<span id="docs-internal-guid-bc653010-336b-837f-327f-595d1f353465"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The faculty at Tech are extremely involved with real world innovation. Many professors currently perform research which they plan to develop into a product in the future, and others have already started companies through their research.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-bc653010-336b-837f-327f-595d1f353465"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along with this environment of start-ups, there is a movement forming which promotes innovation directly. With the help of VentureWell, faculty members were able to attend a workshop in the month of February 2014. They received similar training to that which the University Innovation Fellows receive , but on a higher level.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-bc653010-336b-837f-327f-595d1f353465"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This same group of faculty is also pushing to create a new major on campus. Something which would combine aspects of the business and engineering curricula to create an area of study for students interested in entrepreneurship.</span></span>
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