georgiaarial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-aae9bcdf-11fc-bb87-15da-99c4b4bbdc88"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Promoting student innovation <span style="color:black">Here at Virginia Tech, the practice and promotion of entrepreneurship is on the rise. In parts of the university, such as the College of Business and specifically the recently founded APEX center for Entrepreneurship, there is strong evidence for this. APEX hosts many events and workshops, such as the New Venture Builder workshops, which seek to connect students across disciplines to work on startups and ideas. For the 2019-2020 fiscal year, Apex has identified that there were more than 90 active startup companies founded by VirginiaTech students. However, on the other side of the spectrum, there are departments at the university that have not integrated a positive I&E culture. Classes that teach entrepreneurship'''are typically exclusive to business majors unless professor permission is given. Clubs such as the Entrepreneurship Club and the Innovate Living Learning community are open to anyone and everyone, but the majority of advertising and promotion for the clubs are done to business students.</span></span></span></span></span> ==

<span style="font-size:11ptsmall; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Virginia Tech’s growing innovation ecosystem &nbsp;includes interdisciplinary collaboration between institutes and department across the university to promote innovation and entrepreneurship among students. One example is the partnership between the </span>[http://www.icat.vt.edu <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Institute for Creativityarial, Artshelvetica, and Technology</span>]&nbsp;<span style="fontsans-size:11ptserif; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">with the </span>[http://www.pamplin.vt.edu <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baselineblack"></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:In summary, there are plenty of opportunities for I&#039;Open SansE at Virginia Tech, but not many Virginia Tech students are aware of them. There is no unified ideology that I&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Pamplin College E is beneficial to all fields. Some departments agree, and some disagree. Part of Business</span>]<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">, which aims our goal is to expand unify the faculty and refine efforts to prepare students for entrepreneurial opportunities. In 2016, under the university has announced idea that multidisciplinary I&E is beneficial to the formation growth of a the school.</span>[https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2016/09/da-cid.html <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Creativity and Innovation District</span>]<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">, &nbsp;that will guide future thinking, repurpose assets, and create physical space that is intended to leverage creative and entrepreneurial activities and spark interdisciplinary innovations.</span>

==<span id="docs-internal-guid-aae9bcdf-11fc-bb87-15da-99c4b4bbdc88"><span style="font-size:11pt13.999999999999998pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000Georgia; background-color:transparent; font-weightvariant-ligatures:400normal; font-stylevariant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; textvertical-decorationalign:nonebaseline; verticalwhite-alignspace:baselinepre-wrap">Here at Virginia Tech, Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship is a spectrum. In parts of the university, such as the College of Business, there is a strong pull for this, but on the other side of the spectrum, there are departments of the university that have not integrated a positive I&E culture. There are many clubs, classes, and opportunities that utilize I&E and promote growth in that field. However, the classes that encourage I&E are typically exclusive to business majors unless professor permission is given. The clubs are open to anyone and everyone, but the majority of advertising and promotion for the clubs are done to business students. There are plenty of out of class opportunities for I&E, but not many Virginia Tech students are aware of them. There is no unified ideology that I&E is beneficial to all fields. Some departments agree, and some disagree. Part of our goal is to unify the faculty and students under the idea that multidisciplinary I&E is beneficial to the growth of the school.</span></span>==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span id= "docs-internal-guid-aae9bcdf-11fc-bb87-15da-99c4b4bbdc88"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Virginia Tech encourages innovation and entrepreneurship for faculty members in several ways. The </span>[https://www.apex.vt.edu/ <span style="font-size:large12pt; font-family: &#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apex Systems Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span>]&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">works closely with the Virginia Tech faculty to help encourage entrepreneurship and innovation campus wide. &nbsp;The </span>[https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2016/03/030716-research-catalyst.html <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Catalyst Program</span>]&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">helps faculty members (as well as also students and &nbsp;alumni) to launch new startups or accelerate existing ventures. Virginia Tech also established a technology commercialization training program for faculty members and hosts a special outreach program, including attendance at industry market conferences, in areas ripe for increasing Virginia Tech inventions, through the </span>[http://www.vtip.org/ <span style="font-size:large12pt; font-family: &#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.</span>]&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(VTIP)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. &nbsp;Regarding funding opportunities, the </span>[https://osp.vt.edu/ <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family:georgia&#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color: rgb(17, 85,serif204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Office of Sponsored Programs</span>]&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Encouraging provides a comprehensive array of support services for faculty as they pursue and manage external funding projects in innovation and entrepreneurship'''. Aiming to enable faculty members to respond quickly to market needs requiring technical expertise, Virginia Tech developed the </span>[http://www.tap.vt.edu/ <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Technical Assistance Program</span>]&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(TAP), a consulting activity intended to strengthen university and faculty relationships with external organizations.</span></span><br/span></span> ==

