<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[[File:NYUSOE.jpeg]]</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering (NYU| SOE) founded in 1854, is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United States. NYU| SOE is one of the 18 schools and colleges that comparise New York University (NYU). The campus is located in Brooklyn, centrally located at MetroTech Centre, an urban university-industry science and technology park. The school offers about 60 academic programs at bachelor's, masters and doctoral levels. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[[File:NYUCampus.jpg|frame|NYUCampus.jpg]]</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f1394821db9-70ae2335-27d4a7b2-58ac522c-212cb7de65dc1b56e8598fef"><span style="verticalfont-alignsize: baseline16px; whitefont-spacefamily: pre-wrapArial; background-color: transparentrgb(68, 68, 68);">NYU- SOE</span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13-70d1-665e-1e99-e25348cefa74"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">NYU-SOE is located in the heart of the Brooklyn Downtown</span></span><span><span style="vertical-align: baselinearea; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, that completely it blends with the corporate world and gives students an exposure to resources beyond the university gates and , increases their opportunities , and prepares them for the future. The students can easily tap into vast array of resources from NYU-SOE and as well as from the entire ecosystem of all NYU-Washington Square Schools SquareEcosystem (17 schools) which are few stops away in </span>[http://www.mta.info/ <span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">NYC-Metro</span>]<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">(approx:10mins20 minutes). NYU is a global university, which means when a students joins one school under the NYU umbrella, he/she they can access resources across all most of the schools (Including the global campuses).</span></span></span></span></p>
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13-70ae-27d4-58ac-212cb7de65dc"><span style="font-size: 31px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Spaces that Inspire Innovation</span></span></span> =
== <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13-70ae-27d4-58ac-212cb7de65dc"><span style="font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Leslie eLab</span></span></span></span> ==
<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-2338-17a6-0224-a80283bd72d5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recently, NYU added a new space called the </span>[https://www.nyu.edu/about/university-initiatives/entrepreneurship-at-nyu/leslie-elab.html <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leslie eLab</span>] <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at the heart of the university campus. The Leslie eLab is a 5900-square-foot facility in the heart of the Washington Square campus where aspiring NYU entrepreneurs from across all of NYU's schools and colleges-be they students, faculty, or researchers-can meet to connect,collaborate, and tap into a vast array of resources to help develop their ideas and inventions into startup companies.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-2338-17a6-0224-a80283bd72d5"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Run by the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute, the Leslie eLab is equipped with co-working spaces, meeting rooms, an event space and a prototyping lab. It is designed to encourage interaction, prototyping, collaboration, and networking so essential in the creation of successful startups. The Leslie eLab serves as the headquarters for the </span>[https://www.nyu.edu/about/university-initiatives/entrepreneurship-at-nyu/about/entrepreneurial-institute.html <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NYU Entrepreneurial Institute</span>] <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span>[https://www.nyu.edu/about/university-initiatives/entrepreneurship-at-nyu/fund/innovation-venture-fund.html <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NYU Innovation Venture Fund</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Just from the idea of possibly building the space, it has inspired a lot of students and faculty towards innovation and entrepreneurship. Now, after physically building the space it is believed it will instill a stronger sense of community among NYU’s budding entrepreneurs in its many schools.</span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">[[File:Leslie elab 2.jpg]]</span></span></span>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Recently, NYU added a new space called the </span>[https://www.nyu.edu/about/university-initiatives/entrepreneurship-at-nyu/leslie-elab.html <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Leslie eLab</span>]<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">at the heart of the university campus. This is a collaborative space for entrepreneurial students across 18 schools of NYU. This space features flexibly configured co-working spaces, meeting rooms, an event space, and a fabrication lab to encourage interaction, prototyping, and collaboration. The Leslie eLab serves as the headquarters for the </span>[https://www.nyu.edu/about/university-initiatives/entrepreneurship-at-nyu/about/entrepreneurial-institute.html <span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">NYU Entrepreneurial Institute</span>]<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">and </span>[https://www.nyu.edu/about/university-initiatives/entrepreneurship-at-nyu/fund/innovation-venture-fund.html <span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">NYU Innovation Venture Fund</span>]<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">. Just from the idea of possibly building the space, it has inspired a lot of students and faculty towards innovation and entrepreneurship. Now, after physically building the space it is believed it will instill a stronger sense of community among NYU’s budding entrepreneurs in its many schools.</span></span></span></p>
== <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13-70ae-27d4-58ac-212cb7de65dc"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Greenhouse</span></span></span></span> ==
