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== Introduction ==<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grand Valley State University (also known as GVSU), is a public, liberal arts university in Allendale, Michigan, United States. The university is located west of Grand Rapids, Michigan and offers classes at a second campus in downtown Grand Rapids--GVSU's Pew Campus. The Pew Campus houses programs in Engineering, Education, Nursing, Health Professions, and Business. A third campus in Holland, Michigan houses many of the online hybrid degree programs and two graduate programs--the Master’s of Business Administration and the Masters of Education. Three regional centers are located in Traverse City, Detroit, and Muskegon. You can take a virtual tour here[https://grandvalleystate.university-tour.com/virtual-tour/main-campus].</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grand Valley State University (also known as GVSU)In the semester Winter 2023, is a publicthere were 20, liberal arts university in Allendale197 students, Michiganwith 17, United States. The university is located west 240 of Grand Rapids, Michigan. them being undergraduate and offers classes at a second campus in downtown Grand Rapids--GVSU's Pew Campus. The Pew Campus houses programs in Engineering, Education, Nursing, Health Professions, and Business. A third campus in Hollandthe other 2, Michigan houses many of the online hybrid degree programs and two 957 students being graduate programs--the Master’s of Business Administration and the Masters of Education. Three satellite centers are located in Traverse City, Detroit, and Muskegonstudents.</span></span></span><ref>https://www.gvsu.edu/about.htm

https://reports.ia.gvsu.edu/snap/snap_20231.html</ref> <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Currently, in 2020, there are 23,350 students, with 20,405 In fall 2023 it welcomed a historic number of them being undergraduate and the other 2,945 students being graduate studentsincoming freshman. Grand Valley is still able to maintain its average class size of 27 26 students. There are 95 As of Fall 2023 it employs 1,215 faculty, it also had 100 undergraduate programs and 43 45 graduate programs. Grand Valley also offers over 400 student-led clubs and organizations.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"><font face="Arial">President Philomena Mantella<span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, affectionately known as Philly, is in her inaugural year as president at Grand Valley. She is the first woman to serve in this position. She has initialized a program known as the "Grand Huddle''Reach Higher 2025''" </span></span></font></span></span><ref>https://www.gvsu.edu/reachhigher2025/what-weve-learned-2.htm</ref> <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"><font face="Arial"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in order to encourage dialouge dialogue regarding Grand Valley's innovative future.</span></span></font></span></span>

<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within GVSU, the Frederik Meijer Honors College is housed. The Honors College has 87% of all undergraduate enrollment. In Fall 2019Winter 2023, there was an all-time high a total enrollment of 1,700 students, and enrollment has been capped. A multitude of majors are represented within the Honors College, but as of 2018 60% of the 215 students are in STEM majors. The focus on the Honors College curriculum is an alternate education that focuses on integration of topics and perspectives, utilizing the resources surrounding the GVSU community.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grand Valley houses a Technology Commercialization Office. </span></span></span><ref>https://www.gvsu.edu/tco/</ref> <span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This office functions similarly to a Technology Transfer Function. The office focuses on creating connections between faculty, students, and industry resources through scholarships and connection programs.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There has been a movement through the past several years to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship landscape on GVSU main campuses. This recent push has gained the momentum of numerous courses, clubs, workshops, competitions and other programs involving innovation and entrepreneurship. The infrastructure is slowly growing to empower a greater number of students with the skills and mindset of an entrepreneur and innovator. A new building was just opened, known as the Innovation Design Center for Engineering. With a continued focus on liberal arts, Grand Valley has been working on integrating subjects to allow for students to receive a more well-rounded education.</span></span></span><div><br/></div>== Campus Overview ==

'''Facilitating Creating Collaborative Industry-University-Industry CollaborationRelationships'''

