== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:large;">'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</span></span> ==
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">The In the most recent years, the university is has made great strides to collaborate with the surrounding areas, particularly in various industries. Their greatest effort has been in the process creation of constructive their[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vDRYTLiAI74JU9jZZIBIFK3u8wRnJlzpyH3Ou3-qoJk/edit?usp=sharing '''Innovative Technology Center'''], an extremely advanced building, which serves as a massive downtown innovation home and incubator for technological, scientific, and entrepreneurial partnership.</span></span></span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The center that will host startups and laboratoriesis a smart-building, with self-sustaining technologies. There are also several access points to serious funding but Additionally, all students have access to those sources are restricted. Take the NYS business plan competitionexpansive building. The winner receives ITC provides a grant home to research for scientific disciplines and is the new home to the Office of half Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Further, the building provides a million dollars but meeting place for the competition is intense [https://southerntierincubator.com/ Koffman Incubator], an organization which seeks partnership across New York state. This incubator seeks to increase innovation within the southern tier of New York, which has faced adversity in the past several years. </span> <span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Since large industries like IBM left the area, economic production and no student from Binghamton income has even gotten close been low. This new pursuit seeks to winning. There are ample events for networking but, as far as investors join together various forces and capital goesconnect them, let's just say that most startups are forced to go lean allowing for greater partnership. The university has done a long timefantastic job in the last couple of years in providing open spaces for industry-university dialogue and cooperation.</span> </spanstyle="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Further, there have been captial partnerships with the university, including [https://esd.ny.gov/startup-ny-program '''Start-Up NY'''], the [https://regionalcouncils.ny.gov/cfa/project/230329 '''Binghamton Incubator'''], as well as the '''[https://www.binghamton.edu/research/innovation/entrepreneurship/17nysbpc.html New York Business Plan Competition]'''. All of these organizations seek to inspire local inhabitants to make real change in our area.</span>
== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span class="s1">'''Engaging With Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</span></span></span><br/> ==