<div><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span> </div><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Student innovation and entrepreneurship is encouraged in select fields, namely business and sometime engineering. Outside of these fields, students don’t seem to think there is a need to be innovative and entrepreneurial. The classes listed above show strong entrepreneurial emphases. In all of them, students create new product or business ideas and develop over the course of the semester by talking to potential consumers. While this is promising for business students, engineering students tend to see themselves as innovators and oftentimes have little interest in the business aspect. Engineering students were extremely interested in innovation and recognized it was a skill required of them. Students have a basic awareness that there are resources on campus for them, if they are interested in pursuing entrepreneurship.</span></span> = <span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span> =
<span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Office of Economic Innovation Partnerships (OEIP) plays a significant role in assisting faculty members with innovation. Faculty members are also allowed to take a day every week to work on their own ideas, which could potentially lead to product innovation, a startup or a licensing opportunity. OEIP also provides assistance with training related to SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) and STTR (Small Business Technology Transfer) grant application process. OEIP is working on making their online interface easier for faculty members to navigate.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Delaware technology park offers a space for new and companies to work. Star campus is home to the universities rehab centers and health science laboratories. With the completion of the new building startups and small companies will be able to lease the space as a office. Leading Edge Venture, First State Innovation, Vital venture Capital, and Yet2ventures are all possible outside financial resources students can contact for investments. A good mentor network can be found by either talking to a Horn Advisory Board member or a Lerner Executive Mentor.</span></span>
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<span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Small Business Development Center is a potential resource for new businesses to go and get helpful advising. Along with advising they can help them get a space in the Delaware technology park. Also, the Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships will help contracted faculty obtain IP and help commercialize potentially viable ideas. These benefits are not directed toward students. Undergraduate students who are not contracted with the University can get </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">limited support from the OEIP.</span></span>
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