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<div style="float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 10em; margin-right: 10em">[[File:Bucknell_University_SealBucknell University Seal.jpg]]</div>[http://www.bucknell.edu <b>Bucknell University</b>] is a private liberal arts institution that was founded in 1846. With the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Engineering and the Freeman College of Management, Bucknell has always been aiming to educate well-rounded college graduates with an interdisciplinary mindset.

== Introduction ==[http://www.bucknell.edu '''Bucknell University'''] &nbsp;has never lack of lacked entrepreneurial pursuits. Over the years, Bucknellians have gone on to found [http://www.lendingtree.com Lending Tree], [http://www.stellaservice.com StellaService], [http://www.homedepot.com Home Depot], [http://www.kiva.org Kiva.org], [http://www.quidsi.com Quidsi], [http://www.thepit.com The Pit], [http://ycomibnator.com Y-Combinator], [http://www.integralife.com Integra Life Sciences], and countless other successful ventures. In the latest Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) survey, 35% of incoming Bucknell students indicated that "Becoming successful in a business of my own" was ''essential'' or ''very important'' to them. At Bucknell, there are many actions have been taken to create a better entrepreneurial ecosystem with the belief that this is something students want. With its new president, As a result of Bucknell President John Bravman's extensive support on improving for the entrepreneurship entrepreneurial ecosystem on -campus, many previously uncoordinated efforts have been synthesized in a much more effective way. In the rest of the This article, details the detailed entrepreneurship programs available for both student students and faculty, as well as the resources available to further nurture the allocated towards these entrepreneurial endeavors.

== Innovation and Entrepreneurship ===== Student ======= Curricular Activities ====----

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/schoolfreeman-ofcollege-management/degreemajors-programs/curriculum-basicsdepartments/markets-innovation-and-design.html '''<b>Markets, Innovation, & Design (MIDE) Program'''</b>]The largest of the School of Management’s four new academic majors is a dedicated track designed to prepare students for a wide range of careers related to the creation and marketing of innovative products and services. The program’s design includes a series of courses focused on how to identify consumer needs, how to realize innovative ideas and analyze their market potential, and how to bring products and services to market through existing marketing organizations or through new ventures. The MIDE program includes a dedicated course in entrepreneurship, MIDE 303.

[httphttps://www.bucknell.edu/x44757.xml '''Management 101'''cool-classes-should-we-start-company <b>CHEG 475/MIDE 375/UNIV 375: <i>Should We Start This Company?</i></b>]Bucknell's collaborative, experiential organization and management projectProfessor Erin Jablonski (Chemical Engineering) offers a cross-listed course teaches about how, when, and why people work together to accomplish tasks. In the course, students create and manage companieson entrepreneurship. These companies are not "simulations" or"games.” They operate with This is a budget of $3,000project-5,000 centered course in order to deliver real services to clients and develop and sell real products to customers. Currentlyentrepreneurship, one in every four Bucknell graduates takes MGMT 101generating new business ideas, and over the past thirty years, literally thousands of Bucknellians have started their careers in this one course. For aspiring entrepreneurs, MGMT 101 already comprises one possible gateway to gain skills product or service design and take a development through business planning that was first step toward engaging with offered in the entrepreneurship ecosystemfall of 2012.

[http://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/chemical-engineering.html '''CHEG 475/MIDE 375/UNIV 375: Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management''Should We Start This Company?'''''] Professor Erin Jablonski(Chemical Engineering) offers - As a highly selective 8 week summer program, ILTM brings together 24 highly motivatived students from all three schools/colleges to particpate in a cross-listed course on entrepreneurshipinterdiscinplinary learning experiences. This is Speakers and alumni are brought to campus to share their own expertise and advice with the students all while they are involved in a projectcentered course in entrepreneurshipconsulting project for a real company. Past companies that have participated include General Electric, generating new business ideasDeloitte, Comcast and product or service design and development through business planning that was first offered in the fall of 2012Save the Children as well as numerous other companies including start-ups. &nbsp;

[https://www.bucknell.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/course-catalog/arts-entrepreneurship-minor.html '''Arts Entrepreneurship MinorEngineering Advisory Board''']This minor offers an opportunity to acquire entrepreneurial acumen in &nbsp;is a board of students across a variety of disciplines from the field College of arts management. Students interested in working in and with the arts will acquire practical tools by which to become arts professionals — to manage, market, and promote individual businesses, community arts organizationsEngineering, and notwho plan large-scale events for-profit arts endeavors in the visual, performing, media, and/or literary artscollege. The minor bridges the gap between the disciplinary depth of each arts-based major with a pragmatic skill set that can facilitate entry into various entrepreneurial endeavors in One event hosted by them annually is the arts. The core anchor course in arts entrepreneurship is currently being offered as ENGL 290: Arts EntrepreneurshipHomecoming Alumni event.