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">[[File:Greenhouse.jpg]]</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-233c-dc91-c135-70768ccbdbd9"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span>[http://greenhousestories.com/ <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Greenhouse</span>] <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a home for ideation and collaboration at NYU-SOE. It is a space that stimulates interdisciplinary collaboration, prototyping, and innovation. The culture of the greenhouse aims to nurture seedlings of ideas and bring ideas to life through iteration and experimentation. The space is a blank slate for creative thinkers with occasional talks (</span>[http://greenhousestories.com/youth-cafe/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Youth Cafe</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), skill shares, and opportunities to meet with professionals from NYU-SOE incubators and industry.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-233c-dc91-c135-70768ccbdbd9"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apart form that, The Greenhouse organises, plans, and produces an array of events to promote collaborative thinking and bring together interdisciplinary groups to solve problems. Through events like OpenStorm, Hack Ebole, PROTOTYPING, and other workshops like the Youth Cafe or Arduino Workshops, The Greenhouse provides students access to the basics of Innovation and Entrepreneurship while also opening them up to professional communities.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">[[File:Greenhouse.jpg]]</span></span></span>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The </span>[http://greenhousestories.com/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Greenhouse</span>] <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">is a home for ideation and collaboration at NYU-SOE. It is a space that stimulates interdisciplinary collaboration, prototyping and innovation. The culture of the greenhouse aims to nurture seedlings of ideas and bring ideas to life through iteration and experimentation. The space is a blank slate for creative thinkers with occasional talks (</span>[http://greenhousestories.com/youth-cafe/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Youth Cafe</span>]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">) , skill shares, and opportunities to meet with professionals from NYU-SOE incubators and industry.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
== <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13-70ae-27d4-58ac-212cb7de65dc"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">NYU-SOE Incubators</span></span></span></span> ==
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">[[File:Poly-incubator.jpg]]</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-233e-02b5-990b-b6610c0dc87b">[http://engineering.nyu.edu/business/incubators <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NYU-SOE Incubators</span>] <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">are the spaces dedicated to NYU and NYC based startups for early stage companies. These incubators, other than providing space to work, also provide the guidance, expertise, and resources that organizations need to grow into successful ventures to bring economic growth to The City and the Nation. NYU-SOE has three functional incubator spaces: </span>[http://engineering.nyu.edu/business/incubators/dumbo <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DUMBO</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span>[http://engineering.nyu.edu/business/incubators/nyc-acre <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NYC ACRE</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span>[http://engineering.nyu.edu/business/incubators/varick <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Varick Street</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. There are about 80 organizations still working at NYU-SOE Incubators. NYU has also opened up these programs, </span>[http://engineering.nyu.edu/spike <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SPIKE</span>] <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and the </span>[http://engineering.nyu.edu/business/incubators/faculty-engineers-in-residence/mentor <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentors Program</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, to allow Graduate Level internships for their students at these incubators. </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color:#000000;">Most recently, New York State added NYU-SOE incubators as Start-Up NY development zones</span>. </span>[http://engineering.nyu.edu/press-release/2014/08/21/new-york-state-adds-nyu-incubators-start-ny-development-zones <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(74, 134, 232); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Article</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">[[File:Poly-incubator.jpg]]</span></span></span>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13-70ae-27d4-58ac-212cb7de65dc">[http://engineering.nyu.edu/business/incubators <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">NYU-SOE Incubators</span>] <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">are the spaces dedicated to NYU based and NYC startups and early stage companies. These incubators other than providing space to work, they also provide the guidance, expertise and resources that organizations need to grow into successful ventures that bring economic growth to New York City or the Nation. NYU-SOE has three functional incubator spaces DUMBO, NYC ACRE, and Varick Street. There are about 80 organizations incubating at NYU-SOE Incubators. </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Most recently, New York State added NYU-SOE incubators as start-up NY development zones. </span>[http://engineering.nyu.edu/press-release/2014/08/21/new-york-state-adds-nyu-incubators-start-ny-development-zones <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(74, 134, 232); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Article</span>]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
== <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13-70ae-27d4-58ac-212cb7de65dc"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Game Innovation Lab</span></span></span></span> ==
