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=Project Pitch  =

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Here at North Dakota State University, we are developing a community that lays the framework for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Although events, programs, and resources are needed for an entrepreneurial community to flourish, they are not the most important part of the process. The most important part is the community, and we feel the community has not been given enough attention.

By getting people together to hammock for the sake of just being, we believe natural conversation where ideas and innovation are born will start all on their own. And with how busy people are, I think we can all agree that some time set aside to relax is needed.

The Initiative has had a very successful year, holding several events in North Dakota, Minnesota, California, and Florida. It continues to grow with the work of UIF members. ~~Unfortunatly~~Unfortunately, the project did not have a successful year in 2015, and was discontinued due to lack of participants.

==Tactic #2 Innovation Open House (~~Currrently~~ Currently in process)==

Creating an event/program that is simply an open house for people to show off what ideas they have both from the community as well as campus. This opportunity, would not be a competition, but rather a simple venue for anyone with an idea to display their work, regardless of stage. This would allow students to present ideas outside of a competition setting where they could "fail" and community members to see what parallels they are doing with research and development that students are already doing. A great way to create contacts and expand the network, but also the pen minds about what the NDSU Fargo region is capable of.

UI Fresh is in the process of getting into the course work and doing design thinking activities with the students, thus giving them the ability to think creatively, introducing them to the opportunities on campus that they would either enjoy working in or use as a resource when need be. First hand design thinking activities allow them to see that Design thinking is a tactic they can apply in any field or in anyway.

This is currently being implemented in 189 classes as stated above. The curriculum portion is still a work in progress. Our ~~contiuing~~ continuing problem for this project is the lack of manpower to reach out to the first year NDSU students in their University 189 courses. However, there have been several lectures given in the 2016 spring semester and the 2017 fall semester, with even more planned for the spring of 2017. The faculty is on board and most of the feedback received has been quite positive. With this program, we hope to eventually help students in all years and ~~diciplines~~ disciplines understand design thinking.

=2. Improve Existing Programs=

*Tweak the accreditation program to suit the students.

==Tactic #2 Collaborative Innovation Course (New Fall 2015) ==

One major Pitfall with North Dakota State University is the lack of cross discipline coursework. There are 0 programs that connect majors that will be dealing with each other every day in the professional world, this needs to be changed. Creating a course with an enrollment cap per section that does not discriminate on major, class or even prerequisites is the ideal way to do so. Having a course with a wide variety of majors and backgrounds that are required to unify and complete a task/solve a problem/ etc., can plant the seed of innovation and design thinking in every student. Instructors that have some background in innovation, would form the problem around the demographics in a way to open their minds and change it.

**Explore opportunities for an internship to be implemented into the curriculum. Possibly meet once a week with other students who have similar internships

==Tactic #2 Furthering I&E ==

Further strategies for future development of I&E on NDSU campus include:

===Acquire an Innovation Space (Progressing) ===

Providing students with a place 'with a sign on the door' designating it as purely a space for students to meet and hang out with innovative and entrepreneurial interests in mind will encourage and nourish the formation of ideas and student innovation teams/entrepreneurs, in no particular order. As rules can have a tendency to stifle innovation, the objective is to keep this space as free and open as possible, accessible to all majors and during as much of the day as is feasible.

While a room with a whiteboard is enough to get us started, I would like to expand upon that as much as possible. I'm considering this a separate tactic as it involves going through different channels and asking for entirely different things from different people. The goal here is to network with as many higher-ups who support the movement as possible (many of whom have already been interviewed for the landscape canvas) and see what kind of extra equipment their department might be willing to lend. We're talking computers, Arduinos, soldering irons, scrap metal, hot glue guns.... anything not 'required' to run the I-space but would still contribute to its usefulness. More importantly, anything not nailed down! People resources are going in this tactic as well. The I-space will require a semi-regular pool of mentors, be they faculty, community leaders, or just motivate volunteers. The purpose of this group will be to offer more everyday advice and counsel than bringing in a speaker or holding an event.

