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== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Overview<br/span> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[[File:Binghamton-university-sign.jpg|frame|Binghamton-university-sign.jpg]] <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Binghamton University, primarily known for being a research-based institution, is a public university located in Vestal, New York. It is home to 13,632&nbsp; undergraduate and 3,660 graduate students coming from a total of 44 states and 114 different countries. The university consists of 7 different schools including - but not limited to - Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, the Decker School of Nursing, the School of Management, etc. strongly pushing entrepreneurship. After years of development and planning, the infrastructure is in place to allow startups to thrive.&nbsp; Student engagement with these resources is low, relatively speaking. Pushing more students towards the university’s infrastructure is a cornerstone to not only the office of innovation’s mission but also the office of the president. Being one of the most cost effective educations in the northeast is pushing more qualified students into the school but somehow they are not filtering into the entrepreneurship track as well as they could be.</span></span>

= '''<span stylefont face="fontarial, helvetica, sans-serif" size:large;"><span class="s13">Promoting student There are myriad efforts to grow innovation and entrepreneurshipon campus. As a result of the world-wide shift towards experiential and hands-on learning, Binghamton has also increased their efforts in this regard. In the classroom, dedicated courses such as ENT 280A: Innovation Scholars, ENT 460: Entrepreneurship, ENT 480B: Business Plan Development, as well as UNIV 280F: Introduction to Entrepreneurship, UNIV 280D: Global Entrepreneurship, and UNIV 280G: Social Entrepreneurship give students both the theory and practice needed to bring new ideas to life. Outside the classroom, spaces like the Makers Lab, Computer-Aided Engineering Laboratory, and Innovation Lab provide students with the tools and environments to experiment, prototype, and collaborate.</spanfont></span>''' =

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span styleface="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="3">There are a robust set of Student-led organizations such as '''Entrepreneur Connect''' further foster peer-to-peer learning, networking, and mentorship. Meanwhile, competitive and experiential programs , including the EC Pitch It Competition, the '''New York Business Plan Competition''', the Inclusive Innovation Internship (I³), and activities that revolve around entrepreneurship. Idea pitches are often regarded as a good stepping stone for The HATCH Internship Program, challenge students who want to get apply their feet wet. The cash prizes for the best performing ideas are just enough knowledge in real-world contexts, preparing them to get most teams into a prototyping phaselead and innovate beyond campus. There are also a few well-respected courses in innovation and creativity that can further a student'</spanfont></span><span stylefont face="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-" size: medium;="3">s education during a semesterBinghamton has continued their partnerships with the [https://thekoffman. There are also com/ '''The Koffman Incubator'''] to invigorate students and provide resources and assistance for various events that reward innovative thinking around campus including several hackathons and a 3d printing labventures.</spanfont>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class= "s1">The faculty at Binghamton will often engage with their students in conversation about innovation and entrepreneurship, however, they typically will not initiate the conversation. Rather, they will follow students and engage when students want to further their own ideas or learn more on the subject. Moreover, despite Binghamton's status as a research university, much of the research is allocated in the social and technological sciences as showcased during the annual [https://www.binghamton.edu/research/division-offices/research-advancement/research-days/ '''Research Days'''].</span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:largemedium;"><span class="s1"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Encouraging faculty From a student perspective, the presence of innovation and entrepreneurshipis low on campus. Through conversations with students and a lack of course offerings, many students do not feel proactive or thoroughly interested in starting their own ventures or start-ups. They also worry about not having the support or guidance to succeed in their startup ventures. This is something that fellows hope to change.</span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span>==<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''' <span style="font-size: large;">Actively Supporting the University Tech Transfer Function</span>'''</span>==

