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== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Overview<br/></span> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[[File:Binghamton-university-sign.jpg|frame|Binghamton-university-sign.jpg]] <span style="font-size:medium;">Binghamton University, primarily known for being a research-based institution, is a public university located in Vestal, New York. It is home to 13,632&nbsp; undergraduate and 3,660 graduate students coming from a total of 44 states and 114 different countries. The university consists of 7 different schools including - but not limited to - Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, the Decker School of Nursing, the School of Management, etc. strongly pushing entrepreneurship. After years of development and planning, the infrastructure is in place to allow startups to thrive.&nbsp; Student engagement with these resources is low, relatively speaking. Pushing more students towards the university’s infrastructure is a cornerstone to not only the office of innovation’s mission but also the office of the president. Being one of the most cost effective educations in the northeast is pushing more qualified students into the school but somehow they are not filtering into the entrepreneurship track as well as they could be.</span></span>

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size:large;"><span class="s1">Promoting student innovation Student Innovation and entrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship</span></span>'''</span> ==

<span stylefont face="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span stylesize="font-size:medium;3">There are myriad efforts to grow innovation and entrepreneurship on campus. As a robust set result of programs the world-wide shift towards experiential and activities that revolve around entrepreneurshiphands-on learning, Binghamton has also increased their efforts in this regard. Idea pitches are often regarded In the classroom, dedicated courses such as ENT 280A: Innovation Scholars, ENT 460: Entrepreneurship, ENT 480B: Business Plan Development, as well as a good stepping stone for UNIV 280F: Introduction to Entrepreneurship, UNIV 280D: Global Entrepreneurship, and UNIV 280G: Social Entrepreneurship give students who want both the theory and practice needed to get their feet wet. The cash prizes for the best performing bring new ideas are just enough to get most teams into a prototyping phaselife. There are also a few wellOutside the classroom, spaces like the Makers Lab, Computer-respected courses in innovation Aided Engineering Laboratory, and Innovation Lab provide students with the tools and creativity that can further a student'</span><span style="font-size: medium;">s education during a semester. There are also various events that reward innovative thinking around campus including several hackathons environments to experiment, prototype, and a 3d printing labcollaborate.</span></spanfont>

<span stylefont face="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="3">Student-led organizations such as '''Entrepreneur Connect''' further foster peer-to-peer learning, networking, and mentorship. Meanwhile, competitive and experiential programs, including the EC Pitch It Competition, the '''New York Business Plan Competition''', the Inclusive Innovation Internship (I³), and The HATCH Internship Program, challenge students to apply their knowledge in real-world contexts, preparing them to lead and innovate beyond campus.<br/font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Binghamton has continued their partnerships with the [https://spanthekoffman.com/ '''The Koffman Incubator'''] to invigorate students and provide resources and assistance for various ventures.</font>

== <span stylefont face="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span stylesize="font-size:large;3">Encouraging faculty innovation Despite the presence of increasing resources on campus, many students do not take part in them; this is probably the result of poor advertising and entrepreneurshiplack of easy ways to find such resources.</spanfont>'''</span> ==

==<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size:mediumlarge;"><span class="s1">The faculty at Binghamton University are more often than not encouraging when a student approaches them with an idea but they rarely initiate the conversation. Professors involved in the startup ecosystem are more willing to open a up a lecture with a story about a start-up in the news (Rent-the-runway was used recently for example) but that is much rarer. Staff are, especially, equipped to innovate themselves professors in the engineering school. The school has invested heavily in the lab equipment Encouraging Faculty Innovation and up to date facilities which can allow professors to expand and hopefully commercialize their research.</span>Entrepreneurship</span>'''</span>==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><brspan style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">The faculty at Binghamton will often engage with their students in conversation about innovation and entrepreneurship, however, they typically will not initiate the conversation. Rather, they will follow students and engage when students want to further their own ideas or learn more on the subject. Moreover, despite Binghamton's status as a research university, much of the research is allocated in the social and technological sciences as showcased during the annual [https://www.binghamton.edu/research/division-offices/research-advancement/research-days/ '''Research Days'''].</span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">From a student perspective, the presence of innovation and entrepreneurship is low on campus. Through conversations with students and a lack of course offerings, many students do not feel proactive or thoroughly interested in starting their own ventures or start-ups. They also worry about not having the support or guidance to succeed in their startup ventures. This is something that fellows hope to change.</span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span>==<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size: large;">Actively Supporting the University Tech Transfer Function</span>'''</span>==

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''<span style="font-size: largemedium;">Actively&nbsp;supporting <span class="s1">As a young university, there have not been long-standing efforts or funding to provide the university services of tech transfer function, however, the university has made changes in recent years.</span></span>'''</span> ==

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">The office presence of innovation incubators, venture accelerators, and entrepreneurship is formally named bootcamps have become more popular, as a result of recent economic efforts in our part of New York state. Within the inter-university technology transfer office and , there are dedicated lawyers and administrators have been efforts to help academics commercialize their technology. It is only recently make this change, with hope of inspiring change that exceeds the office has begun to heavily invest in undergraduate entrepreneurshipcampus. Such efforts involve programs like [https://neny.org/ '''New Energy New York'''], [https://www.binghamton.edu/centers/small-business-development/ '''Small Business Development Center'''], [https://www.binghamton.edu/research/division-offices/innovation/programs/exceed.html '''EXCEED Internship Program'''], [https://thekoffman. They curate a “Bcom/app-and-website-accelerator-Innovative” student incubator in a building on campus which as had scores of startups move through it2/ '''Digital Platform Accelerator'''], and [https://neny. It also runs another incubator in org/programs/chargeup/ '''ChargeUp Accelerator'''] spearheaded by the Innovative Technologies Complex that houses undergraduate [https://www.binghamton.edu/research/division-offices/innovation/ '''Entrepreneurship and&nbspInnovation Partnerships Department'''] which provide external mentorship</span></span></span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">and</span></span></span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">seed</span></span></span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">non<span class="s1">funding opportunities</span></span></span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-student&nbspserif;startups. The office of I&E often&nbsp"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">for</span></span></span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;leave&nbsp"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">economic and technological</span></span></span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1">their doors open for students to walk in with questions about a particular resource or just life as an entrepreneurchange.&nbsp;</span></span></span>

