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Spelman has a ways to go in terms of a good amount of resources that foster innovation and entrepreneurship. Spelman hosts speakers series and provides opportunities for students to network. However, more can be done to help Spelman women within the college curriculum to start and pursue a business idea.
<span style="font-size:larger;">'''<span style="line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship:</span></span>'''</span>
<span style="font-size:larger;">'''<span id="docs-internal-guid-54a2a095-f773-12de-c6a3-7a8e637940b2"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship:</span></span>'''</span>
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span>It is incredibly important to make sure that faculty are also encouraged to express their innovation and entrepreneurship skills. This is important because faculty will begin to have an influence on how students are perceiving these skills and get an idea on how to implement them for themselves. One way to encourage faculty and staff to engage in these skills is to get them to implement project-based curriculums for their courses and implement one big project at the end of the course where students would be able to present their projects at an expo held by the school. This will allow students to solve problems based on interdisciplinary courses and provide students with the opportunity to engage in pitching their product that would ultimately relate to their field of study while solving a real world problem. </span></span>
Most of the faculty use innovative techniques to introduce students to real world examples of the skills they are trying to each and employ black celebrities to engage students. The push towards entrepreneurship comes from the art and career driven departments. Faculty often make suggestions about the creative things students can do in future professions or as a side hustle.
<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Collaboration with the Atlanta ecosystem will be crucial and significant in the mission of trying to promote a more entrepreneurial culture on campus. As the ecosystem grows larger, there is room for student and business collaboration to get students acquainted and acclimated with starting a business. The idea is that students will obtain the skills and knowledge that is necessary in beginning their own ventures. One of the commodities I would like to see implemented is students that will be matched with an organization in the Atlanta startup ecosystem and will utilize the innovation labs to think up ideas about how to contribute to the business’ business plan to attain more customers and be competitive in this market. Students will utilize the innovation lab to collaborate with these organizations to enhance their skillset and become more advance in the entrepreneurship world.</span></span>
This year, we looked into Spelman’s Innovation Lab, the STEM Research Study, and internship programs as university-industry collaboration. Students can use the innovation lab and the entrepreneurship club has students pitch their ideas to companies. Internships put students in the workplace and can give them experience of the day-to-day.
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