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">[[File:Gameinnovation.jpg]]</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-2340-30f7-ce1d-824043b034ee"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span>[http://gil.poly.edu/ <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Game Innovation Lab</span>] <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">brings together students and faculty from across NYU to do research focusing on games as an innovation challenge. Their mission: develop next generation gaming. Some of the various projects includes user interface innovation (sensor-based tracking, multi-touch), network & video quality research, and providing research on how gaming can benefit learning.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">[[File:Gameinnovation.jpg]]</span></span></span>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13-70ae-27d4-58ac-212cb7de65dc"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The </span>[http://gil.poly.edu/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Game Innovation Lab</span>] <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">brings together faculty and students from all NYU school doing research focused on games as an innovation challenge. The mission is to develop next generation gaming. Some of the various projects includes user interface innovation (sensor-based tracking, multi-touch), network & video quality research, and research on gaming for learning.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13-70ae-27d4-58ac-212cb7de65dc"><span style="font-size: 31px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span></span> =
<span p dir="ltr" style="fontline-height:1.4;margin-sizetop:medium0pt;"><span style="fontmargin-familybottom:arial,helvetica,sans11pt;text-serifalign: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c69fd1c694821db9-743e234b-a76321c6-9e7a122d-ea19a5cea8144dd07e546048"><span style="colorfont-size: rgb(16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">NYU - SOE students are ingrained, with a strong sense of innovation and entrepreneurship. Here, Students are constantly applying the I2E ("I squared E</span><span style=" font- invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship) philosophy in our classroomssize: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, competitions0, organizations, workspaces, career development opportunities, and funding.</span0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I</span></span></span> <span style="font-size:medium16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c69fd1c6-743e-a763-9e7a-ea19a5cea814"><span style="Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The premier organizations on campus supporting this ideology are The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Association 2</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(EIA0, 0, 0) and the Design Tinkering Club (DTC). EIA seeks to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem based on the I2E philosophy by hosting a student; vertical-faculty forum to “learn the concepts of entrepreneurship, provide the benefits of selfalign: baseline; white-employment, and the stepspace: pre-by-step path involved in launching and commercializing own ideas. Each year they host events, workshops, and challenges such as <wrap;">E </span>[http://engineering.nyu.edu/innovention <span style="colorfont-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Inno/Vention<("I squared E" - invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship) philosophy in our classrooms, competitions, organizations, workspaces, career development opportunities, and funding.</span>]</span style=></p><p dir="colorltr" style="line-height: rgb(0, 0, 0)1.4; verticalmargin-aligntop: baseline0pt; whitemargin-spacebottom: pre-wrap11pt; backgroundtext-coloralign: transparentjustify;">, </span>[http://riskyideas.com/ id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-234b-21c6-122d-4dd07e546048"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Risky Ideas</span>]<span The premier organizations on campus supporting this ideology are “The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Association” (EIA) and “The Design Tinkering Club” (DTC). EIA seeks to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem based on the </span><span style="colorfont-size: rgb16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">and App Challenge. In addition, they are active participants in the I</span>[http<span style="font-size://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience16px; font-stern/about/departmentsfamily: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-centersalign: baseline; white-initiatives/centersspace: pre-of-researchwrap;">2</berkley-center/programs/venture-competitions/index.htm span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">NYU Entrepreneur ChallengeE</span>]<span style="colorfont-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">.</span></span></span></span> <span style="fontphilosophy by hosting a student-faculty forum to “learn the concepts of entrepreneurship, provide the benefits of self-size:medium;"><span style="fontemployment, and [learn] the step-by-family:arialstep path involved in launching and commercializing” their own ideas. Each year they host events,helveticaworkshops,sans-serif;">and challenges such as </span id="docs-internal-guid-c69fd1c6-743e-a763-9e7a-ea19a5cea814">[http://engineering.nyu.edu/innovention <span style="colorfont-size: rgb16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background"></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: transparent;">The Design Tinkering Clubrgb(17, originally the OpenIDEO Student Chapter85, uses design thinking processes to cultivate viable solutions for social issues. Each year, DTC champions the 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inno/Vention</span>[http://www.openideo.com/ ]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">OpenIDEO Challenge, </span>]<span [http://riskyideas.com/ <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background"></span><span style="font-colorsize: transparent16px;">across campus to spark engagement and awareness of the world’s most pressing