<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5a40427dc85e5919-7fff-8b672b16-66b663a7-80d49bc9c3d97e9d694d3a3c"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grand Valley's Technology Commercialization Office is committed to creating opportunities to enable university-industry relationships and connecting student research with real-world applications. Within The TCO capitalizes on value created by scholarship at GVSU , and facilitates the surrounding communityexchange of ideas between students, faculty, many programs and partnerships have become available to promote a continued use of innovation industry professionals. Business needs, project management and entrepreneurship outside of expertise can all be provided at the classroomTCO. These programs include:</span></span></span> <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"br /><li><span style====GVSU Innovation and Research Division of IT===="font-sizeGrand Valley supports classroom level innovation through the Innovation and Research division of the IT department. This group focuses on technology that can better enable faculty as well as providing recources for students. Notably this group operates two spaces in the Mary Idema Pew Library:small;">Gary and Joyce DeWitt Exhibition Space and the Atomic Object Technology Showcase.  Additionally this group provides recources for faculty at GVSU through the XSTUDIO, Student Technology and Innovation Guild, and the Digital Creator Lab.<span id="docs-internal-guid-5a40427d-7fff-8b67-66b6-80d49bc9c3d9"ref><span style="background-colorhttps: transparent; font//www.gvsu.edu/it/vp/it-variantinnovation-numeric: normal; fontand-variantresearch-easteducation-asian: normal; verticalfutures-align: baseline; whitecollaboratory-space: preand-wrap;">Grand Angels29.htm</span></span></span></liref><li><span style= '''GVSU Reach Higher 2025''' "font-size:small;In Winter 2021, President Philomena V. Mantella charged an inclusive steering committee with leading the development of the Reach Higher 2025 strategic framework."><span id="docs-internal-guid-5a40427d-7fff-8b67-66b6-80d49bc9c3d9"ref><span style="background-colorhttps: transparent; font//www.gvsu.edu/reachhigher2025/steering-variantcommittee-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start Garden5.htm</spanref>Reach Higher 2025 is an innitiative to strive towards reaching the aspirations of GVSU's faculty, staff, students, and community.</spanref><https:/span></li><li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5a40427d-7fff-8b67-66b6-80d49bc9c3d9"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FlexLab<www.gvsu.edu/span><reachhigher2025/span></spanref>At the end of Winter 2023 the Reach Higher 2025 showcase was held.<br /li><li><span style==="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5a40427d-7fff-8b67-66b6-80d49bc9c3d9"><span style="backgroundletter-colorspacing: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;0.0px">5x5Co-op Program</span></span></span></li>====<li><span style="fontletter-sizespacing:small;0.0px"><span id="docsFor GVSU’s Engineering program, students must participate in a 3 semester co-internalop program. The last two years of an Engineer’s education, a student will alternate between co-guidop (usually at a company) and school every other semester. This allows students to apply what they have learned in real live situations and gain valuable industrial work experience. Typically students will get job offers after graduation with the company they co-5a40427d-7fff-8b67-66b6-80d49bc9c3d9"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapoped with. The program also has a two semester long undergraduate senior project. &nbsp;">Grand Ventures</span></span></span></li><li><span style="fontletter-sizespacing:small;0.0px"><span><span style="backgroundNot only does all this hands-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engineering Co-Ops<on experience cause students to develop work ethic/span></span>economics and project management skills, it offers a more active participation in innovation and entrepreneurship.</span></li></ul>

'''Engaging with Regional ====GVSU Study Abroad====GVSU supports over 4000+ study abroad programs and Local Economic Development Efforts'''students are actively encouraged to pursue these oppertuniteas.<ref>https://www.gvsu.edu/studyabroad/</ref>

<span style="fontletter-sizespacing:small;0.0px">'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-1459b6a4-7fff-de3a-4503-460e45b18bf9"big><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal&nbsp; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grand Valley works with the Muskegon Innovation Hub, Lend GR, and many small companies supplying funds or student interns to promote local economic development. Grand Valley has also recently opened the Innovation Design Center for Engineering.</span></spanbig>'''</span>

== <span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Entrepreneurship and Innovation</span> ==

==== <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a3a366bc-7fff-067d-a3d0-5abf7cf4623f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Community:</span></span></span> ====

==== <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a3a366bc-7fff-067d-a3d0-5abf7cf4623f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Campus:</span></span></span> ====

