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<span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marshall University is located in Huntington, West Virginia. With new leadership on campus, including President Brad D. Smith, the future for innovation and entrepreneurship is bright. Marshall University would like its students to create the next Uber or Facebook, but understand that they first must teach the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and innovation. Within the last 7 years, Marshall University has created an Entrepreneurship major and minor offered through the Lewis College of Business. There is also a music entrepreneurship minor offered in the Marshall's School of Music. In 2018, Marshall University's Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (iCenter) was created. The iCenter serves as a maker space where students, faculty, and community members are able to prototype and start their own podcasts. The iCenter has four Entrepreneurs in Residence that serve as mentors for any student at Marshall. The Brad D. Smith Incubator class, which has operated since 2021, allows students to start a business while receiving mentorship along the way, serving students and their startup ideas every semester. Along with the iCenter, the Center for Innovation is located in the Advanced Manufacturing Center (MAMC). This Center is a unique center that offers affordable access to a diverse lineup of 3D printing and other production services. A organization on campus that helps promote entreprenuership entrepreneurship is Delta Sigma Pi, which is a coed business fraternity that supports growth in leadership and getting hands on experience in various fields of business. At Marshall University, students have the unique opportunity to be apart of the change occurring on campus and in Huntington. While we may still be establishing our entrepreneurial and innovative efforts, we are creative and scrappy, and most importantly, we are Marshall!</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In September 2019, former Intuit and Marshall alum, Brad Smith, hosted a workshop for the Lewis College of Business faculty. The faculty, although not involved in the entrepreneurship program, learned about innovation, design thinking, and inspiring their students. The faculty was given the challenge to teach their students to be more entrepreneurial and innovative despite their functional area. To support faculty innovation and entrepreneurship, Marshall University also provides access to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for Business and Economic Research </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(CBER) </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and Marshall Institute for Interdisciplinary Research under the Marshall University Research Corporation. These centers can provide faculty with funding for their entrepreneurial pursuits and research. In addition, Marshall University faculty has access to the</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">iC</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">enter which provides design thinking workshops, prototyping materials, and a collaboration space.</span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The iCenter offers the prestigious Innovation Catalyst Program to Marshall faculty. This program works with departments across campus to create innovation catalysts in hopes of further spreading innovation and entrepreneurship. As of the Fall 2025 semester, it is the fourth cohort of faculty going through this training.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each year at Marshall University, faculty, staff, and students create innovative products and services. These products and services have the potential to be profitable, and the </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(19, 23, 22); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Technology Transfer Office helps support these endeavors. The Technology Transfer Office provides </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is under Marshall University's Research Cor</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(19, 23, 22); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">p</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">oration (MURC). It p</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(19, 23, 22); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rovides a variety of services including facilitating the invention disclosure process, </span> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the commercialization and licensing support, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(19, 23, 22); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">obtaining IP protection documents, product and service marketing, and creating connections to industry partners.&nbsp;</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-401692f1-7fff-28b4-0ed3-058bdbe4feb0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(29, 33, 38); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are 3 many regional sources of capital and seed funding sources that Marshall University students can utilize. The first is Three of the main regional sources of capital are the Wing2Wing Venture underneath the Wing2Wing Foundation, the Innova Commercialization Group under the Small Business Development Center High Technology Foundation (SBDCWVHTF), where students can connect with sources of funding. The second is and the West Virginia Capital Access Program, Appalachian Investors Alliance which is offered an independent nonprofit supported in part by West Virginia Job Investment Trust Board and provides funding to entrepreneursAppalachian Regional Commission. The mission Following that, a couple of this program is to improve the West Virginia economy through seed funding sources here are the creation WV Innovation and Business Model Competition sponsored by our Lewis College of businesses. The third source of funding is StartUp West Virginia VentureBusiness, offered the Ignite Business Competition sponsored by TechConnectWV. StartUp West Virginia Venture funds technology innovators with WVU, the hope that they will help to advance Small Business Development Center encouraging students' entrepreneurship ideas, our Advanced Manufacturing Center Early Stage Funding, and the West Virginian economyWV Investor Collaborative sponsored by TechConnectWV. In addition, students seeking access to entrepreneurship and innovation mentorship can seek many workshops and coaching on campus and by three different firms in Huntington. Another organization There are several grant writing and many other resources in Huntington that works with the Huntington community is Coalfield Development Corporation, which strives to improve Appalachia and provides opportunities for the area and for support studentseconomically.</span></span>