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= Overview =

The University Innovation Fellows at Illinois Institute of Technology have discovered ample opportunities to advance our culture and services of innovation and entrepreneurship. Our current 2015 leadership circle of five hold a variety of backgrounds and majors, an advantage that reveals itself in the variety of strategic plans presented below. Informed by our work through the Landscape Canvass, a tool to evaluate the presence and distribution of innovative and entrepreneurial offerings at our university, we have ~~devloped~~ developed the following strategies to nurture the creative potential of our campus.{{#Widget:Youtube|id=UtdLLHRVGPA}}

= Strategy #1: Finding Methods of Appeal to All Students That Introduce the Potential of Entrepreneurship =

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= Strategy #5 : Pegasus ~~Crowdfunding Network~~Idea Exchange =

Fellow on Point: Gabriel Conners

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=== Tactic 7: Relationship Matching Algorithm (1/2017) ===

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= Strategy #6: Competitions that involve I&E and symposiums that give an insight to students of the early stages of a startup. =

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== Strategy Leader: Faizan Ahmad ==

Objective: College is the place to make big changes in life. Students know that the job market is evolving. A lot of students do not want to work on a 9 to 5 job. A lot of students want to be entrepreneurs and have businesses of their own. However, they face problems in the early stages of their businesses. Our objective is to provide them an insight of how work is done in a professional environment. The purpose is to let them know what steps they need to take and what type of management they need to perform when commencing their businesses and startups. For instance, competitions like Startup, Pitch competitions, Lean Startup competitions and Hackathons will help them learn how they need to perform proactively within a team. This will help them understand how they should organize their efforts while developing a product. Symposiums are very important too. We could have somebody like Balaji Srinivasan come in and explain to students what he learnt about the early stages of his startup. This will make it easier to understand what procedures do entrepreneurs go through when starting a business. They can communicate their ideas and understand how entrepreneurs perform risk-analysis. This is essential as the first step is one of the hardest ones for any business.

= Strategy #6: Competitions that involve I&E and symposiums that give an insight to students of the early stages of a startup. =

== Strategy Leader: Faizan Ahmad ==

=== ~~Objective~~Tactic 1: ~~College is the place to make big changes in life. Students know that the job market is evolving. A lot of students do not want to work on a 9 to 5 job. A lot of students want to be entrepreneurs~~ Make attending such symposiums highly recommended and ~~have businesses~~ mandatory for those who are part of ~~their own. However, they face problems in~~ the ~~early stages of their businesses. Our objective is to provide them an insight of how work is done in a professional environment. The purpose is to let them know what steps they need to take~~ entrepreneurship and what type of management they need to perform when commencing their businesses and startups. For instance, competitions like Startup, Pitch competitions, Lean Startup competitions and Hackathons will help them learn how they need to perform proactively within a team. This will help them understand how they should organize their efforts while developing a product. Symposiums are very important too. We could have somebody like Balaji Srinivasan come in and explain to students what he learnt about the early stages of his startup. This will make it easier to understand what procedures do entrepreneurs go through when starting a business. They can communicate their ideas and understand how entrepreneurs perform risk-analysis. This is essential as the first step is one of the hardest ones for any businessrelated society on campus. ===

=== ~~Tactic 1: Make attending such symposiums highly recommended and mandatory for those who are part of the entrepreneurship and related society on campus. ===~~ ~~===~~ Tactic 2: Plan multiple competitions (HackIIT, Lean Startup at IIT) to be hosted by the University. ===

<li>~~Develop a relationship matching algorithm to streamline student~~</span~~></li><li>~~Integrate an Alumni interest database into Pegasus to improve~~ Develop a relationship matching ~~between~~ algorithm to streamline student ~~ideas~~ -idea discovery and ~~Alumni monies~~team formation.</lispan></li><li>~~Map out interests and social missions of businesses~~ Integrate an Alumni interest database into Pegasus to ~~build into~~ improve relationship matching ~~algorithm so students know what organizations to target in solicitation of funding.~~between student ideas and Alumni monies.</li><li>Entrepreneurship societies on campus, like College Entrepreneurial Organization at IIT, are a very effective way to communicating with students and allowing them to be part of related events. Introducing students to the symposiums is very important since students get a lot Map out interests and social missions of ~~information.</~~businesses to build into relationship matching algorithm so students know what organizations to target in solicitation of funding.</lispan><li/span></li><li>~~Progressive Milestones<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">~~Entrepreneurship societies on campus, like College Entrepreneurial Organization at IIT, are a very effective way to communicating with students and allowing them to be part of related events. Introducing students to the symposiums is very important since students get a lot of information.<li/span></li><li>Investigation of targeted speakers who will come in for the symposiums -April 2015</li><li~~>~~Setting up dates of the events to be held.-May 2015~~Progressive Milestones</lispan><~~li><li>~~Informing the boards of the societies and clubs of the information of upcoming symposiums and convincing them make the attendance mandatory.~~</li><li>~~Working with~~ Investigation of targeted speakers who will come in for the ~~leadership academy to coordinate the events.~~symposiums - ~~July~~ April 2015</lispan><li/span></li><li>~~Launch~~ Setting up dates of the ~~event~~events to be held.- ~~August~~ May 2015</li><li>~~Get survey to see how students feel about this~~</span~~></li></ul></li><li>~~<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white~~Informing the boards of the societies and clubs of the information of upcoming symposiums and convincing them make the attendance mandatory.-~~space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"~~June 2015~~There are many societies at IIT that who attract students. The competitions can be coordinated with &nbsp~~</li><li><span style="vertical-align: baseline;~~the help of the member of the societies. IIT has a great facility i.e The Idea Shop which acts as a working~~ white-space and an incubator for IIT students. The Idea Shop can be used as the venue for such competitions. Companies like Microsoft and Ciscohave sponsored Hackathons in the past. Students can also get their technology to work with.</span: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span~~></li><li>~~Progressive Milestones~~Working with the leadership academy to coordinate the events.- July 2015<ul /span></li><li>~~<li~~>~~Setting up~~ Launch the ~~budget and dates for the events to be hosted and presenting it to the student board to be approved-April~~ event- August 2015</li><li><~~>~~Contacting the companies and convince them for sponsorship.-May 2015</li><li>~~Approach the organizations~~ Get survey to ~~convince them~~ see how students feel about this- October to ~~volunteer for the events.-June~~ December 2015</span~~></li><li>Work with different departments to reserve spaces for event to be held and coordinate the events.-July 2015</li><li>Launch the events - August 2015</li><li>Get surveys and reviews by the students of how they feel about the events.- October to November 2015 </li>

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<li>There are many societies at IIT that who attract students. The competitions can be coordinated with  the help of the member of the societies. IIT has a great facility i.e The Idea Shop which acts as a working space and an incubator for IIT students. The Idea Shop can be used as the venue for such competitions. Companies like Microsoft and Ciscohave sponsored Hackathons in the past. Students can also get their technology to work with.</li>

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<li>Setting up the budget and dates for the events to be hosted and presenting it to the student board to be approved-April 2015</li>

<li>Contacting the companies and convince them for sponsorship.-May 2015</li>

<li>Approach the organizations to convince them to volunteer for the events.-June 2015</li>

<li>Work with different departments to reserve spaces for event to be held and coordinate the events.-July 2015</li>

<li>Launch the events - August 2015</li>

<li>Get surveys and reviews by the students of how they feel about the events.- October to November 2015</li>

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