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= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech University has hosts a number of student organization organizations that promote the concepts and practice of and engage students in innovation and entrepreneurship:</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">[http://doubletimettu.org Texas Tech Innovation Mentorship and Entrepreneurship (TTIME)] </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">is a student organization for both undergraduate and graduate students of any discipline. This program promotes entrepreneurship while through connecting students with innovative faculty mentors, local entrepreneurs, and the resource channels to go from concept to customer.</span></span>
<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The Officer of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) currently host a hosts [http://texastech.3daystartup.org/ 3 Day Startup] , an intensive, bi-annual, weekend-long event every semester that exposes students to the science of successfully starting a business. From idea, to market validation, to promote and facilitate entrepreneurshipthe investor pitch, students gain invaluable entrepreneurial experience while simultaneously expanding their skill set. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The OVPR also runs hosts the </span>[http://www.kineticaccelerator.com/ Kinetic acceleratorcohort]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, an annual, which happens every spring semester-long program. Kinetic has contains two sections, one for ; technology commercialization and one for student entrepreneurs who are looking thorough mentorship and guidance for guidance on their own startup.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">The [https://www.facebook.com/ttumeig/?fref=ts Media Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group] is a student organization from the College of Media and Communications that promotes startup media companies and entrepreneurial projects. They host multiple pitch competitions, speaker series, and events where student entrepreneurs can come together and share ideas and experiences.</span></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap">Texas Tech also has a chapter of the [https://www.facebook.com/ttuceo/?fref=ts Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization], which through the College of Business promotes entrepreneurship.</span>
<font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"></span>There is also For those who are interested in a technical entrepreneurial experience, the [https://www.facebook.com/SDCTTU/?fref=ts Software Development Club] on campus that is active in trying aims to get students to develop help members hone their own software skills and even startupschannel it into ways to solve real-world problems. It's still Although being a relatively new organization, however, the leadership team is currently trying making efforts to ramp up its activities so that it can play a greater role in become an impactful part the entrepreneurship community at Texas Tech.</span></font>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">At the undergraduate level, student innovation is fostered through the many research [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/vpr/researchers/undergraduate-research.php opportunities]</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">. While funding is available for students to travel to conferences to present their research, little assistance is available for student to turn their research into a startup. </span></span>
= <span id="docs-internal-guid-8e3ce55c-4220-609f-6ecf-ce9ff068433f"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span> =