social issues. In conjunction with NYUfont-SOE administrators and stakeholders such as NCIIA and NSFfamily: Arial; color: rgb(17, DTC launched The Greenhouse85, a collaborative workspace for students and faculty to inspire, ideate, prototype204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Risky Ideas</span>], and share their newest innovations and entrepreneurial ventures. The Greenhouse wants to further educate and cultivate design thinkers through its Youth Cafe, bi <span style="font-size: 16px; font-weekly workshops and talks featuring professionals in entrepreneurship and innovation worlds. The </span>[http://greenhousestories.com/youth-cafe/ <span style="color: family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); text-decoration: underline; verticalvertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Youth Cafeand App Challenge. In addition, they actively participate in the </span>]<span style="color[http: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical//www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-align: baseline; whitestern/about/departments-space: precenters-wrapinitiatives/centers-of-research/berkley-center/programs/venture-competitions/index.htm <span style="font-size: 16px; backgroundfont-colorfamily: transparentArial;">gives the NYU community a chance to listencolor: rgb(0, share0, and network with change makers from around the world.</span0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span> <span style="font-size:medium16px;"><span style="font-family:arialArial; color: rgb(17,helvetica85,sans204); text-serifdecoration: underline;"><span id="docsvertical-internalalign: baseline; white-guidspace: pre-c69fd1c6-743e-a763-9e7a-ea19a5cea814wrap;">NYU Entrepreneur Challenge</span>]<span style="colorfont-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-colorheight: transparent1.4;">NYUmargin-top:0pt;margin-SOE students can learn first hand what it takes to be a working entrepreneur through their Skillbottom:11pt;text-based Program for Incubator Knowledge and Employment (SPIKE). This program aims to support earlyalign: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-234b-21c6-122d-stage companies developing in SOE's incubators while simultaneously providing an opportunity for students to learn the skills necessary to find employment after completing their studies (4dd07e546048"></span>[httpstyle="font-size://engineering.nyu.edu/SPIKE <span style="16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">SPIKE HomepageThe Design Tinkering Club, originally the OpenIDEO Student Chapter, uses design thinking to cultivate viable solutions for social issues. Each year, DTC champions the </span>]<[http://www.openideo.com/ <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background"></span><span style="font-colorsize: transparent16px;">font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204). These internships are held at one of the three offices in the </span>[http; text-decoration://engineering.nyu.edu/business/incubators <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204)underline; textvertical-decoration: underline; vertical-alignalign: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">NYU-SOE IncubatorsOpenIDEO Challenge</span>] <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">across campus to spark engagement and awareness of the world’s most pressing social issues. These spaces are also open to current NYU & In conjunction with NYU-SOE students to work on their own venturesadministrators and stakeholders such as NCIIA and NSF, free of charge. In additionDTC launched The Greenhouse, a collaborative workspace for students and faculty to career developmentinspire, ideate, prototype, NYU-SOE is also a part of the </span>[http://wwwand share their newest innovations and entrepreneurial ventures.nyu.edu/about/universityThe Greenhouse wants to further educate and cultivate design thinkers through events like Youth Cafe: bi-initiatives/weekly workshops and talks featuring professionals in entrepreneurship-at-nyuand innovation worlds.</acceleratespan></nyu-summer-launchpad.html span></p><span p dir="ltr" style="colorline-height: rgb(17, 85, 204)1.4; textmargin-decorationtop: underline0pt; verticalmargin-alignbottom: baseline11pt; whitetext-spacealign: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentjustify;">NYU Summer LaunchPad</spanid="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-234b-21c6-122d-4dd07e546048">]<span style="colorfont-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, a 10 week summer program for graduating NYU and NYU-SOE student teams students can learn first hand what it takes to accelerate their new ventures forward.be a working entrepreneur through SPIKE: the </span><[http:/span></span><engineering.nyu.edu/span> SPIKE <span style="font-size:medium16px;"><span style="font-familyfont-family: Arial; color:arialrgb(17,helvetica85,sans204); text-serifdecoration: underline;"><span id="docsvertical-internal-guid-c69fd1c6-743e-a763-9e7a-ea19a5cea814"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">NYUSkill-SOE students have access to a variety of funds to get their ideas based Program for Incubator Knowledge and ventures of the ground, such as the Employment</span>[http://www.nyu.edu/about/university]<span style="font-initiatives/entrepreneurshipsize: 16px; font-at-nyu/fund/nyu-prototyping-fund.html <span style="color: family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Prototyping Fund</span>]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical. This program aims to support early-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">and stage companies developing in SOE's incubators while simultaneously providing an opportunity for students to learn the</spanskills necessary to find employment after completing their studies. These internships are held at one of the three offices in the </span>[http://wwwengineering.nyu.edu/aboutbusiness/universityincubators <span style="font-initiatives/entrepreneurshipsize: 16px; font-at-nyu/fund/innovation-venture-fund.html <span style="family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); text-decoration: underline; verticalvertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation Venture</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(017, 085, 