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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-6b468021-428d-d00d-2aaf-021df7e234aa"><span style="font-size: 31px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-6b468021-428d-d00d-2aaf-021df7e234aa"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Missouri S&T's student entrepreneurship excells excels in the areas of skills building (due in large part to its extensive opportunities for skills-building). Significant improvement is possible in the areas of student discovery of innovation and entrepreneurship, the facilitation of creative thinking and experimenting with potential entrepreneurial endeavors, and the pursuit and actuallization of a real endeavor. Existing and proposed programs for support these areas for students are presented below.</span></span>
== <span id="docs-internal-guid-6b468021-428d-d00d-2aaf-021df7e234aa"><span style="font-size: 23px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Student Design Teams</span></span> ==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-6b468021-428d-d00d-2aaf-021df7e234aa"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">In recent years Missouri S&T has emphasized the conecpt concept of </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">experiential learning</span><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">among its students. Lever 1.1 of the university's strategic plan states that the university shall "require all undergraduate students to participate in some significant experiential learning activity before they graduate". These experiential learning activities have played a critical roled role in developing innovation and entrepreneurship skills in students (the second step, "Learn", in the landscape canvas presented below).</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-6b468021-428d-d00d-2aaf-021df7e234aa"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Traditionally experiential learning opportunities have centered around S&T's student design teams. Of the university's over 6000 undergraduates, over 800 students participated in at least one of the Student Design and Experiential Learning Center's (SDELC) fourteen student design teams in the last year. Student design teams have provided undergraduate students with opportunity to apply skills to solve real-world problems in a competitive environment. The teams are independently managed by the students, who conduct the majority of the adminstrative, business, PR, fundraising, engineering, manufacturing, and management activities of the team. The SDELC provides students with extensive 24/7 access to a machine shop, design studio, electronics lab, composites lab, welding equipment, and general fabrication space, all for design team activities. The challenging and independent nature of the design teams has foster a culture of creativity and innovation among the participating students (whether or not they realize it). Currently, the SDELC supports the following 14 teams:</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-6b468021-428d-d00d-2aaf-021df7e234aa"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Missouri S&T's Student Business Incubator (SBI) support students in the execution of startup companies. The SBI provides them with free office space and some advisory resources. The program is managed by the university's Technology Transfer and Economic Development Office.</span></span>
= <span id="docs-internal-guid-6b468021-428d-d00d-2aaf-021df7e234aa"><span style="font-size: 31px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span> =