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Tulane University has great resources for generating awareness of innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) through seminars supported by the School of Business, Bioinnovation, and the Biomedcial Engineering department. Furthermore, the tech transfer office (OTT) is readily available to aid students in the first steps to securing and implementing their innovative ideas. Classes at Tulane University , such as SCEN 4800 and SCEN 6000 , assist both undergraduate and graduate students to realize their specific potential in beginning an innovative and entrepreneurial venture. Local venues in the New Orleans area , such as : NOBIC, Propellor, Idea Village, and New Orleans BioDistrict , offer support by providing seed money and incubator space for an established innovative idea. Thus, Tulane University has great resources for an Innovation innovation and Entrepreneurship entrepreneurship landscape in the areas of perceived, potential, and reframing strategies. However, the campus can improve in two areas that which are critical in bridging potential and reframing strategies: applied and realized schemes. "Applied" refers to the student utilizing their entrepreneurial insight to explore the potential of the innovative idea, while "realized" refers to the student committing to an innovative idea and translates translating it to a liscensed technology, venture startup, or attains attaining legal status via   intellectual property protection.  

The applied and realized schemes in the I&E landscape could be greatly be improved on Tulane’s campus through seminars from the Tulane Entrepreneurs Association (TEA) and Bioinnovation by ; discussing the resources for these schemes. Specifically, it would be great to target seminars towards freshman and sophomore undergraduates so that they are immersed in and understand the culture of innovation culture on campus early on in their education. Moreover, physical incubator spaces on campus for a student’s innovative idea would help push their entrepreneurial pursuit. Having student organizations such as TEA push for innovative grants on campus , such as NSF I-Corps and NCIIA , could greatly improve resources and funding for innovative ideas in science and engineering. Clubs and organizations on campus like TEA need to be assembled in the undergraduate community to enhance awareness of strategies to overcome applied and realized schemes. The graduate student community in either the business school or in Bioinnovation can improve upon these schemes by educating undergraduate engineering students in various workshops and seminars of about the resources they the undergraduates can possibly utilize. Lastly, more classes pertaining to innovation and entrepreneurship in science and engineering should be implemented at the end of the undergraduate curriculum. All of these strategies to enhance applied and realized schemes for should initially be directed by graduate students and faculty that are knowledgeable in entrepreneurship approaches. This will spark the undergraduate community to be become aware of and further find creative resources for innovation.