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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Campus Overview</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">University of Louisville</span></span></p>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The University of Louisville offers formal programs that channel students’ entrepreneurial skills, including an entrepreneurship minor, entrepreneurship MBA, and entrepreneurship PhD. There are a few classes offered that are open to multiple disciplines built around entrepreneurship, as well as a number of departments having a specific entrepreneurship class to their major. New partnerships are being created by the entrepreneurship department with other departments to provide additional collaborative programs in the future, benefiting both disciplines. There are currently a few extra-curricular outlets and activities for students to take part in around entrepreneurship, such as events at FirstBuild (Hackathons, Design Thinking Workshop), Maker Faire, TEDx, however they are not advertised well and tend to only reach a portion of engineering students. The amount of innovation and entrepreneurship in the community is amazing, but the students at the University aren’t as involved/targeted to any extent.</span></span>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span></li>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The faculty of the entrepreneurship department are involved through engagement with businesses and organizations to promote entrepreneurship on campus. The Cardinal Venture Club (CVC) seeks to help facilitate the entrepreneurial spirit here in Louisville by connecting Venture Capitalists, Entrepreneurs, Government and the University of Louisville</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(60, 120, 216); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Faculty has a large focus on research, which in turn allows more involvement for students to engage in real life experiences. Faculty, especially those at the cancer center and renewable energy center, they are allowed to do many things outside of the university. There are many professors who start companies with things that were created through the university. The amount of faculty innovation is amazing.</span></span>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Actively supporting the university technology transfer function</span></span></li>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">There are many policies that allow IP expansion by the university. The tech transfer office allows students to work outside the office in a collaborative way. There are currently applications to gain 200k in resources for a human-health research center. The tech transfer office mostly focuses on the available technologies in the medical field with tons of funding for both faculty and staff. Nevertheless, there aren’t many options other than the medical field, especially the human sciences. The tech transfer office uses “ExCite” as a way of funding entrepreneurship and it is slowly expanding to the non medical fields.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">There is a strong co-op placement program in the Speed School of Engineering that provides students with opportunities to become exposed to and build relationships with companies on the cutting edge of innovation and product development. General Electric is one such company that also has FirstBuild, a microfactory - online and physical community dedicated to designing, engineering, building, and selling the next generation of major home appliances that welcomes all community members, industry experts and students. The amount of research park in Louisville are few and far between, however there are a lot of different maker spaces. LVL 1 is a independently run maker spaces that focuses on personal projects of the community. It is just like FirstBuild, but without the connections and large corporation backing.</span></span>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts</span></span></li>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c597a33a-68a3-fca5-57d9-37d23d8067e1"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">One of the things great about the community of Louisville is the amount of interests by the community. The community has a strong fundamental backing in the arts and humanities. The community was build as an industrial town, but never really expanded in that field and has slowly build a great cultural in the arts and humanities. The community is slowly trying to expand their ideas into the sciences with maker spaces such as LVL 1, FirstBuild(1B), and eventually waterstep. The community great uses and to some extents abuses these avenues. Nevertheless, you would assume the University would help, but sadly this isn’t the case. The university doesn’t seem to focus too much on the community, which is a place where it would seem to be a natural connection. The events at the maker spaces are rarely attended by any students to any great extent.</span></span>
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