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It is imperative that Texas A&M University encourages, facilitates, and commences reach-outs for student-led innovation and entrepreneurship in order to maintain their ability to provide innovative solutions to today’s challenging problems. An analysis of the Texas A&M University innovation and entrepreneurship landscape reveals that the university is already home to many innovation and entrepreneurship-focused resources that can contribute to developing the innovative and entrepreneurial capabilities of students; however, most of the resources are manifested in programs that are scattered across different departments, and generally are not especially transparent to the students. Therefore, it is essential that Texas A&M brings innovative and entrepreneurial thinking, as well as existing resources, to the front-lines, to develop its set of innovative and entrepreneurial leaders; by reaching out to students proactively and connecting them with the university's vast resources, our students will graduate as prepared agents of change and solution.
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While Texas A&M University boasts a vast sum of resources in order to facilitate entrepreneurship, its de facto accessibility is lackluster due to the sparse nature of all of the manifestations of the resources. While it may initially seem positive that we have so many different facilities and programs, it leads to confusion, especially for undergraduate students, and creates an inhibitory effect on students who wish to venture into I&E. This leads to the stonewalling of many students from taking initiative for an idea they may have, and this produces, in sum, an unrecoverable loss in ideas, the retardation of innovation evangelism, and limits entrepreneurship in general for the student body. It is imperative that the university organizes the programs and resources in a manner that is intuitive, clear, and easily accessible.&nbsp;
  
 
This page lists directed strategies to this issue and enumerates possible implementations of solutions for each strategy.
 
This page lists directed strategies to this issue and enumerates possible implementations of solutions for each strategy.
  
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= Strategies =
 
= Strategies =
  
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== '''<span id="docs-internal-guid-4426c017-eeac-596a-d26c-cdd5e6660f6e"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">PROJECT H.U.B.</span></span>''' ==
  
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'''Current structure is too confusing; organize an umbrella head for all I&E initiatives and programs, with main manifestation being a website.'''
  
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'''<span style="font-size: medium;">Strategy #1</span>''': Gauge and increase the perceived value of innovation and entrepreneurship at Texas A&M
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#'''Website that is clear, concise, and minimalistic.&nbsp;[[File:Bootstrap-resources-templates-05.jpg|thumb|Bootstrap-resources-templates-05.jpg]]'''
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'''''<u>Tactic 1</u>:'''''&nbsp;Conduct research to gauge the perceived value of innovation and entrepreneurship at Texas A&M
 
 
<ul style="margin-left: 40px;">
 
<ul style="margin-left: 40px;">
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<li>(4/14) Meet with major stakeholders to understand why innovation and entrepreneurship has not become a movement on campus yet.</li>
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<li>A student should be able to enter this website and not be overwhelmed by the structure.
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<li>(5/14) Design a survey to gauge student understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as awareness of and need for innovation and entrepreneurship resources.</li>
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**[https://getmdl.io/ Material Design Lite]&nbsp;or [https://startbootstrap.com/ Bootstrap] is a feasible standard
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<li>(6/14) Collect survey data and create a report outlining perceived value of innovation and entrepreneurship</li>
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**Short and easy URL (tamuie.com, ie.tamu.edu, etc)
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</ul>
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*The website should be a portal that any student can use to find out more about I&E at TAMU.
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**Can be categorized by specific perks and benefits of each program to match an individual student's needs[[File:Square.png|thumb|Square.png]]</li>
  
  
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*Plan
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*#Meet with Rodney Boehm, director of EIC, to discuss how to implement the umbrella structure
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*#Meet with directors of different I&E programs and discuss pipelining information to H.U.B.
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*#Sample student opinions to assess what is specifically unfavorable with current website
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*#Outline website structure, full stack diagram and flow chart.
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*#Assemble Team, Develop Website
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*#Test Pipeline, posting, accessibility, sample experience of website from student user data
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*#Launch
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*#Write documentation for future maintenance
  
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<u>'''''Tactic 2:'''''</u>&nbsp;Increase perceived value of innovation and entrepreneurship at Texas A&M
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'''2. Increase collaboration amongst differnt I&E programs to decrease sparsity'''&nbsp;
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<ul style="margin-left: 40px;">
 
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<li>(5/14) Create a marketing strategy (based on survey results) to increase perceived value and visibility of innovation and entrepreneurship resources on campus</li>
 
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<li>(6/14) Implement marketing strategy to engage a large audience for existing lectures and competitions</li>
 