0204); verticaltext-aligndecoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Fund to name a few. You can find a robust listing NYU-SOE Incubators</span>[http]<span style="font-size://www.nyu.edu/about/university16px; font-initiatives/entrepreneurship-at-nyu/fund.html <span style="family: Arial; color: rgb(170, 850, 2040); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">here</span>]<span style="color: rgb(0. These spaces are also open to current NYU & NYU-SOE students to work on their own ventures free of charge. In addition to career development, 0, 0NYU-SOE is also a part of the </span>[http://www.nyu.edu/about/university-initiatives/entrepreneurship-at-nyu/accelerate/nyu-summer-launchpad.html <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalvertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NYU Summer LaunchPad</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: a 10 week summer program for graduating student teams to accelerate their new entrepreneurship ventures.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-234b-21c6-122d-4dd07e546048"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While NYU-SOE students have access to a variety of funds to get their ideas and ventures of the ground, such as the </span>[http://www.nyu.edu/about/university-initiatives/entrepreneurship-at-nyu/fund/nyu-prototyping-fund.html <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prototyping Fund</span>] <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and the </span>[http://www.nyu.edu/about/university-initiatives/entrepreneurship-at-nyu/fund/innovation-venture-fund.html <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Innovation Venture</span>][https://www.nyu.edu/about/university-initiatives/entrepreneurship-at-nyu/fund/innovation-venture-fund.html <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fund</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, you can find the full listing </span>[http://www.nyu.edu/about/university-initiatives/entrepreneurship-at-nyu/fund.html <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparentjustify;">.</span></span></span></span><div><br/></div>
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13-70ae-27d4-58ac-212cb7de65dc"><span style="font-size: 31px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span></span> =
<span p dir="ltr" style="fontline-height:1.4;margin-sizetop:medium0pt;"><span style="fontmargin-familybottom:arial,helvetica,sans11pt;text-serifalign: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f1394821db9-743f2351-3062f7a1-26ed96a9-b46cfc5bc620c366810346ae"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">NYU-SOE is the home to the Center for Faculty Innovations in Teaching and Learning (</span>[http://engineering.nyu.edu/academics/support/fitl <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FITL</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), : a faculty-centered enterprise dedicated to the advancement of educational practice. Its mission is to partner with the NYU-SOE community to promote innovative teaching strategies and technologies for learning. FITL was created through a 5-year, $1.92 million Title III Strengthening Institutions grant the US Department of Education awarded NYU-SOE in October 2008. Its objective is to increase NYU-SOE’s reputation as a leader in STEM higher education through extensive faculty training and providing resources to incorporate educational technology within the classroom and curriculum (.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-2351-f7a1-96a9-c366810346ae"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additionally, NYU-SOE has a network of</span></span>[http://wwwengineering.polynyu.edu/academicsbusiness/supportincubators/fitl faculty-engineers-in-residence <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">FITL Homepagefaculty-engineers-in-residence (EIRs)</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">).</span>] </spanstyle="color:#000000;"></spanstyle="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to advise students on pursuing entrepreneurial ventures and innovating products as well as to advise companies in the school's incubators. The EIRs also provide the students with connections to accelerate the progression of their venture.</span><div/span><br/span></divp><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13-70ae-27d4-58ac-212cb7de65dc"><span style="font-size: 31px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">University Technology Transfer Function</span></span></span> =
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-2356-f823-c1d7-ceda55b2fffe"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Technology transfer at NYU and NYU-SOE is governed through the NYU Office of Industrial Liaison (</span>[http://oil.med.nyu.edu/frontpage <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NYU OIL</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). NYU OIL’s mission is to promote the commercial development of NYU technologies from its Langone Medical Center, Washington Square, and NYU-SOE campuses into products to benefit the public while also providing resources to the University to support its research, education, and patient care missions. The Office also facilitates research collaborations between NYU researchers and industry on projects of mutual interest.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-2356-f823-c1d7-ceda55b2fffe"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NYU OIL actively seeks commercial partners to develop NYU technologies and works to establish mutually beneficial long-term relationships. For example, almost 60% of NYU patents have been licensed to companies for development and commercialization. Over the past five years, NYU has ranked first among all U.S. universities in income from technology licensing, which is brought back to provide for further researching. NYU actively promotes entrepreneurship with more than 70 companies created based on NYU technologies. In the most recent published comparative data on technology commercialization activity at U.S. universities, NYU created 87% more new start-up companies per research dollars expended than the national average (NYU OIL).