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= <span style="font-size: 12px;"></span>Strategy #1: Expanding Student Potential<br/> =
== Tactic 1- The Innovation Space ==
== Tactic 1- Entrepreneurship Certification ==
UCSD's campus has a thriving innovation culture, with multiple programs and resources available for student teams that are building their start up companies. However, these programs are only useful for students that already have a team, a product, and a company, and are ready to get involved with real-world entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneurship Certification program would be an educational course, perhaps a quarter long, or several weeks long, in which students get together, learn the basics of entrepreneurship (lean start up, etc), and go through an extensive course that has them form teams, design a product idea, and develop a mock business plan. By going through the entire process, from team building to plan development, students can learn about the campus resources, the innovation process, and potentially end up with a real-world-ready entreprenurial plan. This course could be instructed by leading I&E figures at UCSD, like Neil Senturia, Barbara Bry, Jay Kunin, or Rosibel Ochoa, all faculty members that already are heavily involved with campus innovation. This program allows individual students, without a team or product idea, to come into a space where more like-minded students can learn together, and serves as a streamlined orientation on exactly how to innovate, as well as a program that boosts their resumes (giving students even more incentives to enter the program). Local companies also benefit from the program, as they then have a simple certification that they can seek out that lets them know that a student has entrepreneurial experience, with some of the biggest names in I&E on UCSD's campus.
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