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= '''Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br/> ='''

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">NDSU's &nbsp;'''Innovation&nbsp;''''''Challenge''' &nbsp;competition is the university's most advertized advertised effort for entrprenuership entrepreneurship and innovation. The 5-month annual program focuses on student innovation teams, culminating in a public exhibition and panel judging of ideas. Students form teams of their own volition and work on ideas wholly their own; the only faculty involvement is a required faculty mentor, the precise role of whom is up to the individual team. Seminars, brown-bag lunch presentations, and bootcamps boot camps are peppered in through the duration of the program, allowing students to learn from industry and startup veterans alike. At the end of the judging week, a keynote speaker is brought in to network and speak to students. $2027,000 is distributed to amidst winning teams, to be spent however the students wish.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">NDSU and UND have a collaborative program to offer students of any major an ''''Entrepreneurship Certificate'''.' This certificate is earned upon completion of five 2 & 300 level entrepreneurship courses. The certificate is offered through the College of Business and is open to any major. There are also several schlarship scholarship opportunities avaialble available from the Larson Foundation to enorll enroll in this course. &nbsp;In earning the certificate, students can expect to learn about intellectual property, management, marketing, accounting, design thinking, and venture capital- all with the twist of being specifically designed for providing students with the most important areas of those fields they'll need to thrive in a start-up.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">NDSU is a "Student Focused, Land Grant, Research University". Students are provided opportunities to perform &nbsp;'''undergraduate research''', should they be proactive enough to seek out the correct resources. While this research is certainly innovative, the objective of much of the research is not explicitly to teach the students innovative or entrepreneurial thinking- it is to perform research and generate data. How much the students learn to be innovative themselves in these environments depends on the student in question. Efforts are also hampered by many departments closing off lab space to other majors. This is changing slowly and resources are expanding. For example, the library just obtained a new Makerbot 3d printer available to all majors at the rate of $3 an hour. We are also working on opening up lab access across majors.&nbsp;</span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The &nbsp;'''Bison Microventure&nbsp;'''is a program that brings students from multiple disciplines- primarily Engineering and Biosciences but not exclusive of other majors- together to solve problems and develop a product. The group, structured into 8 separate teams of 2-3 students each, provides students the opportunity to lead and manage their own &nbsp;''de facto &nbsp;''mini-research teams, complete with all of the resource, expertise, and intellectual property responsibilities that come with it. BµV has been successful in generating multiple patent disclosures, numerous presentations at national events, and victories in local innovation competitions.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">NDSU is fortunate enough to be located in a community with a strong innovative culture. There are a number of events such as TedX, Health Pitch, and a large number of events put on by Emerging Praire such as start up startup weekend, start up drinks, one million cups and many others. &nbsp;</span></span> =