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*'''The Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation''' (AzCATI), located at ASU, has been a pioneer in algae research as a source of low-cost, sustainable biofuel. The Laboratory was contracted by the Department of Energy to research and develop algae conversion.
=Faculty Entrepreneurship=
ASU’s '''The Pathways to Entrepreneurship Grant''' (PEG) program provides funding to faculty/staff who wish to implement or enhance entrepreneurship curricular or co-curricular programs. The following programs all have some roots grounded in the in the Pathways to Entrepreneurship Grant.
*'''''First Innovations''''': Team Leader: Pat Mariella, American Indian Policy Institute Director. Amount Awarded: $68,000. Number of Grants Awarded: 1
<ul style="margin-left: 40px; list-style-type: circle;"><li>Grant funding provided for a two-day workshop, which was subsequently developed into three ASU courses and a summer program for high school students.</li>
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*'''''Phoenix Innovation Study''''': Team Leader: Sander van der Leeuw, School of Human Evolution and Social Change Director. Amount Awarded: $33,000. Number of Grants Awarded: 1
<ul style="margin-left: 40px; list-style-type: circle;"><li>Funded research on ethnographic study of SkySong, the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center.</li>
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*'''''Social Innovation and Social Enterprise''''': Team Leader: Vanna Gonzales, School of Social Transformation Assistant Professor. Amount Awarded: $30,000. Number of Grants Awarded: 1
<ul style="margin-left: 40px; list-style-type: circle;"><li>Grant funding enables students to work with local social entrepreneurs to advance their organization’s goals through innovation.</li>
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The following programs are run out of '''''the College of Technology and Innovation''''':
*'''''Global Resolve''''': Team Leader: Mark Henderson, Global Resolve Director. Amount Awarded: $59,000. Number of Grants Awarded: 2<ul style="margin-left: 40px; list-style-type: circle;">
<li>Funds development of capstone courses that engage students in creating ventures in developing countries using technologies that solve local challenges. These courses are now part of the core courses for the social entrepreneurship focus in the '''''technological entrepreneurship and management degree program'''''.</li>
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*'''''Startup Weekend ASU''''': Team Leader: Kevin Gary, College of Technology and Innovation Associate Professor. Amount Awarded: $39,000. Number of Grants Awarded: 1
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<li>Funding supports the development of courses in software entrepreneurship and launched the inaugural Startup Weekend at ASU.</li>