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'''''<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The motto of entrepreneurship at RPI: &nbsp;A way to think. A way to learn. A way to succeed.&nbsp;</span></span>''''' [[File:Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Seal.jpg|thumb|Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Seal.jpg]]

*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">BS. Design,Innovationand Innovation and Society</span></span>

*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[httphttps://www.eshiplallyschool.rpi.edu/exemplars_scholar_edge.html severinoprograms/foundry-rpi <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Exemplar's ProgramRPI Foundry</span></span>]</span></span>*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[httphttps://wwwunion.rpi.edu/dept/lally/centers/severinoclubs/foundry.html <span style="fonthobby-size:larger;"><span style="fontspecial-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">RPI Foundry</span><interest/span>]</span></span>*<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font186-family:arial,helvetica,sansdesign-serif;">[http://designforamerica.com/studios/rensselaer/ america RPI Design for America]</span></span>

<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Education geared toward entrepreneurial thinking encourages students at RPI to think in different ways, to come up with new ideas to solve problems and to enter on-campus competitions such as the Change the World ChallengeEship competition series, the Class of ’51 Entrepreneurial Fund, the Elevator Pitch Competition, and the RPI Business Plan Competition.&nbsp; These programs often provide the spark which gives students the entrepreneurial bug and encourages them to continue pursuing their ideas.</span></span>

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<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">''Incredible professors like Burt Swersey, Dr. Eric Ledet, and many othersthe late&nbsp;''</span></span>''Burt Swersey&nbsp;''''and many others''

<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;">There are multiple different types of organizations and classes that try to teach theses sorts of opportunities and ways of thinking at Rensselaer, including a class called How to Change the World and known as Starting a New Venture. In addition to this, there are activities such as Design for America and Foundry that are also a part of the I&E spectrum. In addition to these supplementary classes, there are also other courses such as Capstone Senior Design Course that help to develop interdisciplinary bridges across multiple academic departments. A prerequisite for this sort of course consists of many different classes across many different academic subjects, as well as the class Introduction to Engineering design during most engineering student's sophomore years, which focus on giving exposure to the design process that will help Rensselaer's engineering students in the future. Other courses include: Priciples of Tech. Entrepreneurship, Design and Innovation Studio, and Inventors Studio.&nbsp;</span></font>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;">In addition to classes, Rensselaer offers many different types of laboratories that are opened during certain hours of the day. These include the Mercer Lab for Electronics, the MILL, the Forge, Embedded Controls club, and Student Shop. These labs are opened during certain hours of the day that give certain students access to different types of equipment for them to do prototyping and other types of work with. These labs and organizations foster student innovation and creativity for change.</span>

== &nbsp;<br/><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts'''</span></span> = == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="linefont-heightsize: 15pxlarger;">EVE (Emerging Ventures Ecosystem)Startup Tech Valley - Where Entrepreneurs and the Community Come Together</span></span>== <span style="font-size: larger;">A monthly meetup for first-time entrepreneurs, experienced entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, employees of startups, serviceprodiders to startups, and anyone else who wants to be involved. Students at RPI attend these monthly meetings and gain valuable insights and connections to individuals around the area involved in entrepreneurship and innovation.&nbsp;</span>  ==<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: larger;">Tech Valley Center of Gravity</span></span> == <span style="font-size: larger;">The Tech Valley Center of Gravity is a federation of makers, hackers, crafters, and artists who share camaraderie, space, and resources to do our tinkering. We have a permanent makerspace, several satellite locations, and a community of local individuals and organizations to share and support them. We are based in downtown Troy, NY, and sponsor events all over the New York State Capital Region.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arialOur primary goal is to build a community around the idea of doing for ourselves, rather than just passively consuming, and learning how the arts,helveticacrafts,sans-serif;">The and technologies that surround us every day work of turning ideas into real companies happens in RPI’s incubator, along the Emerging Ventures Ecosystem (EVE)way.&nbsp; EVE is We also aim to create a distributed incubation program which accelerates network of contacts for small business and start-ups in the growth of new Capital Region to connect with local leaders, like-minded businesses and boosts the transfer of scientific individuals, and technological breakthroughs from the laboratory tools and classroom resources they might not otherwise have access to the marketplace, for social and economic impact.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:larger;">= <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The new EVE program utilizes an innovative distributed incubation model, maintaining a central office in Troy, NY and working with each company to find an ideal matchup of space-to-enterprise in Troy and the surrounding area.&nbsp; EVE is overseen by James Spencer,&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); linefont-heightsize: 15pxlarger;">who has 20 years of experience in leading organizational creation and growth as an entrepreneurial business executive.</span>IgniteU NY</span></span>==

