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Penn State offers many Innovation and Entrepreneurship resources varying from classes, to organizations to attaining funding for entrepreneurial activities. Its biggest contributor of growth has been the "Invent Penn State" initiative, started in 2015. It was a pet-project of the current President, Eric Barron, and has lead to buildup of entreprenuerial resources in nearly every facet of Penn State life. There are over 150 classes offered in the varying areas of entrepreneurship. There are 5 minors offered in the umbrella topic of entrepreneurship, along with a semi entrepreneruial B.S.as well as "Launchboxes" (innovation hubs/Mincubators) at every campus in the ecosystem.B.A program. Penn State is Lots of the home to three research centers and two entrepreneurship and innovation centers. By holding continous events growth has been spurred on by various student organizations such as Global Entrepreneurship weekInnoblue (the primary entreprenuership club on campus), Ultimate Trader ChallengeHackPSU (organizes by yearly hackathons with corporate sponsors), HackathonsEnactus (a project-based social entreprenuership club), Pitch and Happy Valley Capital (a VC interest club). Penn State also has pitch competitions, Springboard competitions, PSU covers a wide area of student interests in innovation and entrepreneurshipnearly every academic discipline for startup ideas. There are only Lastly, Penn State has a few areas lacking large industrial park, dubbed "Innovation Park", for Penn State local and university startups to become a fully functional entrepreneurial schooloperate. 

The main two areas Although Penn State has done a great job in building up these opportunities, there are still some ways we believe we can improve. We would be Perceived and Applied strategies like to provide more inspiration for students to become entrepreneurs, provide a greater culture of entrepreneurship. Specificallyentreprenuership, Penn State needs to improve on speaker series and connection with current entrepreneurs increase the visibility of suitable entry points in to the perceived strategycommunity. In the applied strategyWe will carry out these goals by increasing VC presence, students need a place providing entry information to work creatively with their ideas. They also need a way to gain experience in an entrepreneurial settingfreshmen, and elevating successful entreprenuerial alumni.   Link to Prezi overview of campus ecosystem: {{#Widget:Prezis|id=r4wkf5-ryonh}}