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<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">The University of Chicago also offers several programs to help entrepreneurs (primarily faculty members) fully develop their startup ideas into companies.</span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Product Creation and Prototyping Resources</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">CIE Fabrication Lab (Chicago Innovation Exchange) - A new fabrication lab equipped with a 3D printer to help entrepreneurs prototype their product ideas</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Hack Arts Lab - </span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Hack Arts Lab (HAL) provides an open-access laboratory for creative digital fabrication and visualization. &nbsp; This </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">makerspace</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">-styled workshop is designed to support a breadth of activity ranging from undergraduate projects to faculty-led exploration. HAL resources include 3D printers, laser cutter, advanced graphics, and microcontroller workbenches, all offered at minimal cost.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Research and National Labs - The University of Chicago boasts numerous, state-of-the-art scientific research facilities both on and off campus. Examples include the Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, Argonne National Laboratories, and the Marine Biological Laboratory</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Regional Sources of Capital</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Hyde Park Angels</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Lightbank</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Hyde Park Venture Partners</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation Fund - The Innovation Fund is a university-operated venture philanthropy fund that provides grants to faculty and university affiliated persons with business ideas to prototype and develop proof-of-concept models for these ideas</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Advisory Networks</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Chicago Innovation Mentors - The Chicago Innovation Mentors support university-based and local new technology ventures through the use of mentor teams.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.2272686958313; background-color: transparent;">Chicago Innovation Exchange - The Chicago Innovation Exchange holds office hours for its members to discuss business ideas and issues in startup development</span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship - The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship holds office hours for entrepreneurs on campus to discuss business ideas and issues in startup development</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">UChicagoTech - UChicagoTech hosts Executives-in-Residence who help faculty members in the development of their technologies</span></span></span><div><br/></div>