</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13-70ae-27d4-58ac-212cb7de65dc"><span style="font-size:medium31px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts</span></span></span> =<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family:arialArial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CATT: Created in 1983,helveticaas one of the State of New York's 4 original Centers for Advanced Technology,sansCATT continues to fulfill its mission to stimulate economic development in information technology through research and education.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-serifalign: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f1394821db9-743f235b-a4bae22a-e254dc7b-276aae94455549aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Technology transfer at CITE: Former NYU-SOE President Hultin once stated that “With CITE, NYU-SOE’s researchers, students and NYU is governed through industry partners are well poised to contribute to the economic growth of New York. CITE will facilitate the NYU Office collaborative development of Industrial Liaison ground-breaking digital gaming innovations and new media technologies with tangible commercial applications.” (</span>[http://oil.medengineering.nyu.edu/frontpage press-release/2011/03/11/polytechnic-institute-nyu-launches-new-center-innovation-technology-and-ent <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background">CITE Press Release</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to CATT and CITE, NYU-SOE Incubators have an impressive track record with local economic boom having generated more than $250 million in economic activity as well as 900 jobs since 2009 (</span>[http://www.poly.edu/business/incubators/impact <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: transparentrgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NYU OIL-SOE Incubator</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). Named one of the Top 10 Idea Labs in the U.S. by </span>[http://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2013/08/21/NY67450 <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background"></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: transparentrgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Worth</span>] <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">magazine, the NYU-SOE Incubators - Varick St., DUMBO and NYC-ACRE, Greenhouse - are changing the landscape of New York City for the better. NYU OIL’s mission is to promote As the commercial development first NYC-sponsored Incubators and cornerstones of the NYU technologies Entrepreneurial Institute, these programs are designed to empower entrepreneurs from its Langone Medical Centeracross NYC and NYU who are creating jobs, launching new technology products and services, Washington Square and diversifying the local innovation ecosystem (</span>[http://www.poly.edu/business/incubators/impact <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NYU-SOE campuses into products to benefit Incubator</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). Since 2009, the Incubators have served over one hundred companies, with seven of those acquired by established publicand private entities. Program graduates, while providing resources to the University who have raised more than $60M in equity funding and economic growth, are projected to create nearly $720 million by 2015 (</span>[http://www.poly.edu/business/incubators/impact <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NYU-SOE Incubator</span>]<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). NYU-SOE’s Incubators leverage support its researchfrom NYCEDC, NYSERDA, and other government entities, as well as from Trinity Real Estate, educationTwo Trees Management Company, and patient care missionsnow Forest City Ratner Companies. Most recently</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 24px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NYU Start-ups</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1. The Office also facilitates research collaborations between 4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NYU researchers is host to many ventures by students, faculty, and industry on projects alumni. Some of mutual interestthe most salient ones are:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter - Jack Dorsey</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Square - Jack Dorsey</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size:medium16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pinterest - </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family:arialArial; color: rgb(51,helvetica51,sans51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vikram Bhaskaran</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-serifalign: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f1394821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-743ffamily: Arial; vertical-a4baalign: baseline; white-e254space: pre-276aae944555wrap;">Bloomberg LP: </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(051, 051, 051); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background">Duncan MacMillan & Charles Zegar (Co-founders)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: transparentrgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ben & Jerry's: Bennett "Ben" Cohen</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;">NYU OIL actively seeks commercial partners to develop NYU technologies<span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, and works to establish mutually beneficial long51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Home Depot: Ken Langone</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-term relationshipsheight:1. Almost 60% of NYU patents have been licensed to companies for development and commercialization4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Foursquare: Dennis Crowley & Alex Rainert</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1. Over the past five years4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, NYU has ranked first among all U51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Buzzfeed: John Johnson</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.S4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MTV: Tom Freston</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1. universities in income from technology licensing4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TechStars