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NDSU and UND have a collaborative program to offer students of any major an ''''Entrepreneurship Certificate'''.' This certificate is earned upon completion of five 2 & 300 level entreprenuership courses. As NDSU does not have a proper Entreprenuership department, the certificate is offered through the College of Business. In earning the certificate, students can expect to learn about intellectual property, management, marketing, accounting, design thinking, and venture capital- all with the twist of being specifically designed for providing students with the most important areas of those fields they'll need to thrive in a start-up.
It is worth noting that NDSU currently markets itself as a research university.. particularally, a "Student Driven, Land Grant, Research University." Nowhere in the mission statement, core values, or vision of the university will one find the words 'innovation' or 'entreprenuership' - not explicitly a bad thing, but perhaps something that can be remedied nonetheless! Students at NDSU are provided opportunities to perform '''undergraduate research''', should they be proactive enough to seek out the correct resources. While this research is certainly innovative, the objective of much of the research is not explicitly to teach the students innovative or entreprenuial thinking- it is to perform research and generate data. How much the students learn to be innovative themselves in these environments depends on the student in question.
Amongst all of the student clubs and groups that perform innovative and entreprenurial activities, the author is most intimately familiar with a program known as the '''Bison Microventure'''BµV is a program that brings students from multiple disciplines- primarily Engineering and Biosciences but not exclusive of other majors- together to solve problems and develop a product. The group, structured into 8 seperate teams of 2-3 students each, provides students the opportunity to lead and manage their own ''de facto ''mini-research teams, complete with all of the resource, expertiese, and intellectual property responsibilities that come with it. BµV has been succesful in generating multiple patent disclosures, numerous presentations at national events, and victories in local innovation competitions.
== Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship<br/> ==