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<p style="float: left;"><[[File:IIT.png|thumb]]></p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8a1e6c8fd-38f4394f-2bfe2a50-453eadf9-535e43bbec49e28bd6942c72"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-alignweight: baselinenormal; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and '' Illinois Institute of Technology is a private research university in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next levelChicago, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goalsIllinois. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate It is a tech school with 3000+ undergraduate and 4000+ graduate students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship Illinois Tech has over 130 majors but mostly focus on STEM subjects, specifically engineering and potentially pursue it in a graduate programcomputer science.It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity"</span></spanp>

<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <p style="text-indent: 40px"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.</span></span></p> <p style="text-indent: 40px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Entrepreneurship and Tech Innovation is the newest Institute on Mies Campus. It will attract innovative and entrepreneurial students from across the campus (and beyond) who will come to learn how to convert their creative ideas into significant and viable businesses, services, and new solutions. They will become the leaders, inventors, and entrepreneurs of the future discovering, addressing, and solving serious and consequential problems. New faculty, donors, sponsors, and other business and industry partners will also be attracted to the new initiative and the abundant opportunities which it will provide for all.</span></p> <p style="text-indent: 40px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Kaplan Institute will nurture the advancement of critical and creative ideas, foster interdisciplinary and external collaboration, and create a culture that enables innovation and tech entrepreneurship to flourish on campus and throughout the larger community as well. In addition, the institute will aggressively contribute to its surroundings and to Chicago’s overall economy by encouraging, supporting, and assisting its students and faculty in creating new businesses and other entrepreneurial endeavors.</span></p> <p style="text-indent: 40px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The emphasis of the educational experience within the institute (once the students have completed some of the basic introductory programs) will be on the application of knowledge rather than merely its acquisition. Additional and essential learning will, of course, occur during the entrepreneurial process along with innovative thinking as the students engage in multidisciplinary collaborations across all of the disciplines offered within the broader context of the entire university.</span></p> <p style="text-indent: 40px"><span style= "color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">In fact, part of the entire purpose of the KI is to supplement the technical education of the students with critical and future-proof skills including intellectual curiosity, a commitment to change, team-building ability, an entrepreneurial mindset, a willingness to accept challenges, and a bias toward action. Special leadership programs will be developed and offered to identified cohorts of undergraduates as well as graduate students, focusing on the development critical-thinking skills, resilience and perseverance, adaptability and agility, and strategic design and planning.</span></p> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'Arial; font-size: 21px15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Click [https://web.iit.edu/kaplan-institute/about here] for more info </span> = <span style="font-size:smaller;">U.S. Department of Commerce Innovation Ecosystem Categories</span> = === <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span> === <p style="text-indent: 40px"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''Illinois Tech offers many clubs and courses where students can work towards gaining a better understanding of I & E, all the while producing ideas and products to potentially launch. These programs also allow for students to practice skills important to I & E including experimentation, problem solving, and visual analysis:''</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span></p> *<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://ipro.iit.edu/ IPRO]</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://web.iit.edu/kaplan-institute Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship]</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Innovation Day</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Armour R&D expos</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Student groups or events (Intinium, CEO, Undergraduate Business Council, hackathons, and others)</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Over 75 courses relating to innovation/entrepreneurship</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Laboratories, collaboration, prototyping and maker spaces</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Incubator North and South</span></span> === <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span> ===<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''Illinois Tech professors are able to apply for individual grants from the NIH to be applied to their respectives labs, in order to fund ongoing research:''</span></span></p> *<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">NIH funded grants (BME dept: Eric Brey (Diabetes REU Grant))</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">NIH funded Business Start-up competition</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">NIH funded Neurostartup Challenge</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">NIH funded AP study &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span></span> <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''For more info, please visit the [https://research.iit.edu/osrp Office of Sponsored Research Projects] (they will have records of other funders such as NSF, DOD, DOE, VentureWell, Coleman Foundation, etc.) You may also visit our [https://web.iit.edu/corporate-relations Corporate Relations office] and the Advancement groups facilitate, as well.</span></span> ===<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Actively supporting the university technology transfer function</span></span> === <p style="text-indent: 40px"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''Illinois Tech's office of Technology Commercialization works with other institutions, organizations, visiting fellows, faculty, and government programs like the NIH to share intellectual property and/or commercialize intellectual property. The Office of Technology Commercialization also provides a path of communication stretching into industries and organizations faculty, along with making technological ideas from Illinois Tech's marketable: ''</span></span></p>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/seeking-legal-help/illinois-patent-pro-bono Entrepreneurial Law Clinic]</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/seeking-legal-help/illinois-patent-pro-bono Patent Hub]</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://research.iit.edu/technology-development Office of Technology Development]</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://research.iit.edu/osrp Office of Sponsored Research and Programs]</span></span> === <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration</span></span> === <p style="text-indent: 40px"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''Illinois Tech works with Chicago based sponsors such as the Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium and the Container Store, as well as international <u>[http://ipro.iit.edu/sponsors sponsors]</u> such as Ford Motor company, General Motors, BP Amoco, Coca-Cola, Segway, and Hewlett-Packard into order to bring collaborative, real-world challenge based learning to IPRO courses. Illinois Tech also has numerous research institutions, each partnering on various research projects with outside industry.''</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">&nbsp;</span></p> *<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Career Fairs</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Tech Park</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Student Organizations (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers)</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">IPROs</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering&nbsp;</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;">Illinois Tech Research Institute (IITRI)</span>*<span style="font-size:medium;">Center for Innovation and Science and Applications (CISA)</span>*<span style="font-size:medium;">Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER)</span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Faculty Engineering Labs</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://web.iit.edu/corporate-relations Corporate Relations Office]</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Partnerships with Incubators in Chicago(MHub,1871)</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://web.iit.edu/corporate-relations Corporate Relations Office]</span></span> === <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts</span></span> === <p style="text-indent: 40px"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''Illinois Tech's Community Affairs office partners with area businesses and regional development councils to improve the surrounding neighborhoods. Initiatives of Community Affairs and the Knapp center provide small or start up businesses with legal assistance, networking expertise, and technology training.''</span></span></p> *<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Illinois Tech Board of Trustees</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Kaplan Institute Board of Trustees</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Office of External Affairs</span></span>*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://alumni.iit.edu/staff-directory Institutional Advancements]</span></span> *<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/academics/jd-program/practical-skills-training/legal-clinics/entrepreneurial-law Entrepreneurial Law Clinic]</span></span> *<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://web.iit.edu/corporate-relations Corporate Relations Office]</span></span> *<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://web.iit.edu/community-affairs Office of Community Affairs and Outreach Programs]</span></span> = <span style="font-size:smaller;">Academic Programs in Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span> =

