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<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">The College of Business offers a program known as ''''Student Consulting Teams'''.' These teams offer small business in particular the opportunity to receive the aid of students to assist and council those in their journey- the students, of course, receive experience and knowledge in return. Students are chosen by application and are not automatically assigned to a team. Instead, the student is contacted when a project that suits their experience, interest, and expertise becomes available. Through this method, assigning students with irrelevant knowledge or lack of interest can be mitigated. While this program is not explicitly innovative or entrepreneurial in nature, it does provide valuable assistance to those looking to engage in those activities in the form of expertise they may not otherwise possess.</span></span>
= <span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts</span></span><br/> =
<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''InnovateND''', put on by the North Dakota Department of Commerce, is the largest and most public program for assisting in economic development via startups and innovation- it says so right in the name. The purpose of InnovateND is to provide a full kit of assistance to an idea- planning, investing, market research, etc... all of this is<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>''assisted''<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and counseled by connections through InnovateND. It is, of course, still up to the entrepreneur to do the grunt work. In an effort to increase the utility and usefulness of the program, InnovateND recently made a key change to their program, shifting from a 'venture competition' to an educational and entrepreneurial experience.</span></span>
<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Start-up Weekend''', a 72 hour event focused on rapid creation, maturation, and launching of business concepts. It targeted primarily at application/service development, as 'engineered' ideas generally require far more time and work to become market-viable.</span></span>
<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="st">'''Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation'''</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>focuses on the 50,000ft view of developing Fargo/Moorhead as a whole. While it may not get involved in nurturing any specific business, what it does do is work to provide a vibrant and growing environment ripe for business creation and expansion. While this may not sound quite as flashy to an entrepreneur-to-be, it is nonetheless extremely important to ensure startups have the ability to survive.</span></span>
<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Funding and support '''is not bursting from the seams from the university directly for innovation but it is available in many areas in the community and state. Grants such as InnovateND are available and local places such as the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>'''Fargo Startup House''', found at [http://www.fargostartuphouse.com/, offer http://www.fargostartuphouse.com/, offer]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>a place where innovators can live for at least six months for free with the only stipulation being to work full time on their start up. The Fargo Startup House also offers memberships to CoCo, a collaborative working space that is partnered with Google for Entrepreneurs. CoCo can be found at: [http://cocomsp.com/locations/fargo/.  http://cocomsp.com/locations/fargo/.&nbsp];</span></span>
<span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Pratie Den''' Fargo's Only only open collaboration space. This second floor to a Chinese restaurant, venue, has been taking on the corner of two of the busiest streets in downtown Fargo. The region has been referred to as the miniature Silicone Valley and the inhabitants of the den are justifying that term. Simply opening space for professionals to work and bounce ideas off of each other has proven effective, it recently hit a membership milestone and has proven itself an asset to the Fargo Community. </span></span>
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