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= <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Overview </span> =
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">The University of Chicago is a prestigious private research university located in Chicago, Illinois. The university consists of one undergraduate College, five graduate divisions, six professional schools, and the Graham School of Continuing Liberal Arts and Professional Studies. The university has an undergraduate student body of 5,692 students and 9,502 graduate and professional students. The university manages Argonne National Laboratories and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and is affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratories. The school boasts 89 Nobel Prize winners who have either served as faculty members or graduated as students of the university.</span>
= <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Innovation and Entrepreneurship </span> =
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">The University of Chicago seeks to establish a more prominent role in the growing Chicago-area entrepreneurship ecosystem as evinced by numerous developments in programs to stimulate and foster innovation and entrepreneurship. The university recently unveiled its first engineering department the Institute for Molecular Engineering, and a new center for providing services to students and faculty members interested in pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities called the Chicago Innovation Exchange. In this Landscape Canvas, the various components of the entrepreneurial ecosystem will be explored in compliance with the Wenger Model.</span>
== <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Entrepreneurial Discovery </span> ==
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">The University of Chicago offers various classes and programs to expose students to entrepreneurship.</span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">MENG&nbsp;20000. Introduction to Emerging Technologies. 100 Units.</span></span></span><br/></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: inherit;">This course will examine five emerging technologies (stem cells in regenerative medicine, quantum computing, water purification, new batteries, etc.) over two weeks each. The first of the two weeks will present the basic science underlying the emerging technology; the second of the two weeks will discuss the hurdles that must be addressed successfully to convert a good scientific concept into a commercial product that addresses needs in the market place.</span></span>
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