<span style="color: rgb(16, 14, 14); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:larger16px; letter-spacing: 0.24px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">IgniteU NY is an independent program focused on developing the entrepreneurs of New York State.&nbsp;They have created a professional yet fun environment filled with all the technology and amenities you need to flourish.&nbsp;It</span><span style="color: rgb(16, 14, 14); font-family:arialArial,helveticaHelvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once a new company completes is also an industry agnostic program focused primarily on the application process for development of the EVE program — through which Rensselaer will determineentrepreneur, in part, whether the entrepreneur is willing to put in moreso than the effort to make development of the company successful — the program will assign a status .&nbsp;They offer various programs to the company: pre-seed, emerging, or early stage. Assigning these descriptions will connect entrepreneurs with their community and help EVE mentors and administrators determine the specific services needed by each businessthem develop a wide range of entrepreneurial skill.</span></span>

<span style="font-sizecolor:largerrgb(16, 14, 14);"><span style="font-family:arialArial,helveticaHelvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.24px;">Under EVE, businesses that are accepted into the IgniteU NY offers a unique nine-week summer accelerator program will receive a series of specific services that will help accelerate their growth.&nbsp; A board of advisers will be established from community resources or alumni/ae for each new companyentrepreneurs.&nbsp; If a company already has a board The experiential program incorporates aspects of advisers or directors, EVE will assign an additional person to the board to act as a liaison to mobilize resources within the Institutelean startup methodology and adds general business development and startup education.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Upon formation They are looking for startups who have a proof of concept and a board of advisors, three or four key objectives are developed by each company with the help of validated business model that describes their advisory board.&nbsp; Milestones for these objectives are then established for each quarter, in an effort to create a concrete plan for success customer segments and to generate measurable objectives; new goals are developed for succeeding semesters.&nbsp; Companies must continue to show steady progress in order to remain in the programvalue propositions.</span></span>

<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arialThe accelerator program,helvetica,sans-serif;">As a member along with all of EVE, a company will have access to the Entrepreneur(s)-in-Residence at the Lally School as well as other resources including labs, patenting and licensing services, faculty, and students for work-study assignmentsIgniteU initiatives, internships (REIP), and student projects.&nbsp; Additional resources for EVE members include alumni/ae and community volunteers such as attorneys and accountants who are available to answer questions and provide advice and one time assistance for basic questions.&nbsp; If puts an EVE company requires further professional assistance, they are encouraged to select a professional service company from a list provided through emphasis on engaging in the EVE program. Such services may be offered at a discount to seed community and early stage companiesbuilding relationships.</span></span>

== <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">EVE hosts monthly peer review meetings, known as CEO Roundtable Discussions, among the CEOs of the incubated companies as a framework for peer<span style="line-to-peer coaching among the mix of pre-seed, early state, and emerging companies supported by the EVE incubator program.&nbspheight: 15px; At these meetings, participants will sign disclosure agreements allowing a platform for confidential open discussions about topics and issues of importance to them.&nbsp; The companies will also be invited to a monthly meeting featuring a speaker or a lecturer based upon a topic selected by the EVE companies’ CEOs and will also attend quarterly meet-ups for all employees of incubated companies, allowing the employees to build relationships and exchange ideas.">Accelerate518</span></span></span>==

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:larger;">T</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: larger;">EVE promotes and introduces its companies to investors, assists them Accelerate518 (A518) is a consortium of stakeholders nestled in identifying and seeking grant opportunities such as NYSERDA and SBIR, and helps them prepare for business plan competitions; the companies are given assistance in preparing applicationsheart of our State—New York’s Capital Region. The Capital Region encompasses four counties: Albany, presentationsSchenectady, Rensselaer and pitchesSaratoga.&nbsp; Additionally, members are provided access to professional grant writers to assist them as neededThe synergy of these four counties is the catalyst for invention and innovation.</span></span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:larger;">The Capital Region has a rich history of incubating and growing multinational corporations, including: New York Central Railroad, American Express, Cap Cities, General Electric, American Locomotive Company, Albany International, International Paper, and Albany Molecular Research.</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: larger;">The EVE companies are invited Accelerate518 is a platform to expand their professional networks through networking opportunities within the local business and academic community in order increase exposure facilitate multiple groups working together to decision makers, funding sources from grants, advance entrepreneurship and potential angel investors.&nbsp; EVE is physically located off-campus in an effort to incubate companies directly innovation in the community of Troy, NY and to strategically re-invent the typical “brick and mortar” business incubation model followed by RPI’s old incubatorCapital Region.&nbsp; EVE is not a center where entrepreneurial students can simply rent space The goals of A518 include fostering active collaboration among educators and use a photocopier the way a “brick stakeholders, providing practical resources for entrepreneurs, sharing resources for education and mortar” incubator is often usedtraining, but it is and developing a 4,000 square foot center which strictly focuses on moving students through a business development continuum and on preparing them network of individuals committed to fill vacant business facilities in invigorating the startup culture of the Troy community, leased at very low prices by realtorsCapital Region.&nbsp; EVE does not want We have aligned our interests to focus on space like help the traditional brick regional entrepreneurial ecosystem grow companies and mortar incubation model because if a company takes up too much space, they can’t let others in; student startups enrolled in EVE are treated like real businessescreate sustainable jobs.</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Initial core members of A518 include: CEG, Albany Medical College, Albany Law School, Hudson Valley Community College, RPI, Sage Colleges, Siena College, Skidmore College, Union College, and University at Albany.</span>

