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== Overview<br/> ==
[[File:Binghamton-university-sign.jpg|frame|Binghamton-university-sign.jpg]] <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Binghamton University, primarily known for being a research-based institution, is a public university located in Vestal, New York. It is home to 13,632 undergraduate and 3,660 graduate students coming from a total of 44 states and 114 different countries. The university consists of 7 different schools including - but not limited to - Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, the Decker School of Nursing, the School of Management, etc. strongly pushing entrepreneurship. After years of development and planning, the infrastructure is in place to allow startups to thrive. Student engagement with these resources is low, relatively speaking. Pushing more students towards the university’s infrastructure is a cornerstone to not only the office of innovation’s mission but also the office of the president. Being one of the most cost effective educations in the northeast is pushing more qualified students into the school but somehow they are not filtering into the entrepreneurship track as well as they could be.</span></span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">The office of innovation and entrepreneurship is formally named the inter-university technology transfer office and there are dedicated lawyers and administrators to help academics commercialize their technology. It is only recently that the office has begun to heavily invest in undergraduate entrepreneurship. They curate a “B-Innovative” student incubator in a building on campus which as had scores of startups move through it. It also runs another incubator in the Innovative Technologies Complex that houses undergraduate and </span></span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">non-student </span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">startups. The office of I&E often </span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">leave </span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">their doors open for students to walk in with questions about a particular resource or just life as an entrepreneur. </span></span></span>
== '''<span style="font-size:mediumlarge;">'''<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Facilitating university-industry collaboration</font>'''</span>''' ==
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">The university is in the process of constructive a massive downtown innovation center that will host startups and laboratories. There are also several access points to serious funding but access to those sources are restricted. Take the NYS business plan competition. The winner receives a grant of half a million dollars but the competition is intense and no student from Binghamton has even gotten close to winning. There are ample events for networking but, as far as investors and capital goes, let's just say that most startups are forced to go lean for a long time.</span></span></span>
== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="s1">'''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts'''</span></span></span><br/> ==
<span style="font-size:medium;">Students do not have much involvement with the local economic development despite having the resources available to do so.</span>