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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">/</span></<u></u><strike></strike>== iLab ==

The UAB Innovation Lab (iLab) is a partnership between the UAB CSOB and Innovation Depot== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; 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.</span> ==

<span style== Entrepreneurship Minor =="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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.</span>

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== <span style="font-family:arial, contribute to a team or growing company and think entrepreneurially regardless of your chosen career.helvetica,sans-serif;">Entrepreneurship Minor</span> ==

<span style== Business Research Certificate Program =="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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.</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Each session will include demonstrations of Sterne Library databases, print materials, and reputable web sites as well as effective search strategies and tips.</span></span>

<span style="colorfont-family:#000000arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><span style="color:#000000;">You will also have the chance for hands-on research practice each week and multiple chances to win Sterne Library travel mugs.</span></span>

All the easy problems have been solved== <span style="font-family:arial, leaving us with what Professor John Kao calls “Wicked Problems”helvetica, those highly complex problems whose potential solutions require creative, interdisciplinary thinking. The Dean of the School of Public Health will sponsor the sans-serif;">Wicked Problem&nbsp;Case Competition 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 9th</span> ==

<span style== Graduate Certificate in Technology"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">All the easy problems have been solved, leaving us with what Professor John Kao calls “Wicked Problems”, Commercializationthose highly complex problems whose potential solutions require creative, interdisciplinary thinking. The Dean of the School of Public Health will sponsor the Wicked Problem& Entrepreneurship ==nbsp;Case Competition 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 9th</span>

The graduate level Entrepreneurship Certificate== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica, also known as the sans-serif;">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.Entrepreneurship</span> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The intended sequence of graduate level Entrepreneurship Certificate, also known as the courses takes Graduate Certificate in Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship, is designed to expose students (MBA and non-MBA) and scientists to the student from general awareness business foundations of issues associated with entrepreneurship and technology commercialization to running a growing technology-based business.&nbsp; It The program is possible for a student designed to progress their own intellectual property through blend knowledge and experiential learning to help move scientific discovery and inventions out of the course sequence. However, lab and into the courses may be taken in any sequencemarketplace.</span>

<span style== Alabama Launchpad =="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>

Alabama Launchpad promotes and rewards high== <span style="font-growthfamily:arial, innovative startups from across Alabama. The program is for newhelvetica, innovative ventures in the seed or earlysans-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. serif;">Alabama Launchpad gives early-stage start-ups momentum to take an idea from concept to reality.</span> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Alabama Launchpad promotes and rewards high-growth, innovative startups from across Alabama. The proof of commercial relevance competition program is for startups that need additional proofnew, innovative ventures in the seed or early-ofgrowth stages, or for existing businesses moving into a new high-concept workgrowth market. Participants have unique opportunities to access sound business advice and critical startup capital. Startups will compete for multiple proofAlabama Launchpad gives early-ofstage start-ups momentum to take an idea from concept grants. Individual awards based on budgets submittedto reality.</span>

<span style== REV Birmingham =="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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.</span>

REV Birmingham (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== <span style="font-family:arial, and by encouraging private and public investments that support economic growth citywide. REV’s initiatives generate positive results for partnershelvetica, enhance tax revenue, generate and sustain jobs, increase tourism and positively influence perceptions about the City of Birmingham. sans-serif;">REV is a private-public partnership that was formed in 2012 by the strategic merger of Operation New Birmingham and Main Street Birmingham.</span> ==

<span style== CO"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">REV Birmingham (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.STARTERS ==</span>

CO.STARTERS is a platform to help communities grow local business. Every week for ten weeks== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica, this facilitatorsans-led program helps you examine your assumptions and test whether your beliefs about your business are right. As in our BIZ 1.0 Series, serif;">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.</span> ==

<span style== Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics (FEAST) =="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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.</span>

BHM FEAST (== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) is a public micro-granting supper during 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 $2,000FEAST). Unlike conventional grant programs,</span> ==

Bham <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">BHM FEAST brings people together for conversation centered on (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) is a public micro-granting supper during 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 innovation. This will bar sales at the event (estimated to be Birmingham’s second FEASTan additional $2, in conjunction with [http://www000).dwbhm.comUnlike conventional grant programs,</ Design Week Birminghamspan>

<span style== The Education Scrimmage =="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Bham FEAST brings people together for conversation centered on design and innovation. This will be Birmingham’s second FEAST, in conjunction with [[http://www.dwbhm.com/ http://www.dwbhm.com/] Design Week Birmingham</span>

The Education Scrimmage is a full== <span style="font-dayfamily:arial, immersive event that will bring together those who care about making a positive impact in the communityhelvetica, teach them a new set of skills (designsans-thinking and rapid-prototyping), and then immediately apply them to real challenges being faced in the education sector.serif;">The Education Scrimmage</span> ==

