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== Need and Goals ==
The need comes from students wanting to collaborate and work together in a forward thinking, creative, and innovative environment. On-campus innovation space creates a place where students can aggregate around the common interest of being curious or passionate about an idea. Many campuses, especially mine at Wake Forest University have a number of entrepreneurs; however, they have minimal interaction with each other. This is where I see the need. Bring these students together would create a supportive environment allowing team formation, collecting of resources, campus wide networking. Students could motivate each other and push through set backs along their process. The need that an innovation space fundamentally fills is that of a collaborative work environment. To access this need, surveys to students can be done, focus groups, questionnaires, or interviews with students. At the same time, student leaders can also see the growing need and act upon it by attempt to take on the challenge of implementing an on-campus innovation space.
The goal of building an on-campus innovation space is to fulfill a vision of student entrepreneurs working together from across many disciplines to solve common problems. Building a physical space on-campus also gives entrepreneurship a location, face, and identity on-campus which can be lost in the mix of other influential organization. Another goal would be to allow students to think and work outside the classroom. This real life hands on experience is invaluable for student entrepreneurs entering into post graduation life.
== Academic Permission ==