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== '''<span style="font-size:mediumx-large;">'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span>'''</span>''' ==<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">MadX Labs</span></span></li></ul>

<span styleid="fontdocs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-size:small;73082d003464"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family:arialArial; color: rgb(0,helvetica0,sans0); vertical-serifalign: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Our University MadX Labs is promoting innovationJMU’s first seed stage startup investment accelerator.&nbsp; We are starting and working hard It aims to push not just innovation but also interdisciplinary work within the University.&nbsp; We work to bring students together with classes but there also has to be another way serve JMU’s most talented student founders by allowing them to do this.&nbsp; There has to be experience a way for students to be pushed and work together but for it to benefit them and for them to want it.&nbsptraditional accelerator program; This has to be something that students want.&nbsp; Without their will power and passion there will not be innovation working with University work.&nbsp; We are a step in the right direction.&nbsp; We are working to start with smaller groups of students who are passionate mentorship, funding, and inspiredoffice space - while maintaining status as a student.&nbsp</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt; We need a group of people who can start this wave of innovation through our university.&nbspmargin-bottom:0pt; We are working to promote a group of people who are working hard and can then bring more people together.&nbsp"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; Examples of this start with smaller workshops, we are planning Startup Studio to start this.&nbspwhite-space: pre-wrap; Then it will bridge to larger groups and then spread farther.&nbspbackground-color: transparent; We want it to become something they strive to be apart ">Society of.&nbsp; We want innovation and entrepreneurship to be something that is an activity that people participate in and are passionate about.&nbsp;Entrepreneurs</span></span></li></ul>

