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Revision as of 21:53, 8 October 2015
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Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Texas A&M has support for students to learn about and become involved with entrepreneurship. Programs, like Startup Aggieland and Aggies in Business, are generally new and constantly evolving and have been put in place to reach out to students across college and disciplinary boundaries.
The Mays Business School Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship provides undergraduate and graduate certificates for entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, the undergraduate certificate is limited to undergraduate students in Mays Business School. Only the graduate certificate is available to students across colleges. The Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship, however, does support student entrepreneurship as well as faculty and the local community with competitions and lecture series to inspire and educate across campus. [http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/] Some of its popular programs include:
- Ideas Challenge - idea competition where 40 finalist ideas are chosen, and the top 3 ideas receive a cash prize (1st - $3,000, 2nd - $2,000, 3rd - $1000)
- 3 Day Startup - a weekend event where students collaborate to form businesses and demo a prototype to a panel of judges, including investors
- Lunch and Learn - lunch speaker events
- Startup 101- a weekly lesson spanning 3 or 4 weeks featuring presentations from business leaders, marketers, and IP attorneys and their advice on startup creation
Startup Aggieland is a brand new student incubator designed to provide students who have launch-ready concepts with the opportunity to receive co-working spaces, mentors, and a supportive community. They lack laboratories, equipment, and funding. [http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/accelerator/]
Aggies in Business (AiB) is another brand new program that provides business consulting for local businesses, and enables students to be employed by the university to perform this consulting work. The student employees are overseen by leadership. [http://www.txaib.org/images/txaib/pages/aib_consulting.html]
Texas A&M also has several avenues, such as the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship Newsletter, Texas A&M Regional Engineering Conference, and Engineering Development (hosted by Student Engineers' Council), to inform students of and market innovation and entrepreneurial activities and opportunities.
Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The university offers great resources to enable faculty entrepreneurship. CNVE offers online resources ( for e.g. lectures and case-studies) to help faculty introduce innovation and entrepreneurship to students in both innovation- and entrepreneurship-focused and non- innovation and entrepreneurship-focused courses.
Faculty are allowed to participate in nearly all of the programs run by CNVE which also enables them to be introduced to and educated in entrepreneurship, and there are numerous institutions that provide commercialization of research. For example, the Office of Texas A&M System Technology Commericialization assists faculty in taking their research outside the university in the form of inventions and startups.
The Division of Research at A&M is a library of resources in the university and surrounding network. They accept grant proposals and funnel research opportunities to the correct institutions (most of which are listed under Entrepreneurship and Funding Resources). [http://vpr.tamu.edu/about]
University Technology Transfer Function
Texas A&M offers a number of offices to encourage quick transfer of research to industry, aided also by some incubators in the surrounding Bryan / College Station area.
The Texas A&M Office of Technology Commercialization identifies and supports the transition of academic research into a monetized product by linking researchers with entrepreneurs and investors. Businesses are spin-outs of the A&M System research and licensed through A&M. [http://otc.tamu.edu/]
- ~36 current startups listed
- Formation of over 700 license agreements
- Manage 900 patents, 1500 patent applications
Texas A&M AgriLife Research is a hub for agricultural entrepreneurs. They have existing relationships with sponsors in order to quickly develop startups where researchers can remain scientists and hand over project management to a sponsor. [http://agriliferesearch.tamu.edu/corporaterelations/about-corporate-relations/]
- Network of
- 250 country extension offices
- 900 professional educators
Texas A&M Transport Institution provides networking for innovators to research institutions regarding the transportation profession as a whole, including construction and safety. [http://tti.tamu.edu/group/tog/]
Research Valley is a hub that provides support to early stage startups as well as networking to quickly bring startups and technology ventures to the industry. They are built on strong industry relationships that enables the quick move to industry. [http://researchvalley.org/who-we-are/]
- Access to capital from
- Aggie Angel Network
- Research Valley Funds, LLC
- Texas Emerging Technology Fund ($200 million in funding for commercialization)
- Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas
- See updated landscape analysis for more options on regional capital.
University-Industry Collaboration
The University has strong ties with big industry leaders to encourage a quick transition from research to industry.
Research Valley is a hub that provides support to early stage startups as well as networking to quickly bring startups and technology ventures to the industry. They are built on strong industry relationships that enables the quick move to industry. [http://researchvalley.org/who-we-are/]
- Relationships with
- Pfizer
- Novartis
- MDF Anderson
- Hewlett Packard
- Schlumberger
- ConocoPhillips
The Mays Business School Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship has an advisory council built from industry leaders, including leaders in finance, construction, banking, law, technology, and marketing. Additionally, they have strong relationships with local I&E institutions in the local community and state of Texas. [http://cnve.tamu.edu/about/advisory-council/]
The Dwight D. Look College of Engineering within the university supports and fosters industry and nonprofit relationships within the realm of engineering. In addition, the individual departments within the school have close ties with industry leaders and a campus presence from representatives of those businesses. [http://engineering.tamu.edu/contact/easa]
Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts
Texas A&M has a relationship with a number of local institutions that are fostering local entrepreneurs and innovators.
Research Valley is a hub that provides support to early stage startups as well as networking to quickly bring startups and technology ventures to the industry. They are built on strong industry relationships that enables the quick move to industry. CNVE has ties with Research Valley’s leadership. [http://researchvalley.org/who-we-are/]
BCS Chamber is the local chamber of commerce. The BCS Chamber is unique in its very strong commitment and involvement in the local community. CNVE is developing a stronger relationship with the chamber, the first steps being induction of several student startups (primarily from Startup Aggieland) as members. [http://www.bcschamber.org/]
The May’s Business School Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship provides programs for students and faculty, but also opens the doors of their lectures and programs to members of the local community (see Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans). [http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/]
The Aggie 100 recognizes and celebrates the top 100 fastest growing Aggie-owned or Aggie-led businesses in the world. The annual gathering hosts nearly a thousand attendees, and aims to pass the successes and strategies of the top businesses to the next generation of Aggie entrepreneurs. [http://www.aggie100.com/]
Texas A&M AgriLife Research provides a community development program to provide technical assistance, grants, and workshops to communities to strengthen the foundation for economic development. [http://communities.tamu.edu/]
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station provides networking to all Texans to find a research partner, including all the other research-capable universities in the state, and to pursue higher research opportunities. [http://tees.tamu.edu/about/rpc/]
- Grants provided for
- 3 school districts
- 1 community center
- 4 hospitals
Landscape Canvas
a. Canvas from the Fall 2015 University Innovation Fellows
b. Canvas from the Spring 2014 University Innovation Candidate
c. Canvas from the Fall 2013 University Innovation Fellows
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