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= Strategy #1: Take Advantage of Existing Resources<br/> =
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address the entrprenurail realization gap over a 2-3 year period:
== Tactic #1: Engineering Lab Boot Camp ==
*Description [250 words It’s a shame to see beautiful lab space not be fully taken advantage of by students. The state of the art engineering lab spaces were completed in 2011 and have been open to students since. An extensive amount of research and class work goes on inside the labs however they are not being used by students to innovate, fabricate and prototype student ideas that aren’t connected to their existing studies. It poses the question of how much the students realize their labs can do and if their knowledge of the equipment is deep enough to work on why this strategy will solve this gap their own. A good amount of the available equipment is equal in quality and purpose to equipment used in engineering careers and a head start on use can only be beneficial. An'''Engineering Lab Bootcamp''' would engage students through a series of workshops on how best to make use of the resources they have available. It could offer the possibility of student interaction and collaboration to explore special topics and specific applications of their labs. It would help students realize the potential of entrepreneurship by providing the tools to innovate something new to benefit the world they occupy. Similar workshops have been adopted in the Creative Media and Digital Culture program and in the Fine Arts program. Guest speakers are brought in and students are provided with a one on your campus]one experience with the opportunity to make something of their own. When applied to the engineering department it would open up the student body to a new set of skills and opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship. *Team Leader:: [Either your name, TBD or create (Preferabley a title assigned to lab technician within the person who volunteers]School of Science and Engineering)*Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize Aim dates are Spring/2014**Prepare engineering department with the work that would likely need ideas**Facilitate faculty and guest speakers for workshops**Find a consistant time for workshops to take place**Market to be executed, along with mm/yy]students
== Tactic #2: Vancouver Extension of WSU Pullman Office of Commercialization ==
*Description [250 words The Office of Commercialization at Washington State University in Pullman Washington is a successful transfer office that offers students consultation on preserving intellectual property, applying for patents and seed funding, and even offering incubator space for new companies to develop and grow. The students at WSU Pullman have a tremendous resource that operates alongside existing companies and with the mentorship of successful entrepreneurs and faculty. This incredible resource has been tremendously successful since its inception. However, the resource is only available to the students at WSU Pullman and no equivalent on why the satellite campuses exist. A network of engineering, business, digital culture and art students are left without an incubator or research park to see the same realization of ideas. The infrastructure for the Office of Commercialization exists and the students in Vancouver are ready for this strategy outstanding resource. By offering an equivalent of the Office of Commercialization, even on a small scale to start, students will solve this gap on your campus]have a place to begin with their student ventures. The status quo offers a patchwork quilt of resources for students that requires a great deal of research and effort to compile the right resources in the right places. By centralizing these resources through a tech transfer office it would make the ability for realization more available, accessible and efficient. *Team Leader:: [Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned to the person who volunteers]Adam Denny *Milestones: [A set Culmination Spring 2015**Idea proposal to Office of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need Grants and Research at Vancouver**Proposal to Vancouver Chancellor**Take idea to be executedPullman**Seek out support (staff, along with mm/yy]space, money)**Set up office in Vancouver**Open to students
== Tactic #3: Set up an available Intellectual Property Resource on Campus ==
*Description [250 words on why Innovation is already occurring at Washington State University Vancouver. Students are creating products and ideas that have great potential to go to market. Fruition of these ideas is occurring rarely however as students have no outlet to protect and go through the necessary bureaucracy to realize their goals. Outside resources are being sought and the intimidation of tracking down all the right paper work is a daunting task for some students, especially those with no exposure to the entrepreneur’s world. There are existing tactics already established at WSUV but they are hard to find and few and far between. The campus is in desperate need of a dedicated intellectual property resource for students to explore and have readily available. The beginnings of such a resource could be as simple as a web database with the necessary how-tos and paperwork of intellectual property with a long-term goal of having a department ready to field questions and guide students along their way to market. A resource like this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]would offer exposure to students who were unaware of the resources and give those with ideas a place to begin. *Team Leader:: [Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned to the person who volunteers]*Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]TBD
Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #2 over a 2-3 year period:
== Tactic #1: [Name of tactic]Entrpreneurship Mentoring Program ==
*Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]
*Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]
== Tactic #2: [Name of tactic]Interdiciplinary Collaboration ==
*Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]
*Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]
== Tactic #3: [Name of tactic]A Dedicated Physical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Space ==
*Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve this gap on your campus]