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== '''Overview'''<br/> ==
Purdue University is a land-grant institution founded by John Purdue in 1869. From its inaguarationinauguration, Purdue offers over 200 different majors for undergraduate students and over 70 majors for graduate students. Purdue has been ranked as the 9th best engineering school for undergraduates, and as well as ranked 3rd for largest international student population.
== '''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship'''<br/> ==
== '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship'''<br/> ==
The Deliberate Innovation for Faculty (DIFF) is a service provided specifically for University Faculty to learn how to bring their research ideas to fruition by translating their inventions to the publick public through commericalizationcommercialization, collaboration, and entrepreneurship.
DIFF faculty members are undertaking transformational projects to fundamentally enhance the Purdue entrepreneurial ecosystem, as wa wya to gain practical outcomes from basic research. As such, DIFF faculty members struve strive to work with their peers to help guide research proposal opportunities or potential research collaborations that include entrepreneurship, technology transfer, adn and commercialization as positive differentiators from project inception.
== '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function '''<br/> ==
Purdue's Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) specializes in taking university-driven innovations and bringing them to market. Services of the OTC support the economic development of Purdue University and the tech industry of Indiana.
The OTC provides extensive resources in protecting, marketing, and liscencing licensing the University's intellectual property. By working alongside Purdue faculty-, staff- and student-entrepreneurs to provide the resources needed to better understand Purdue policies related to intellectual property, as well as the processes whereby this intellectual property (patents, copyright, trademarks, and tangible research property) can become an actual product or service, the OTC brings invention to the next level. FurthrerFurther, to ensure the long-term success of the innovations, OTC utilizes inventors to partner with startup companies to provide support and qualified management teams.
== '''Facilitating University Industry Collaboration''' ==
Outside the university campus, PCRD has a rich history of working with a number of state and regional organizations. These groups include the Indiana Association of Regional Councils, the Indiana Economic Development Association, the Indiana Office of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, the Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA), the Indiana Office of the USDA Rural Development agency and more. Counties exploring the formation of a new regional organization are welcome to seek the assistance of PCRD as well.
== '''Previous Fall 2013 UIF Projects ''' ==
'''University Innovation Fellows''' Students: Jeffrey Ackerman and Ian Hamilton, Mission: To identify and help fill gaps for the enhancement and promotion of student entrepreneurship and innovation at Purdue What’s already happening on campus? View the Prezi presentation above to learn more about current entrepreneurial and innovation initiatives are on campus, and ideas for future projects.
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<u>''Academic Programs''</u>
*Elevator Pitch Competition
*Innovation Funds