<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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<br/>''''<span style="font-size:x-large;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span>''''''<span style="font-size:x-large;"></span>'''
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== <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/> =