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= Topic 2 Solutions = <span id="docs-internal-guid-b8a7b4c2-7ad5-fb46-00e5-ab4899de8755"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The first solution Jeff tried was to start conversations around graduate students and university leadership, however in Jeff’s case this was not successful. What he did find successful was finding the chief executive that was in charge of entrepreneurship or innovation. Once he found them, he reviewed IP policies from around the country and then made suggestions to which he worked with lawyers in order to make some of these changes happen. Some of the reasons he used to convince the university about the benefits of supporting projects in the Valley of Death, or the time between patent and commercialization, was the fact the university would be compounding returns by educating students and faculty, building serial entrepreneurs, and get a return on their investment. Right now, the university president has said ‘any projects that undergraduate students work on, they are allowed to keep their IP.’, but there is not clarity amongst graduate students or faculty.</span></span>