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== Other<br/> == Work has already begun at WSUV towards these broad long-term goals. Students in multiple disciplines are being pointed towards the Small Business Policy course in hopes that this mindset will spread back to their distinct majors. A student team has been formed under the Creative Media and Digital Culture program moving efficiently to an entrpreneurship event in December 2013 with more planned projects for Spring 2014. Many professors are offering special topics courses to specify education to interests and explore career paths that many didn't think existed. Startup Weekend is for the first time being considered at the campus. It will be an exiting journey for Washington State University Vancouver. It just has to start somewhere.
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== Tactic #1: Entrpreneurship Mentoring Program ==
*Description [250 words on why this strategy will solve The Cougar Business Alliance marks the beginnings of mentoring opportunities. It is a network of WSU alumni who have experienced success as entrepreneurs and have remained in the community. The network consists of multiple fields ranging from restaurant owners, to web and media designers, and engineers who’ve created a business around a product they invented. The small business owners already connected to entrepreneurship and still involved in the ecosystem to this degree offer the opportunity to create student connection with students interested in following the same career path. An Entrepreneurship Mentoring Program would allow for community involvement appealing to the newly designated Innovation Partnership Zone in Vancouver and more chances for exposure to the real business world through internships. This type of program would address the gap of reframing of entrepreneurship on your campus]by taking the idea of entrepreneurship out of a university setting and placing it in the market. It would also offer invaluable experience in professional self-marketing and salesmanship and create possible investment networks for all participants. *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
== Tactic #2: Interdiciplinary Collaboration ==
*Description [250 words Washington State University Vancouver is a relatively small school. The campus is quickly explored on foot with every building mere minutes from each other. Students share library and study space and have classes for multiple topics in every building. Despite the tight campus and small student population there is little to no interdisciplinary collaboration on why this strategy projects that aren’t specifically for a general education course. It is not uncommon to hear rumors that the collaboration is halted by faculty who are dedicated to their research and unwilling to interact with professors outside their expertise. This mindset halts the progress that could be achieved by bringing together opposing and differing views among students. Often times it isn’t that the students are unwilling to work together but merely that there are no opportunities to do so. This tactic is ultimately vague but is something that needs to be considered and addressed. It is a tactic that will solve this forever be ongoing through the willingness of students to work with one another. This could include student to student teaching, interdisciplinary competitions or gallery showcases that require multiple disciplines participate. A successful venture is one that takes into consideration every possible outlet and makes use of the resources that other people can provide. To see an innovation or entrepreneurship project go through to success and fill the reframing gap at WSUV there must be a deeper interdisciplinary connection on your the campus]. *Team Leader:Brittany Wouden*Milestones: [Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned I want to have the person who volunteers]first oppurtunity for team collaboration in February 2014**Collaboration amongst students, start small**Collaboration amongst involved faculty*Milestones: [A set *Organization of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executedevent (build weekend, start up weekend, along with mm/yy]innovation challenge etc)**Funding for marketing and supplies
== Tactic #3: A Dedicated Physical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Space ==
*Description [250 words The Campaign for Washington State has a goal for a research space in Vancouver in the long term.. This bold goal is currently in its funding stage with an estimated commencement date in late 2015. When one looks at the master plan for the developing campus in Vancouver there are multiple buildings in the works with the Innovation Space being a foremost goal. Although student involvement in this project isn’t explicitly necessary there should be a student voice on why the project. The tactic would involve the formation of a student council to monitor the ongoing progress and be a communication channel for the students and alumni with a stake in the space. With deeper student interest and awareness of the project the planned space can really become something that students will be able to take full advantage of. It will help future students plan their university experience and allow students exploring graduate education a space for innovation in the long term. The road of innovation and entrepreneurship can be rough but with the right resources and space can be encouraging. WSUV is currently standing as a premier research university and an incubator space can take that research and transform it into so much more. The reframing of entrepreneurship begins with something as simple as a place to meet. Students should be aware that the university realizes this strategy will solve and has goals to meet these needs. The Campaign for Washington State offers this gap on your campus]opportunity and provides long term goals for reframing of innovation and entrepreneurship in Vancouver. *Team Leader: [Either your name, TBD or create a title assigned to the person who volunteers]A member of WSUV DECA*Milestones: [A set of bullets that characterize the work that would likely need to be executed, along with mm/yy]Commencment date Late 2015**Milesontes TBD