==== Student Affairs '''[https:/ Co-Curricular ====-/www.bucknell.edu/academics/freeman-college-management/advisory-board Management Advisory Board]&nbsp;'''is a board of students across a variety of disciplines from the College of Engineering, who plan events for the college.

'''[https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/first-year-experience/residential-colleges Residential Colleges]'''The Residential Colleges provide a living and learning community experience to first-year students at Bucknell. Currently there are eight nine different themes and a ninth has been approved for the Fall of 2013. The current “Society and Technology” themed Residential College and recently approved “Discovery College” render themselves well to being incorporated into Bucknell’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''[https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/housing-services/campus-living-options/affinity-housing Affinity Housing Program]'''The AHP provides a unique living and learning experience that enables a group of students to live together while exploring a common area of interest. Student groups ranging from a cadre of like-minded individuals to members of the same student organization apply to live together in one of Bucknell University’s Small Houses or residence halls. Two Affinity Housing Programs have been were approved for the year 2013 – 2014 that shouldbe considered part of Bucknell’s emerging Ecology of Entrepreneurship. These are the “Technology for a Sustainable Environment” and “Engineering “Entrepreneurship and Innovation” programs.

'''Entrepreneurial ClubBucknell Business Leaders'''The Entrepreneurial Club Bucknell Business Leaders is recognized by the an ambitious student run organization that provides students with real-life business experiences. Every semester, Bucknell Student Government Business Leaders will brainstorm, research, design, order, and falls under the umbrella sell at least one product that hopefully a wide range of Campus Activities and ProgramsBucknellians will love. Thegroup articulates Participation in this organization will give students a glimpse of many aspects of a mission to “promote an entrepreneurial mindset on Bucknell’s campus through interaction with other similarly minded organizations real business: product research and design, finance, marketing, advertising, sales, and through providing opportunities for students to collaborate with one another over the topicteamwork.” The Club’s activities include bringing entrepreneurs to Students who participate in this campus to speak to studentsorganization, management and non-management majors, will not only learn a great deal about business but have lots of fun.

'''Bucknell Business Pitch Venture Plan Competition'''A competition offered for undergraduate students to promote entrepreneurship and new ventures. The Business Pitch Competition competition was launched started in 2012 to inspire 2009 at Bucknell University and engage aspiring student entrepreneurs. Student entrepreneurs create and deliver a professional and engaging business pitch presenting an innovative and marketable business concept. The inaugural event engaged over fifty students on 18 venture teams, attracted has awarded more than $1017,000 to students creating new ventures. Students participating in alumni giving towards prizes the competition are responsible for creating a full written Venture Plan and promotionshave an opportunity to present it to a panel of seasoned judges that come from a variety of backgrounds including start-ups, featured nine faculty and staff members as preliminary round judgesbusiness strategy, and engaged six distinguished alumni as judges venture capital. Venture Plan Competition offers students a complementary and mentors for expanded experience to the final round of competitors. Winners were awarded monetary prizes pitch competition and offers of informal mentorship pits Bucknell students against students from Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) partner institutions Bloomsburg and Susquehanna Universities. This competition is currently organized by the alumni judges. The first prize winner also received a one year residency in Bucknell’sEntrepreneurs IncubatorGreater Susquehanna KIZ.

'''Venture Plan CompetitionBucknell GreenPitch'''Venture Plan Competition offers is a new event that allows students a complementary and expanded experience to make pitches for changes to Bucknell's operations, that will positively affect the pitch competition environment and pits reduce Bucknell students against students from Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) partner institutions Bloomsburg and Susquehanna Universities's carbon impact. This competition is currently organized funded by the Greater Susquehanna KIZ[https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/sustainability/green-fund Bucknell Green Fund].

