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     Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• The Hub
• Saluki Ventures

Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• Thermaquatica
• DxR Development Group, INC.
• Technology Transfer Office
• Saluki App/Idea Competitions
• Small Business Incubator

Regional and Local Economic Development

• Southern Illinois Research Park
• Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
• Small Business Incubator

Campus Programs

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Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Technology on its own cannot bridge the small gaps that can separate two brilliant ideas from becoming one great solution. That is why here at Southern Illinois University Carbondale we’re seeking to better harness the people power at our disposal – and we’re looking outside of the College of Business to do it.

The Hub

A 3,500-square-foot facility designed to promote a climate of entrepreneurship in which a marketplace of interdisciplinary ideas can flourish. Ultimately, we want students and faculty across colleges and disciplines to bring their unique perspectives and find common ground to achieve uncommon goals and world-changing innovations.

Saluki Ventures

A shared student business incubator designed to enhance the entrepreneurial playing field for our region’s student entrepreneurs and innovators. Provides tools to successfully engage students within their business idea, while balancing a full-time student status at SIU Carbondale.  Members gain access to hands-on training, consulting services and mentorship within a student-focused incubation program embedded within the region’s leading business incubator. Facilities include a resource room, work space, collaboration area, plus many other amenities needed to help their business grow.

Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship

With the availability of Southern Illinois Research Park, the faculty of SIU have not hesitated to pursue their own passion and research while bringing a few or even many of their students along for the journey of innovation and entrepreneurship.  

Thermaquatica

With CSO and founder of thermaquatica, Dr. Anderson has developed the OGD concept, and has served as PI on four grants funded by the Illinois Clean Coal INstitute to explore the concept and develop the fundamental technology. He is a full professor in the Department of Geoplogy, at SIUC.
Jack Crelling, PhD how is a Board Member & Technical Advisor for Thermaquatica joined the SIUC faculty in 1977 as a professor and the Leader of Coal Characterization Laboratory and the Maceral Separation Laboratory. He retired from active teaching in 2006 and now continues on the faculty as a Research Professor

DxR Development Group, INC.

DxR Development Group's roots are in education... specifically, medical education. In 1990,Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Professors Hurley Myers, PhD and Kevin Dorsey, MD, PhD, collaborated with software engineer Eldon Benz to produce a computer simulation program that allowed medical students to conduct a clinical investigation using a virtual patient. The program recorded the students' decisions, allowing faculty to review how the student reasoned through the patient problem. From this effort, Diagnostic Reasoning, the precursor to what is now known as DxR Clinician, was born. Clinician has since been translated into Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish and is used in at least a dozen countries.

Technology Transfer

Technology Transfer Office

Since 1996, the university has disclosed 379 inventions, issued 84 licenses/options, filed 196 patents with a resulting 63 patents issued, and received $7.26 million in royalties.

Saluki App/Idea Competitions

The mission of the Saluki App Competition is to encourage SIU Carbondale student involvement in the technology and business of creating useful and valuable application software (“apps”) for mobile devices. The mission of the Saluki Idea Competition is to boost SIU Carbondale student and community involvement with innovative thinking and business development to address local and global challenges.

Small Business Incubator

The mission of the Small Business Incubator Program, managed by the SBDC, is to accelerate the start-up and expansion of small businesses in southern Illinois. The program is here to provide the guidance and consulting necessary to make sure those

Regional and Local Economic Development

Southern Illinois Research Park

The Southern Illinois Research Park (SIRP) is a non-profit corporation affiliated with Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU Carbondale) promoting technology and knowledge-based enterprise development within the Park and the southern Illinois region. As a knowledge-based, high-tech and research-oriented business park, SIRP is a member of the Association of University Research Parks (AURP).

Office of Economic and Regional Development –Serves as the university’s primary business and community development outreach arm.  OERD has a history of success in enhancing growth and building prosperity throughout southern Illinois.  SIU has been supporting the region’s entrepreneurs in job creation, enterprise development and expansion, and strengthening the rural southern Illinois economy since 1985 with the establishment of the Small Business Development Center. Technology entrepreneurship training, youth and collegiate entrepreneurship, and the Saluki Innovation Lab are key successes of this unit.  Additionally, Community Development and Outreach efforts are focused on making communities more prosperous and healthy through collaborative engagement and greater connectivity in Southern Illinois.

Small Business Development Center (SBDC)

Provides small business owners and entrepreneurs with the tools, guidance and support necessary to start, manage and grow successful and sustainable businesses. Resources include a full range of business development assistance for entrepreneurs, including one-on-one consulting, workshop and training events, and business plan development.

Small Business Incubator

The mission of the Small Business Incubator Program, managed by the SBDC, is to accelerate the start-up and expansion of small businesses in southern Illinois. The program is here to provide the guidance and consulting necessary to make sure those start-up and expanding firms have the tools necessary to succeed. This program has assisted more than 50 organizations start and expand their operations since its inception in 1990.

Campus Programs

• Saluki Ventures
• Saluki CEO Corps
• Moon Buggy Design Team
• Formula SAE Design Team
• Concrete Canoe Design Team
• Morris Library 3D Printing Lab

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