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== <span style="font-size:x-large;">Strategy Two: Business and Entrepreneurship Collaboration Design Start [24 3-4 months]</span> == <span id="docs-internal-guid-7e9de390-543e-ef50-53e4-5d65d8c21061"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapmedium;">GVSU has Design Start will be a new major workshop as of 2017January 2019. It is an intensive, structured, the entrepreneurship majorinnovation workshop&nbsp;where students work together to uncover possible solutions to various problems. This major is in These students will achieve this by following the business college and thereforeDesign Thinking Process to empathize, define, ideate, prototype, like all business majors a Grand Valleytest, requires the business capstone class&nbsp;and validate their solutions with others. In additionMany times, all senior engineering students are assigned a two semester senior project immediately before they graduaterelate entrepreneurship and innovation to business majors. We believe that for some of While this can be the senior projects it would case, Design Start will be beneficial an opportunity to assign them a entrepreneurship/business major open these topics up to write business planseveryone. Design Start will be held on January 11th and 12th, run finances, etc to determine if which is the design project would make start of a viable businessnew semester. This will allow students to more easily attend before classes become more demanding.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-7e9de390-543e-ef50-53e4-5d65d8c21061"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapmedium;">This would not only encourage Another aspect of Design Start is the collaboration between colleges but would also give universities. This program will be open to students a sense of how products are designed from many different college and universities in the real worldGrand Rapids area. This would also introduce business concepts will allow for a melting-pot of students to the engineering students come and technology to the business studentswork together.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-7e9de390-543e-ef50-53e4-5d65d8c21061"div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapmedium;">If we see success in Once this programhas passed and proven to be successful, possibly utilizing a style similar to we will look into planning the event for the Purdue EPICS program, it can be expanded to include other colleges and majorsfollowing year.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-7e9de390-543e-ef50-53e4-5d65d8c21061">&nbsp;</spandiv>