School:Southern Illinois University

Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship

SIU is at seminal moment in it's existence. Not only are we a few decades into the Information Age, but as a top research university SIU is facing a severe cut in financial support from the state of Illinois. Now is the time to look at how Innovation and Entrepreneurship can be incorporated further into the SIU campus including activities in and outside of the classroom. This is moment in time is the perfect opportunity for SIU to strengthen as a university that believes in providing value to students and the world at large.

The Hub

A 3,500-square-foot facility designed to promote a climate of entrepreneurship in which a marketplace of interdisciplinary ideas can flourish. Ultimately, we want students and faculty across colleges and disciplines to bring their unique perspectives and find common ground to achieve uncommon goals and world-changing innovations.

Saluki Ventures

One of the prominent features of SIU's entrepreneurial efforts is Saluki Ventures. An open student business incubator structured to help facilitate the entrepreneurial pursuits of all students across the university's campus. Student members of Saluki Ventures have direct access to hands-on training, consulting services, and mentorship within a student-focused incubation program embedded within the region’s leading business incubator. Facilities include a resource room, work space, collaboration area, a developing maker space plus many other amenities needed to help their business grow.

Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship

With the availability of Southern Illinois Research Park, the faculty of SIU have not hesitated to pursue their own passion and research while bringing a few or even many of their students along for the journey of innovation and entrepreneurship.  

Thermaquatica

With CSO and founder of thermaquatica, Dr. Anderson has developed the OGD concept, and has served as PI on four grants funded by the Illinois Clean Coal INstitute to explore the concept and develop the fundamental technology. He is a full professor in the Department of Geoplogy, at SIUC.
Jack Crelling, PhD how is a Board Member & Technical Advisor for Thermaquatica joined the SIUC faculty in 1977 as a professor and the Leader of Coal Characterization Laboratory and the Maceral Separation Laboratory. He retired from active teaching in 2006 and now continues on the faculty as a Research Professor

DxR Development Group, INC.

DxR Development Group's roots are in education... specifically, medical education. In 1990,Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Professors Hurley Myers, PhD and Kevin Dorsey, MD, PhD, collaborated with software engineer Eldon Benz to produce a computer simulation program that allowed medical students to conduct a clinical investigation using a virtual patient. The program recorded the students' decisions, allowing faculty to review how the student reasoned through the patient problem. From this effort, Diagnostic Reasoning, the precursor to what is now known as DxR Clinician, was born. Clinician has since been translated into Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish and is used in at least a dozen countries.



Technology Transfer

Technology Transfer Office

Since 1996, the university has disclosed 379 inventions, issued 84 licenses/options, filed 196 patent applications with a resulting 63 patents issued, and received $7.26 million in royalties.

Saluki App/Idea Competitions

The mission of the Saluki App Competition is to encourage SIU Carbondale student involvement in the technology and business of creating useful and valuable application software (“apps”) for mobile devices. The mission of the Saluki Idea Competition is to boost SIU Carbondale student and community involvement with innovative thinking and business development to address local and global challenges.

Illinois Small Business Development Center at SIU

The mission of the Small Business Incubator Program, managed by the SBDC, is to accelerate the start-up and expansion of small businesses in southern Illinois. The program is here to provide the guidance and consulting necessary to make sure those

Regional and Local Economic Development

Southern Illinois Research Park

The Southern Illinois Research Park (SIRP) is a non-profit corporation affiliated with Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU Carbondale) promoting technology and knowledge-based enterprise development within the Park and the southern Illinois region. As a knowledge-based, high-tech and research-oriented business park, SIRP is a member of the Association of University Research Parks (AURP).

Office of Economic and Regional Development –Serves as the university’s primary business and community development outreach arm.  OERD has a history of success in enhancing growth and building prosperity throughout southern Illinois.  SIU has been supporting the region’s entrepreneurs in job creation, enterprise development and expansion, and strengthening the rural southern Illinois economy since 1985 with the establishment of the Small Business Development Center. Technology entrepreneurship training, youth and collegiate entrepreneurship, and the Saluki Innovation Lab are key successes of this unit.  Additionally, Community Development and Outreach efforts are focused on making communities more prosperous and healthy through collaborative engagement and greater connectivity in Southern Illinois.

Small Business Development Center (SBDC)

Provides small business owners and entrepreneurs with the tools, guidance and support necessary to start, manage and grow successful and sustainable businesses. Resources include a full range of business development assistance for entrepreneurs, including one-on-one consulting, workshop and training events, and business plan development.

Small Business Incubator

The mission of the Small Business Incubator Program, managed by the SBDC, is to accelerate the start-up and expansion of small businesses in southern Illinois. The program is here to provide the guidance and consulting necessary to make sure those start-up and expanding firms have the tools necessary to succeed. This program has assisted more than 50 organizations start and expand their operations since its inception in 1990.

Campus Programs

• Saluki Ventures
• Saluki CEO Corps
• Moon Buggy Design Team
• Formula SAE Design Team
• Concrete Canoe Design Team
• Morris Library 3D Printing Lab

Landscape Canvas

Here are links to our Landscape Canvas and Presentation https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9GRsz4i6ggafmNBOUg2b3RqWTlzbHZ0bXY0VDNkZnB0NG1HS3lwcGlVYVMtYVlVMGI5MHM&usp=sharing_eid&tid=0B9GRsz4i6ggafmRUOFlyWXNCWVVUbzI2U1ptbXJma0JNWTZvcHlHdzJEMlR0N2o3ZTZPYlE 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GO0HqcelTydVJRG9N98tbRpNrNMGWpRNWCdkZjynLxU/edit#slide=id.gded0dd295_2_14 

Related Links

Below are links to the candidates wiki pages

Dan_Bach

Thomas Birch

Thermaquatic

DxR Development Group

SIU Research Park

SIU Project Pitch

SIU Student Priorities