<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: larger;">EVE was launched in February of 2011 with eight companies Landscape Canvas and now supports over thirty.&nbsp; The continuum of business development begins with the formation of customized ninety-day plans which include 3-5 specific short term goals, preparing these young ventures to fill business space in the community.&nbsp; Each venture enrolled in EVE has access to a huge network of professional individuals which include over 90,000 alumni that can potentially serve as mentors (25-30 of which are very active), the wind tunnel and prototyping capabilities at RPI, NYSERDA money, professional services (the first hour or two of which are provided for free), and accounting firms to help set up Quickbooks.&nbsp; Although many professional services are not provided for EVE companies, aggressive rates are negotiated with local providers and funding often comes from venture pitches.</span>Presentation</span>=

[https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ek9pplesv42Ubc0TzcqW7mtASYtgL_XbJmvxJG4e14s/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=3000 <span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The key to RPI’s Emerging Ventures Ecosystem is that companies never graduate from the incubator because business development and iteration is never finalized.&nbsp; Companies supported by EVE are always welcome to come back and ask for assistance in making new connections with the large international network of individuals.&nbsp; RPI’s large alumni network serves as a virtual incubator in the sense that the network is leveraged to help grow companies as they experience the transition from technology ideas and intellectual property to commercialization through their education.&nbsp;Landscape Canvas Documentation</span></span>]

[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cg47LQI3tLh2gxM4u2FfyEPX1ljnFulr97_amxy4ebc/pubhtml <span style="font-size: larger;"><span style= "font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br/span> </span><span style=="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Landscape Presentation</span>]

= &nbsp;<br/><span style="font-size:larger;"><span styleRelated Links ="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Student Priorities]] '''Engaging with regional and local economic development effortsUniversity Innovation Fellows Candidates&nbsp;'''</span></span> =

== <span style="font-familyFall 2021:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: larger;">Startup Tech Valley - Where Entrepreneurs and the Community Come Together</span></span> ==

<span style="font-size[https: larger;">A monthly meetup for first-time entrepreneurs, experienced entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, employees of startups, serviceprodiders to startups, and anyone else who wants to be involved//universityinnovation.<org/wiki/span>Fellow:Fiona Fiona Clarke]

== <span style="font-family[https:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: larger;">Tech Valley Center of Gravity</span></span> ==universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Aditya_Sivakumar Aditya Sivakumar]

<span style="font-sizeFall 2019: larger;">Our primary goal is to build a community around the idea of doing for ourselves, rather than just passively consuming, and learning how the arts, crafts, and technologies that surround us every day work, along the way. We also aim to create a network of contacts for small business and start-ups in the Capital Region to connect with local leaders, like-minded businesses and individuals, and tools and resources they might not otherwise have access to.</span>

== <span style="font-size[http: larger;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15px;">Accelerate518</span></span><universityinnovation.org/wiki/span> ==Ronak_Patel Ronak Patel]

<span style="font-family[http: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">T</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Accelerate518 (A518) is a consortium of stakeholders nestled in the heart of our State—New York’s Capital Region/universityinnovation. The Capital Region encompasses four counties: Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer and Saratoga. The synergy of these four counties is the catalyst for invention and innovation.<org/wiki/span>Emmanuel_Sylvester Emmanuel Sylvester]

= <span style="font-familyFall 2018: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Landscape Canvas and Presentation</span> =

[httpshttp://docsuniversityinnovation.google.com/presentation/d/1Ek9pplesv42Ubc0TzcqW7mtASYtgL_XbJmvxJG4e14s/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=3000 <span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Landscape Canvas Documentation<org/span><wiki/span>Gabriella_Fantell Gabriella Fantell]

[httpshttp://docsuniversityinnovation.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cg47LQI3tLh2gxM4u2FfyEPX1ljnFulr97_amxy4ebc/pubhtml <span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><org/span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Landscape Presentation<wiki/span>Siddharth_Rao Siddharth Rao]

[[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Student Priorities]http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Curtsinger Jacqueline Curtsinger]

[[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Vincent_Arena Vincent Arena]]

[[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jim_Boulter Jim Boulter]]

[[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jordan_Dunne Jordan Dunne]]

[[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ray_Parker Ray Parker]]

[[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hayley_Roy_Gill Hayley Roy Gill]]

[[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Meghan_Olson Meghan Olson]]