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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">At Washington State University, we highly encourage and promote innovation and entrepreneurship through various mediums on both the entrepreneurial perspective of the Carson College of Business and also the innovation Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture. From the WSU Center for Entrepreneurshial Studies, an entrepreneurship major is offered along with a entrepreneurship minor for students not in the Carson College of Business here at Washington State University. The department also offeres up various programming opportunities for entrepreneurship throughout the school year like the Business Plan Competition as coordinated by various student organizations such as ENACTUS and the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies director, Marie Mayes. From the innovation perspective, the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture provides students with maker spaces, research facilities, and studnet organizations to encourage innovation that matters to the world. These facilities and opportunities provide our students with the ability to create these innovative ideas.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Our campus is working hard to continually integrate and combine both aspects of innovaiton and entrepreneurship throgh programs such as the Harold Frank Fellows and the Boeing Scholars Program. These are the types of promotional events that encourage students to collaborate to come up with entrepreneurial and innovative ideas that will change the world.&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">WSU Center for Entrepreneurshial Studies has an incredible program to promote various faculty members and their venture ideas. Not only does this further the innovaiton and entrepreneurship idea throughout the faculty members, but this will also help in changing the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem here at WSU by encouraging students to also participate and further their ideas towards these goals as well. Through the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">WSU Center for Entrepreneurshial Studies, faculty members who have created start-ups are able to mentor and provide guidance to students who are interested in pursuing their own start-up idea and having an impact to innovation and entrepreneurship here at WSU.</span>

At Washington State University, we have several incredible resources to pursue venture ideas for students and faculty. The Office of Commercialization provides students and faculty to ensure that innovations and discoveries by WSU researchers are evaluated, protected where possible, and prepared for licensing by third parties. the office supports the goal of translating research discoveries into innovations into the marketplace. Not only do we have that office, but we also have several funding sources such as the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture Seed Funding program and also the Spokane Angel Alliance. These funding sources and support truly assist in the pursue of innovaiton and entrepreneurship here at Washington State University.

Various technology spaces, regional sources of capital, and advisory efforts exist at Washington State University to facilitate the university and industry collaboration for the innovation and entrepreneurial ideas. Research labs such as the Engineering and Teaching Research Labs and the WSU Research Park provide students and faculty spaces to perform their research and find these innovative ideas. The MME Cougar Shop also provides a manufacturing space to create prototypes and test the innovation ideas that come about here at Washington State University. Sources such as the Washington Research Foundationa nd the Office of Commercialization assist in providing funding and capital investments to fund and further the ideas that originate from the research labs. Mentoring and advising as offered byt he Harold Frank Office and the Development Office for the Voiland College of Engineering Architecutre assist in pursuing those ideas and futher the process in commercializaiton.&nbsp;

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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">University Innovation Fellow Spring 2014: Amber Graviet</span>

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