==== <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a3a366bc-7fff-067d-a3d0-5abf7cf4623f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Resources:</span></span></span> ====

<li><span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a3a366bc-7fff-067d-a3d0-5abf7cf4623f"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social Innovation Zone Lab (GVSU)</span></span></span></li>

*AFN 381 - Design Thinking in Applied Food and Nutrition*ART 153 - Making and Meaning*BUS 501 - Self Management for Leaders*EGR 185 - First-Year Engineering Design*EGR 301 - Analytical Tools for Product Design*EGR 401 - Advanced Product Design*EGR 610 - Engineering Design*EGR 614 - Opportunity Identification for Medical Devices*ENT 150/151 - Entrepreneurial Quest/New Venture Feasibility*ENT 350/351 - Entrepreneurial Business Plan and Project*HNR 151-154 - Design Thinking for Social Product Innovation*INT 323 -  Design Thinking to Meet Real World Needs*MKT 369 - Creativity in Marketing Innovation <br /> == <span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Co-op Program&nbsp;Landscape Canvas/Student Projects</span> == '''2022-2023 Change Story Video:'''

<span style="letter-spacing[https: 0//www.0px">For GVSU’s Engineering program, students must participate in a 3 semester co-op programyoutube. The last two years of an Engineer’s education, com/watch?v=BHX8tFtA62Y Creating a student will alternate between co-op (usually Conference for Projects and Prototypes at a company) and school every other semester. This allows students to apply what they have learned in real live situations and gain valuable industrial work experience. Typically students will get job offers after graduation with the company they co-oped with. The program also has a two semester long undergraduate senior project. &nbsp;</span>Grand Valley State University]

<span style="letter'''2022-spacing2023 Landscape Canvas: 0.0px">Not only does all this hands-on experience cause students to develop work ethic/economics and project management skills, it offers a more active participation in innovation and entrepreneurship.</span>'''

== <span style="letter-spacinghttps: 0//docs.0px">Landscape Canvasgoogle.com/spreadsheets/d/Student Projects<1pkisAXp95LhEEo5AFgd8cH4nMFC31tPcDjAWyLUpk9A/span> =edit?usp=sharing

&nbsp;[https://youtu.be/nxgBbIWtSKw https://youtu.be/nxgBbIWtSKw]

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15KIPGtVn7IySpo_vHYf3OGqCJBHJHCNgzpmn7NG3sV0/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15KIPGtVn7IySpo_vHYf3OGqCJBHJHCNgzpmn7NG3sV0/edit?usp=sharing]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M_QhCuMNBH7qA0GmT8L3TvJ8zOp3ZWmIdC1NIrhLTrA/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M_QhCuMNBH7qA0GmT8L3TvJ8zOp3ZWmIdC1NIrhLTrA/edit#gid=0]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M_QhCuMNBH7qA0GmT8L3TvJ8zOp3ZWmIdC1NIrhLTrA/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M_QhCuMNBH7qA0GmT8L3TvJ8zOp3ZWmIdC1NIrhLTrA/edit?usp=sharing]&nbsp;

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sQ4wD4ghzsnsTyyW9_o8f_k0xipbBCe3U8L3b6-cglc/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sQ4wD4ghzsnsTyyW9_o8f_k0xipbBCe3U8L3b6-cglc/edit?usp=sharing]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is][Pitch Video] '''2015-2016 Landscape Canvas:'''

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fj98yWd--ZhvGRkGzg82-qwvVym08NI4qFcGUy8iPIk/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fj98yWd--ZhvGRkGzg82-qwvVym08NI4qFcGUy8iPIk/edit?usp=sharing]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SG3a5OGLv0bJR5sxy3yft3LZ0xHrqXLbgInGc5rC6Ss/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SG3a5OGLv0bJR5sxy3yft3LZ0xHrqXLbgInGc5rC6Ss/edit?usp=sharing]

[http://youtu.be/RH7qA0P-_JI http://youtu.be/RH7qA0P-_JI]

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