<span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-size:large"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">'''<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline" id="docs-internal-guid-7ddf7fa9aae9bcdf-a63211fc-75e0bb87-0c4915da-1140d5d6316e99c4b4bbdc88">Virginia Tech encourages innovation and entrepreneurship for faculty members in several ways. &nbsp;The </span>[http://www.apexcie.vt.edu <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Apex Systems Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span>]&nbsp;<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">works closely with the Virginia Tech faculty to help encourage entrepreneurship and innovation campus wide13. &nbsp;The </span>[https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2016/03/030716-research-catalyst.html <span style="font-size:11pt999999999999998pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normalGeorgia; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Catalyst Program</span>]&nbsp;<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-styleligatures:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; verticaleast-align:baseline">helps faculty members (as well as also students and &nbsp;alumni) to launch new startups or accelerate existing ventures. Virginia Tech also established a technology commercialization training program for faculty members and hosts a special outreach program, including attendance at industry market conferences, in areas ripe for increasing Virginia Tech inventions, through the </span>[http://www.vtip.org/ <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-styleasian:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.</span>]<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-styleposition:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">(VTIP)</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; fontwhite-variantspace:normal; textpre-decoration:none; vertical-align:baselinewrap">. &nbsp;Regarding funding opportunities, Actively supporting the university technology transfer function</span>[https://osp.vt.edu/ <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Office of Sponsored Programs</span>]&nbsp;<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">provides a comprehensive array of support services for faculty as they pursue and manage external funding projects in innovation and entrepreneurship. Aiming to enable faculty members to respond quickly to market needs requiring technical expertise, Virginia Tech developed the </span>[http://www.tap.vt.edu <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Technical Assistance Program</span>]&nbsp;<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">(TAP), a consulting activity intended to strengthen university and faculty relationships with external organizations.</span>'''</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-aae9bcdf-11fc-bb87-15da-99c4b4bbdc88"><span style= "color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The <br/span>[http://www.vtcrc.com/ <span style="font-size:large12pt; font-family: &#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center</span>]&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">advances the technology transfer mission through a program called </span>[http://www.vtknowledgeworks.com/ <span style="font-size:large12pt; font-family: &#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VT KnowledgeWorks</span>]&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that helps create companies based on VT-developed technology licensed by </span>[http://www.vtip.org/ <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family:georgia&#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color: rgb(17,serif85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>]<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Actively supporting (VTIP). This institution is in charge of commercialize VT Inventions, including technology evaluation, protection, licensing and monitor licensees for success. The tech transfer process at VIIP includes identifying new technologies, protecting technologies through patents and copyrights, forming development and commercialization strategies (such as marketing and licensing to existing private sector companies or creating new start-up companies based on the university technology transfer function'''). </span>[http://www.vtknowledgeworks.com/ <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VT KnowledgeWorks</span>]&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">provides business formation and growth support services, engaging an extensive network of consultants, mentors, early-stage investors, and professional service providers to help emerging and expanding enterprises maximize opportunities and minimize risks.</span></span></span><br/span> ==

<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The </span>[http://www.vtcrc.com =<span styleid="fontdocs-size:11pt; fontinternal-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; backgroundguid-color:transparent; fontaae9bcdf-weight:400; font11fc-style:normal; fontbb87-variant:normal; text15da-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline99c4b4bbdc88">Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center</span>]&nbsp;<span style="font-size:11pt13.999999999999998pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normalGeorgia; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">advances the technology transfer mission through a program called </span>[http://www.vtknowledgeworks.com/ <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-styleligatures:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; verticaleast-align:baseline">VT KnowledgeWorks</span> ]<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-styleasian:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">that helps create companies based on VT-developed technology licensed by </span>[http://www.vtip.org/ <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-styleposition:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.</span> ]&nbsp;<span style="fontwhite-sizespace:11pt; fontpre-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baselinewrap">(VTIP). This institution is in charge of commercialize VT Inventions, including technology evaluation, protection, licensing and monitor licensees for success. The tech transfer process at VIIP includes identifying new technologies, protecting technologies through patents and copyrights, forming development and commercialization strategies (such as marketing and licensing to existing private sector companies or creating new startFacilitating University-up companies based on the technology).&nbsp; Industry Collaboration</span>[http://www.vtknowledgeworks.com/ <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">VT KnowledgeWorks</span>]&nbsp;<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">provides business formation and growth support services, engaging an extensive network of consultants, mentors, early-stage investors, and professional service providers to help emerging and expanding enterprises maximize opportunities and minimize risks.</span>=

