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= Strategy 1. =
More Co-Curricular Opportunities for Students to Spread Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This would allow students to focus on the fourteen grand global challenges presented by the NAE and develop their own solutions to these challenges as they receiving their education from the university. Now that the student body is being educated about innovation and entrepreneurship, it is time to focus on the freshman students as well as the incoming freshman of classes to come. I feel this can be achieved by starting a chapter of the NAE: Grand Challenge Scholars Program.
== Tactic 1. == Ask university faculty for their support to gain traction. The university will need to define its requirements for students that will participate in this program.
== Tactic 2. ==
Once the university has defined its goal for the program it should educate its student body on the required curriculum that the university has outlined to complete the program. Completing steps one and two may take anywhere from a few weeks to a month. == Tactic 3. ==
After defining a set curriculum the university must now find a way to draw students to participate in the program. Students will first need to know of the program and see what the benefits of participating in the program will be. This could also take about a month to complete.
== Tactic 4. ==
Send the defined curriculum to the NAE for review and approval. This should take about six weeks. During this time students should be spreading the word of the program to all colleges on campus and meeting to discuss what focus area they wish to participate in.
== Tactic 5. ==
Once approved, the university needs to utilize spaces on campus that promote innovation and entrepreneurship such as the IDLI Maker Space and the College of Business’ Media Center. Educating freshman and other new students of the location of these areas is paramount. New students will most likely not go there if they are not first informed of the opportunities set up for them there. This will go along with the promotion of the program.
== Tactic 6. ==
Start the program on campus. The university should document and promote the inaugural scholars in the program. Their successes will draw other students to the program and help it gain traction across all colleges and disciplines on campus. This whole process should take about three to four months. Hopefully, this task will be completed by Fall of 2015.
= Strategy 2: <br/> =
<pre>Development of Student Lead Interdisciplinary Think Tank</pre>
The second task is to create an interdisciplinary student think tank. The purpose of this group would be to capitalize on the members’ combined expertise, consistent with the design-thinking model, and to utilize their knowledge in innovation and entrepreneurship through consulting, ideating, and analyzing in various projects for Tennessee Technological Universities and local businesses in the upper Cumberland region.
== Tactic 1: Faculty Awareness ==
The first tactic will be to create faculty awareness, starting with the Entrepreneurship Task Force within the college of business. The CoB has already shown considerable interest in the idea of a student lead consult group. Some faculty members have already begun to help in the developmental stage of this project. After gaining the support of the CoB the goal is to take the idea campus wide and in an attempt to get other colleges across campus involved.
Timeframe: Spring 2015: 2-3 months
== Tactic 2: Student Awareness ==
The Second tactic is to create general awareness for I&E by capitalizing on many of the resources that already exist on campus. The Small Business Development Center hosts seminars and other various events that teach students many of the basic elements of entrepreneurship. The University also has credited course in entrepreneurship that help aid in students’ discovery of I&E. The objective is to further utilize these seminars and course offerings to reach beyond the colleges of engineering and business and involve the entire campus in innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Timeframe: Fall of 2015.
== Tactic 3: Focusing In ==
The third tactic will be to reach to the student body (specifically those who have taken advantage of the I&E opportunities mention in tactic 2) to attract and excite them to the possibilities of a student lead think tank.<br/><br/>Timeframe: Fall 2014
== Tactic 4: Credibility:<br/> ==
<span style="font-size: 12px;">The fourth tactic will be to establish credibility with the University through the successes of tactics 1-3.</span>
Timeframe: Fall 2015
== Tactic 5: University Support<br/> ==
<span style="font-size: 12px;">The fifth tactic will be to gain the support of the university. The current objective is to work with the school on providing funds for the program or offering scholarships for students who are accepted into the student think tank.</span>
Timeframe: Spring 2016
== Tactic 6: Implementation of Student Think Tank ==
The sixth tactic is the implement the student think tank. With backing from the university the student think tank would be launched as a viable program. The first members would be the three TTU University Innovation Fellows and any other exceptional students who have proved to be Innovative and Entrepreneurial (tactics 2 and 3). Student members in this think tank would begin working with Tennessee Tech University and surrounding businesses. This program would reach 100s of students while benefitting the school and surrounding community. It would provide an opportunity, for members of the think tank, to gain unmatched (by other near by universities) experience and knowledge in innovation and entrepreneurship. While simultaneously stimulating the I&E ecosystem of TTU.
Timeframe: Fall 2016
= Task 1. =