School:Arizona State University Tempe
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Student innovation and entrepreneurship
Arizona State University recently adopted a set of guiding design aspirations to thrust ASU into the future as a prominent innovation and entrepreneurship institution. These aspirations, in conjunction with programming and new facilities geared to engaged every student more fully in an interconnected community of innovators, are called the New American University at ASU. Highlighting entrepreneurship, ASU has many venture catalyst opportunities including the Edson Ventures program at the Skysong campus, the Fulton Ventures program at the Tempe campus, and several Changemaker Central workspaces and programs across four campuses. Additional programming is added each year to increase ASU's capacity to foster new student startups. In 2012 Skysong's Edson Ventures program accepted 20 student startups. In 2013, Skysong introduced the Great Little Companies Network to more than double the number of startups going through Skysong each year. All of these programs provide financial support, mentorship, and inclusion in a large network of industry partners.
In addition to structured and financially backed venture catalyst programming, ASU offers several majors, minors, certificates and classes on innovation and entrepreneurship throughout all academic disciplines. On the Tempe campus, the most offerings for innovation and entrepreneurship stem from Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and the W.P Carey School of Business. On the Polytechnic campus, the College of Technology and Innovation expands upon and combines similar programming as the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and the the W.P Carey School of Business
Past Edson Ventures student startups include:
G3Box - a company which designs and produces mobile maternity clinics in shipping containers - this project started through a freshman level introduction to Engineering course called Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS).
FlashFood Recovery - An app that allows for the speedy recovery and redistribution of food which would normally go to waste.
