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===== '''- Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat.''' =====
<span style="font-size:large;"><u>'''Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</u></span>
OU has two main resources for I&E. The first is the Center for Entrepreneurship housed in the Price College of Business. They offer undergraduate major and minors, as well as a graduate Entrepreneurship Degree. The core is a three semester New Product Venture Development course that includes Ideation, Feasibility Analysis, and Business Plan Development. The Center for Entrepreneurship offers Venture Strategy Sessions.
The second resource is the Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth. CCEW offers semester long internships for university undergrads to participate in three distinct programs: Software Acceleration, Technology Commericialization, and Social Entrepreneurship. High-performing undergraduate students are paired with an inventor of a product or idea, a mentor, and over the course of a semester they work on the venture and achieve impactful results.
Center for Entrepreneurship- [http://www.ou.edu/price/management_entrepreneurship/entrepreneurship.html http://www.ou.edu/price/management_entrepreneurship/entrepreneurship.html]
CCEW- [http://ccew.ou.edu/ http://ccew.ou.edu/]
OFA- www [http://universityinnovation.org/Www.okfa.org Www.okfa.org]
Sooner Launch Pad- [http://www.ou.edu/slp/ http://www.ou.edu/slp/]
Govenor's Cup Competition- [http://www.i2e.org/entrepreneurial-development/collegiate-business-plan-competition/ http://www.i2e.org/entrepreneurial-development/collegiate-business-plan-competition/]
TedxOU- [http://tedxou.com/ http://tedxou.com/]
One University Store- <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: calibri, arial, sans, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[http://www.ou.edu/content/oneuniversity/store.html http://www.ou.edu/content/oneuniversity/store.html]</span></span>
Computer Science Software Studio -[https://www.ou.edu/content/coe/cs/software_studio.html https://www.ou.edu/content/coe/cs/software_studio.html] Engineering Practice Facility - [https://www.ou.edu/content/coe/about/facilities/practice.html https://www.ou.edu/content/coe/about/facilities/practice.html] <u><span style="font-size:large;">'''Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</span></u>
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has designated OU as an Innovation & Economic Prosperity University for the 2013 school year.
The OU Research Campus was named as the Outstanding Research Park by the Association of University Research Parks for the year of 2013. ([https://aurp.memberclicks.net/assets/Video/university%20of%20oklahoma%20research%20campus%20video%20-%20sd.mp4 https://aurp.memberclicks.net/assets/Video/university%20of%20oklahoma%20research%20campus%20video%20-%20sd.mp4])
The Office of the Vice President for Research includes many incentives for faculty to engage with entrepreneurship through a faculty challenge grant program, awards program, and research incentives program.
The University encourages innovation through their Intellectual Property Declaration, which can be found here: [http://otd.ou.edu/pdfs/Intellectual_Property_Policy.pdf http://otd.ou.edu/pdfs/Intellectual_Property_Policy.pdf]
<u><span style="font-size:large;">'''University Technology Transfer Function'''</span></u>
There is a strong emphasis on research at OU. The University Research Campus includes the Office of Economic Development. This office is comprised of three parts: Corporate Engagement Office, Office of Technology Development, and Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth.
The Office of Technology Development is the main resource for technology transfer. The Office of Technology Development is responsible for all intellectual property developed by OU faculty and coordinates filing patents and copyrights for the new technology.
<u><span style="font-size:large;">'''University-Industry Collaboration'''</span></u>
The Corporate Engagement Office is the main resource for University and Industry Collaboration. The Corporate Engagement Office is on the University Research Campus and deals primarily with corporate relations and business analytics.
The National Weather Center, one of the most advanced radar research facilities in the world, brings together government and industry with students in a unique one-of-a-kind facilities. [http://www.nwc.ou.edu/ http://www.nwc.ou.edu/] <span style="font-size:large;"><u>'''Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</u></span>
Innovation to Enterprise (<span style="color: rgb(73, 71, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">i2E, Inc.) is a nationally recognized private not-for-profit corporation focused on growing innovative small businesses in Oklahoma and making a positive impact on the state’s economy.</span>
Venture Spur serves as a venture accelerator and offers seed capital to early stage, high-growth ventures. They have an application process to accept start-ups and then have a 12-week program of education and development, office space, mentors, and technical services for the companies.
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