==<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><brspan style="font-size:large;">'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</span></span>==

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:largemedium;"><span class="s1">In the most recent years, the university has made great strides to collaborate with the surrounding areas, particularly in various industries. Their greatest effort has been in the creation of their[https://www.binghamton.edu/research/ &nbsp;'''Facilitating university-industry collaborationInnovative Technology Center'''], an extremely advanced building, which serves as a home and incubator for technological, scientific, and entrepreneurial partnership.</span></span></span> <span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The center is a smart-building, with self-sustaining technologies. Additionally, all students have access to the expansive building. The ITC provides a home to research for scientific disciplines and is the new home to the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Partnerships Office. In 2017, The Koffman Incubator was created in Downtown Binghamton, with offices, high-tech wet labs, dry labs, and co-working areas to further support collaboration.</span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span class="s1"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Since large industries like IBM left the Southern Tier area, economic production and income has been low. This new pursuit seeks to join together various forces and connect them, allowing for greater partnership. The university has done a fantastic job in the last couple of years in providing open spaces for industry-university dialogue and cooperation.</span> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Further, there have been captial partnerships with the university, including [https://esd.ny.gov/startup-ny-program '''Start-Up NY'''], the [https://regionalcouncils.ny.gov/cfa/project/230329 '''Binghamton Incubator'''], as well as the '''[https://www.binghamton.edu/research/innovation/entrepreneurship/17nysbpc.html New York Business Plan Competition]'''. All of these organizations seek to inspire local inhabitants to make real change in our area.</span>

==<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:mediumlarge;"><span class="s1">The university is in the process of constructive a massive downtown innovation center that will host startups '''Engaging With Regional and laboratories. There are also several access points to serious funding but access to those sources are restricted. Take the NYS business plan competition. The winner receives a grant of half a million dollars but the competition is intense and no student from Binghamton has even gotten close to winning. There are ample events for networking but, as far as investors and capital goes, letLocal Economic Development Efforts'''s just say that most startups are forced to go lean for a long time.</span></span></span>==

== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:largemedium;"><span class=Most students on campus are not heavily involved with the surrounding community, as entreprenurship resources are underutilized. Additionally, there exists a "s1bubble">'''Engaging with regional around the university; most students are unaware of the food desert and local economic development efforts'''</span></span>detriments of gentrification. Most citizens of Binghamton are driven out of their housing as a result of spiking rental rates, because students can afford to pay more. Despite these negative circumstances, there are gradual changes being made.</span><br/> ==

<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-alignsize: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapmedium;">Students Many students are unaware of the economic situation of the surrounding area; additionally, they do not have much involvement know how to engage with the local economic development despite surrounding community. Despite having several resources in which the community can be engaged, they are underutilized. Our [https://www.binghamton.edu/research/division-offices/innovation/]'''[https://www.binghamton.edu/research/innovation/ Entrepreneurship and Innovation Partnerships]''' and [https://www.binghamton.edu/cce/ '''Center for Civic Engagement''']'''&nbsp;'''seek to connect the resources available university to do sothe surrounding area. Recently, the first year program, [https://www.binghamton. Organizations like SUNY best bring edu/offices/success/first-year-students/emerging-leaders/ '''Emerging Leaders Program'''] also brings students together a whole host of local professionals downtown to form Knowledge Communities, such as Business and Entrepreneurship, to create awarenessservice-learning projects and interact with the local community, but too. Our economic programs have grown substantially in the past few years with the number of students that attend these meetups<[https://span><thekoffman.com/span>'''Koffman Incubator'''] creating over 68 startups, 818 in jobs, and $663M in economic impact.</span> ==<span style="font-sizefamily: 16px; color: rgb(0arial, 0helvetica, 0); verticalsans-align: baselineserif; white"><span style="font-spacesize: pre-wraplarger;">Related Links</span></span>== ===<span style="font-size:mediumlarger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">areFellows (Spring 2018)</span></span><=== David Jacobson Profile:&nbsp;[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:DavidEJacobson http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/David_Jacobson] Hannah Werner Profile:&nbsp;http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hannah_Werner Vivian Wu Profile:&nbsp;http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/span><span style="font-sizeVivian_Wu Shabienska Achil Profile:medium&nbsp;">http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Shabienska_Achil === <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); verticalfont-align: baseline; white-spacesize: pre-wraplarger;">surprisingly low.Fellows (Spring 2017)</span></span style> ==="background-colorJudah Berger Profile: transparent&nbsp; colorhttp: rgb(0, 0, 0)//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Judah_Berger David Axelrod Profile:&nbsp; vertical-alignhttp://universityinnovation.org/wiki/David_Axelrod Mauricio Morales Profile: baseline&nbsp; white-spacehttp: pre-wrap;">They unfortunately either have no awareness or are aware of the economic and social issues that persist in the city around the university but nothing is done to resolve these issues//universityinnovation. The school also does not seem to have dedicated staff members that take initiative to bridge the gap between the university undergraduate population and the surrounding community. This is an issue that has become evidently clear and could use the help of entrepreneurial initiatives to properly address it.</span><org/span><wiki/span>Mauricio_Morales [[Category:Universities]][[Category:Schools]][[Category:Binghamton_University]]{{CatTree|Binghamton_University}}