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<span style="line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px">The author requests that you note the use of 'management' vs. 'protection.' Currently, there is little understanding amongst students that work they do that utilizes 'significant university resources' qualifies as university property. The native stance of the IP management system here is to</span>''protect''<span style="line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px">&nbsp;all IP generated, not to</span>''manage and distribute''<span style="line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px">&nbsp;it. We hope that, by working with the Tech Transfer Office and university higher-ups, a more transparent system can be developed... one that can be explained to students quickly and efficiently. Most importantly, the delivery system for getting the knowledge to students has to be structured in such a manner that it doesn't scare them off!&nbsp; Barring the ability to get the TTO more involved in proactively assisting with student IP, we at least hope to provide students with a seminar, guide, etc... on what exactly the relationship between them, their work, and the university actually is.</span><span style="line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px">With this tactic, we're going to work closely with the NDSU research park and Tech Transfer Office to establish as best we can a formal step-by-step process for entreprenuers looking to start a business and/or license their own IP back from the university. Note that the point here is not to</span>''constrain''<span style="line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px">&nbsp;but to&nbsp;</span>''assist''<span style="line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px">. The purpose of the formal system is to allow rails for the students to follow along their journey- right now there is nothing in place to assist students in the early or middle stages of planning, for example. Late stage business-founding can be handled by the Research Incubator... but how do you know to contact them? That's precisely what we're going to fix.&nbsp;</span>''At the very least,''<span style="line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4444446563721px">&nbsp;this tactic will produce a flow chart of steps, people, and processes that have been succesful in the past for starting businesses at NDSU.</span>

NDSU Currently offers a Certificate of Entrepeneurship as part of a collabrative program with the University of North Dakota. This program, although very beneficial, has seen very little student enrollment, primarly due to a lack of advertising and confusion coming from the partnership with UND. NDSU must work to establish its own, in house, entrepeneurship program. This will have an enourmus effect on the level of entrepeneurship on campus and when partnered with existing resources on campus, will have a massive impact.