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== '''<span id="docs-internal-guid-4426c017-eeac-596a-d26c-cdd5e6660f6e"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bring all entrepreneurship/innovation -related programs on campus under a single umbrella</span></span> =='''

'''<span style="font-size: medium;">Strategy #1</span>''': Gauge and increase the perceived value of innovation and entrepreneurship at Texas A&M '''''<u>Tactic 1</u>:'''''&nbsp;Conduct research to gauge the perceived value of innovation and entrepreneurship at Texas A&M<ul style="marginfont-leftsize: 40px;"><li>(4/14) Meet with major stakeholders to understand why innovation and entrepreneurship has not become a movement on campus yet.</li><li>(5/14) Design a survey to gauge student understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as awareness of and need for innovation and entrepreneurship resources18.</li><li>(6/14) Collect survey data and create a report outlining perceived value of innovation and entrepreneurship</li></ul>   <u>'''''Tactic 2:'''''</u>&nbsp6667px;Increase perceived value of innovation and entrepreneurship at Texas A&M<ul style="margin-left: 40px;"><li>(5/14) Create a marketing strategy (based on survey results) to increase perceived value and visibility of innovation and entrepreneurship resources on campus</li><li>(6/14) Implement marketing strategy to engage a large audience for existing lectures and competitions</li></ul>   '''<span style="font-sizefamily: mediumArial;">Strategy #2</span>'''color: Increase student access to potential resources of innovation and entrepreneurship at Texas A&M <u>'''''Tactic 1'''''</u>: Negotiate student access to existing innovation and entrepreneurship certificates<ul style="margin-left: 40px;"><li>rgb(5/140, 0, 0) Meet with major stakeholders to discuss possibility of opening up existing certificate program to more than undergraduate business majors.</li><li>Next milestone will depend on the outcome of described discussion.</li></ul>   ''<u>'''Tactic 2:'''</u>''&nbsp;Aggressively market the innovation and entrepreneurship message to students through the creation of a leadership team<ul style="marginbackground-leftcolor: 40pxtransparent;"><li>(5/14) Develop an application and competencies needed in the student leadership team.</li><li>(6/14) Recruit students (and faculty covertical-leaders) to market the message of innovation & entrepreneurship to students.</li><li>(7/14) Train recruited students on their role and responsibilities (at least a one-semester commitment).</li><li>(7/14) Invite guest lecturer (Spaces of Invention workshop) to “train” recruited students about creating spaces (pop-up studios) for students.</li><li>(8/14) Trained students go out to market the message and train other students to do the same!</li></ul>   <span style="font-size: medium;">'''Strategy #3'''</span>: Develop student access to applied resources of innovation and entrepreneurship at Texas A&M <u>'''''Tactic 1'''''</u>: Create an experiential program around ideas of innovation and entrepreneurship by bringing all existing resources together, with assistance from recruited student leaders<ul style="margin-left: 40px;"><li>(7/14) Meet with student leaders to begin designing a program using existing resources.</li><li>(8/14) Coordinate resources to set-up the program.</li><li>....</li></ul>   <span style="font-weightalign: boldbaseline; fontwhite-size: medium;">Strategy #4</span>: Fill gaps in realized resources of innovation and entrepreneurship at Texas A&M <u>'''''Tactic 1:'''''</u>&nbsp;Build a maker space for students or determine how existing maker spaces can be influenced to incorporate student feedback on the space <u>'''''Tactic 2:'''''</u>&nbsp;Work with the Technology Transfer Office to develop student-friendly policies around inventions developed by students <u>'''''Tactic 3:'''''</u>&nbsp;Work with the Technology Transfer &nbsp;& Grant & Proposal Development Offices to develop workshops geared towards helping students take their technology to market   '''<span style="fontpre-size: mediumwrap;">Strategy #5:</span>'''&nbsp;Further reframe resources of innovation and entrepreneurship at Texas A&M <u>'''''Tactic 1:&nbsp;'''''</u>Sift through the Texas A&M Alumni Network to find alumni who are innovators and entrepreneurs, to create a network of alumni who can become a resource at all stages of the innovation and entrepreneurship movement   '''<span style="font-size: medium;">Strategy #6:&nbsp;</span>'''Renew the entire university curriculum to integrate innovation and entrepreneurial resources and skills for all students at Texas A&M   These six strategies (and more) may be used to bring innovative and entrepreneurial thinking and resources to students, so Texas A&M students can develop their capacities to be innovative and entreprenurial in solving today's problems and leading tomorrow's challenges!&nbsp;