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= Overview- A Campus on the Move<br/> =
<span stylefont size="font-size:small;2">The University of Massachusetts Lowell Innovation and Entrepreneurship Landscape Canvas is a top-tier research university with a full plate of opportunitiesofferings for innovation and entrepreneurship. The UMass Lowell is growing at a high rate, faculty and we administration are moving along these opportunity lines in order eager to achieve even better results than ever beforeconnect with the movement of promoting an innovative culture at the university level. <span style="color: rgb(68, 68Being a national research university, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">UMass Lowell has been evolving quite a bit in every aspectthe past few years: Upgraded new buildings have sprouted everywhere, classroomsare being upgraded to support a culture of learning, libraries and labs; new centers for innovation are being built to involve as many students as possible in I&E. As well, programs and renovated student living and activity spaces; and enhanced parking facilities are a few items on the list of what has offerings have been updated and changed throughout refined over the past decade of campus improvementyears to adapt to our changing society.</span></spanfont>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">UMass Lowell's entrepreneurial entrepenurial culture is budding and many changes are already has been active since around 2011, with the DifferenceMaker Program kicking off in the works2012. Since then, a wealth of programs have been started to connect students with more opportunies for entrepreneurship. The faculty and administration at university has taken many steps to work with the University City of Massachusetts Lowell are supportive of the movement and want to embrace the economic developments that are possible local companies for students, the school, greater benefit and economic development of the city of Lowellarea. Programs and organizations There are many programs in place that have been put into place to give given us a great head start, but there is still more to come from our universityyet.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Our strategic plan will incorporate the promotion and growth of what has already begun to grow a reputation on campus (DifferenceMaker, Hawk Hatch, and other opportunities), the development of new space, and the organization and funding for a design challenge to give students innovative and entrepreneurial experience as well as help our university's surrounding community.</span></span>
== Design Challenge ==
*Description: The Design Challenge would be developed to help UMass Lowell students recognize current inefficiencies within Lowell's infrastructure. This will not only help our current economic development of Lowell, but it will give students real-world experience moving forward. We would hopefully gain a grant to help fund this, and run multiple challenges per year.<br/>
*Milestones:
**Reach out to current graduate students- Fall 2013 through Spring 2014