Priorities:North Dakota State University Student Priorities

Overview

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship ecosystem at North Dakota State University could best be described as being in an incubation state. A workable amount of resources are present, with a number of key resources, tools, and programs at various stages of planning and implementation that will allow the campus environment to flourish.

There are a number of positive aspects to the campus that students can make use of. NDSU maintains the following services that one would generally expect to find as ‘standard’ at a research/innovation university:

• Tech Transfer Office; formal Intellectual Property management
• Business Incubator; space, place, and people for startups to make their mark
• Student-industry collaboration as part of the standard educational experience (senior design, engineering)

These services work together to allow an innovation culture to exist on campus.

Upon deep analysis of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship ecosystem on NDSU’s campus using the landscape canvas, select gaps in the ecosystem were identified. While a number of concerns, big and small, were noted, two gaps in particular have been chosen as critical areas of work to be focused on.

[MORE TO COME]

Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem:

http://prezi.com/8xzmdf4l2mf-/the-journey/ (until I figure out how to embed it)

Calling all students

Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

• Where: Presented to NDSU Bison Microventure research group
• When: 10-24-13
• RSVP: N/A

Second Informational Session (come hear plans, offer feedback and help expand opportunities for all students)

• Where: NDSU Student Union
• When: TBD
• RSVP: TBD, andrew.dalman@ndsu.edu

Strategy #1: Realization

The first area of focus, or ‘strategy,’ is based off of the Realized section of the landscape canvas. This section deals with the ability of students to commit to an opportunity, eg; licensing a technology, forming a venture, and/or attaining legal status. A review of this section reveals that while there exist a few spaces for venture startup/incubation and a TTO for protecting intellectual property, a stark lack of funding, grant, or investment assistance presents itself.

Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:

Tactic #1: [Name of tactic]

• Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]
• Team Leader:: [Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned to the person who volunteers]
• Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]

Tactic #2: [Name of tactic]

• Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]
• Team Leader:: [Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned to the person who volunteers]
• Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]

Tactic #3: [Name of tactic]

• Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]
• Team Leader:: [Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned to the person who volunteers]
• Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]

Strategy #2: ________

Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:

Tactic #1: [Name of tactic]

• Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]
• Team Leader:: [Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned to the person who volunteers]
• Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]

Tactic #2: [Name of tactic]

• Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]
• Team Leader:: [Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned to the person who volunteers]
• Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]

Tactic #3: [Name of tactic]

• Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]
• Team Leader: [Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned to the person who volunteers]
• Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]