==Provide Legal and Financial Assistant to I&E Teams (Progressing) ==

The author requests that you note the use of 'management' vs. 'protection.' Currently, there is little understanding amongst students that work they do that utilizes 'significant university resources' qualifies as university property. The native stance of the IP management system here is to protect all IP generated, not to manage and distribute it. We hope that, by working with the Tech Transfer Office and university higher-ups, a more transparent system can be developed... one that can be explained to students quickly and efficiently. Most importantly, the delivery system for getting the knowledge to students has to be structured in such a manner that it doesn't scare them off!  Barring the ability to get the TTO more involved in proactively assisting with student IP, we at least hope to provide students with a seminar, guide, etc... on what exactly the relationship between them, their work, and the university actually is.With this tactic, we're going to work closely with the NDSU research park and Tech Transfer Office to establish as best we can a formal step-by-step process for ~~entreprenuers~~ entrepreneurs looking to start a business and/or license their own IP back from the university. Note that the point here is not to constrain but to assist. The purpose of the formal system is to allow rails for the students to follow along their journey- right now there is nothing in place to assist students in the early or middle stages of planning, for example. Late stage business-founding can be handled by the Research Incubator... but how do you know to contact them? That is precisely what we are going to fix. At the very least, this tactic will produce a flow chart of steps, people, ~~andprocesses~~ and processes that have been ~~succesful~~ successful in the past for starting businesses at NDSU.

==Tactic #3 Drone Focus (Discontinued Fall 2017) ==

*Description: DroneFocus is an annual event that brings together leaders in the drone industry from all acorss the country for an all-day conference. A recap of of last year's (2015) event is available at [https://vimeo.com/133365221 https://vimeo.com/133365221]. North Dakota is home to one of the leading Unmanned Arial System (UAS) hotspots in the nation. With industry leaders such as Botlink ([https://botlink.com https://botlink.com]) and facilities such as the Northern Plains UAS Test Site ([http://www.npuasts.com http://www.npuasts.com]), North Dakota holds the resources, technologies, and networking opportunity to experience the regional and national state of the UAS atmosphere. Guest speakers, pitch events, and networking opportunities will be just a few of the events available to attendees.

*While the DroneFocus competition was a mild success in 2016 with 8 teams competing, there was not enough interest to continue the competition for 2017. There are still many drone teams in the area, however, they were not willing to compete with their design for some reason. There are still monthly UAS meetings held by Emerging Prairie in downtown Fargo, which are attended by approximately 30-40 people per event. NDSU attempted to host a separate drone competition, which actually yielded some success. Investigations are currently underway to determine how to grow this competition in terms of both size and scope.

=Tactic #4 In House ~~Entrepeneurship~~ Entrepreneurship Program (New Fall 2015) =

NDSU Currently offers a Certificate of ~~Entrepeneurship~~ Entrepreneurship as part of a ~~collabrative~~ collaborative program with the University of North Dakota. This program, although very beneficial, has seen very little student enrollment, ~~primarly~~ primarily due to a lack of advertising and confusion coming from the partnership with UND. NDSU must work to establish its own, in house, ~~entrepeneurship~~ entrepreneurship program. This will have an ~~enourmus~~ enormous effect on the level of ~~entrepeneurship~~ entrepreneurship on campus and when partnered with existing resources on campus, will have a massive impact.

=I-CORP =

I-CORP is a student organization that is set up to help students who are at a mid-level of entrepreneurship activities. The students who are at a crossroads of innovation meeting entrepreneurship and are looking to get their ideas out and recognized in a company aspect but are unsure where to start. Such topics covered will be speakers from outside companies, classes on legal and financial aspects of starting up a business. Additionally there will be networking to encourage students to converse with one another. This is to inspire help become entrepreneurial.

Method- Compile a list of current on campus activities and allow students to add or edit activities as needed.

= Exploring the First Year Student Experience (Fall 2022) =

The first year student experience will be examined to identify improvement areas to yield greater student success. The goal is not just a fresh coat of paint on the existing practices, but a deep drive into how our practices and programs shape student experience. Stories, conversations, and brainstorming sessions with students and campus stakeholders will give a more complete picture than numbers alone. Comprehensive, campus wide exploration is needed to live out the student focused mission of the institution. Information collection, analysis, and prototyping will align with our R1 status. Accountability with campus and community partners will embody the land grant mission.

=Related Links=

[[Kyle Stapleton|Kyle Stapleton]]

Fall 2015:

[[Robert Kringler|Robert Kringler]]

Fall 2014:

[[Drew Spooner|Drew Spooner]]

Fall 2013:

Margaret.latterell

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