<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id= "docs-internal-guid-aae9bcdf-11fc-bb87-15da-99c4b4bbdc88"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Virginia Tech’s efforts to solve society’s problems, improve quality of life, and keep the United States globally competitive require the speedy transfer of ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace (<br/span>[https://www.research.vt.edu/ <span style="font-size:large12pt; font-family: &#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VT Research and Innovation</span>]<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-sizevariant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:largepre-wrap;">). </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-familyvariant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:georgiapre-wrap;">Working with business and industry is an essential characteristic of the Virginia Tech culture, and it is in the DNA of the university’s students and its 2,500 teaching and research faculty members, many of whom work to patent discoveries, start companies,serif"and provide practical knowledge to the world.</span>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</span></span></span> ==

<span style="font-size:11ptsmall; "><span style="font-family:'Open Sans'arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color:#000000; background"><span id="docs-internal-guid-aae9bcdf-11fc-bb87-15da-99c4b4bbdc88"><span style="color:transparentrgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400; fontvariant-styleligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; textvertical-decorationalign:nonebaseline; verticalwhite-alignspace:baselinepre-wrap;">Virginia Tech’s efforts Blacksburg is home to solve society’s problems, improve quality of life, and keep the United States globally competitive require the speedy transfer of ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace (</span>[httpshttp://www.research.vtvtcrc.educom/ <span style="font-size:11pt12pt; font-family:&#039;Open SansTimes New Roman&#039;; color:#1155ccrgb(17, 85, 204); backgroundfont-colorweight:transparent700; font-weightvariant-ligatures:400normal; font-stylevariant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VT Virginia Tech Corporate Research and InnovationCenter (CRC)</span>]<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#666666; background-color:transparentrgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400; fontvariant-styleligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">) </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; fontwhite-stylespace:normal; fontpre-variant:normalwrap; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">&nbsp;Working , home to nearly 200 research, technology, and support companies employing over 3,000 employees. The CRC works closely with business the university to advance the research, educational, and industry is an essential characteristic technology transfer missions of the Virginia Tech culture, . The CRC facilitates relationships between companies and the university to advance research. The CRC also connects companies with faculty and it is in student projects to be conducted at the DNA research park. They also facilitate a number of the university’s programs (intellectual property support, physical research space, research-related employment for students and its 2,500 teaching and research faculty members, many of whom work to patent discoveries, start companiesand surrounding area, supports Strategic Services and university outreach initiatives) as an intermediary between the university and provide practical knowledge to the worldsurrounding community.</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:11ptsmall; "><span style="font-family:'Open Sans'arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color:#000000; background"><span id="docs-internal-guid-aae9bcdf-11fc-bb87-15da-99c4b4bbdc88"><span style="color:transparentrgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400; fontvariant-styleligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; textvertical-decorationalign:nonebaseline; verticalwhite-alignspace:baselinepre-wrap;">Blacksburg Virginia Tech also maintains a presence in Northern Virginia and participates in numerous collaborations between the university and all levels (organizational, local, state, and federal) of government. This 2020 Virginia Tech opened [https://vt.edu/innovationcampus/index.html Innovation Campus], located in the Alexandria portion of National Landing near Potomac Yard, about two miles from Amazon's new location in Arlington. One program