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== <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: inherit;">Entrepreneurial Spin-Out</span></span> ==
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">The University of Chicago also offers several programs to help entrepreneurs (primarily faculty members) fully develop their startup ideas into companies. </span> === <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Product Creation and Prototyping Resources </span><br/> === <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">CIE Fabrication Lab (Chicago Innovation Exchange) - A new fabrication lab equipped with a 3D printer to help entrepreneurs prototype their product ideas </span> <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Hack Arts Lab - The Hack Arts Lab (HAL) provides an open-access laboratory for creative digital fabrication and visualization. This makerspace-styled workshop is designed to support a breadth of activity ranging from undergraduate projects to faculty-led exploration. HAL resources include 3D printers, laser cutter, advanced graphics, and microcontroller workbenches, all offered at minimal cost.</span>
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Research and National Labs - The University of Chicago boasts numerous, state-of-the-art scientific research facilities both on and off campus. Examples include the Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, Argonne National Laboratories, and the Marine Biological Laboratory</span>
=== <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Regional Sources of Capital</span>===
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Hyde Park Angels</span>
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Innovation Fund - The Innovation Fund is a university-operated venture philanthropy fund that provides grants to faculty and university affiliated persons with business ideas to prototype and develop proof-of-concept models for these ideas</span>
=== <span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Advisory Networks</span>===
<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Chicago Innovation Mentors - The Chicago Innovation Mentors support university-based and local new technology ventures through the use of mentor teams.</span>
