= '''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship'''<br/> =
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Temple faculty members have a wide range of skills and assets that make them invaluable to the innovation and entrepreneurial programs at Temple University. Temple is known as a large research university, where some faculty members are hired for the sole purpose of expanding their projects, but more commonly, they are brought to Temple to both teach and research. As a result, Temple supports its faculty members in offering students research opportunities as well as many programs and organizations with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. </span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e8a3c2f7-cfd9-b747-e01b-54f04de9060f"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The undergraduate research program and the diamond scholars program pays students to assist faculty in their research efforts. </span>[https://cst.temple.edu/research/undergraduate-research <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://cst.temple.edu/research/undergraduate-research</span>]<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span>[http://www.temple.edu/vpus/opportunities/researchscholars.htm <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.temple.edu/vpus/opportunities/researchscholars.htm</span>]<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></li></ul><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e8a3c2f7-cfda-a07e-f0a5-253ac9c234c7"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are many different types of research projects across campus, for example, the engineering building has a wide range of opportunities. </span>[https://engineering.temple.edu/research/faculty-research <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://engineering.temple.edu/research/faculty-research</span>]</span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e8a3c2f7-cfda-a07e-f0a5-253ac9c234c7"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Temple mandates that faculty members mentor students in the senior design class to work together and build something new and necessary. </span>[https://engineering.temple.edu/departments-programs/senior-design-projects <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://engineering.temple.edu/departments-programs/senior-design-projects</span>]</span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e8a3c2f7-cfda-a07e-f0a5-253ac9c234c7"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many innovation and entrepreneurial organizations are overseen by faculty members. For example, ESA, Entrepreneurial Student Association. </span>[http://d3iovmfe1okdrz.cloudfront.net/cms/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/0803415_ESA_Flyer_v33-1-1.pdf <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://d3iovmfe1okdrz.cloudfront.net/cms/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/0803415_ESA_Flyer_v33-1-1.pdf</span>]</span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e8a3c2f7-cfda-a07e-f0a5-253ac9c234c7"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neil D. Theobald, President of Temple University, advocates 6 commitments, and one of those commitments is the “Entrepreneurship Across Disciplines.” </span>[https://president.temple.edu/six-commitments/entrepreneurship-across-disciplines <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://president.temple.edu/six-commitments/entrepreneurship-across-disciplines</span>]<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e8a3c2f7-cfda-a07e-f0a5-253ac9c234c7"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning helps faculty transform their classrooms </span>[http://www.fox.temple.edu/cms_research/institutes-and-centers/center-for-innovation-in-teaching-and-learning/ <span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.fox.temple.edu/cms_research/institutes-and-centers/center-for-innovation-in-teaching-and-learning/</span>]</span></li></ul>
= '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function'''<br/> =
= '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''<br/> =
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Temple has many research centers for its students from Grants Management, Research Compliance, Innovation, Electronic Research Administration, to Research accounting services. Temple also connects its students with more than 40 different employers through Temple Career fairs at least twice a year.Temple provides Mid Atlantic Diamond Club which utilizes coaching sessions to prepare qualified companies for investments, helps ensure that investment materials are comprehensible, defensible and compelling. Entrepreneurs that have successfully completed these coaching sessions are invited to present their company at our quarterly venture forums. At these events, entrepreneurs engage one-on-one with potential investors. Fox School of business has a program called Corporate Engagement to connect students with a variety of intelligent inspiring business professionals throughout the academic year. Temple has an Owl to Owl mentoring program which builds professional networks with students and enhance professional and communication skills.</span>
== <span id="docs-internal-guid-e8a3c2f7-cfdb-8c97-8220-681115bab610"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other resources:</span></span> ==<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e8a3c2f7-cfdb-8c97-8220-681115bab610"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alumni Association.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e8a3c2f7-cfdb-8c97-8220-681115bab610"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Graduate Student Entrepreneurship Club.</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-e8a3c2f7-cfdb-8c97-8220-681115bab610"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentoring for Life (Kornberg school of Dentistry)</span></span></li></ul>
= '''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts'''<br/><br/> =