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== Student innovation and entrepreneurship ==
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-325507b9-ca11-7391-90d3-afdd568a7248"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Texas A&M has support for students to learn about and become involved with entrepreneurship. These programs, like </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Startup Aggieland</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aggies in Business,</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">are generally new and constantly evolving.</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-325507b9-ca11-7391-90d3-afdd568a7248"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mays Business School Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">provides undergraduate and graduate certificates for entrepreneurship. They support student entrepreneurship as well as faculty and the local community with competitions and lecture series to inspire and educate. [</span>[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">]</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-325507b9-ca11-7391-90d3-afdd568a7248">[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/ideas-challenge/ <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ideas Challenge</span>]<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- idea competition where 40 finalist ideas are chosen, and the top 3 ideas receive a cash prize (1st - $3,000, 2nd - $2,00, 3rd - $1000)</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-325507b9-ca11-7391-90d3-afdd568a7248">[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/3DS/ <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3 Day Startup</span>]<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- a weekend event where students collaborate to form businesses and demo a prototype to a panel of judges including investors</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-325507b9-ca11-7391-90d3-afdd568a7248">[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/lunch-learn/ <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lunch and Learn</span>]<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- lunch speaker events</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-325507b9-ca11-7391-90d3-afdd568a7248">[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/start-up-101/ <span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Startup 101</span>]<span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- a weekly lesson spanning 3 or 4 weeks featuring presentations from business leaders, marketers, and IP attorneys and their advice on startup creation</span></span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-325507b9-ca11-7391-90d3-afdd568a7248"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Startup Aggieland</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a brand new student incubator designed to provide students with launch-ready concepts, the opportunity to receive co-working spaces, mentors, and a supportive community. They lack laboratories, equipment, and funding. [</span>[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/accelerator/ <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/accelerator/</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">]</span></span>
<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-325507b9-ca11-7391-90d3-afdd568a7248"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aggies in Business (AiB)</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is another brand new program that provides business consulting for local businesses, and enables students to be employed by the university to perform this consulting work. The student employees are overseen by leadership. [</span>[http://www.txaib.org/images/txaib/pages/aib_consulting.html <span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.txaib.org/images/txaib/pages/aib_consulting.html</span>]<span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">]</span></span></div>
== Faculty innovation and entrepreneurship ==