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<span id="docs-internal-guid-5a3b7d48-7fff-98ed-a793-60ae668685b5"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Air Force Academy has a facility it calls Cyberworx, which is a space on campus where faculty, students, and other military personnel have the ability to combine experience with world-class technology in an effort to tackle problems the Air Force faces every day. This environment encourages design thinking so that Cadets and faculty can fail fast and often, in order to consequently succeed more quickly and frequently. Our Cyberworx facility has recently announced plans to expand into a new and improved building that will, to an even greater extent, promote disruptive and innovative thinking for our future Air Force leaders.</span></span>
 
<span id="docs-internal-guid-5a3b7d48-7fff-98ed-a793-60ae668685b5"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Air Force Academy has a facility it calls Cyberworx, which is a space on campus where faculty, students, and other military personnel have the ability to combine experience with world-class technology in an effort to tackle problems the Air Force faces every day. This environment encourages design thinking so that Cadets and faculty can fail fast and often, in order to consequently succeed more quickly and frequently. Our Cyberworx facility has recently announced plans to expand into a new and improved building that will, to an even greater extent, promote disruptive and innovative thinking for our future Air Force leaders.</span></span>
 
 
  
 
<span id="docs-internal-guid-5a3b7d48-7fff-98ed-a793-60ae668685b5"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There also exists a Center for Innovation at the Air Force Academy. At this location, cadets can receive sponsorship and funding to perform innovative research projects over the summer. They can also utilize this resource to work on independent research project during the academic year.</span></span>
 
<span id="docs-internal-guid-5a3b7d48-7fff-98ed-a793-60ae668685b5"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There also exists a Center for Innovation at the Air Force Academy. At this location, cadets can receive sponsorship and funding to perform innovative research projects over the summer. They can also utilize this resource to work on independent research project during the academic year.</span></span>

Revision as of 23:55, 26 September 2018

STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

All US Air Force Academy cadets have the opportunity to take a few sporadic classes about innovation and entrepreneurship, depending on their majors. However, regardless of major, all cadets are given the opportunity to take the Technological Innovation Management class, which gives the students the knowledge to develop ideas or products into businesses. Additionally, the Management department provides their students with brief concepts in regards to innovation and entrepreneurship. Lastly, students are exposed and given the opportunity to join the Association for Innovation (A4I), a fairly new club at school that offers avenues to encourage and facilitate innovation.

FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Proctor and Gamble grants are given out to faculty members to incentive them to lead innovative projects. Aside from this opportunity, faculty are given the ability to participate with our Air Force Cyberworx lab and its associated projects as well as with AFWERX. From the Cadet perspective, however, the majority of our faculty are not involved with these innovative opportunities. Although the Air Force encourages innovation for all Airmen, our campus should start encouraging its faculty to innovate and think disruptively more often.

UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION

The Air Force Academy has a facility it calls Cyberworx, which is a space on campus where faculty, students, and other military personnel have the ability to combine experience with world-class technology in an effort to tackle problems the Air Force faces every day. This environment encourages design thinking so that Cadets and faculty can fail fast and often, in order to consequently succeed more quickly and frequently. Our Cyberworx facility has recently announced plans to expand into a new and improved building that will, to an even greater extent, promote disruptive and innovative thinking for our future Air Force leaders.

There also exists a Center for Innovation at the Air Force Academy. At this location, cadets can receive sponsorship and funding to perform innovative research projects over the summer. They can also utilize this resource to work on independent research project during the academic year.



UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION

REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS