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<span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Although, Virginia State University's innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem is at it's developmental stage. The university offers</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;"> opportunities for their students to gain an understanding of entrepreneurial aspects by gaining an acumen in the classroom and then applying what is learned. </span></span>
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<u>'''<span style="font-size:x-large;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span>'''</u>
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At Virginia State University innovation and entrepreneurship are not emphasis as much as it should. We encourage our faculty and staff within our institution to become more supportive and invite more creative thinkers to become the trailblazers in breaking down the barriers. It will allow our intuition to soar into new heights that have never been reached and open up a door with great opportunities Faculty are encouraged to create interdisciplinary activities or projects, to eventually create partnership within our institution. Faculty should be willing to utilize local business and startup company’s problems or issues and present them to students to solve and eventually develop an academic portfolio. Faculty should be eager to collaborate on research projects and work together to develop new technologies, products and innovative ideas campus wide using all available resources. The College of Business is a great resource for the university and should be a tool students can use for financial direction. College Of Engineering should become the catalyst on campus for faculty / student innovation and become the vessel for innovation campus wide. The goals of the VSU should not only be to provide opportunities for students to acquire a position within a company but to help develop a company through understanding of the business. VSU should also provide faculty and staff the capabilities to gain venture funding, develop intellectual property, form a business unit, and truly go out and create a business if applicable. VSU should develop a Research / Innovation center that offers mandatory courses and set of programs for all students to help bridge the gap between studies and practice, research and commercialization, and from dreams to reality. These programs should encourage students to understand the process of a product or service fundamentally from early discovery through commercialization. The objective is to help supportive faculty encourage entrepreneurs and promote corporate partnerships and startup companies in hopes that students can commercialize ideas as they reach later stages of studies. One strategy that can help develop this network should be an organization engulfed around the idea of entrepreneurship and innovation. An organization that helps students and faculty to come together and achieve their common goals through practice. An organization that can help empower a Research / Innovation center that can eventually uplift our institution as a whole to increase entrepreneurial spirits campus wide. From networking events, competitive events, speaker series events to maybe even projects, or workshops. In a sense these activities can eventually create avenues for students to soar into new heights, heights that some say are unreachable. Let’s breakdown barriers and Build a Better World, one student at a time.
== <span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span class="bold" style="margin-top: 0px; font-family: freight-sans-pro-n6, freight-sans-pro, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 23px; line-height: 26.836990356445313px;">R</span></span><span class="bold" style="margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(64, 93, 138); font-family: freight-sans-pro-n6, freight-sans-pro, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 23px; line-height: 26.836990356445313px;">andolph </span><span style="color:#ff8c00;"><span class="bold" style="margin-top: 0px; font-family: freight-sans-pro-n6, freight-sans-pro, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 23px; line-height: 26.836990356445313px;">F</span></span><span class="bold" style="margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(64, 93, 138); font-family: freight-sans-pro-n6, freight-sans-pro, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 23px; line-height: 26.836990356445313px;">arm- 416acre agriculture learning center</span> ==
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 17.219999313354492px;">The centerpiece of the farm is the Cooperative Extension Pavilion, which houses faculty and staff offices and laboratories; it also contains meeting areas that are frequented by members of the agricultural community sharing learned research and educational information.</span><span style="line-height: 20.966400146484375px;">In addition to producing the region's traditional row crops, the farm is utilized for research and education in areas of new and niche </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.966400146484375px;">crops, alternative cropping methods, horticultural crops, nutrient management, water quality, animal production, and aquaculture production.</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.966400146484375px;"> [[File:VSU Randolph Farm.jpg|frame|VSU Randolph Farm.jpg]]</span>
= '''Actively supporting the university technology transfer function.'''<br/> =
