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= Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship =
Texas A&M has support University proudly hosts an inclusive and enabling infrastructure for entrepreneurship and innovation efforts led by students to learn about and become involved with entrepreneurship. Programs, like through various on-campus programs: <u>Startup Aggieland</u> and , <u>Aggies in Business</u>, and the <u>Engineering Innovation Center</u> are generally new all manifestations of such an effort and constantly evolving and have been put in place allow students to reach out to students across college exercise their business-savvy, creativity, and disciplinary boundariesproduct development skills.
The <u>Mays Business School Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship</u> provides undergraduate and graduate certificates for entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, the undergraduate certificate is limited to undergraduate students in Mays Business School. Only the graduate certificate is available to students across colleges. The Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship, however, does support student entrepreneurship as well as faculty and the local community with competitions and lecture series to inspire and educate across campus. [[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/ http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/]] Some of its popular programs include:
*[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/3DS/ 3 Day Startup] - a weekend event where students collaborate to form businesses and demo a prototype to a panel of judges, including investors
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*[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/lunch-learn/ Lunch and Learn] - lunch speaker events
<u>Startup Aggieland</u> is a brand new student incubator designed to provide students who have launch-ready concepts with the opportunity to receive co-working spaces, mentors, and a supportive community. They lack laboratories, equipment, and funding. [[http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/accelerator/ http://cnve.tamu.edu/programs/accelerator/]]
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<u>Aggies in Business (AiB)</u> is another brand new program that provides business consulting for local businesses, and enables students to be employed by the university to perform this consulting work. The student employees are overseen by leadership. [[http://www.txaib.org/images/txaib/pages/aib_consulting.html http://www.txaib.org/images/txaib/pages/aib_consulting.html]]