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The CMDC<ref>http://www.dtc-wsuv.org/cmdc/</ref>program at WSUV is home to the Digital Technology and Culture degree, one of the five Signature Programs offered.&nbsp; The program emphasizes the power of innovation and integrates technology with education to create a diverse, rich-media experience for students.&nbsp; It also offers multiple courses and extra-curricular opportunities for students to experience the future of their innovations in an entrepreneurial setting.&nbsp; Under the direction of Dr. Dene Grigar&nbsp;<ref>http://www.nouspace.net/dene/Webpages/Home.html</ref> the program features the production of everything from mobile apps to interactive art exhibits.&nbsp; It directs students to innovate through creativity, critical thinking and real world problem solving.&nbsp; The students also have the invaluable experience of the Senior Capstone Course <ref>http://www.dtc-wsuv.org/cmdc/senior_seminar.html</ref> that provides a real world experience for students to jumpstart their professional thinking and careers.&nbsp;

=== Creative Media Lab ===

WSUV markets itself as a premier research university, encouraging faculty to conduct research of regional, national and international impact. By offering state of the art lab space, the ability to collaborate with one another, graduate students and under graduate students, the faculty promotes innovation strongly on the campus. &nbsp;Although the focus of faculty research has a tendency to lean towards the more innovative side, the entrepreneurial mindset is growing among the faculty and being passed along to their students. The university also provides a quarterly newsletter <ref>http://admin.vancouver.wsu.edu/academic-affairs/research-newsletter</ref> describing the research of their faculty.

Washington State University Vancouver holds an annual research showcase<ref>http://admin.vancouver.wsu.edu/academic-affairs/research/research-showcase</ref> where students and faculty are encouraged to display and discuss their work.&nbsp; The show highlights research ranging from digital technology, to biology and engineering and even business administration work.&nbsp; The showcase also brings many keynote speakers and offers faculty and students the chance to win awards and learn more about the research of their peers.

The current entrepreneurial system offers students the opportunity to perceive the importance of entrepreneurship and realize the potential that it can have for them.&nbsp; The opportunities to advance beyond into applied and realized entrepreneurship are minimal.&nbsp; Senior seminars and capstone design classes give some design opportunity but prevent students from exposure to entrepreneurship till their senior year in higher education.&nbsp; It is through new student driven organizations that changes will begin to be made.&nbsp; Spring 2014 will see the first entrepreneurial collaborations between disciplines and the possibility of build and startup weekends. New student groups within the Nouspace gallery, under the direction of the CMDC program and the University Fellow will bring new show and gallery opportunities to STEM and art students with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship.&nbsp; The future goals of WSUV will have a heavy focus on entrepreneurship and the new designation by the Department of Commerce of Vancouver as an Innovation Partnership Zone will only help to bring this focus to the greater community.&nbsp;

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