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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The following two strategies will address the physical and psychological barriers which confront students seeking help with their entrepreneurial and innovative ideas. These strategies focus on the accessibility of resources and how they can be improved to reach more students.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-48c4a657-8160-4bd5-70a0-15003d24fc0e"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Strategy #1''' - Create an interdisciplinary innovation and entrepreneurship space at ASU’s Tempe campus which is open late, open to all students, and NOT part of an existing department. &nbsp;This space will focus mostly on being a collaboration space, not a makerspace. &nbsp;Instead of having large tools present, it will instead be a great place to whiteboard your plans, pitch your ideas, and find out where to go for the next step. This space is being envisioned and pitched for in Hayden Library, a central campus location which already boasts long hours, an attached coffee shop, and ample area for group collaboration. The existing group space will be replaced with an open floor plan, movable whiteboards and tables, and ceiling dropdowns for power. This space will be modeled off the Google Garage and serve a similar purpose, a place for teams of individuals from different parts of the organization to meet, brainstorm, and do simple prototyping. On the walls we will have large signs with the steps for design thinking, an example Business Model Canvas, and a connections board for entrepreneurs looking for individuals with specific skillsets. All of the campuses prototyping spaces will also be advertised with what tools they have and what you can do at each location along with how to get certified to work in a given space. We hope this will act as a central location for students to work in interdisciplinary teams and plan their next steps.</span></span>

<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Strategy #2''' - Network the various small scale labs and makerspaces on campus together. &nbsp;These spaces should be advertising that the other spaces exist, should be open to all students (with a caveat that they need to be primarily for their departmental students during finals/major project times), and should share certification for tool use. Currently, we have identified the Digital Culture FabLab, the Design School Digital Lab, and the CLAS Mechanical Instrument Shop as locations that could and should share resources and students. Making these spaces known, available, and networked is a second goal of this terms fellows.</span>

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Following are an array of strategies that will fully address Gap #1 over a 2-3 year period:

*Description - A peer lead makerspace on campus which provides students access to design, creation, and prototyping spaces. &nbsp;This space should be large enough to encourage multidisciplinary interaction among all vital parts of a successful student-led startup. &nbsp;The space will be open to all majors, and the allocation of space to different student projects and teams will be decided and facilitated by a student filled board of directors. &nbsp;

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*Description - Allowing students from one discipline to cross over into entrepreneurship related courses offered by a school that houses different majors is key to unlocking the cross disciplinary discourse necessary to branch out and create new ventures. &nbsp;Perhaps a Graphic Design student with an interest in modeling would like to take a class on engineering entrepreneurship, or a Web Design student is looking for a class to learn skills necessary to partner with other students to create a campus wide network - these students would be better served by having access to entrepreneurship classes in which they will connect with other like-minded students while learning the necessary skills to be successful entrepreneurs.

**Initiate discourse with Administration regarding I&E courses &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 12/13 (for 08/14)

Along with the diverse range of programs already offered at Arizona State, such as Edson, or the Innovation Challenge, we are looking to put together a slightly less formal way for students to raise the funding they need for what may be the next big idea.&nbsp;