NYC: </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, which is plowed back into further research51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">David Tisch</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1. NYU actively promotes entrepreneurship with more than 70 companies created based on NYU technologies4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fairchild Semiconductor: </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eugene Kleiner</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1. In the most recent published comparative data on technology commercialization activity at U4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BOT Factory: Carlos Ospina & Nicolas Vansnick</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.S. universities, NYU created 87% more new start4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-up companies per research dollars expended than the national average family: Arial; color: rgb(NYU OIL51, 51, 51).; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DefJam: Rick Rubin</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.4;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suneris: Isaac Miller & Joe Landolina</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94821db9-235b-e22a-dc7b-49aa485fb478"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More at </span>[http://www.madebynyu.org/ <span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.madebynyu.org/</span>]</span></p><div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div></div>
= Entrepreneurship & Innovation Landscape Canvas =<p style="text-align: justify;">{{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=0AnfKyJquKXq7dFJ3c1R5czA0aXBFTngxYWd4Q2RTUXc|width=1300|height=700}}</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>= Related =<div><span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-serifmedium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13554d5418-70aec809-27d45a53-58ac9646-212cb7de65dc1906c459990a"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-sizefamily: Arial; color: 31pxrgb(17, 85, 204); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sarth_desai Sarth Desai]</span></span></span> =
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13554d5418-743fc809-fc2d5a53-5c229646-80390f7e496c1906c459990a"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(017, 085, 0204); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">CATT - Created in 1983 as one of the State of New York's 4 original Centers for Advanced Technology, CATT continues to fulfill its mission to stimulate economic development in information technology through research and education[http://universityinnovation.<org/wiki/span>Terrence_Agbi Terrence Agbi]</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13-743f-fc2d-5c22-80390f7e496c"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">CITE - Former NYU-SOE President Hultin once stated that “With CITE, NYU-SOE’s researchers, students and industry partners are well poised to contribute to the economic growth of New York. CITE will facilitate the collaborative development of ground-breaking digital gaming innovations and new media technologies with tangible commercial applications.” (</span>[http://engineeringuniversityinnovation.nyu.edu/press-release/2011org/03wiki/11/polytechnic-institute-nyu-launches-new-center-innovation-technology-and-ent <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">CITE Press Release</span>Noah_Geib Noah Geib]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">)</span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ebd85f13-743f-fc2d-5c22-80390f7e496c"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">In addition to CATT and CITE, NYU-SOE Incubators have an impressive track record with local economic boom having generated more than $250 million in economic activity and 900 jobs since 2009 (</span>[http://www.poly.edu/business/incubators/impact <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">NYU-SOE Incubator</span>]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">). Named one of the Top 10 Idea Labs in the U.S. by </span>[http://www.bizjournalsuniversityinnovation.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2013/08/21org/NY67450 <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Worth<wiki/span>Jay_Kumar Jay Kumar]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">magazine, the NYU-SOE Incubators—Varick St., DUMBO and NYC-ACRE, Greenhouse—are changing the landscape of New York City for the better. As the first NYC-sponsored Incubators and cornerstones of the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute, the programs are designed to empower entrepreneurs from across NYC and NYU who are creating jobs, launching new technology products and services and diversifying the local innovation ecosystem (</span>[http://www.poly.edu/business/incubators/impact <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">NYU-SOE Incubator</span>]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">). Since 2009, the Incubators have served more than 100 companies, with 7 of those acquired by established public and private companies. Program graduates have raised more than $60M in equity funding and economic growth is projected to reach nearly $720 million by 2015 (</span>[http://www.poly.edu/business/incubators/impact <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">NYU-SOE Incubator</span>]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">). NYU-SOE’s Incubators leverage support from NYCEDC, NYSERDA, and other government entities, as well as from Trinity Real Estate and Two Trees Management Company, and now Forest City Ratner Companies. Most recently, New York State added NYU-SOE incubators as start-up NY development zones. </span>[http://engineering.nyu.edu/press-release/2014/08/21/new-york-state-adds-nyu-incubators-start-ny-development-zones <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Article</span>]<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></span></span><div><br/></div><div><div></div></div>
<span style= Entrepreneurship & Innovation Landscape Canvas ="font-size:medium;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/John_Yvens_Henry John Henry]</span>
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