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eClub== <br/>iLab<br/> == <font size="2">The UAB Innovation Lab (iLab) is a partnership between the UAB CSOB and Innovation Depot; it serves as a conduit between students and the entrepreneurial community. iLab opened its doors in Summer 2014 and serves as a resource for students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation. The Lean Startup Model is used as the iLab common language. Programming offered by the iLab provides students with the hands-on learning needed for success in the workplace and is designed to support students as they incubate and accelerate their startups.</font> == <br/>Entrepreneurship Minor<br/> == This experiential program is designed for students in any major other than business. It is designed to complement your core skills and knowledge from your chosen major. Upon completion you’ll be ready to launch a new venture around your passion, contribute to a team or growing company and think entrepreneurially regardless of your chosen career. <br/>Business Research Certificate Program == <br/>Wicked Problem Case Competition<br/> == All the easy problems have been solved, leaving us with what Professor John Kao calls&nbsp;'''''“Wicked Problems”''''', those highly complex problems whose potential solutions require creative, interdisciplinary thinking.&nbsp;The Dean of the School of Public Health will sponsor the [http://www.soph.uab.edu/nphw/wickedcase <b>Wicked Problem &nbsp;Case Competition</b>] to bring together some of the best teams of thinkers from UAB and in our community to provide solutions to a particular problem.&nbsp; The winners of the competition will be recognized during National Public Health week on April 9^{<font size="2">th</font></sup} == <br/>^{Graduate Certificate in Technology, Commercialization, & Entrepreneurship}<br/> == ^{<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The graduate level Entrepreneurship Certificate, also known as the [http://www.uab.edu/business/degrees-certificates/certificates/graduate-certificate-in-technology-commercialization-and-entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate in Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship], is designed to expose students (MBA and non-MBA) and scientists to the business foundations of entrepreneurship and technology commercialization.&nbsp; The program is designed to blend knowledge and experiential learning to help move scientific discovery and inventions out of the lab and into the marketplace.</span>} ^{<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The intended sequence of the courses takes the student from general awareness of issues associated with technology commercialization to running a growing technology-based business. &nbsp;It is possible for a student to progress their own intellectual property through the course sequence. However, the courses may be taken in any sequence.</span>} == <br/>^{Alabama Launchpad}<br/> == ^{[http://alabamalaunchpad.com/startup-competition/ Alabama Launchpad] promotes and rewards high-growth, innovative startups from across Alabama. The program is for new, innovative ventures in the seed or early-growth stages, or for existing businesses moving into a new high-growth market. Participants have unique opportunities to access sound business advice and critical startup capital. Alabama Launchpad gives early-stage start-ups momentum to take an idea from concept to reality.} ^{The proof of commercial relevance competition is for startups that need additional proof-of-concept work. Startups will compete for multiple proof-of-concept grants. Individual awards based on budgets submitted.} == <br/>eClub Innovation Competition^{REV Birmingham}<br/> == ^{REV Birmingham Pitch Competition(REV) revitalizes places and energizes business to create vibrancy in the City of Birmingham. REV is an economic development organization that stimulates business growth and improves quality of life in Birmingham’s City Center and its Neighborhood Commercial Centers. REV fuels commercial vitality through proactive business recruitment and retention activities, and by encouraging private and public investments that support economic growth citywide. REV’s initiatives generate positive results for partners, enhance tax revenue, generate and sustain jobs, increase tourism and positively influence perceptions about the City of Birmingham. REV is a private-public partnership that was formed in 2012 by the strategic merger of Operation New Birmingham and Main Street Birmingham.} == ^CO.STARTERS<br/> == ^{[http://www.revbirmingham.org/rev-biz/costarters/ CO.STARTERS] is a platform to help communities grow local business. Every week for ten weeks, this facilitator-led program helps you examine your assumptions and test whether your beliefs about your business are right. As in our BIZ 1.0 Series, CO.STARTERS applies the lean business modeling methods popular among high-growth startups to businesses of all kinds. The concepts are more common to the high-growth technology community, but we see great value in this program for any creative business venture and it’s a different model than anything currently offered locally.} ^{What’s really great is that the entire process has been refined over a period of years. It was originally developed in Chattanooga, and for program participants who’ve launched enterprises, it has a success rate of more than 75%.} == <br/>^{Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics (FEAST) -}<br/> == ^{[http://bhamfeast.com/ BHM FEAST] (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) is a public micro-granting supperduring which diners vote to democratically fund projects that use design as a transformative tool to better our community. The grant amount to be awarded at the 2015 dinner is $2,500 plus the proceeds from ticket and bar sales at the event (estimated to be an additional $2,000). Unlike conventional grant programs, Bham FEAST brings people together for conversation centered on design and innovation. This will be Birmingham’s second&nbsp;FEAST, in conjunction with [[http://www.dwbhm.com/ http://www.dwbhm.com/] <font color="#1e73be">Design Week Birmingham</font>} == <br/>^{The Education Scrimmage}<br/> == ^{[http://tedxbirmingham.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=5659d5c810e12896910c0bf7e&id=696bb93b8e&e=e4242dfe8d The Education Scrimmage]&nbsp;is a full-day, immersive event that will bring&nbsp;together those who care about making a positive impact in the community, teach them a new set of skills (design-thinking and rapid-prototyping), and then immediately apply them to real challenges being faced in the education sector.<br/><br/><span style="line-height:20.8px">At the end of The Education Scrimmage, real education-focused organizations will walk away with a prototyped solution to their most pressing challenges, you will have a new skillset that you can apply elsewhere, and you will have connected with others who want to make our city better.</span>} == <br/>^{Innovation Week Birmingham} == ^{[[http://www.innovationweekbirmingham.com/ http://www.innovationweekbirmingham.com/] Birmingham Innovation Week}