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</ul>
 
  
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*Encourage and facilitate collaboration between different (possibly similar) programs in order to reduce degree of seperation between programs and to encourage a more centralized structure
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<ol style="margin-left: 40px;">
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<li>Meet with directors of different I&E programs and learn the programs</li>
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<li>Construct a map of possible collaboration initiatives between programs</li>
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<li>Contact the individual directors with collaboration proposal</li>
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<li>Take proposal idea and survey opinions of users who participated in either/both programs</li>
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<li>Solidify proposal, contact intermediary (umbrella head) to mediate the initiative</li>
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<li>Launch the initiative</li>
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<li>Reiterate</li>
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</ol>
  
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== '''PROJECT D.E.M.O.''' ==
  
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'''<span style="font-size: medium;">Strategy #2</span>''': Increase student access to potential resources of innovation and entrepreneurship at Texas A&M
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*Need a way to showcase the separate efforts of the I&E programs across campus
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*Need a way to keep track of events of all the different I&E programs into a single calendar
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*This is another centralization effort that enables students to enter the hub and become familiarzed and aware of all of the different programs across campus
  
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<u>'''''Tactic 1'''''</u>: Negotiate student access to existing innovation and entrepreneurship certificates
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#'''Demo Day at the end of the academic year'''
 
<ul style="margin-left: 40px;">
 
<ul style="margin-left: 40px;">
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<li>(5/14) Meet with major stakeholders to discuss possibility of opening up existing certificate program to more than undergraduate business majors.</li>
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<li>'''​'''This is to showcase all of the events by selecting highlights</li>
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<li>Next milestone will depend on the outcome of described discussion.</li>
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<li>This can expose students or "viewers" to the different programs and the roles they played in developing the projects</li>
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<li>Should decide between presentation style and science fair style</li>
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<li>Aggressive marketing to ensure a large audience of other I&E students and those who are potentially interested</li>
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<li>PLAN:</li>
 
</ul>
 
</ul>
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<ol style="margin-left: 40px;">
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<li>Discuss with stakeholders, I&E student leaders, and industry partners to broadly construct the outline of the event-- namely science-fair or presentation-pitch style</li>
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<li>Contact the different I&E programs to highlight their most successful venture to be part of the demo</li>
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<li>Organize and plan the demo</li>
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<li>Coordinate with I&E directors</li>
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<li>Aggressively market to students who are both in and not in I&E</li>
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<li>Finalize structure, confirm attendance and participation of the highlight projects</li>
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<li>Launch</li>
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<li>Survey results of all those who were involved, including attendees, sponsors, directors, and demo-ers</li>
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</ol>
  
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2.&nbsp;'''Central calendar for all I&E related events'''
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<ul style="margin-left: 40px;">
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Events like this are easier to organize if there is a single timeline<li>Front end visualization framework backed by a google calendar that is easily modifiable by representatives of different I&E programs</li>
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<li>Make part of H.U.B.</li>
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Plan</ul>
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<ol style="margin-left: 40px;">
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<li>Coordinate with directors of I&E programs about the idea</li>
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<li>Create a framework or bot that helps to automate the scheduling</li>
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<li>Re-coordinate with directors to instruct on scheduling</li>
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<li>Update H.U.B. to reflect the schedule on the backend</li>
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<li>Advertise H.U.B. and calendar</li>
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</ol>
  
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== '''<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">PROJECT O.U.T.R.E.A.C.H.</span></font>''' ==
  
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''<u>'''Tactic 2:'''</u>''&nbsp;Aggressively market the innovation and entrepreneurship message to students through the creation of a leadership team
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'''Proactive Outreach: Go to the students, instead of waiting for the students to come to us. Outreach proactive search for student opinion and feedback as well. <u>The students are our customers and we need to engage with them and vice versa, as well as providing an environment for them to connect amongst themselves.</u>'''
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<ul style="margin-left: 40px;">
 
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<li>(5/14) Develop an application and competencies needed in the student leadership team.</li>
 
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<li>(6/14) Recruit students (and faculty co-leaders) to market the message of innovation & entrepreneurship to students.</li>
 
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<li>(7/14) Train recruited students on their role and responsibilities (at least a one-semester commitment).</li>
 
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<li>(7/14) Invite guest lecturer (Spaces of Invention workshop) to “train” recruited students about creating spaces (pop-up studios) for students.</li>
 
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<li>(8/14) Trained students go out to market the message and train other students to do the same!</li>
 
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</ul>
 
  
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#'''I&E Community'''
  