is home to the&nbsp;</span>[http://www.vtcrcdcicorps.comorg/ <span style="font-size:11pt12pt; font-family:&#039;Open SansTimes New Roman&#039;; color:#1155ccrgb(17, 85, 204); backgroundfont-colorweight:transparent700; font-weightvariant-ligatures:400normal; font-stylevariant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center (CRC)DC I-Corps</span>]<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparentrgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight:400; fontvariant-styleligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; textvertical-decorationalign:nonebaseline; verticalwhite-alignspace:baselinepre-wrap;">, home to nearly 200 research, technology, and support companies employing over 3,000 employeessponsored by the National Science Foundation. The CRC works closely with program is a partnership between the university to advance the researchUniversity of Maryland, George Washington University, educationalJohns Hopkins University, and technology transfer missions of Virginia Tech. The CRC facilitates relationships between companies and the university to advance research. The CRC also DC I-Corps connects companies technology entrepreneurs with faculty participants, and student projects to be conducted at the research park. They also facilitate helps participants build business models for their technology innovations in a number of programs (intellectual property support, physical research space, research-related employment for students, faculty, and surrounding area, supports Strategic Services and university outreach initiatives) collaborative environment with successful entrepreneurs as an intermediary between the university and the surrounding communityinstructors.</span></span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:11ptsmall; "><span style="font-family:'Open Sans'arial,helvetica,sans-serif; "><span id="docs-internal-guid-aae9bcdf-11fc-bb87-15da-99c4b4bbdc88"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span>[https://www.apex.vt.edu/ <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &#039;Times New Roman&#000000039;; background-color:transparentrgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight:400700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-stylevariant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; text-decoration:noneunderline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Virginia Tech also maintains a presence in Northern Virginia Apex Systems Center for Innovation and participates in numerous collaborations between the university and all levels Entrepreneurship</span>]&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(organizational0, local0, state, and federal0) of government. One program ; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a partnership between theuniversity’s </span>[http://www.dcicorpspamplin.orgvt.edu/ <span style="font-size:11pt12pt; font-family:&#039;Open SansTimes New Roman&#039;; color:#1155ccrgb(17, 85, 204); backgroundfont-colorweight:transparent700; font-weightvariant-ligatures:400normal; font-stylevariant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DC IPamplin College of Business</span>]&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-Corpswrap;">and Apex Systems. Apex Systems is an IT staffing and services company founded by four Virginia Tech alumni who have committed $5 million to advancing student entrepreneurial empowerment. The CIE includes a wide variety of activities to involve all students, regardless of major program. These include </span>][http://www.vteclub.org/ <span style="font-size:11pt12pt; font-family:'Open Sans'&#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color:#000000rgb(17, 85, 204); backgroundfont-colorweight:transparent700; font-weightvariant-ligatures:400normal; font-stylevariant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-position:normal; text-decoration:noneunderline; vertical-align:baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneur Club</span>]<span style="color: rgb(0, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The program is a partnership between the University of Maryland0, George Washington University0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Johns Hopkins University, and Virginia Tech. DC I-Corps connects technology entrepreneurs with participantsthe Innovate Living Learning Community, and helps participants build business models many funding sources for their technology innovations students to engage in a collaborative environment with successful entrepreneurs as the instructorsinnovation & entrepreneurship.</span></span></span></span>

