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''<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:larger;">[[File:Jmu crest.jpg|thumb|Jmu crest.jpg]]Characterizing our Innovation Ecosystem</span></span>''

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;James Madison University faculty is our greatest supporters and most encouraging resource for innovation and entrepreneurship. Not only does the faculty of all disciplines explore their personal entrepreneurships and strive to create more innovation within their discipline, they push each individual student to explore their full potential. Faculty of James Madison University have highly successful businesses and companies that set examples for the way they encourage student to achieve prominent entrepreneurships. Whether students want to start a business, sell products, invent new technology, or design innovative ideas of the future, there is a faculty member who has been in that situation and know the right steps to inspire the student to fulfill his or her goals in creating a pathway towards entrepreneurship. Faculty, in the past, has seen the need for classes and organizations to establish and encourage entrepreneurship to help bring student ideas into a reality. There has been so many examples but as one, in 2005, faculty created a venture creation class to open entrepreneurship to undergraduate students, who had ideas in the past, but were in need for professional backing to ensure their path to a successful startup creation. This video is another way to explain this example of faculty encouragement in entrepreneurship:<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kR97-vPQ4Yk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>&nbsp;

 <br/><span style="font-size: medium;">Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function</span>