<span style="font-sizefamily:mediumarial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-serifmedium;"><span class="s1">The faculty at Binghamton University are more often than As a young university, there have not encouraging when a student approaches them with an idea but they rarely initiate the conversation. Professors involved in the startup ecosystem are more willing been long-standing efforts or funding to open a up a lecture with a story about a start-up in provide the news (Rent-the-runway was used recently for example) but that is much rarer. Staff areservices of tech transfer, especiallyhowever, equipped to innovate themselves professors in the engineering school. The school university has invested heavily made changes in the lab equipment and up to date facilities which can allow professors to expand and hopefully commercialize their researchrecent years.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class= "s1">In the most recent years, the university has made great strides to collaborate with the surrounding areas, particularly in various industries. Their greatest effort has been in the creation of their[https://www.binghamton.edu/research/ &nbsp;'''Innovative Technology Center'''], an extremely advanced building, which serves as a home and incubator for technological, scientific, and entrepreneurial partnership.</span></span></span> <span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The center is a smart-building, with self-sustaining technologies. Additionally, all students have access to the expansive building. The ITC provides a home to research for scientific disciplines and is the new home to the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Partnerships Office. In 2017, The Koffman Incubator was created in Downtown Binghamton, with offices, high-tech wet labs, dry labs, and co-working areas to further support collaboration.</span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: largemedium;"><span class="s1"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Actively&nbsp</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;supporting ">Since large industries like IBM left the Southern Tier area, economic production and income has been low. This new pursuit seeks to join together various forces and connect them, allowing for greater partnership. The university has done a fantastic job in the last couple of years in providing open spaces for industry-university tech transfer functiondialogue and cooperation.</span></spanstyle="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Further, there have been captial partnerships with the university, including [https://esd.ny.gov/startup-ny-program '''Start-Up NY''' ==], the [https://regionalcouncils.ny.gov/cfa/project/230329 '''Binghamton Incubator'''], as well as the '''[https://www.binghamton.edu/research/innovation/entrepreneurship/17nysbpc.html New York Business Plan Competition]'''. All of these organizations seek to inspire local inhabitants to make real change in our area.</span>

==<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:mediumlarge;"><span class="s1">The office of innovation and entrepreneurship is formally named the inter-university technology transfer office and there are dedicated lawyers and administrators to help academics commercialize their technology. It is only recently that the office has begun to heavily invest in undergraduate entrepreneurship. They curate a “B-Innovative” student incubator in a building on campus which as had scores of startups move through it. It also runs another incubator in the Innovative Technologies Complex that houses undergraduate '''Engaging With Regional and&nbsp;</span></span>Local Economic Development Efforts'''</span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">non-student&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">startups. The office of I&E often&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">leave&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">their doors open for students to walk in with questions about a particular resource or just life as an entrepreneur.&nbsp;</span></span></span>

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===<span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-seriflarger;"><span style="font-sizefamily:mediumarial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="s1">The university is in the process of constructive a massive downtown innovation center that will host startups and laboratories. There are also several access points to serious funding but access to those sources are restricted. Take the NYS business plan competition. The winner receives a grant of half a million dollars but the competition is intense and no student from Binghamton has even gotten close to winning. There are ample events for networking but, as far as investors and capital goes, let's just say that most startups are forced to go lean for a long time.</span>Fellows (Spring 2018)</span></span>===

== <span style="font-sizeVivian Wu Profile:large&nbsp;"><span style="font-familyhttp:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="s1">'''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts'''</span></span><universityinnovation.org/span><brwiki/> ==Vivian_Wu

Shabienska Achil Profile:&nbsp;http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Shabienska_Achil === <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span classstyle="s1font-size:larger;">Students do not have much involvement with the local economic development despite having the resources available to do so. Organizations like SUNY best bring together a whole host of local professionals downtown to create awareness, but the number of students that attend these meetups are surprisingly low.Fellows (Spring 2017)</span></span class> ==="s2">They unfortunately either have no awareness or are aware of the economic and social issues that persist in the city around the university but nothing is done to resolve these issuesJudah Berger Profile:&nbsp;http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Judah_Berger David Axelrod Profile:&nbsp;http://universityinnovation. The school does not haveorg/wiki/David_Axelrod Mauricio Morales Profile:&nbsp;dedicated staff members that take initiative to bridge the gap between the university undergraduate population and the surrounding communityhttp://universityinnovation.<org/wiki/span>Mauricio_Morales [[Category:Universities]][[Category:Schools]][[Category:Binghamton_University]]{{CatTree|Binghamton_University}}