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Carnegie Mellon offers many opportunities for students to explore innovation and entrepreneurship on campus:

Project Olympus:

Project Olympus, a Carnegie Mellon innovation center, operates at the earliest stages of the value creation chain. It aims to augment and accelerate the process of moving cutting-edge research and great ideas to development and business stages through licensing, creating start-ups, and through corporate collaboration and strategic partnerships. Olympus provides start-up advice, micro-grants, incubator space, and connections for faculty and students across campus and with the wider regional, national and global business communities.

~~~~A maingoal is to create a climate, culture and community to enable talent and ideas to grow, creating a dynamic commercialization eco-system. An initiative of the School of Computer Science, Project Olympus works collaboratively with all members of the university’s Innovation Eco-system. Based within the university’s academic sector, Olympus can easily tap into promising innovations that build on the wealth of university research and student ingenuity. Fostering collaborations, both on and off campus, Olympus leverages considerable community expertise and resources.

Olympus PROBE projects (PRoblem-Oriented Business Explorations) are the centerpiece of the enterprise. Here teams of faculty and students from across campus explore the commercial potential of their research and ideas. Guidance is provided at every stage by the Olympus in-house Entrepreneurs-in-Residence and a network of economic development partners.

McGinnis Venture Competition

The McGinnis Venture Competition brings together Carnegie Mellon's best and brightest student entrepreneurs to compete for $60k in investments. All participants receive crucial interaction with alumni entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, an opportunity to raise capital and valuable feedback about ventures.

Undergraduate Innovation Scholars This program fosters innovation and entrepreneurship and seeks to increase the number of successful start-up companies initiated by or involving Carnegie Mellon University undergraduate students.  Scholars complete a two-year program integrating<ul style="margin: 4px 0px 9px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: none; color: rgb(66, 69, 69); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8px;"><li>academic coursework</li><li>work experience in a start-up company</li><li>networking</li><li>mentorship--given as well as received</li></ul> This selective program attracts the next generation of innovative thinkers and doers.

== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==

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