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<span style="font-size:medium">The University of Michigan entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem is filled with opportunities. The opportunities range all over the entrepreneurship and innovation spectrum and cover all stages of the entrepreneurial process. The University of Michigan has many things to offer including classes, hackathons, and design teams. The city of Ann Arbor has much to offer as well, such as: accelerators and tech transfers. </span> <span style="font-size:medium">Increase in entrepreneurship and startups are a main goal of the state of Michigan due to its struggle throughout the past years with the recession and the decline of the auto industry. With our state fighting to make a comeback, the students of the University of Michigan have joined this fight. We are taking on our role as "Victors" for Michigan and diving into the entrepreneurship and innovation scene.</span>
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= Strategy #1: Starting Young =
== <span style="font-size:large">Tactic #3: An Increase in Design/Entrepreneurship Classes Offered to Freshman and Sophomores</span> ==
<span style="font-size:medium">'''Description:''' The University of Michigan has a Program in Entrepreneurship offered to undergraduates and graduates. To be eligible for this program though, students must be sophomores or above. Many other design courses are higher-level courses, which are harder for freshman and sophomores to access. By the time students are exposed to entrepreneurship, they do not have enought time or room in their schedules to explore what branch of entrepreneurship they are interested in. The goal would then be to create more freshman and sophomore-accessible courses that allow for design, business planning, and other key skills </span><span style="font-size: medium;">to help with I & E projects.</span>
== <span style="font-size:large">Tactic #2: Resource Match-Maker</span> ==
<span style="font-size:medium">'''Description: '''There are many students with ideas or projects that are already in progress, but are at a standstill due to lack of skills. The search for these skills can be challenging and it is hard to find someone to add to your team who is as motivated and interested as you are. With the Resource Match-Maker, the skills you need will be posted to the Resource Match-Maker website. People will be able to browse the projects people are working on and the skills they are looking for in order to find a project that matches their need. It will act as a match-making system, connecting innovators to the technical, artistic, business, etc. skillset </span><span style="font-size: medium;">they are looking for.</span>
== <span style="font-size: large;">Tactic #3: For Those Who Didn't Make the Cut...</span> ==
<span style="font-size:medium">'''Description: '''There are many events on campus including MHacks, Startup Weekend Ann Arbor, and 1000 Pitches. With these events, there is an outpouring of fantastic ideas, but in the end only the best move on. To keep the hype going, the goal is to keep the "losing" teams motivated and help them make their project a reality. Resources of all kinds will be provided. </span>
<span style="font-size:medium">'''Description: '''Makerspaces and machining locations are scattered in several locations across the University of Michigan. By no means is the university lacking in sheer quantity of makerspaces; however, these resources are not currently available for use by undergraduate students. This is largely due to a lack of training resources which in turn causes safety concerns among administrators when confronted with opening these resources to the undergraduate student body. We propose to create a passport system where an individual will be trained on a specific piece of equiptment and will the recieve a certification or "passport" to designate that an individual has been trained for that piece of equipment. Then by showing this passport to the supervisor of any machine shop on campus they will be able to use identical pieces of equipment.</span>
== <span style="font-size:medium;">Tactic #2: Cataloging available resources</span> ==
<span style="font-size:medium">'''Description: '''Currently the University of Michigan entrepreneurial resource availabilility can be difficult to navigate. There is no consolidated list in order to identify the supplies available for innovation and the creation of new ventures among the undergraduate community. We propose to create a catalog of these resources in order to accelarate entrepreneurial activity. This catalog will be widely distributed among the undergraduate community by way of integration into the freshman orientation packet with additional circulation augmented by the University of Michigan Center For Entrepreneurship. This will help prospective and current students catalyze the initiation of their ideas.</span>
== <span style="font-size: large;">Tactic #3: Online portal for building a connected maker community</span><br/> ==
<span style="font-size: medium;">'''Description:''' While creating a "passport" and cataloging resources are highly beneficial to improving the accessibility of resources, the main goal is actually to engage students, faculty and administrators in the community, share resources and ideas, and work together to produce new ventures and innovations. By creating a roster of individuals trained on equipment available online students will be able to pair with other individuals who come from similar mechanistic backgrounds. More specifically allowing the students who comprise the roster to designate a willingness to help other people with their projects can foster a greater sense of community and cooperation throughout the maker community.</span>
= Strategy #4: Networking Meeting Spaces =
== <span style="font-size:large;">Tactic #1: Start-up Networking Space</span> ==
<span style="font-size:medium">'''Description: '''We plan to designate a space and time for students with ideas to meet other students who are interested in building a team for the purpose of accelerating a product or business idea. We also would like to allow students who are interested in joining a team to have that oppurtunity in order to further spur the entrepreneurial mindset throughout campus. Students with existing ideas will make a list of the type of skill sets they need to build on their idea, and allow interested students to fill in the openings. </span>
== <span style="font-size:large">Tactic #3: Notifications for Possible Match</span> ==
<span style="font-size: large;">'''Description: '''<span style="font-size:medium;">Time is of the essence in the development of new ventures and business ideas. A notification to students who are looking for other students when a possible match is found can rapidly decrease the waiting time and make the process of innovation much smoother. Additionally, a notification can be used for when teams members are free to work on their idea/venture. By accelerating the team building process, the initial time necessary to create a startup will be dramatically shortened. </span></span>
= Related Links =
<div>[[Amanda Ejups|Amanda_Ejups]]</div><div>[[Valliappa Chockalingam|Valliappa_Chockalingam]]<br/></div><div>[[Emmet Dettweiler|Emmet_Dettweiler]]<br/></div><div>Marissa Henri</div><div>[[Kevin LaForest|Kevin_LaForest]]</div><div><br/></div><div>[[University of Michigan at Ann Arbor|University_of_Michigan_at_Ann_Arbor]]</div>
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