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===== <span style="font-size:larger;">6.2 Intellectual Property and Technology Commercialization</span> =====
===== <span style="font-size:larger;">6.3 Creating and Supporting New Ventures</span> =====
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<u>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Innovation Ecosystem</u><br/><br/><br/><span style="font-size:larger;">'''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship'''</span>
='''<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Overview</span></span>'''''<b><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/></span></span></b>'' = '''''<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The motto of entrepreneurship at RPI: A way to think. A way to learn. A way to succeed. </span></span>''''' ====
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"Entrepreneurial thinking lies at the heart of Rensselaer’s philosophy. Like our faculty, Rensselaer students are encouraged to pursue creativity and discovery — and the results are often spectacular. Our undergraduates embrace change in ways that have transformed how the world works, plays, and lives.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Severino Center also provides Mentoring and Resources via the Student Sandbox, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, the Rensselaer Student Entrepreneurship Club, and assistance in finding teammates. Experienced entrepreneur volunteers are assigned to coach teams that receive a Buhrmaster grant to help guide them in their market and business development activities. </span></span>
= <br/><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship'''<br/span></span> = <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''Incredible professors like Burt Swersey, Dr. Eric Ledet, and many others''</span></span>
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px;">"For the last decade, the Rensselaer Plan </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px;">has provided a blueprint for transformation and impact. It has guided development of an exceptional campus environment for advancing research with the potential to address science and society’s most challenging problems. Based on this strong foundation, Rensselaer research is creating a better future through the innovation and engineering of a better world. With our accelerated trajectory, the best is yet to come."</span>''</span></span>
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px;">Research is huge on RPI's campus and encouraging innovation is both in line with The Rensselaer Plan and Rensselaer's motto of "why not change the world?"</span></span></span>
= <br/><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function'''<br/span></span> = <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''RPI Office of Technology Commercialization: ''<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22.5px;">[http://www.rpitechnology.com/ http://www.rpitechnology.com/]</span><br/><br/>The Rensselaer Plan addresses technology transfer and intellectual property policies that encourage entrepreneurship:<br/><br/span></span><br/span>
<span style="font-size:larger;">Research is the major driver of science and technology transfer, invention, and innovation. Technological entrepreneurship completes the technology lifecycle — from discovery to the creation of impact in the global marketplace. With an expanding research base, we will cultivate a campus culture that provides the spirit and motivation for inventors to pursue commercialization. We will:</span>
<span style="font-size:larger;">Develop an awareness and infrastructure of intellectual property rights policies, incentives, and marketing to support innovation and commercialization.</span>
<span style="font-size:larger;">World-class technological research universities excel in transferring research outputs to the commercial sector. We will create innovative programs targeted at growing major new technological ventures and creating value. We will:</span>
<span style="font-size:larger;">Work with private and public sources to attract new venture capital and entrepreneurial talent to the Capital Region.</span>
= <br/><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br/><br/>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''<br/span></span> = == <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''<span style="line-height: 15px;">RPI Tech Park</span>''<br/span>''</span><br/span>==
<span style="font-size:larger;">Rensselaer Technology Park is a university related park for technology ventures seeking a unique environment focused on the interface between industry and education.</span>
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">According to the rpitechpark.com website, the University Interactions Policy of the Tech Park is built upon "a</span> fundamental objective of the Park is to develop interactions between tenant companies and the university. Such interactions enrich the educational environment of the university and help the companies stay on the leading edge of their technologies. All companies in the Park automatically become “affiliates” of Rensselaer." Building a synergistic environment is a responsibility shared by all members of the Park staff."<br/><br/></span>
== <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''<span style="line-height: 15px;">EVE (Emerging Ventures Ecosystem)</span>''</span></span>==
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The work of turning ideas into real companies happens in RPI’s incubator, the Emerging Ventures Ecosystem (EVE). EVE is a distributed incubation program which accelerates the growth of new businesses and boosts the transfer of scientific and technological breakthroughs from the laboratory and classroom to the marketplace, for social and economic impact.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The key to RPI’s Emerging Ventures Ecosystem is that companies never graduate from the incubator because business development and iteration is never finalized. Companies supported by EVE are always welcome to come back and ask for assistance in making new connections with the large international network of individuals. RPI’s large alumni network serves as a virtual incubator in the sense that the network is leveraged to help grow companies as they experience the transition from technology ideas and intellectual property to commercialization through their education. </span></span>
= <br/><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts'''</span></span>=
== ''<span style="font-size: larger;">Startup Tech Valley - Where Entrepreneurs and the Community Come Together</span>''==
<span style="font-size: larger;">A monthly meetup for first-time entrepreneurs, experienced entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, employees of startups, serviceprodiders to startups, and anyone else who wants to be involved.</span><br/>
== ''<span style="font-size: larger;">Tech Valley Center of Gravity</span>''==
<span style="font-size: larger;">The Tech Valley Center of Gravity is a federation of makers, hackers, crafters, and artists who share camaraderie, space, and resources to do our tinkering. We have a permanent makerspace, several satellite locations, and a community of local individuals and organizations to share and support them. We are based in downtown Troy, NY, and sponsor events all over the New York State Capital Region.</span>
