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1. Opinion from diverse groups

In order to build a truly integrative project around innovation and entrepreneurship at the university, it is fundamental to obtain the opinions and perspectives from diverse groups, including students faculty and staff from several fields and also administration alumni and companies.

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2. Consult students when elaborating policy and programs

2. Consult students when elaborating innovation policy and programs It would be beneficial for Virginia Tech to adopt a student-centered approach when planning its policies, and programs ~~and events around innovation and entrepreneurship~~. Although the input of students in specific fields is consulted, it seems the number and the diversity of students actually participating in those processes is low.  Students of other groups or fields often feel distant from those programs and events, as if they were not a part of the innovation mindset/ momentum at the university.

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*Add a weekly online poll on VT social media about specific ongoing projects

3. More effective communication strategies regarding ideas and plans that impact students

Being a large size university, it is understandable that communication strategies at VT are not always well-integrated and confined to specific majors or colleges. For the effective development of a thriving student-centered innovation environment at the university, It would be important to invest in integrated communication strategies that include students of all majors and levels,informing and engaging them on the university’s ideas and plans that impact directly their academic and personal lives.

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4. Knowledge about available resources

The landscape canvas showed that VT offers a set of diverse resources in innovation and entrepreneurship that are high-quality and fully available for students. However, the knowledge about these resources is limited and students from majors outside business and engineering still feel disconnected.

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Establishing more partnerships with industry and external sponsors that offer direct opportunities for students to learn and practice in real-world settings is a key component on a strategy aiming to expand the impact of innovation for students at the university.

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<li>Create multidisciplinary groups</li>

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Becoming a student-centered university

Increasing importance of getting students “on-board” for the realization of the university’s projects  -  engaging students on planning and making their own learning environment and system is a key feature for universities’ aiming to build a new and improved experiential college for the future.

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<li>Use surveys, focus groups and other strategies to capture students’ perspective</li>

<li>Bring back TedX talks.</li>

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'''Note: '''After talking with diverse stakeholders and co-creating in several change mode canvases addressing our priorities, we were able to uncover underlying issues and potential gaps. We discover converging aspects and an opportunity to position ourselves as mediators between those audiences needs and offerings - in particular, the new experiential learning initiative at Virginia Tech emerged as a potential setting for our work to catalyze change and facilitate shared endeavours between students and admininstration.

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