 <li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">EMGT 407—Entrepreneurship 406—Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Management</span></span></span></li> 

<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MSF 594—Entrepreneurial Finance</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ECON 151—Microeconomics</span></span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ECON 211—Principles of Economics</span></span></li></ul></ul><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">College of Computing</span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ITMM 481—Information Technology Entrepreneurship</span></span></span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ITMM 482—Business Innovation</span></span></span></li>

  <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Project Courses Stuart School of Business</span>

= <span id="docs-internal-guid-25305550-394e-e588-a3f4-d9d176ace733"><span style="font-size: 21px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentsmaller;">Campus Entrepreneurial Efforts</span></span> = <span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy:</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The IIT Entrepreneurship Academy (EA) is a university-wide, academic-focused organization with an overall goal of fostering a community of entrepreneurship on campus that transcends departments and units. Its purpose is to advance the spirit and understanding of entrepreneurship across the campus through the Entrepreneurship Minor and related co-curricular activities available for all university majors.Illinois Tech Innovation Challenge:</span></span>

<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); fontvertical-familyalign: Arial; font-size: 15pxbaseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The EA organizes a full array of complementary activities that provide opportunities Illinois Tech Innovation Challenge invites students from Chicago area community colleges and high school schools to develop smart solutions for undergraduate real-world consumer or business needs. This event encourages and graduate inspires students to have think about creating physical things, applications, and applications that control physical things by encouraging them to seek to solve a real-world experience in innovation consumer or business need or problem that they have identified. Demonstrate their creativity and entrepreneurshipinventiveness at solving this problem. At the EA, students can apply business fundamentals and innovative and entrepreneurial thinking This event also provides an opportunity to earn a variety of situations—in entrepreneurial endeavors, research, monetary prize unto $2500 and business and social organizationsfree rent at a maker’s co-working space to recognize their accomplishment.</span></span></p>

