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<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Michigan Technological University is a world class research university looking to further encourage the startup culture on campus. Many of the resources available to students come from other students in the form of events and clubs. This wiki page will serve as a running record of the resources available to students on the Michigan Tech campus. &nbsp;</span></span></span>

<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Michigan Tech offers students a growing variety of resources to student&nbsp;entrepreneurs. These opportunities, while many are the same as past years, are being reorganized and streamlined under the Husky Innovate innitiative, to give a linear path of moving a new idea into a real startup. While some of them are easy to come by, others are more challenging for students to find. A few of the top resources are listed below:&nbsp;</span></span></span>

*<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''New Venture Competition:''' The New Venture Competition is a joint partnership between Michigan Tech and Central Michigan University where startups get business plan feedback, mentorship, and an opportunity to win over $30,000 for their new idea.&nbsp;</span></span></span>

*<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">'''Accelerate Michigan:&nbsp;'''Accelerate Michigan is a pitch competition held annually in the fall.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">It has a branch for students where 27 teams are selected as semi-finalists to compete at the Cobo Center in Detroit for a chance at $20,000.</span></span></span>

*<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Winter WonderHack'''</span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">: TechHacks is an event put on by the ACM chapter at Michigan Tech where students are invited to hack on new projects for 24-36 hours. ACM also funds and supports trips to MHacks and Illinois Hacks where students are encouraged to hack on new projects.</span>

<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Faculty at Michigan Tech are being encouraged (more and more) to take their research to market. With classes like Technology Commercialization&nbsp;faculty are being given the tools to take their ideas to market. A few resources available to faculty are:&nbsp;</span></span></span>

*<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Technology Commercialization Department: '''Michigan&nbsp;Tech has an entire department (led by Jim Baker) devoted to helping faculty and graduate students move their research from the lab to a commercially available product.&nbsp;</span></span></span>

<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">While it can sometimes be helpful to break the resources available into faculty and students, there are many resources available to all entrepreneurial minded individuals around Michigan Tech. A few of them are highlighted below:&nbsp;</span></span></span>

*<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">'''Michigan Tech I-Corps:&nbsp;'''The Michigan Tech I-Corps&nbsp;program gives a four-week program on customer discover and lean startup a la Steve Blank. The program is designed to introduce startups and researchers looking to commercialize their work on how to provide value for their discovered customer segments.</span></span></span>

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<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Michigan Tech is known for the reasearch that is done on and around campus. There are 20 researsch centers that are connected with the university.</span></span></span>

<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center;">Advanced Power Systems Research Center (APSRC), Advanced Sustainable Iron and Steel Center (ASISC),Biotechnology Research Center (BRC), Center for Agile and Interconnected Microgrids (AIM), Center for Computer Systems Research (CCSR), Center for Environmentally Benign Functional Materials (CEBFM), Center for Water and Society (CWS), Computational Science and Engineering Research Institute (CSERI), Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Institute (EPSSI), Ecosystem Science Center (ESC), Great Lakes Research Center (GLRC), Institute of Materials Processing (IMP), Keweenaw Research Center (KRC), Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI), Michigan Tech Transportation Institute (MTTI), Multi-Scale Technologies Institute (MuSTI), Pre-College Innovative Outreach Institute (PIOI), &nbsp;and Sustainable Futures Institute (SFI)</span></span></span></span>

<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Michigan Tech trains and equips some of the best students in the country whether it is business and economics, engineering, forest resources and environmental sciences, sciences and arts, or technology. The Houghton Smart Zone and associated resources provide an excellent support structure for new businesses, and contests such as the New Venture Competition inject much needed funding into the startup culture at Michigan Tech.</span></span></span>

<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">If there were a way to connect founders with the top self-motivated talent within the University, one of the final bottlenecks for a thriving startup culture would be removed. We believe we can remove this bottleneck by merging the successes brought forth by the enterprise and senior design structure with students who have demonstrated business acumen and are passionate about transforming ideas into a new venture.</span></span></span>

<span style="color:#696969;">[[Magann Dykema|Magann Dykema]]</span><span style="color:#696969;">&nbsp;- A University Innovation Fellow from Michigan Tech</span>

[http://universityinnovation.org/Samuel%20Raber Sam Raber]<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">&nbsp;- A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michgan Tech</span>

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Gary_Tropp Gary Tropp] -&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105);">A University Innovation Fellow Candidate from Michigan Tech</span>

<span style="color:#696969;">'''About the University''' - Learn about Michigan Tech including a landscape analysis</span>

<span style="color:#696969;">[[MTU University Student Priorities|Michigan Tech Student Priorities]]</span><span style="color:#696969;">&nbsp;- Learn about what students are working on</span>