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*'''​'''Environment for students to engage with others who are also passionate about I&E
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*Rapport support amongst students for I&E initiatives
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*Fosters networking, interpersonal learning, and increased engagement and interaction
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*PLAN:
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<ol style="margin-left: 40px;">
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<li>Survey students to see if I&E community is something they would actually be engaged with</li>
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<li>Proceed with recruiting said students to be early adopters of the I&E space</li>
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<li>Choose a dedicated location for the space</li>
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<li>Organize forum leaders to spearhead discussions and dynamics in the room</li>
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<li>Encourage leaders to head knowledge sharing session</li>
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<li>Encourage referall of other students</li>
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</ol>
  
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<span style="font-size: medium;">'''Strategy #3'''</span>: Develop student access to applied resources of innovation and entrepreneurship at Texas A&M
 
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<u>'''''Tactic 1'''''</u>: Create an experiential program around ideas of innovation and entrepreneurship by bringing all existing resources together, with assistance from recruited student leaders
 
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<ul style="margin-left: 40px;">
 
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<li>(7/14) Meet with student leaders to begin designing a program using existing resources.</li>
 
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<li>(8/14) Coordinate resources to set-up the program.</li>
 
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<li>....</li>
 
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</ul>
 
  
  
  
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<span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: medium;">Strategy #4</span>: Fill gaps in realized resources of innovation and entrepreneurship at Texas A&M
 
  
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<u>'''''Tactic 1:'''''</u>&nbsp;Build a maker space for students or determine how existing maker spaces can be influenced to incorporate student feedback on the space
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2.&nbsp;'''Increase proactive engagement with students to asess and address contemporary complaints/feedback'''
  
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<u>'''''Tactic 2:'''''</u>&nbsp;Work with the Technology Transfer Office to develop student-friendly policies around inventions developed by students
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*Cannot continue to proceed in a "directionless" pursuit of I&E at the university
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*The core of any such efforts should revolve around our students and their interests
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*To gauge these, we should have an open line of communication at all times
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*PLAN:
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*#Survery students within I&E community
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*#Survey students outside of I&E community
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*#Construct an open-line for feedback/complaints of I&E related activities
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*#Feed data into a sum and analyze&nbsp;
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*#Discuss inherent issues of sum and construct plans or plan edits
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*#Iterate
  
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<u>'''''Tactic 3:'''''</u>&nbsp;Work with the Technology Transfer &nbsp;& Grant & Proposal Development Offices to develop workshops geared towards helping students take their technology to market
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== '''​PROJECT C.O.A.C.H.''' ==
  
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*There exists academic advisors to help students navigate through courses and major; why not one for I&E?
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*&nbsp;I&E advisors should help passionate students who don't know where to start to find their place and program in the I&E ecosystem
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*I&E coaches should help students who don't necessarily know which direction to take for their idea
  
  
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'''<span style="font-size: medium;">Strategy #5:</span>'''&nbsp;Further reframe resources of innovation and entrepreneurship at Texas A&M
 
  
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<u>'''''Tactic 1:&nbsp;'''''</u>Sift through the Texas A&M Alumni Network to find alumni who are innovators and entrepreneurs, to create a network of alumni who can become a resource at all stages of the innovation and entrepreneurship movement
 
  
  
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#'''Have an I&E advisor who is familiar with our ecosystem'''
  
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'''<span style="font-size: medium;">Strategy #6:&nbsp;</span>'''Renew the entire university curriculum to integrate innovation and entrepreneurial resources and skills for all students at Texas A&M
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*​I&E Advisor can be a student or faculty member dedicated to helping those who have just dipped their toes into I&E
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*PLAN:
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<ol style="margin-left: 40px;">
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<li>'''​'''Create portfolio of different I&E organizations/programs to be easily read and understood</li>
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<li>Select a member in the community, faculty or student, dedicated to using this portfolio to help students</li>
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<li>Certify this individual</li>
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<li>Have this individual's profile and contact be put on the main I&E hub</li>
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<li>Talk to other I&E programs and have their information streamlined to the advisor'''&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;'''</li>
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</ol>
  
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'''​'''
  
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; '''&nbsp; 2. &nbsp;Have an I&E Coach who helps students with the direction of their product'''
  
