<span style="font-size:medium;">On this page you will find five strategies to create a presence of I&E on our MSOE campus that will help students, faculty, staff, the community, and all other people where our outreach extends to learn and get excited about brainstorming, entrepreneurship, innovative thinking, forming creative solutions, thinking future-forward, prototyping, design thinking, and implementation.</span>
= <span style="font-size:xx-large;">Strategies for Expansion of Innovation and Entrepreneurship on Campus<br/span><br/span> =
<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">Strategy One: Lack of Strong Entrepreneurial Foundation</span><br/></span>
<span style="colorfont-size:#696969small;"><font sizespan style="3color:#696969;">Our solution was to create a dedicated space on campus that would allow students to come together, hold events, meetings, run workshops, and be entrepreneurs. This space would enable thinkers and tinkerers to ponder their ideas. It would </span></span><span style="color:#696969;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:small;">have</span></font></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#696969;">a</span></span><font size="3"><span style="color:#696969;">a <span style="font-size:small;">conference </span><span style="font-size:small;">rooms</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#696969;">for </span></span><span style="color:#696969;"></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#696969;">meetings to take place - especially those involving proprietary information. </span><span style="color:#696969;">The </span></span><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:small;">space</span></span></font><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#696969;">would</span></span><span style="color:#696969;"><font size="3">would </font></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#696969;">be outlined as follows:</fontspan></span>
<span style="font-size:large;">What does it have (~1200 sq ft space)?</spandiv><divspan style="font-size:medium;">'''Tables '''(several) - small, separable, combinable, mobile, simple</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Chairs '''(hella several) - simple, comfortable, mobile</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Stationery Whiteboards''' (3) - one on each wall without a window, rather wide, has a holster for markers and a cloth, spans the height of the wall, good quality - easy to clean</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Mobile Whiteboards''' (10) - mobile, lightweight, can be stood up, has a small holder for a marker and cloth, good quality - easy to clean</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Supplies '''- a wall of supplies, organized in a way that is a balance between obvious and easy to maintain, office supplies such as: pens, markers, post-it’s, loose paper, stapler, hole punch, etc., creativity supplies like different material scraps, tape, glue, whatever makes its way into the space to enable quick (within a minute) prototyping and explaining</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Projector & Screen''' in front of open area or tables - with sufficient cables/adapters, so short presentations can be given</span></div><div><br/></div>
= <span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:large;">What does it offer?</span></span> =