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== Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship ==
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Students are encouraged to participate in innovative activities, provided solutions for campu-swide problems, and create programs or organizations to tackle them. There is no formalized problem solving or venture creation process, but some channels students can access when looking to implement solutions or open dialogue are the individual study departments, student life offices, student government association, and the president's office.</span>
Converse currently has no formalzied partnerships with companies or groups in the space of I&E, however, individual students have gone on to work with local incubators, labs, art studios, and so on. However, the fruits of these idnividual partnerships have not resulted in permanent relationships with the insitution. Converse would fare well to more succinctly create these partnerships, so interested students have pipelines to follow once interested.
== <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Engaging with regional Regional and local economic development efforts</span> Local Development Efforts ==
<span style="color: rgb(510, 510, 510); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px15px; linewhite-heightspace: 18pxpre-wrap;">As an Algernon Sydney Sullivan school, Converse is surrounded by has a Mian Streetlongstanding tradition of service to others. In recent years, this focus has continued on to social entrepreneurship. A select number of collegiate courses are dedicated to Social Entrepreneurship’s applications in the surrounding community, and worldwide. Particularly interested individuals can choose to attend the Sullivan Social Enterprise retreat in the fall or spring sessions. Converse has also sent a team to the foundation’s social venture competition. Converse continues to increase its Social entrepreneurship offerings, from courses and seminars to exploratory learning trips.</span>
== Future ==
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Business Model Canvas: [https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1tOhh8s1tTxbIJS6XLpmX_CkDbZBkq5iGWYdCfV98eBE https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1tOhh8s1tTxbIJS6XLpmX_CkDbZBkq5iGWYdCfV98eBE]