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<ul div><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="marginfont-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 0px 0px 9px 25px700; paddingvertical-align: 0pxbaseline; linewhite-heightspace: 18pxpre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span>&nbsp;<li/div>= <span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Promoting student Student innovation and entrepreneurship is encouraged in select fields, namely business and sometime engineering. Outside of these fields, students don’t seem to think there is a need to be innovative and entrepreneurial. The classes listed above show strong entrepreneurial emphases. In all of them, students create new product or business ideas and develop over the course of the semester by talking to potential consumers. While this is promising for business students, engineering students tend to see themselves as innovators and oftentimes have little interest in the business aspect. Engineering students were extremely interested in innovation and recognized it was a skill required of them. Students have a basic awareness that there are resources on campus for them, if they are interested in pursuing entrepreneurship.</span></span>&nbsp; =

&lt;/li&gt; *<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 15.3333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Basics of Business</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 15.3333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Intro to Engineering</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 15.3333px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Introduction to marketing</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Chaplin Tyler Executive Leadership Lecture Series</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Free Lunch Friday</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">ACM Tech Talks/Friday Hack Days</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Technical.ly Job Fair</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Opportunities for Blue Hentrepreneurs (email list)</span></span></li></ul><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Student innovation and entrepreneurship is encouraged in select fields, namely business and sometime engineering. Outside of these fields, students don’t seem to think there is a need to be innovative and entrepreneurial. The classes listed above show strong entrepreneurial emphases. In all of them, students create new product or business ideas and develop over the course of the semester by talking to potential consumers. While this is promising for business students, engineering students tend to see themselves as innovators and oftentimes have little interest in the business aspect. Engineering students were extremely interested in innovation and recognized it was a skill required of them. Students have a basic awareness that there are resources on campus for them, if they are interested in pursuing entrepreneurship.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">This separation of interests is not inherently problematic as members of teams typically have different areas of expertise and engineers and business people can have great success founding companies together. The issue on campus is that there is very little collaboration between these fields. Technical clubs and business clubs do not interact much</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Faculty members are also encouraged to present their ideas and prototypes during the “Entrepreneurship and Risk: Meeting the Challenges” course (listed as MSEG 425). The course is attended by a group of engineering and business majors who develop a business plan for the faculty members to pursue it further.</span></span> <span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Actively supporting the university technology transfer function</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Delaware technology park offers a space for new and companies to work. Star campus is home to the universities rehab centers and health science laboratories. With the completion of the new building startups and small companies will be able to lease the space as a office. &nbsp;Leading Edge Venture, First State Innovation, Vital venture Capital, and Yet2ventures are all possible outside financial resources students can contact for investments. A good mentor network can be found by either talking to a Horn Advisory Board member or a Lerner Executive Mentor.</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Small Business Development Center is a potential resource for new businesses to go and get helpful advising. Along with advising they can help them get a space in the Delaware technology park. Also, the Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships will help contracted faculty obtain IP and help commercialize potentially viable ideas. These benefits are not directed toward students. Undergraduate students who are not contracted with the University can get </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">limited support from the OEIP.</span></span></ul>