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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The presentation below gives an overview of the some of Washington State University's Entrepreneurial and Innovation opportunities. Below are some Some of the premier programs in more detail that are available related to innovation and entrepreneurship at the WSU PullmanCamus are explained in detail below. &nbsp;Most of the programs focus on student's campus that focuses on the development of students' business and communication skillsin addition to encouraging engineering prototyping and innovation.&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">University Innovation Fellow Spring 2013: Viviana Tran2017 Kevin Wolfrom, Kiera Rust, Alyssa Norris, Bardya Banihashemi&nbsp;</span>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKZtC5XPAvw&feature=em-upload_owner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKZtC5XPAvw&amp;feature=em-upload_owner]

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">University Innovation Fellow Spring 20142016: Amber Graviat&nbsp;</span>[http://universityinnovation.org/Mitchell%20Scott Mitchell Scott]<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">,&nbsp;</span>[http://universityinnovation.org/Ryan%20Pitzer Ryan Pitzer]<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">,&nbsp;</span>[http://universityinnovation.org/Parot%20Victor%20Charoonsophonsak Victor Charoonsophonsak]

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">University Innovation Fellow Spring 20162014: [[Mitchell Scott|Mitchell Scott]], [[Ryan Pitzer|Ryan Pitzer]], [[Parot Victor Charoonsophonsak|Victor Charoonsophonsak]]Amber&nbsp;</span>Graviat

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">University Innovation Fellow Spring 2017 Kevin Wolfrom, Kiera Rust, Alyssa Norris, Bardya Banihashemi&nbsp;2013: Viviana Tran</span>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKZtC5XPAvw&feature=em-upload_owner

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">At Washington State University, we students are highly encourage and promote encouraged to explore innovation and entrepreneurship through various mediums on both the entrepreneurial perspective of the Carson College of Business and also the innovation Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture. From &nbsp;Apart from these two colleges, there are many entrepreneurial activities and opportunities, however, they are seemingly separate from the rest of campus and there is not much opportunity for students of different disciplines, except for select students in the Carson College of Business and the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture. &nbsp;The college of business houses the WSU Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, an entrepreneurship major is offered along with an entrepreneurship minor for students not in the Carson College of Business here at Washington State University. The department also offers up various programming opportunities for entrepreneurship throughout the school year like the Business Plan Competition as coordinated by various student organizations such as ENACTUS and the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies director, Marie MayesPizza and Pitch night events. From the innovation perspective, the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture provides students with maker spaces, research facilities, and student organizations to encourage innovation. These facilities and opportunities provide our students with the ability to develop innovative ideas.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Our campus is working hard to continually integrate and combine both aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship through programs such as the Harold Frank Fellows and the Boeing Scholars Program. These are the types of promotional events that encourage students to collaborate and come up with entrepreneurial and innovative ideas that change the world. &nbsp;While these opportunities exist, and are open to all students the biggest challenge is that students do not always know about these resources, and do not have the opportunity to colloborate together on projects.&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">WSU Center for Entrepreneurial Studies has an incredible program to promote various faculty members and their venture ideas. Not only does this further the innovation and entrepreneurship idea throughout the faculty members, but this will also help in changing the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem here at WSU by encouraging students to also participate and further their ideas towards these goals as well. Through the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">WSU Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, faculty members who have created start-ups are able to mentor and provide guidance to students who are interested in pursuing their own start-up idea and having an impact to innovation and entrepreneurship here at WSU. &nbsp;This is a great addition and resources, however, it would be more beneficial if students were more involved in research with professors and were able to have a more hands-on experience.</span>

At Washington State University, we have several incredible resources to pursue venture ideas for students and faculty. The Office of Commercialization provides students and faculty to ensure that innovations and discoveries by WSU researchers are evaluated, protected where possible, and prepared for licensing by third parties. the office supports the goal of translating research discoveries into innovations into the marketplace. Not only do we have that office, but we also have several funding sources such as the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture Seed Funding program and also the Spokane Angel Alliance. These funding sources and support truly assist in the pursue of innovation and entrepreneurship here at Washington State Universitybut they are not currently advertised to students until they have graduated&nbsp;or come across it by chance.&nbsp;

Various technology spaces, regional sources of capital, and advisory efforts exist at Washington State University to facilitate the university and industry collaboration for the innovation and entrepreneurial ideas. Research labs such as the Engineering and Teaching Research Labs and the WSU Research Park provide students and faculty spaces to perform their research and find these innovative ideas. The MME Cougar Shop also provides a manufacturing space to create prototypes and test the innovation ideas that come about here at Washington State University. Sources such as the Washington Research Foundation and the Office of Commercialization assist in providing funding and capital investments to fund and further the ideas that originate from the research labs. Mentoring and advising as offered byt he by the Harold Frank Office and the Development Office for the Voiland College of Engineering Architecture assist in pursuing those ideas and futher further the process in commercializaitonof commercialization. &nbsp;There are also senior design courses that are partnerships between companies such as Boeing and KPFF that facilitate and encourage university and industry collaboration.&nbsp;

<span style="color: rgb(55, 62, 77); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15.36px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are a couple few different ways in which Washington State University can be more involved with local economic development efforts. First, there are two incubators in the region which help foster high-tech startups. Many of the companies in these incubators have graduates alumni from Washington State University. Second, there are large economic development efforts from Spokane, Washington. Getting involved with the Spokane Angel alliance with be a productive way of engaging with the local economy. Currently, the most engaged local company is Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories which hires students and helps with many university events.</span>