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These six strategies (and more) may be used to bring innovative and entrepreneurial thinking and resources to students, so Texas A&M students can develop their capacities to be innovative and entreprenurial in solving today's problems and leading tomorrow's challenges!&nbsp;
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*Coaches should not only be familiar with the startup process and idea transformation, but should be trained and involved with several different I&E programs on campus in order to have the best knowledge base for students
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*PLAN:
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<ol style="margin-left: 40px;">
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<li>Identify a member of the local I&E community who is experienced with a good number of the programs</li>
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<li>Else, default to Startup Aggieland</li>
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<li>Connect this individual to students and vice versa by expanding and advertising profile on I&E hub</li>
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<li>Monitor student feedback and asessment of individual to help coach learn to be more helpful</li>
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<li>Let other I&E programs know about coach's role as to easily streamline request for information to ensure that there is no bottleneck for the student entrepreneur</li>
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</ol>
  
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= Related Links =
  
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_A_%26_M_University_Student_Priorities Texas A&M Student Priorities Part I]
  
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'''<span style="font-size: medium;">Related Pages</span>'''
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_A%26M_University_Student_Priorities:_Part_II Texas A & M Student Priorities Part II]
  
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Gurlovleen%20Rathore <span style="font-size: small;">2014 UIF Candidate, Gurlovleen Rathor<u>e</u></span>]
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Texas_A_%26_M_University Texas A & M University Overview]
  
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<span style="font-size: small;">[http://universityinnovation.org/Texas%20A%20%26%20M%20University Texas A&M University]&nbsp;</span>
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jusung_Lee Jusung Lee]
  
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[http://universityinnovation.org/Texas%20A%20%26%20M%20University%20Student%20Priorities <span style="font-size: small;">Texas A&M University Student Priorities: Part I</span>]
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Momore_Adesanmi Momore Adesanmi]
  
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[http://universityinnovation.org/%2FKanika%20Gakhar /Kanika_Gakhar]
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[http://universityinnovation.org/%2FKanika%20Gakhar Kanika_Gakhar]
  
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[[Category:Student Priorities|t]]
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[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Mack_Ragland Mack Ragland]
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[[Category:Student Priorities]]
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[[Category:Student Priorities]]

Latest revision as of 10:53, 2 June 2020

Overview

While Texas A&M University boasts a vast sum of resources in order to facilitate entrepreneurship, its de facto accessibility is lackluster due to the sparse nature of all of the manifestations of the resources. While it may initially seem positive that we have so many different facilities and programs, it leads to confusion, especially for undergraduate students, and creates an inhibitory effect on students who wish to venture into I&E. This leads to the stonewalling of many students from taking initiative for an idea they may have, and this produces, in sum, an unrecoverable loss in ideas, the retardation of innovation evangelism, and limits entrepreneurship in general for the student body. It is imperative that the university organizes the programs and resources in a manner that is intuitive, clear, and easily accessible. 

This page lists directed strategies to this issue and enumerates possible implementations of solutions for each strategy.

Contents

Strategies

PROJECT H.U.B.

Current structure is too confusing; organize an umbrella head for all I&E initiatives and programs, with main manifestation being a website.

  1. Website that is clear, concise, and minimalistic. 
     
    Bootstrap-resources-templates-05.jpg
  • A student should be able to enter this website and not be overwhelmed by the structure.
    • The website should be a portal that any student can use to find out more about I&E at TAMU.
      • Can be categorized by specific perks and benefits of each program to match an individual student's needs
         
        Square.png
    • Plan
      1. Meet with Rodney Boehm, director of EIC, to discuss how to implement the umbrella structure
      2. Meet with directors of different I&E programs and discuss pipelining information to H.U.B.
      3. Sample student opinions to assess what is specifically unfavorable with current website
      4. Outline website structure, full stack diagram and flow chart.
      5. Assemble Team, Develop Website
      6. Test Pipeline, posting, accessibility, sample experience of website from student user data
      7. Launch
      8. Write documentation for future maintenance
    2. Increase collaboration amongst differnt I&E programs to decrease sparsity 
    • Encourage and facilitate collaboration between different (possibly similar) programs in order to reduce degree of seperation between programs and to encourage a more centralized structure
    1. Meet with directors of different I&E programs and learn the programs
    2. Construct a map of possible collaboration initiatives between programs
    3. Contact the individual directors with collaboration proposal
    4. Take proposal idea and survey opinions of users who participated in either/both programs
    5. Solidify proposal, contact intermediary (umbrella head) to mediate the initiative
    6. Launch the initiative
    7. Reiterate

    PROJECT D.E.M.O.

