== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-97cb2e66-7fff-a544-b43a-10bb98d0a303"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michigan State University is at the early developing stages of undergraduate student innovation and entrepreneurship and has yet to engage very few engagement in any graduate student promotion in the field. The bulk of the undergraduate student promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship is occurring in the later stages of the entrepreneurial process, namely the application and venture forth stages, and is including primarily older students and has yet at a much better succession rate compared to reach the underclassmen in an effective waylast year. In terms of undergraduate facilities Michigan State University sponsors a variety of incubators such as The Hatch and has We have accumulated many office spaces for young entrepreneurs to venture forth from such as the Neo Center and the Technology Innovation Center. From here Michigan State has a variety of sources for funding and continued support such as a wide network of alumni and business relations which the department eagerly connects with promising University entrepreneurs. Before students reach the point of incubators - underclassmen and work spaces, however, Michigan state also has upperclassmen - from a variety of applied entrepreneurial activities from a "Design Day", a pitch competition and entrepreneurial clubs. Michigan state is most clearly lacking in their promotion of the early stages of the entrepreneurial process. While the tools are there for entrepreneurs majors to realize their concepts and make them a reality students are often unaware of join the resources available to them, intimidated by the idea of entrepreneurship, uneducated minor in Entrepreneurship & Innovation as well as utilize the basics of entrepreneurial efforts or too strongly encouraged down the industry path to even consider entrepreneurship. This is an area which requires massive improvement on campus. Hackathons, TED talks and entrepreneurial workshops desperately need to be brought into Michigan State's culture while the tools and accessibility of entrepreneurship needs to be better marketed to the students starting early in their academic career. Efforts are currently being made to adjust the curriculum and add more inspirational programs to the university but much more work can still be done in the arearesources MSU provides.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-97cb2e66-7fff-a544-b43a-10bb98d0a303"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In terms of undergraduate facilities, Michigan State University sponsors a variety of incubators, such as The Hatch, and has many office spaces for young entrepreneurs to venture forth from, such as the Neo Center and the Technology Innovation Center. From here Michigan State has a variety of sources for funding and continued support such as a wide network of alumni and business relations which the department eagerly connects with promising university entrepreneurs. In addition, we have local businesses such as LEAP, which offers free resource to help develop student’s idea.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-97cb2e66-7fff-a544-b43a-10bb98d0a303"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Compared to previous years, Michigan State provides a slew of workshops, resources, and classes for early-stage development. While the tools are there for entrepreneurs to realize their concepts and make them a reality, students are sometimes unaware of the resources available to them, intimidated by the idea of entrepreneurship, uneducated in the basics of entrepreneurial efforts, or too strongly encouraged down the industry path to even consider entrepreneurship. This is an area which requires massive improvement on campus. The tools and accessibility of entrepreneurship need to be better marketed to students starting early in their academic career.</span></span>
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== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-43f5aafb-7fff-8923-cfed-87b69e244769"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Faculty Innovation is strong at Michigan State University. The pipeline for from idea to startup for faculty is well developed and supported by the university. From patent development to funding and business model development , Michigan State gives their faculty all the tools they need to become startup CEOs.</span></span>
== Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function ==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-8922cde5-7fff-e32c-e7a7-b902207b41b0"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Technology Transfer offices at Michigan State support students in a significant way. By providing patent and technology support, students are empowered to innovate without needing to worry about licenses and patents. You can find out more about the Technology Transfer process </span>[https://technologies.msu.edu/researchers/tech-transfer-process <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span>
== Actively Supporting the Facilitating University Technology Transfer Function -Industry Collaboration ==
The Technology Transfer offices at <span id="docs-internal-guid-7b49572c-7fff-807e-4367-cfa5e80c77cb"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If there is only one thing to take away from this page it is this: Michigan State are newUniversity has unparalleled University-Industry Collaboration. The University constantly strives to give their students the best opportunities industry has to offer them. From constantly involving industry representatives in the designing of their curriculum, especially in the college of engineering, less than two years oldto holding massive career fairs with all forms of companies represented, but rapidly growing and supporting Michigan State knows how to connect students in a significant waywith industry. As Much of today the Innovation Center houses 80 undergraduate entrepreneurial groups curriculum even includes different strategies for students to independently connect with industry representatives through fundingresume building, incubation spaceclasses on proper social media usage, office space and professional connections. They also fund networking events and conference tripspre-career gallery coaching. Michigan State University also has a strong pipeline Many colleges even include centers for strong connecting students to faculty ideas through patent and technology support and resident CEOs , one of which can assist them in is the preliminary startup college of their company and expanding their technology into a larger scaleengineering which has an extremely strong career center.</span></span>
== Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts ==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-d8fc53b4-7fff-f75b-7c53-fcaea1ec8d47"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Much of the funding for startup entrepreneurs at Michigan State comes from regional development efforts and economic support grants. The community is actively involved in increasing the entrepreneurship coming out of the university in an effort to strengthen the area economically. In response, Michigan State gives a lot back to the community through increasing startup company activity.</span></span>
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== Related Links ==
[[Michigan State University Student Priorities|Michigan_State_University_Student_Priorities]]
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