== <span styleid="fontdocs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-size:medium;73082d003464"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family:arialArial; color: rgb(0,helvetica0,sans0); vertical-serifalign: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation The JMU Society of Entrepreneurs brings entrepreneurially minded students together. In the organization members educate each other and the JMU community on topics of interest, support each other with new ventures, and reach out to entrepreneurs in the community to help them and learn from them. The society also hosts speakers and Entrepreneurship'''events to educate the JMU community about different topics based around entrepreneurship. The society is application based, and therefore consists of high-caliber entrepreneurs at JMU.</span></span> <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Startup Studio</span></span></li></ul>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="font-size:small15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Startup Studio is a rapid-pitch event hosted by the Society of Entrepreneurs semi-regularly. &nbsp;In the confines of two hours, students meet, split into groups, recognize a problem related to the given theme, develop a solution, and pitch their idea to the rest of the groups. &nbsp;This exercise helps to illustrate to students how to think with an entrepreneurial, creative problem solving mindset.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Startup Weekend</span></span></li></ul> <span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family:arialArial; color: rgb(0,helvetica0,sans0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-serifcolor: transparent;">James Madison University faculty A communal event, in Shenandoah Valley, Startup Weekend is our greatest supporters for entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, makers, and most encouraging resource for innovation others who want to pitch a startup idea and entrepreneurshipreceive feedback from their peers. Not only does At Startup Weekend, teams organically form around the faculty top ideas (as determined by popular vote), and then it’s a 54-hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekend culminates with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders for another opportunity for critical feedback.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Industrial Design Society of all disciplines explore their personal entrepreneurship America</span></span></li></ul> <span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The IDSA at JMU is an interdisciplinary group that meets weekly to organizes workshops, keynote speaker events, collaborative design projects, and strive trips to create more innovation within their disciplineconferences. At its core, they push each individual student the IDSA is empowering industrial design students to explore make an impact on their full potentialcommunity with their innovative design skills. Faculty of James Madison University Many are active in other groups that are altering campus or have highly successful businesses personal pursuits in design and entrepreneurship. With the industrial design concentration now becoming a full major and companies that set examples the number of students increasing, it is becoming a more vital part of the track for the way they encourage student to achieve prominent entrepreneurshipindustrial designers at JMU.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">MadHack</span></span></li></ul> <span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">MadHack was JMU’’s first full scale hackathon,sponsored by Capital One, offering a creative and collaborative software development experience. Whether For 24 hours students built innovative web and mobile apps, as well as hardware.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">BizBlitz</span></span></li></ul> <span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">BizBlitz is JMU’s first full scale “Startup Weekend” style event. s for entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, makers, and others who want to start pitch a startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. At BizBlitz, teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote), and then it’s a 54-hour frenzy of businessmodel creation, sell productscoding, invent new technologydesigning, or design innovative ideas and market validation. The weekend culminates with presentations in front of the futurelocal entrepreneurial leaders for another opportunity for critical feedback.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">I.C.C.E Pitch Competition & Conference</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"></span></span></span></li></ul> <span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, there 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The I.C.C.E Pitch Competition and Conference is a high energy evening celebrating JMU Entrepreneurs and featuring: JMU Student Pitch Competition, I.C.C.E Talks, networking with alumni, faculty member who , and students, great food.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (A2RU)</span></span></li></ul> <span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">James Madison University has been accepted as a founding member of the Alliance for the Arts in that situation Research Universities largely for its proven reputation as an institution valuing and supporting interdisciplinary undergraduate research. JMU is one of 28 founders and know the right steps only comprehensive institution in the alliance whose aim is "to inspire help equip students and faculty to address the student world's most pressing, complex and open-ended challenges with creative confidence as well as disciplinary expertise," according to fulfill his alliance documents.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ISAT Capstone Projects</span></span></li></ul> <span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">As part of the ISAT experience, every senior completes a capstone project. &nbsp;Working individually or her goals in creating teams, students work on a problem with a real-world component, sometimes teaming with a pathway towards entrepreneurshiplocal industry or governmental sponsor. Faculty&nbsp;Capstone project ideas can come from the students themselves, from faculty advisors, or from sponsors. &nbsp;The capstone project allows students opportunity to use the knowledge and skills they learned in the pastISAT to address a real-world problem, has seen the need for classes and organizations receive valuable hands-on experience. &nbsp;Students are required to establish produce a final project report, both in written form and encourage entrepreneurship in the form of an oral presentation to help bring the faculty, their student ideas into a realitypeers, and the public. There has been so many examples but as one&nbsp;</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Engineering Capstone Projects</span></span></li></ul> <span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Students work in 2005, teams under the direction of a faculty created a venture creation class advisor to open entrepreneurship to undergraduate studentstackle an engineering design project. Engineering communication, such as reports and oral presentations are covered. We emphasize practical, hands-on experience, who had ideas and integrate analytical and design skills acquired in the pastcompanion senior-level core courses.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Engineers Without Borders</span></span></li></ul> <span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, but were 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Engineers Without Borders is an organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in need for professional backing order to ensure improve their path to a successful startup creationquality of life. Faculty &nbsp;JMU EWB is open not only encourages from a professor standpointto Engineering majors. &nbsp;Our hope is to recruit students in ISAT, Health and Human Sciences, Business, but also as mentors and advisorEducation</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Entrepreneurship RLC</span></span></li></ul> <span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Entrepreneurship Residential Learning Center is in the process of being developed here at JMU. Within every club Students who participate in this Residential Learning Community will have the unique opportunity to live and entrepreneurial leadership program on campus, take classes with a faculty advisor dedicates their professionalism small group of students who share similar interests in Entrepreneurship. &nbsp;The Entrepreneurship RLC is planned to be ready for the clubincoming class of 2019. </span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">MBA Program in Innovation</span></span></li></ul> <span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">This dedication keeps two year masters program starts with the fundamentals of business before taking a deep dive into creating an even broader range invententive environment where students transform into leaders in technology. The program responds to the realization that the business world outside of the university setting is increasingly getting faster so the content of resources open needed to continue the pathways students are creatingclass aligns with functional topics. The faculty has also help bring together students who promote leadership within their disciplines, and given them While in the curriculum the encouragement student is required to collaboratetake a international trip to one of three countries and gain leaderships skills through workshops. The faculty has played Overall, the Innovation MBA provides the graduate with a competitive advantage for approaching problems in a role business setting.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Undergraduate Academic Programs in building these leadership programsEntrepreneurship</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">SCOM 480 (Rethinking, Re-envisioning, & Redesigning Environments)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ISAT 410 (Sustainable Energy Development)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">INDU 492 (Special Topics in Industrial Design)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">MGMT 420 (Management of Technology and Innovation)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">MGMT 450 (Creativity and continues to encourage Innovation)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">PHYS 397 (Topics in Physics - UAV Design)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ENGR 221 (Management of Technology I: Product Development and Entrepreneurial Engineering)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ENGR 322 (Engineering Management II: Engineering Project Management)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">MGT 372 (Entrepreneurship)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">MGT 420 (Management of Technology and Innovation)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">MUI 440 (Entrepreneurship in the Music Industry)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">COB 300 (College of Business)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">MGT 472 (Venture Creation)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">PHYS 397 (Topics in Physics: UAV Design)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">NSG 490/ BIO 426/ ENGR 498 (Medical Innovations)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">IARC/INDU 220 (Computer Design Modeling)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">IARC 330 (Materials and stay involvedMethods)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ENGR 332 & ENGR 431 (Engineering Design)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f0-a799-b3f2-73082d003464"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">IARC 402 (Studio)</span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <span style="font-family:arial, making themselves members helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f2-170e-9fc8-bb7539a6e101"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">4-Virginia</span></span></li></ul> <span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f2-170e-9fc8-bb7539a6e101"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">4-VA is a collaborative partnership between four Virginia universities. Its mission is to promote inter-university collaborations that leverage the strengths of each partner university in order to accomplish much more than any individual university could achieve alone. A large focus of the organization themselves4-VA is in training professors and other faculty to implement innovative instructional technologies into their courses.&nbsp;Additionally, 4-VA encourages and funds multiple interdisciplinary courses that deal with innovation in the medical and engineering fields.</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-fab25c7f-37f2-170e-9fc8-bb7539a6e101"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Engineering Advisory Board</span></span></li></ul>

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