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== Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
<nowiki>Michigan State University is at the early stages of undergraduate student innovation and entrepreneurship and has yet to engage in any graduate student promotion in the field. The bulk of the undergraduate student promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship is occurring in the later stages of the entrepreneurial process, namely the application and venture forth stages, and is including primarily older students and has yet to reach the underclassmen in an effective way.
In terms of undergraduate facilities Michigan State University sponsors a variety of incubators such as The Hatch and has many office spaces for young entrepreneurs to venture forth from such as the Neo Center and the Technology Innovation Center. From here Michigan State has a variety of sources for funding and continued support such as a wide network of alumni and business relations which the department eagerly connects with promising University entrepreneurs. Before students reach the point of incubators and work spaces, however, Michigan state also has a variety of applied entrepreneurial activities from a "Design Day", a pitch competition and entrepreneurial clubs.
Michigan state is most clearly lacking in their promotion of the early stages of the entrepreneurial process. While the tools are there for entrepreneurs to realize their concepts and make them a reality students are often unaware of the resources available to them, intimidated by the idea of entrepreneurship, uneducated in the basics of entrepreneurial efforts or too strongly encouraged down the industry path to even consider entrepreneurship. This is an area which requires massive improvement on campus. Hackathons, TED talks and entrepreneurial workshops desperately need to be brought into Michigan State's culture while the tools and accessibility of entrepreneurship needs to be better marketed to the students starting early in their academic career. Efforts are currently being made to adjust the curriculum and add more inspirational programs to the university but much more work can still be done in the area. </nowiki>
== Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==