== University technology transfer function ===== Small Business Development Center ==Technology Transfer Function =

== University-Industry collaboration ===== Geisinger =[http://www.bucknell.edu/x7025.xml Small Business Development Center (SBDC)] ==

The Bucknell SBDC provides free consulting, information, and low-cost educational programs to entrepreneurs and small businesses, including student entrepreneurs and ventures. It offers a business pitch competition for students, internships, and facilitates class projects engaging students with area entrepreneurs and small firms. The SBDC is part of statewide and national networks of centers offering these core services and various specialty programs and received support from DCED, Bucknell, and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Bucknell’s SBDC provides Engineering Development Services to assist clients with product development and commercialization. == [https://www.bucknell.edu/about-bucknell/administrative-offices/small-business-development-center/entrepreneurs-incubator.html Entrepreneurs Incubator] == The Bucknell University Entrepreneurs Incubator provides space for students, faculty, and community members to start their business ventures. Located in downtown Lewisburg on the second floor of the Dewitt Building, the incubator offers affordable office space, bundled office services, and opportunities for consulting and networking to earlystage companies in the Susquehanna Valley Region. Its close proximity to the University and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) allows entrepreneurs to access these resources conveniently and efficiently. The incubator is situated within the Greater Susquehanna Keystone Innovation Zone (GSKIZ). Qualifying businesses that locate there may be eligible for GSKIZ assistance and benefits, including loans, grants, and tax-credits. The role of the incubator in the ecosystem is still evolving as the space may be used in different ways to support student, community, and alumni facing activities. == Engineering Laboratories == '''Project Development Lab (PDL)''' The Project Development Lab is a manufacturing facility located in the ground floor of Dana Engineering building. It is designed to support senior design projects, produce new lab equipment, and support the Small Business Development Center with design and fabrication needs. The lab consist of conventional machine tools (generally directly operation controlled), and non-conventional machining equipment (computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). '''Mooney Innovation Laboratory''' This laboratory consists primarily of a large project development space, a design studio, and a manufacturing space dedicated principally to welding, grinding and brazing. '''Maker Space&nbsp;'''The newly opened maker space is an upgrade to the Craft Center, a creative space open to all students on Bucknell's campus. The space allows for geniune student creation with a variety of tools like a laser cutter, a 3D printer, a 3D scanner, and hand tools, as supplement to the traditional creative tools and mediums already available in the Craft Center. These include pottery, silk-screening, sewing, and small-scale woodworking. '''Maker E'''&nbsp;This laboratory is a electronics-focused space for students to learn about or engage in programming, 3D printing, modeling, and electronics. =University-Industry Collaboration = [http://www.geisinger.org/ <b>Geisinger</b>] is a physician-led health care system, dedicated to health care, education, research, and service. Geisinger and Bucknell have partnered on a Healthcare Research Initiative, and Geisinger also provides opportunities for biomedical engineering students to work with surgeons to create cutting-edge medical devices to solve real-world problems. [http://www.lsgpa.com/ <b>Life Science Greenhouse of Central Pennsylvania (LSGPA)</b>] is a public/private venture whose mission is to commercialize bioscience technologies. The LSGPA can facilitate faculty research commercialization through early-stage investment, targeted business development services, and connections to strategic partners. = Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts = == [https://www.bucknell.edu/azdirectory/small-business-development-center Bucknell Small Business Development Center (SBDC)] == The Bucknell University SBDC is the first in the nation to be hosted by a College of Engineering and provides Engineering Development Services. Not only it utilizes Bucknell's Engineering specialty helped many local economic small businesses, but also it provides an opportunity for students having real-world consulting experiences.   == [https://www.bucknell.edu/azdirectory/small-business-development efforts -center/sbdc-services/startup-lewisburg Startup Lewisburg] == The Lewisburg Entrepreneurs Incubator, or Startup Lewisburg, is the home for innovators of the local community to discuss resources, strategize on developments, and expand networks for growing projects. As a hub for entrepreneurs, the center provides consulting services, broadband internet service, and aids in the establishment of key connections in the region for aspiring creators. = Landscape Canvas = {{#widget:Google Spreadsheet|key=0AgHBY23xvE2CdGZxUldxRUp5em56ZjZyRVVkSmNpY0E|width=1|height=1}} == [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IwM3nP3jdk-6f3wuNwiO1toRotOah8H2k0FO8prrxT0/edit?usp=sharing Updated Landscape Canvas as of Fall 2020] == =References = Other  K. Buffinton, D. Foreman, K. Horissian, M. Johnson-Cramer, N. Sharif, S. Stumbris, M. 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