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*<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Campus-wide</span></div>**<div><small>Student Industry Fellows Program</small></div>**<div><span style="font-size:smaller;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Innovation Bootcamp through Innovation Gateway</font></span></div>**<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">New Materials Innovation Center</span></div>**<div><span style="font-size: smaller;">Student Center for Entrepreneurship (Studio 225)</span><br /></div>**<div><span style="font-size: smaller;">UGA Idea Accelerator Program</span><br /><small>Experiential Learning <span style="font-size: smaller;">&nbsp;</span></small><br /> <br /> </div>*Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication*New Media Institute*TedxUGA<div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Lamar Dodd School of Art & Design</span></span></div>**<div><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8169e881-2c0a-ff8e-26ed-7ff97f973340"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Million Dollar Class</span></span></span></span><br /></div>**<div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: smaller;">Arts Careers and Entrepreneurship Day </span><br /></div>**<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: smaller; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Arts Career Entrepreneurship Space (ACES)</span></div>*<div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">Terry College of Business</span></div>**<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">Society of EntrepeneursEntrepreneurs</span></div>**<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">UGA's Next Top Entrepreneur</span> </div>UGA Launch Pad**<div><span style="font-size:smaller;">UGA Idea Accelerator Program</span></div>**<div><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Entrepreneurship and New Venture Formation</span></span></div>**<div><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">Innovative Business Projects</span></span></div>**<div><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">Innovation Management</span></span></div>**<div><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">Interdisciplinary certificate in Entrepreneurship</span></span></div>**<div><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">MBA with a Concentration in Entrepreneurship</span></span></div>**<div><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">Entrepreneurship CoursesCertificate</span></span><br /></div>**<div><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">Entrepreneurs and Innovation Summit</span></span><br />Music Business Certificate <br /div>*<divbr /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">​</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">'''College of Engineering'''</span> </div>

**<div><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Senior Design</span></span></span><br /></div>**<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: smaller; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation and Discovery Challenge Clusters</span><br /div>*<div>'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">​</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;">College of Family & Consumer Sciences</span>''' - Social Entrepreneurship <br /> '''College of Agriculture & Environmental Science''' - UGA Fabricate </div>'''Non-UGA Resources'''**<div><span style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8169e881-2c0a-ff8e-26ed-7ff97f973340"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Interdisciplinary Certificate in EntrepreneurshipFour Athens</span></span></span></span></div>**<divspan style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span styleid="verticaldocs-align: baseline; whiteinternal-space: preguid-wrap; background8169e881-color: transparent;">Four Athens (Non2c0a-UGA resources)</span></span></span></div>*<div><span style="fontff8e-family:arial,helvetica,sans26ed-serif;7ff97f973340"><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Athens Hatch (Non-UGA resources)</span></span></span></divspan>**<divspan style="font-size:smaller;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><spanid="docs-internal-guid-8169e881-2c0a-ff8e-26ed-7ff97f973340"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Hackyard Athens (Non-UGA resources)</span></span></span></divspan>

<li>'''Purpose''': These organizations and programs at the University of Georgia are dedicated to advancing research, fostering innovation, and translating academic expertise into real-world applications and economic growth.</li><li>'''Proponents''':</li><li><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''The Georgia BioBusiness Center (GBBC) - ''': The BioBusiness Center works with startups based upon UGA developed research and recruited companies with research and technology ties to the University of Georgia.</span></li><li>'''The Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) - ''': The Georgia Research Alliance expands research and commercialization capacity in Georgia’s universities to launch new companies, create high-value jobs and transform lives.</li><li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">'''The Office of Research - ''': The office designed the Faculty Innovation Fellows Program to support faculty who want to engage in commercialization and product development.</span></li><li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">'''The College of Education''': The College of Education - works directly with the Office of Information Technology to give faculty the opportunity to enhance their teaching skills through the Innovation in Teaching Technology (ITT) Faculty Academy.</span> </li><li>'''UGA Research Foundation (UGARF) - ''': This foundation is responsible for managing intellectual property, technology transfer, and commercialization of research discoveries made by UGA faculty and staff. They work with faculty to protect and license their innovations and innovations.

<li>'''Innovation Gateway''': The Innovation Gateway - facilitates the transfer of technologies developed at the university into the marketplace. They offer support in patenting, licensing, and forming startup companies based on UGA research.

<li>'''The Georgia BioBusiness Center (GBBC) - ''': The Georgia BioBusiness Center works with startups based upon UGA developed research and recruited companies with research and technology ties to the University of Georgia.</li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-8169e881-2c0a-ff8e-26ed-7ff97f973340"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">'''The Technology Commercialization Office (TCO) - :''' This office focuses on commercialization of new research and products. It also supports the Innovation Gateway , which serves the UGA community by connecting industry with university expertise and inventions for the public good, promoting economic development and increasing research visibility.</span></span></li><li><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">'''The Technology Commercialization Office (TCO) - :''' helps promote UGA's research mission, both domestically and internationally, licensing, outreach and a robust internship program.</span></li><li><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span>'''The University of Georgia Research Foundation (UGARF) administers :''' This foundation is responsible for administering all intellectual property at The University of Georgia. The functions include: evaluating technology disclosures for patentability and commercial potential, intellectual property prosecution and maintenance (patents, trademarks, plant variety protection certificates, copyrights, or trademarks) on university technology, technology marketing and partnering, manage compliance issues for licensed technology company formation and identification of early-stage funding opportunities, receiving and distributing license income, faculty education on startup, patenting and technology commercialization processes.</li>

<li><span style="font-size:small;">'''UGA Office of Research - ''': The Office of Research encourages and supports innovative interdisciplinary research, scholarship and creative activities. Industry members can sponsor research, engage start ups, access research services, and license technologies and digital images.&nbsp;</span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;">'''UGA Office of Economic Development -&nbsp;''': The mission of the Office of Economic Development is to extend the resources of the university to help Georgia and beyond prosper, working every day to improve the quality of life for Georgians. Based in Atlanta, the office serves businesses and communities throughout the state. Established in 2013, the office enhances the university's role in industry collaborations.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;">'''Downtown Connector - ''': UGA Office of Economic Development link to reach potential industry partners in the area.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;">'''Innovation Gateway - ''': Innovation Gateway fosters a network of industry, economic development, and university partners, amplyifying amplifying its ability to develop new products and companies based on the university resarch. Since 2015, new invention disclosures and licesning licensing revenues are up 30 percent, startup projects have increased 40 percent, and more than 20 startup companies have been launched.&nbsp;</span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;">'''Food Product Innovation & Commercialization Center -&nbsp; ''': Created by the Department of Food Science and Technology in the College of Agriiculurual Agricultural and Evironmental Environmental Sciences, the center forms a strategic alliance with external marketing, technology, and engineering groups to help food companies take a new product from conception, tPrhrough through consumer research, formulation, prototyping, shelf-life analysis, and market launch.</span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;">'''New Materials Innovation Center - ''': With support from the U.S. Department of Commerce, UGA has created a center which fulfills the local and regional need for a large-scale testing facility for new materials being developed by entrepreneurs, startups, and researchers.&nbsp;</span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Corporate Connect -''':</span></font>Corporate Connect is a program to connects UGA Student Veterans with companies and organizations that desire to hire veterans.&nbsp;</span></li>

<li>'''Purpose'''ul style="margin-top: UGA is recognized as a national leader in university outreach. Faculty, staff, students, and alumni from all UGA schools and colleges contribute to Georgia's short0pt;margin- and long-term prosperity through various outreach activities from the booming city of Atlanta to rural areas as well.</libottom:0pt;"><li>'''ProponentsPrograms''':