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== Innovation Beyond Entrepreneurship ==

“True development is related to what people are able to do and be and so is deeply connected to values, to emotions, imagination, and play, and to long-term human flourishing.” The strengths of the College of Arts and Letters rests in the equal emphasis on moral and personal development as well as creative thought in the analysis of historical media. Both traits are indispensable to the missions of innovation and creativity in the scope of design thinking. This idea revolves around the fact that students all across the university should be able to rely on the strengths of each department by recruiting alternative perspectives to create well-rounded empathetic designs for current issues. “The more broadly educated we are, the better we are able to place new and specialized knowledge within a larger mosaic and to ask creative questions within our discipline from a range of alternative perspectives.”

=== Problem Addressed ===

This initiative addresses the deep need to reach beyond the low hanging fruit of business-minded entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists and progress into a wealth of untapped potential in the liberal arts as an area full of innovation and creativity as well. This problem will be addressed via the dual-fronts of teaching and learning, with a teaching emphasis strongly based on argumentative and persuasive language use with a focus on providing motive force to social and innovative change. The learning front will exist as heightened cross-disciplinary interactions beginning at the early stages of college, emphasizing understanding of a broad base of knowledge with the goal of developing alternative perspectives and increased ability to empathize and ultimately create a more powerful means of using design thinking.

=== Implementation ===

==== Three Goals to Achieve through Idea ====

1) Persuade and recruit undergraduate, graduate, and faculty of the importance and untapped potential in innovation and creativity from the College of Arts and Letters, and the College of Science from the perspective of the Glynn Family Honors Program.

2) Create clear channels of opportunity for cross-disciplinary interaction in the form of informal gatherings, complete with attractive, non-academic incentives (food, exclusivity, etc.)

3) Organize events highlighting the benefits of non-business or engineering innovation from alumni and notable individuals in society (Amartya Sen, Paul Farmer, James Hansen, etc.)

=== Future Direction ===

==== 1-Year Vision ====

Create a self-supporting leadership structure within the Glynn Family Honors Program/Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars for a sustained pursuit of emphasizing empathy in design thinking that spans across non-traditional areas of innovation and entrepreneurship involving regular meetings, quarterly invited speakers, and retreats.

==== 3-year Vision ====

Expansion from 1-year vision into participation for social ventures in business competitions locally and abroad; partnership between highly adept persuasive writers and areas of innovation, creativity and social change such as Silicon Valley, Washington D.C., Boston, and abroad opportunities (green energy, hydrothermal, in Iceland).

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