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'''2) Engage Underclassmen''' - Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in innovation and entrepreneurship. Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook of the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them. This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do, and also inspires the dreams that will fuel these actions.
'''3) STEM Research and B-School Integration''' - Our business school School of Business is very active on the entrepreneurship side. We have an entrepreneurship major and minor, as well as a very active [http://enactus.org/ Enactus] chapter that meets each week. There are a number of businesses started by business students each year. However, there is quite a bit of separation between the business school School of Business and the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The goal of this strategy is to provide a means for allowing business students to gain hands-on-experience in applying business practices with a scientific or engineering background. It will also give researchers exposure to entrepreneurship.
'''4) Change Intellectual Property (IP) Rules for Students''' - The rules regarding IP are one-size-fits-all at Hampton University right now. Anything created while a student or faculty member is on campus, or utilizing university resources, belongs to the university. This policy allows the university to keep 100% of 0. This plan incorporates ways in which the student, faculty and university each get a share of ideas/companies grown from within, so then everyone is motivated to go forth and help each other succeed.
Description: Underclassmen have the highest probability of being interested in innovation and entrepreneurship. Freshmen enter college with a clear outlook of the learning possibilities and endless opportunities that await them. This time is ripe for them to be exposed to a culture that encourages them to do, and also inspires the dreams that will fuel these actions.
*Committee consisting of myself, Eric J. Sheppard (Dean of Engineering and Technology), Calvin Lowe (Dean of Science),Trina Coleman (Assistant Provost of Technology) and Otsebele Nare (Director of Business of Engineering) has been meeting weekly since early February to complete actionable items in regards to this, as well as all other strategies regarding innovation and entrepreneurship on campus.
*As our semester ends in three weeks, we expect to have the activities and methods of engagement ready for the Fall semester to greet our students.<br/>
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<span style="font-size:large">'''''2) STEM Research and B-School Integration'''''</span>
Description: Our business school School of Business is very active on the entrepreneurship side. We have an entrepreneurship major and minor , as well as a very active Enactus chapter that meets each week. There are a number of businesses started by business students each year. There However, there is quite a bit of separation between the business school School of Business and the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM ) disciplines, however. The goal of this strategy is to provide a means of for allowing business students to build gain hands-on-experience in applying business practices within with a scientific or engineering background. It will also allow give researchers the exposure to entrepreneurship.
<span style="font-size:large">'''''This will be accomplished by the following:'''''</span>
a) Current research projects within the School of Science or School of Engineering and Technology will have descriptions , including information such as:
i) Basic research, description of research, similarity to (or correlations with ) commercialized products in the marketplace, expected research completion date, what the researchers <br/> expect to know/have completed upon completion date, etc.
b) Dean of the School of Business and , students, faculty and administrators within the school will put together a team of 1 industry partner and 2-3 business school students to attach to the research team.
c) This business school School of Business team will work with the research team to come up with possible ways of transitioning from basic research to commercialization.
d) If a viable commercialized solution is created, a business will be formed , and seed money from the school School of business Business will be used to fund this transition.
<span style="font-size:large">'''''This will benefit three key demographics in the following ways:'''''</span>
a) School of Business school students are able to learn more about the fields that they will more -than -likely be applying their business skills to upon after graduation. They will see how to analyze the market and find ways of taking unfinished, basic research and finding a way , or ways, it can could address a problem for a wide number of people.
b) Scientists and engineers will be able to gain experience in learning how to build businesses around the solutions they're creating in the lab. This will allow them to gain an entrepreneurial mindset that , which can often be missing from those students with STEM backgrounds.
c) Business industry partners will be able to observe and see firsthand how business students are coming up with ways to monetize solutions within science and engineering. Meanwhile, industry partners that are on the R&D side can see how the engineers and scientists are working through their process R&D processes not only in the lab , but also working on the creative side that looks outside the lab. This allows people to look at how a simple idea can go from basic tinkering and prototyping to having a huge impact.
<span style="font-size:large">'''''Timeline:'''''</span>
*Approached Sid H. Credle (Dean of the School of Business) about the idea.
*Prototyped with Dean Credle on how projects would be submitted , and the process for team selection.
*Currently creating lists of projects , so that the first project can be submitted to the School of Business School.
*Will beta-test the process this Summer.
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