<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49">[httphttps://web.iit.edu/entrepreneurship-academy /innovation-challenge <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">IIT Entrepreneurship AcademyIllinois Tech Innovation Challenge</span>]</span></li>

<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Developed at IIT in Since 1995, Illinois Tech’s IPRO Program has provided the alternative to a traditional undergraduate education. Our signature IPRO Program consists remains one of student teams from the junior through graduate levels, representing the breadth just a few programs of its kind in the university’s disciplines and professional programscountry. The multidisciplinary IPRO team project course experience is offered via three platforms that provide joins students a variety from various majors to work together to solve real-world problems, often on behalf of choices that tap their passion sponsor companies and disciplinary knowledgenonprofits. A required academic program, IPRO projects also offer sponsorsteaches leadership, creativity, teamwork, design thinking, community partners and other collaborators customized approaches to accommodate their interests. All three IPRO platforms are designed project management—uniquely preparing students to achieve the same learning objectives and serve our undergraduate students succeed in fulfilling their two-IPRO six-credit-hour general education requirement. At the traditional end of semester IPRO Day event, IPRO teams from all platforms exhibit their a professional work for the semester, with variations in how teams from different platforms are evaluatedenvironment.</span></span></p>

<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The interprofessional projects program at IIT gives Each semester culminates with Innovation Day, a forum where students showcase their team’s outcomes for members of all disciplines the opportunity to apply innovative skills to team based project experienceIllinois Tech community, sponsors, and public at large. Students also get prepare posters, conduct live demos, show off their designs and prototypes, and have the chance opportunity to display speak with expert guests about their projects to work—along the way developing public at the IPRO fair during IPRO day each semester. Even students from other universities can join in on IPRO day speaking and showcase their projects for potential cash or recognition from a presentation. In terms of entrepreneurship, there's even an option for entrepreneurial IPRO projects. This program strongly encourages entrepreneurship as it encourages students to set their ideas out into the real world while developing a model for their projectskills.</span></span></p>

<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49">[http://ipro.iit.edu/ <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">IIT Illinois Tech IPRO</span>]</span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49">[httphttps://ipro.iit.edu/wpipro-content/uploadsstudent-projects/IPRO-Brochure1.pdf <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">IPRO BrochureStudent Projects</span>]</span></li>

<span p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; whitetext-spaceindent: pre-wrap;40px">The Idea Shop is an exciting new facility developed in 2010 by IIT. Located in University Technology Park, this beautiful 13,000 square foot environment is a showcase, workplace and learning space that inspires interaction across professional programs and elevates the entire educational experience.</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Every idea shop is a great resource and workplace for all types of needs fuel to be successful. Illinois Tech’s Idea Shop helps to ignite ideas with cutting-edge tools to help students transform their new products and encourages interaction between students inventions into reality. This state-of various disciplines while also providing and ideal learning environment. The idea shop provides numerous tools for innovative projects including -the-art, rapid-prototyping lab houses 3D printersand scanners, cuttersmultiple CNC milling machines, labsa vacuum former, and teamlaser cutter. Full-specific areas. It gives time staff advise students tools on everything from equipment use to test entrepreneurial ideas and gain educational experiences while doing soproduct marketability. You can use the Idea Shop for a class project, research project, or your own personal endeavor.</span></p>

= <span id="docs-internal-guid-5239d2ac-394e-b039-2f80-998d4456abad"><span style="font-size: 21px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentsmaller;">Student Entrepreneurship Initiatives</span></span> =

<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization whose main goal is to foster and support entrepreneurial efforts at Illinois Institute of Technology. This organization provides students of all majors with the necessary support and networks to become an effective entrepreneurial leader. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In collaboration with Illinois Institute of Technologies’ Undergraduate Business council, The Startup IIT Illinois Tech weekend programs are hosted with the aims of providing mentorship and allows students the valuable experience of presenting in front of real-world entrepreneurs and investors.</span></span></p>

