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= Strategic Priority #1:~~~~Pop-up Workshop=

= Team Member: Jessica Flynn =

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Team Member: Joseph Scott <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Establishing an innovation center on campus for the use by students will benefit the university as well as the surrounding community. At present, there are multiple resources in the community dedicated to assisting innovation and entrepreneurship, but only at certain points in the process. There is not a single resource responsible for cradle-to-grave support of new ideas.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communities and businesses each place great emphasis on innovation and the need for future generations to be creative problem solvers; however, the means by which to achieve this mind-set is not readily available to students. We aim to fill this gap via introduction of an innovation center on campus, and the goals of this center include bridging the gaps between the currently available resources, such as the SBDC and YBI.

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The first step will be to create a designated area which focuses on ideation and the design thinking process. This would be available to all students free-of-charge. Establishing this area and its functionality would be achieved within the first year of implementation. The second step will involve building the relationships among the other resources, such as those mentioned previously. This will be a more lengthy process, but should be accomplished by the end of the second year. The third year after implementation would see the strategic coordination of those resources with the innovation center, creating a flow from the ideation stage to the assistance the other resources can provide.

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