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= Overview<br/> =
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Florida State Univeristy, Panama City, was founded in 1982 as a full-service campus of the Florida State University in Tallahasee, Florida. It is a very small campus, with around '''1,200 full time students''', and also only offers '''13 undegraduate programs''':
== Small Business Development Center<br/> ==
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The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is a newly created business incubator housed within the Gulf Coast State College's Advanced Technology Center. It is very similar to the FSU-PC Business Innovation Center, but is also directed toward existing small businesses.
The SBDC can help students with:
*'''Business Plan Development<br/>'''
*'''Marketing Research'''
*'''Patent Searches'''
=== Entrepreneur Club<br/> ===
[[File:Fsupcentre.jpg|thumb|Fsupcentre.jpg]] The FSU-PC Entrepreneur Club is the premier group that sponsors I-E related events. In the Spring Semester of 2014 the Entrepreneur Club will be mobilizing to bring more speakers to the campus, as well as coupling with the Business Innovation Center to create a "shark-tank" competition, Nole Tank.
=== Nole Tank<br/> ===
[[File:Noletank.jpg|thumb|Noletank.jpg]]The Nole Tank competition is the first Business Plan competition to occur at FSU-PC. It was created through a union between the Entrepreneur Club and the Business Innovation Center. The Nole Tank is a "shark-tank" competiton that pits 5 entrepreneurs in a business plan presentation in front of local business and community leaders. The competition has two phases:
'''Phase 1: '''Submit an elevator pitch. 5 elevator pitches out of the pool of submissions are selected blindly by a group of judges. If selected you move on to Phase 2. Each of the 5 winning pitches get $100 in cash.
= <span class="mw-headline" id="Encouraging_faculty_innovation_and_entrepreneurship">Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span><br/> =
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Currently, there is no support for faculty innovation on the Panama City campus. This is likely due to the small population, and lack of graduate research being done. Most Faculty support is found within main campus resources, but for sake of differentation, that is beyond the scope of this article.
*'''FSU Council of Research and Creativity:''' Council made up of research faculty that stimulates growth in research.
*'''FSU Office of Commercialization:''' Provides services to patent reserach and find investors.
= <span class="mw-headline">Regional Development</span><br/> =