<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49">[http://iitceo.org/startupiit/ <span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">IIT Illinois Tech CEO</span>]</span></li>

= <span id="docs-internal-guid-c6690d65c48b49e8-394e38f4-73482bfe-cd88453e-bd58dd5fa6c8535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 21px15px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurial Partners</span></span> =<div><span id="docs-internal-guid-a26ca57a-3928-4800-49ad-f87a9910c447"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship CenterIntinium</span></span>

<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a26ca57ac48b49e8-392838f4-0a642bfe-45df453e-9826fc43e137535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center offers Intinium is a wide variety of supportive services for startstudent-up and existing small businesses located in and around Illinois Institute of Technologyled organization created to inspire others to fearlessly pursue what they are passionate about while bringing positivity to the world. The Center mission is committed to helping neighborhood businesses grow and thrivecreate a community that changes the world by empowering others to live up to their true potential. </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, as well as helping 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">To build the IIT community we envision, we inspire others to follow their most ambitious dreams and passions through a series of events and content creation. We connect studentsto opportunities and resources that empower them to be successful, alumniand we support student ideas, facultyventures, and staff bring new ideas and services to lifeprojects.</span></span></p>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Links to Additional Resources:</span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-a26ca57ac48b49e8-394338f4-403a2bfe-ed9f453e-fd43a3cda3c4535e43bbec49">[https://www.intinium.org/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(017, 085, 0204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation drives today’s business. But innovation is only the beginning. &nbsp;The road to commercializing a product idea or revolutionary new service is difficult and filled with obstacles. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is available to help find resources to overcome these obstacles, and get you on the path to success.Intinium</span>]</span></li></ul>

= <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrapsmaller;">For nearly 125 years, IIT has been teaching, developing, and coaching the best engineering, legal, architectural science, and business minds to improve the world we live in. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center is yet another very important resource that demonstrates IIT’s commitment to improving life for all humankind. Entrepreneurial Partners</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Whether you need help developing realistic cash flow projections, finding your break-even point, accessing capital or helping you hire your first employee, Knapp Center can provide all the neccessary resources.</span>

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<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">For many college-age entrepreneurs, the transition from school into the real world can be challenging. After graduation, the continual guidance from professors, classroom structure and school resources diminish, leaving many students unaware of how to navigate the community. College Founders bridges this gap by engaging students in community activities while they are in school.</span></span></p>

<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">At IITIllinois Tech, &nbsp;College Founders promotes cross-collaboration and increases the capacity of university programs by broadening their reach into the community.College Founders also helps students cross the bridge into the real-world by preparing them to adapt to a loss of constant aid. College Founders sponsors many important resources for future entrepreneurs including the E-pass, giving students open access to the entrepreneurial world. The Fellowship, which kick starts the minds of eager entrepreneurs. And the U-Pitch competition, encouraging students to showcase their business ideas. </span></p>

<span idp style="docstext-internal-guid-1ec08483-394e-117d-d70a-8798b4c48debindent: 40px"><span style="font-size: 21px; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weightfamily: boldArial; verticalfont-alignsize: baseline15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">Landscape CanvasIllinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future.</span></spanp>

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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">Illinois Institute of Technology has many entrepreneurial resources both at the university as well as with partners all across the Chicago area. These resources are utilized by students, faculty, and other affiliates to the university. For more information, please visit the university's website or links provided previously. Illinois Institute of Technology can be considered an ideal university as a starting point for someone with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship in the future.</span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a26ca57ac48b49e8-396738f4-61162bfe-644c453e-419da7837440535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Link to UniversityIllinois Tech Student Priorities</span></span></span><ul style="font-size: 12.222222328186px; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-a26ca57a-3967-6116-644c-419da7837440"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[http://web.iituniversityinnovation.eduorg/ http://web.iit.eduwiki/Illinois_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities#Overview Illinois Institute of Technology Student Priorities Overview]</span></span></li>

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