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<span id="docs-internal-guid-aae9bcdf-11fc-bb87-15da-99c4b4bbdc88"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapblack">Virginia Tech’s growing innovation ecosystem &nbsp;includes interdisciplinary some instances of collaboration between institutes and department across departments at the university to promote innovation and entrepreneurship forward-thinking collaboration among students. One example is the partnership between the </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">[http://www.icat.vt.edu/ <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology</span>]<span style="color:black">and the</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt9pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0Arial, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; verticalsans-align: baselineserif; white-space: pre-wrap">and the </span>[http://www.pamplin.vt.edu/ <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pamplin College of Business</span>].&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgbblack">This partnership seeks to leverage the resources ICAT is awarded as one of the research institutes at Virginia Tech (0most specifically grants and well-outfitted workspaces), 0and pair them with undergraduate students (often coming out of the college of business, 0though ICAT is explicitly an interdisciplinary body); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">who are motivated to pursue research. In our work on the landscape canvas, we also discovered many instances of the practice and promotion of innovative thought processes in the classroom. Specifically, which aims to expand classes such as Leadership for Managers and Entrepreneurs and refine efforts the Creative Technologies major have their students engage in excellent experiential learning experiences. However, we would say that these courses are not functioning inside of a larger initiative to prepare students for entrepreneurial opportunitiesteach innovation at tech, rather existing as siloed experiences at the moment. One truly holistic initiative by the university was announced in 2016 In 2016, the university has announced laid out plans for the formation of a </span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">[https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2016/09/da-cid.html <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &#039;Times New Roman&#039;; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity and Innovation District</span>]<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapblack">, &nbsp;that . This will guide future thinkingat the administrative level, repurpose assets, and create physical space that is intended spaces to leverage creative and entrepreneurial activities and spark interdisciplinary innovationsinnovation.</span></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-aae9bcdf-11fc-bb87-15da-99c4b4bbdc88"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color:black">Here at Virginia Tech, innovation the practice and promotion of entrepreneurship is a spectrumon the rise. In parts of the university, such as the College of Businessand specifically the recently founded APEX center for Entrepreneurship, there is a strong pull evidence for this. APEX hosts many events and workshops, such as the New Venture Builder workshops, which seek to connect students across disciplines to work on startups and ideas. However, but on the other side of the spectrum, there are departments of at the university that have not integrated a positive I&E culture. There are many clubs, classes, and opportunities Classes that utilize I&E and promote growth in that field. However, the classes that encourage I&E teach entrepreneurship are typically exclusive to business majors unless professor permission is given. The clubs Clubs such as the Entrepreneurship Club and the Innovate Living Learning community are open to anyone and everyone, but the majority of advertising and promotion for the clubs are done to business students. There <o:p></o:p></span></span></span> <span style="color:black">In summary, there are plenty of out of class opportunities for I&Eat Virginia Tech, but not many Virginia Tech students are aware of them. There is no unified ideology that I&E is beneficial to all fields. Some departments agree, and some disagree. Part of our goal is to unify the faculty and students under the idea that multidisciplinary I&E is beneficial to the growth of the school.</span><o:p></spano:p>