Changes

<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">The University of Chicago provides various programs to help entrepreneurs begin implementing their startup ideas</span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5">Incubators and Accelerators</span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5">Polsky Center Accelerator Program - The Accelerator Program helps student teams </span><span style="font-size: 15px; 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><br/><span style="font-size: 15px; 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><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; 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><br/><span style="font-size: 15px; 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><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; 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; 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; 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><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Seed Funding</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; 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><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; 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><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Innovation Fund - </span><span style="font-size: 15px; 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><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Tech Transfer Office</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-6274f678-3c2a-5acc-c8ee-768b362901b5"><span style="font-size: 15px; 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>