==<span styleid="font-size:11pt; fontdocs-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; backgroundinternal-color:transparent; fontguid-weight:400; fontaae9bcdf-style:normal; font11fc-variant:normal; textbb87-decoration:none; vertical15da-align:baseline99c4b4bbdc88">The </span>[http://www.apexcie.vt.edu <span style="font-size:11pt13.999999999999998pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparentGeorgia; font-weight:400; fontvariant-styleligatures:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Apex Systems Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE)</span>]<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; fonteast-styleasian:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">is a partnership between the university’s </span>[http://www.pamplin.vt.edu <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variantposition:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Pamplin College of Business</span>]&nbsp;<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; textwhite-decorationspace:none; verticalpre-align:baselinewrap">Engaging with regional and Apex Systems. Apex Systems is an IT staffing and services company founded by four Virginia Tech alumni who have committed $5 million to advancing student entrepreneurial empowerment. The CIE includes a wide variety of activities to involve all students, regardless of major program. These include&nbsp;local development efforts</span>[http://www.vteclub.org/ <span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:&#039;Open Sans&#039;; color:#1155cc; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Entrepreneur Club</span>]<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:'Open Sans'; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">, the Innovate Living Learning Community, and many funding sources for students to engage in innovation & entrepreneurship.</span>=

<span style="font-size:small;"><span style= "font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/span id="docs-internal-guid-aae9bcdf-11fc-bb87-15da-99c4b4bbdc88"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-sizevariant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:largepre-wrap;">At Virginia Tech, community engagement is crucial to us. We have an </span>[https://econdev.vt.edu/About.html <span style="font-size:large12pt; font-family: &#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Office of Economic Development</span>]&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-familyvariant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:georgia,serifpre-wrap;">'''Engaging that focuses on just that. We partner with business and communities with regional on-campus and local resources. One of the main studies that has garnered much interest was studying and analyzing the impact of the prominent Virginia Tech football team plays on the local economy. Our university football team helps provide 300 local development jobs and $69 million to the community. Our school is passionate about efforts'''to improve the area we live in and are striving to discover more ways to do so.</span></span></span></span> ==

==<span style="font-size:11ptmedium"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-familyvariant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Related Links</span></span></span></span>== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_Student_Priorities Virginia Tech Student Priorities] Supporting Experiential Learning at Virginia Tech:&nbsp;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRXTFV5-Upo  <span style="font-size:larger">''Open Sans'Fall 2022 Candidates'''&nbsp; color</span> [[Fellow:Cameron Savage|<big>Cameron Savage</big>]] [[Fellow:Lane Robertson|Lane Robertson]] [[Fellow:Shiva Ghasemi|Shiva Ghasemi]]  <span style="font-size:#000000larger">'''Fall 2020 Candidates'''&nbsp; background</span> [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Pierina_Galvez <span style="font-colorsize:larger">Pierina Galvez</span>] [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Sai_Gurrapu <span style="font-size:larger">Sai Gurrapu</span>] [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Grace_Hutchinson <span style="font-size:larger">Grace Hutchinson</span>] [https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Blake_Warner <span style="font-size:transparent; larger">Blake Warner</span>]  <span style="font-weightsize:400larger">'''Fall 2019 Candidates'''&nbsp; </span> [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Alisha_Bajaj <span style="font-size:larger">Alisha Bajaj</span>] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Will_Makowski <span style="font-size:normallarger; "><span style="font-variantfamily:normalarial,helvetica,sans-serif; text">Will Makowski</span></span>] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Isabela_Nunez_Nova <span style="font-decorationsize:nonelarger">Isabela Nunez&nbsp; vertical</span><span style="font-alignsize:baselinelarger" id>Nova</span>] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Michael_Rauco <span style="docsfont-internalsize:larger;">Michael Rauco</span>] <br /><span style="font-guidsize:larger">'''Fall 2018'''</span> [[Connor Mulligan|<span style="font-7ddf7fa9family:arial,helvetica,sans-a636serif"><span style="font-5a2dsize:larger">Connor Mulligan</span></span>]] [[Shafe Ahmed|<span style="font-4798family:arial,helvetica,sans-4305b3fee79bserif">At Virginia Tech<span style="font-size:larger">Shafe Ahmed</span></span>]] [[TJ Cosby|<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica, community engagement is crucial to us. We have an sans-serif"><span style="font-size:larger">TJ Cosby</span></span>]] [[httpsSydney Miller|<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:larger">Sydney Miller</span></span>]] <br /econdev.vt.edu><span style="font-size:larger">'''Fall 2017'''</About.html span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11ptlarger"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-familyvariant-ligatures:&#039normal;Open Sans&#039font-variant-east-asian: normal;vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jarrodd_Davis Jarrodd Davis]</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:larger"><span><span style="color:#003399rgb(0, 0, 0); backgroundfont-colorvariant-ligatures:transparentnormal; font-weightvariant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align:400baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Danielle_jeffers Danielle Jeffers]</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:normallarger"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures:normal; textfont-variant-decorationeast-asian:underlinenormal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Office of Economic Development[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Najla_Mouchrek Najla Mouchrek]</span></span></span></span> ] <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11ptlarger"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-familyvariant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian:'Open Sans'normal; colorvertical-align:#000000baseline; backgroundwhite-space: pre-wrap">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sunny_Murthy Sunny Murthy]</span></span></span></span> <span><span style="font-colorsize:transparent12pt; font-weightfamily:400'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-stylevariant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; textfont-variant-decorationposition:nonenormal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">that focuses on just that. We partner with business and communities with on-campus and local resources. One of the main studies that has garnered much interest was studying and analyzing the impact of the prominent Virginia Tech football team plays on the local economy. Our university football team helps provide 300 local jobs and $69 million to the community. Our school is passionate about efforts to improve the area we live in and are striving to discover more ways to do so.(Source: several VT websites)</span></span> [[Category:Universities]][[Category:Schools]][[Category:Virginia_Tech]]{{CatTree|Virginia_Tech}}