At the end of <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Education Scrimmageis a full-day, real education-focused organizations immersive event that will walk away with bring together those who care about making a prototyped solution to their most pressing challengespositive impact in the community, you will have teach them a new skillset that you can apply elsewhereset of skills (design-thinking and rapid-prototyping), and you will have connected with others who want then immediately apply them to make our city betterreal challenges being faced in the education sector.</span>

<span style== Innovation Week Birmingham<u></u><strike"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">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.</strikespan>

= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Encouraging Faculty = Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span>Week Birmingham</span><br/> =

= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Coming in at #21 in total funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) among all universities, UAB has a [http<span style="font-family://www.report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=DHarial,27helvetica,47,4,52,64,10000,MS,20,16,6,13,10,49,53,86,OTHDH&fysans-serif;"><span style=2015&state=&ic=&fm=&orgid=&distr=&rfa=&om=n&pid= substantial] amount of resources (over $220 million from the NIH alone) for faculty to pursue innovation in a research context. Faculty are encouraged to pursue ideas and are frequently recognized for their innovative work both on"font-campus, by campus-wide publications such as [httpssize://www.uab.edu/uabmagazine/ UAB Magazine] medium;">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and [http:Entrepreneurship</span></hatteras.dpo.uab.eduspan></cgi-bin/greenmail.cgi GreenMail], and off, by news features at the local, regional, and national levels.span><br/span>=

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">With Birmingham’s entrepreneurial landscape exploding <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Coming in at #21 in total funding from the last few yearsNational Institutes of Health (NIH) among all universities, UAB has recently begun developing partnerships with leaders in the entrepreneurial communitya [http://www.report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=DH,27,47,4,52,64,10000,MS,20,16,6,13,10,49,53,86, as evidenced by the collaboration between OTHDH&fy=2015&state=&ic=&fm=&orgid=&distr=&rfa=&om=n&pid= substantial] amount of resources (over $220 million from the Innovation Depot (a local startup incubatorNIH alone) and the Collat School of Business for faculty to form the iLab, pursue innovation in a student business incubatorresearch context. These partnerships provide opportunities Faculty are encouraged to pursue ideas and are frequently recognized for their innovative work both students on-campus, by campus-wide publications such as [https://www.uab.edu/uabmagazine/ UAB Magazine] and faculty to gain [http://hatteras.dpo.uab.edu/cgi-bin/greenmail.cgi GreenMail], and off, by news features at the tools needed to potentially launch their products into the marketlocal, regional, and national levels.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">But herein lies <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">With Birmingham’s entrepreneurial landscape exploding in the metaphorical albatross around our neck—the intellectual property (IP) rights of students and facultylast few years, not just at UAB but across has recently begun developing partnerships with leaders in the entire University of Alabama systementrepreneurial community, are non-existent. Quoted from as evidenced by the collaboration between the University of Alabama System’s Office of Technology Transfer Innovation Depot (OTTa local startup incubator), “When University support makes and the research effort possible or when it provides support for the development Collat School of a patentable invention, it is reasonable for the University Business to participate in form the fruits of such developmentiLab, including reimbursement a student business incubator. These partnerships provide opportunities for its costs.” IP rights reform is needed to ensure that both our students and faculty are encouraged to innovate and disseminate gain the tools needed to potentially launch their innovations products into the market at large.</span></span>

= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-sizefamily:mediumarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">But herein lies the metaphorical albatross around our neck—the intellectual property (IP) rights of students and faculty, not just at UAB but across the entire University of Alabama system, are non-existent. Quoted from the University of Alabama System’s Office of Technology Transfer(OTT), “When University support makes the research effort possible or when it provides support for the development of a patentable invention, it is reasonable for the University to participate in the fruits of such development, including reimbursement for its costs.” IP rights reform is needed to ensure that both our students and faculty are encouraged to innovate and disseminate their innovations into market at large.</span></span> =

= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Facilitating University-Industry CollaborationTechnology Transfer</span></span></span> =

= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development EffortsFacilitating University-Industry Collaboration</span></span></span> =

= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The Landscape CanvasEngaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts</span></span></span> =

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= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:smallmedium;">[http:Related Links<//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rohit_Borah Rohit Borah]span></span></span>=

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Trea Ladner[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Rohit_Borah Rohit Borah]</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">[http:Trea Ladner<//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Forrest_Satterfield Forrest Satterfield]span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Forrest_Satterfield Forrest Satterfield]</span></span></span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/John_Shelley John Shelley]</span></span></span>  [[Category:Universities]]