    • Need a way to showcase the separate efforts of the I&E programs across campus
    • Need a way to keep track of events of all the different I&E programs into a single calendar
    • This is another centralization effort that enables students to enter the hub and become familiarzed and aware of all of the different programs across campus
    1. Demo Day at the end of the academic year
    • ​This is to showcase all of the events by selecting highlights
    • This can expose students or "viewers" to the different programs and the roles they played in developing the projects
    • Should decide between presentation style and science fair style
    • Aggressive marketing to ensure a large audience of other I&E students and those who are potentially interested
    • PLAN:
    1. Discuss with stakeholders, I&E student leaders, and industry partners to broadly construct the outline of the event-- namely science-fair or presentation-pitch style
    2. Contact the different I&E programs to highlight their most successful venture to be part of the demo
    3. Organize and plan the demo
    4. Coordinate with I&E directors
    5. Aggressively market to students who are both in and not in I&E
    6. Finalize structure, confirm attendance and participation of the highlight projects
    7. Launch
    8. Survey results of all those who were involved, including attendees, sponsors, directors, and demo-ers

           2. Central calendar for all I&E related events

      Events like this are easier to organize if there is a single timeline
    • Front end visualization framework backed by a google calendar that is easily modifiable by representatives of different I&E programs
    • Make part of H.U.B.
      • Plan
    1. Coordinate with directors of I&E programs about the idea
    2. Create a framework or bot that helps to automate the scheduling
    3. Re-coordinate with directors to instruct on scheduling
    4. Update H.U.B. to reflect the schedule on the backend
    5. Advertise H.U.B. and calendar

    PROJECT O.U.T.R.E.A.C.H.

    Proactive Outreach: Go to the students, instead of waiting for the students to come to us. Outreach proactive search for student opinion and feedback as well. The students are our customers and we need to engage with them and vice versa, as well as providing an environment for them to connect amongst themselves.

    1. I&E Community
    • ​Environment for students to engage with others who are also passionate about I&E
    • Rapport support amongst students for I&E initiatives
    • Fosters networking, interpersonal learning, and increased engagement and interaction
    • PLAN:
    1. Survey students to see if I&E community is something they would actually be engaged with
    2. Proceed with recruiting said students to be early adopters of the I&E space
    3. Choose a dedicated location for the space
    4. Organize forum leaders to spearhead discussions and dynamics in the room
    5. Encourage leaders to head knowledge sharing session
    6. Encourage referall of other students



             2. Increase proactive engagement with students to asess and address contemporary complaints/feedback

    • Cannot continue to proceed in a "directionless" pursuit of I&E at the university
    • The core of any such efforts should revolve around our students and their interests
    • To gauge these, we should have an open line of communication at all times
    • PLAN:
      1. Survery students within I&E community
      2. Survey students outside of I&E community
      3. Construct an open-line for feedback/complaints of I&E related activities
      4. Feed data into a sum and analyze 
      5. Discuss inherent issues of sum and construct plans or plan edits
      6. Iterate

    ​PROJECT C.O.A.C.H.

    • There exists academic advisors to help students navigate through courses and major; why not one for I&E?
    •  I&E advisors should help passionate students who don't know where to start to find their place and program in the I&E ecosystem
    • I&E coaches should help students who don't necessarily know which direction to take for their idea



    1. Have an I&E advisor who is familiar with our ecosystem
    • ​I&E Advisor can be a student or faculty member dedicated to helping those who have just dipped their toes into I&E
    • PLAN:
    1. ​Create portfolio of different I&E organizations/programs to be easily read and understood
    2. Select a member in the community, faculty or student, dedicated to using this portfolio to help students
    3. Certify this individual
    4. Have this individual's profile and contact be put on the main I&E hub
    5. Talk to other I&E programs and have their information streamlined to the advisor    

    ​

              2.  Have an I&E Coach who helps students with the direction of their product

    • Coaches should not only be familiar with the startup process and idea transformation, but should be trained and involved with several different I&E programs on campus in order to have the best knowledge base for students
    • PLAN:
    1. Identify a member of the local I&E community who is experienced with a good number of the programs
    2. Else, default to Startup Aggieland
    3. Connect this individual to students and vice versa by expanding and advertising profile on I&E hub
    4. Monitor student feedback and asessment of individual to help coach learn to be more helpful
    5. Let other I&E programs know about coach's role as to easily streamline request for information to ensure that there is no bottleneck for the student entrepreneur

    Related Links

    Texas A&M Student Priorities Part I

    Texas A & M Student Priorities Part II

    Texas A & M University Overview

    Jusung Lee

    Momore Adesanmi

    Kanika_Gakhar

    Mack Ragland

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