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== <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: inherit;">Entrepreneurial Pursuit</span> ==
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: inherit;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">The University of Chicago provides various programs to help entrepreneurs begin implementing their startup ideas</span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Polsky Center Accelerator Program - The Accelerator Program helps student teams </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">work on their businesses and social enterprises in a collaborative and dynamic environment.</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Chicago Innovation Exchange - The Chicago Innovation Exchange provides entrepreneurs with a space to translate their ideas and technologies into startups.</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ARCH Venture Partners New Venture Incubator - This incubator provides the winners of the New Venture Challenge with space to build up their products and services.</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">1871 - This co-working facility provides Chicago-area startups with space and amenities to incubate their companies</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">University Technology Park at IIT - This technology park </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">provides more than 300,000 square feet of wet and dry </span>[http://www.universitytechnologypark.com/incubator/floor-plans.php <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lab and office space</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for growing companies focused on materials and life sciences, biomedical engineering, medical devices and diagnostics, green and clean technology, food safety, information technology and many other fields.</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Seed Funding</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Midway Ventures - Midway Ventures is a student-run venture capital group that connects undergraduate entrepreneurs with world-class investors</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Uncommon Ventures - Uncommon Ventures is a student-run venture capital group that provides undergraduate entrepreneurs with seed funding</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation Fund - </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Innovation Fund is a university-operated venture philanthropy fund that provides grants to faculty and university affiliated persons with business ideas to prototype and develop proof-of-concept models for these ideas</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tech Transfer Office</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">UChicagoTech - UChicagoTech works with university faculty members to help them develop and launch their research and technology into the market</span></span>
== <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: inherit;">Entrepreneurial Spin-Out</span> ==
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif; line-height: inherit;"></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">The University of Chicago also offers several programs to help entrepreneurs (primarily faculty members) fully develop their startup ideas into companies.</span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Product Creation and Prototyping Resources</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">CIE Fabrication Lab (Chicago Innovation Exchange) - A new fabrication lab equipped with a 3D printer to help entrepreneurs prototype their product ideas</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Hack Arts Lab - </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Hack Arts Lab (HAL) provides an open-access laboratory for creative digital fabrication and visualization. This </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">makerspace</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">-styled workshop is designed to support a breadth of activity ranging from undergraduate projects to faculty-led exploration. HAL resources include 3D printers, laser cutter, advanced graphics, and microcontroller workbenches, all offered at minimal cost.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Research and National Labs - The University of Chicago boasts numerous, state-of-the-art scientific research facilities both on and off campus. Examples include the Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, Argonne National Laboratories, and the Marine Biological Laboratory</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Hyde Park Angels</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Lightbank</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Hyde Park Venture Partners</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation Fund - The Innovation Fund is a university-operated venture philanthropy fund that provides grants to faculty and university affiliated persons with business ideas to prototype and develop proof-of-concept models for these ideas</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Advisory Networks</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Chicago Innovation Mentors - The Chicago Innovation Mentors support university-based and local new technology ventures through the use of mentor teams.</span></span>
<span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.2272686958313; background-color: transparent;">Chicago Innovation Exchange - The Chicago Innovation Exchange holds office hours for its members to discuss business ideas and issues in startup development</span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship - The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship holds office hours for entrepreneurs on campus to discuss business ideas and issues in startup development</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-57cb600c-3c2a-943d-050b-3802fb9e3f0f"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">UChicagoTech - UChicagoTech hosts Executives-in-Residence who help faculty members in the development of their technologies</span></span>
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