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<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The innovation council was made to be very adjustable. It was low cost and movable. Ideally, they met in a startup space run by another Fellow but, if this was not available they would reserve space in the library. Meetings would start with icebreakers and giving people design challenges to get strangers to work together and become closer. All they really needed in terms of physical objects was some white boards and snacks. It was really the people that brought it together.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Some challenges faced were in fact finding the right people. It was important to find people who really were motivated to take care of the space and inspire innovation. Innovation is the ability to see things differently and to provide solutions where there are gaps. To build your innovative skills, intentionally try something new. Do something that others won’t do. Talk to people that is out of your circle of comfort. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. There is nothing like real-world experience.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">But it worked out that Engineer’s week could work as a launch for the space and a way to find those innovative, motivated people.</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pairing an innovation space or council with an event full of innovative people can allow an ideal space and time to get the innovation space or council started. </span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessie_Nowjackhttp://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jessie_Nowjack]</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:KAMINENI_ESWAR_SESHA_SAI http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:KAMINENI_ESWAR_SESHA_SAI]</span></span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-182dbc37-63b1-7ba7-5dd2-b3c037e455b3"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/HAREESH_KUMAR_TADAPANENI http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/HAREESH_KUMAR_TADAPANENI]</span></span></span></span>
