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<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c48b49e8-38f4-2bfe-453e-535e43bbec49"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">When an entrepreneur has an innovative idea in mind and is in search of nearby resources to help them take their entrepreneurial passions to the next level, they need to seek out relative programs, organizations, and sponsors to help them kick start their goals. Illinois Institute of Technology provides many open opportunities for students to collaborate with students of all disciplines and connect ideas related to entrepreneurship and eventually launch them into action. Students can even enroll in foundation courses embracing the aspects of entrepreneurship and potentially pursue it in a graduate program.</span></span></p>

<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Entrepreneurship and Tech Innovation is the newest Institute on Mies Campus. It will attract innovative and entrepreneurial students from across the campus (and beyond) who will come to learn how to convert their creative ideas into significant and viable businesses, services, and new solutions. They will become the leaders, inventors, and entrepreneurs of the future discovering, addressing, and solving serious and consequential problems. New faculty, donors, sponsors, and other business and industry partners will also be attracted to the new initiative and the abundant opportunities which it will provide for all.</span></p>

<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Kaplan Institute will nurture the advancement of critical and creative ideas, foster interdisciplinary and external collaboration, and create a culture that enables innovation and tech entrepreneurship to flourish on campus and throughout the larger community as well. In addition, the institute will aggressively contribute to its surroundings and to Chicago’s overall economy by encouraging, supporting, and assisting its students and faculty in creating new businesses and other entrepreneurial endeavors.</span></p>

<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The emphasis of the educational experience within the institute (once the students have completed some of the basic introductory programs) will be on the application of knowledge rather than merely its acquisition. Additional and essential learning will, of course, occur during the entrepreneurial process along with innovative thinking as the students engage in multidisciplinary collaborations across all of the disciplines offered within the broader context of the entire university.</span></p>

<p style="text-indent: 40px"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">In fact, part of the entire purpose of the KI is to supplement the technical education of the students with critical and future-proof skills including intellectual curiosity, a commitment to change, team-building ability, an entrepreneurial mindset, a willingness to accept challenges, and a bias toward action. Special leadership programs will be developed and offered to identified cohorts of undergraduates as well as graduate students, focusing on the development critical-thinking skills, resilience and perseverance, adaptability and agility, and strategic design and planning.</span></p>

=== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span> ===

*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://ipro.iit.edu/ IPRO]</span></span>

=== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span> ===

*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">NIH funded grants (BME dept: Eric Brey (Diabetes REU Grant))</span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''For more info, please visit the [https://research.iit.edu/osrp Office of Sponsored Research Projects] (they will have records of other funders such as NSF, DOD, DOE, VentureWell, Coleman Foundation, etc.) You may also visit our [https://web.iit.edu/corporate-relations Corporate Relations office] and the Advancement groups facilitate, as well.</span></span>

*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/seeking-legal-help/illinois-patent-pro-bono Entrepreneurial Law Clinic]</span></span>

*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://www.kentlaw.iit.edu/seeking-legal-help/illinois-patent-pro-bono Patent Hub]</span></span>

=== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration</span></span> ===

*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Career Fairs</span></span>

=== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts</span></span> ===

*<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Illinois Tech Board of Trustees</span></span>