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Throughout the University students are encouraged to embrace innovation and entrepreneurship through courses, extracurricular clubs, competitions, and other specialized programs. Ohio University's College of Business offers an entrepreneurship major as well as a certificate. Each College of Business student must spend a semester as a consultant for Copeland Associates in a program known as the Business Cluster, which encourages critical business thinking and teaches skills necessary for entrepreneurship.

<li>Ohio University Entrepreneurs: As an Ohio University Entrepreneurs, students are taught the skills to become leaders and entrepreneurs through networking, guest speakers, and workshops. Members are exposed to resources across campus to help them build a business of their own.</li><li>Enactus:A national non-profit organization with a goal of improving communities through social entrepreneurship and innovation. Members apply business concepts within teams to develop outreach projects.</li><li>Epsilon Nu Tau:The Nation’s first entrepreneurship fraternity. This coed, professional organization will helps members launch and maintain sustainable businesses. Members ultimately run their own nonprofit business, including everything from recruitment & marketing tactics and sales contests to legal documents, event coordination and financial statements.</li><li>Think Design:~~~~An advertising agency that connects Ohio University’s student organizations with people who have professional media talents. The organization aims to  help place students in a position where they can develop their professional skills and expand their portfolio.</li><li>Consulting Fellows:Consulting Fellows give future leaders tools to build analytical skills and business knowledge, as well as a complementary set of so-called soft skills which are becoming critical in today’s business environment.</li>

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Competitions:

<li>Business Pitch Competition: Enables young, aspiring entrepreneurs to practice developing, researching, and articulating their ideas in a fast-paced, fun forum. Participants learn how to effectively pitch an idea before judges, demonstrate why their idea is going to work, and to do so in a short amount of time.</li><li>Scripps Innovation Challenge: A university-wide student competition that gives Bobcats the opportunity to create innovative solutions to real-world media and communication problems. The goal of the competition is to harness the creativity of Ohio University students in order to develop new and innovative service, product or process solutions as the basis for a new startup business.</li><li>Startup Weekend:~~~~Anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams form around the top ideas then have the weekend for business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekend ends with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.</li><li>2015 Student Research & Creative Activity Expo:Over 800 students from 56 different departments and schools showcased their original research at Ohio University’s biggest-ever Research and Creative Activity Expo with live performances, presentations and interactive demonstrations.</li>

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The entrepreneurial ecosystem offers access to funding opportunities, such as growth grants and pre-seed investment from TechGROWTH Ohio, as well as connections to regional venture capital firms and other sources of financial support.

[http://www.ohio.edu/research/tto/startup-resources.cfmhttp://www.ohio.edu/research/tto/startup-resources.cfm]

= University-Industry Collaboration =

TechGROWTH delivers intensive operational assistance through “Executives in Residence” who validate opportunities and prepare companies for investment.  In addition, TechGROWTH provides small, competitive “Growth Funding” to qualifying companies to overcome targeted commercialization obstacles, pre-seed investments providing “first-in” funding for technology startups, and access to a regional network of angel investors for “follow-on” capital needs as well as access to venture capital markets to fund the “scale up” of production, sales, and marketing.   TechGROWTH is funded by an Ohio Third Frontier grant with support from Ohio University and private capital.  TechGROWTH’s impact shows a leverage ratio of over $9 of follow-on resources acquired for client companies for every $1 of state money invested, achieving over $69.7 million flowing into the region over its first four years.

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SOURCE: [http://www.ohio.edu/research/ http://www.ohio.edu/research/]

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