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= <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Overview</span></span> = The University of Alabama at Birmingham offers an abundance of resources to facilitate entrepreneurship. Several of the assets available to university students to help start or grow an idea are the iLab (Innovation Lab), the Innovation Depot, and The Edge of Chaos. The iLab is an area located within the Innovation Depot, a start up incubator for the greater Birmingham area, where university students can grow ideas and collaborate with other young entrepreneurs. Lister Hill Library provides a creative space, The Edge of Chaos, for students and faculty to step beyond the core curriculum and explore topics that they may find interesting or essential in understanding topics necessary for academic growth. Seed funding sources available to UAB students include Velocity and the Clinton Global Initiate. Each of these is located through the Innovation Depot and the UAB Service Learning department, respectfully. The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship offers the UAB Research Foundation as an asset to students when dealing with technology transfer. The UAB Office for Undergraduate Research also helps in providing sponsorship and funding for newly developed initiatives while assisting in technology transfer. Grant writing, legal, and venture assistance is well established in the university’s ecosystem. The Honors College’s Science and Technology Honors Program provides direct support to students and training in how to write grants while also connecting students with faculty that are trained in such activities. The Center for Clinical and Translational Science also provides resources for students looking for assistance in research related topics when dealing with publications and planning clinical trials. All in all, UAB provides an ample amount of resources to help and encourage students to move ideas and services along their path to completion.

<span style= "font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6bbe089-7fff-0b30-db45-2b00f4481d5a"><span style="font-sizevariant-numeric:mediumnormal;">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span> = == <span style="fontfont-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-sizespace:smallpre-wrap;"><span style="font-familyThe University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) encourages student innovation and entrepreneurship through multiple avenues. This includes:arialgeneral courses that promote the concepts and ideas of I&E, Speaker Series,helveticanewsletters,sansuniversity-serif;">iLab</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arialwide conferences about the importance of I&E. In addition to this,helveticathere is also an entrepreneurship minor,sanscertification programs, student organizations, and campus-serif;">The UAB Innovation Lab (iLab) is a partnership between wide competitions that allow students to become more involved in the UAB CSOB campus ecosystem and Innovation Depot; it serves put I&E concepts into action. Students also have the option of going to collaborative spaces such as a conduit between students the Makerspace, Edge of Chaos, or the Project Lab to develop their ideas and the entrepreneurial communitybuild prototypes. iLab opened its doors in Summer 2014 and serves as a resource for students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation. The Lean Startup Model is used as the iLab common language. Programming offered by the iLab provides students with the hands</span></span></span></span>   <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-on learning needed for success in the workplace and is designed to support students as they incubate and accelerate their startups.</spanfamily:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> == <span styleid="fontdocs-internal-size:small;guid-e6bbe089-7fff-0b30-db45-2b00f4481d5a"><span style="font-familyvariant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:arial,helvetica,sanspre-serifwrap;">Entrepreneurship Minor</span></span> == <span style="font-familyIn addition to having many resources internally, UAB students and faculty also have access to many external resources. UAB actively encourages faculty to develop their entrepreneurial pursuits by linking them directly to opportunities to commercialize their ideas:arialwhether they are centered around their own biomedical research conducted in their labs and funded through the NIH,helveticaor independent,sans-serif;">This experiential program is designed for students solution driven ideas that need external funding from local investors in any major other than businessorder to reach their full potential. It Faculty have the option of applying for seed funding from UAB’s Institutional Funding pool, which is designed to complement your core skills comprised of donations from more than 25 of Birmingham’s local businesses and knowledge from your chosen major. Upon completion you’ll be ready VCs. Because of UAB’s close proximity to launch a new venture around your passionthe Economic Development Partnership of Alabama (the EDPA), contribute Faculty are able to easily access the resources necessary for them to a team or growing company apply for i6 grants - funds set aside solely to translate ideas and inventions into products, services, companies, and think entrepreneurially regardless of your chosen careerjobs.</span> == <span style="fontAcademic researchers and private investigators are also encourage to participate in I-Corps, a three week program designed to help faculty explore and evaluate the market potential for their research. Along with access to mentorship from industry veterans, participants in I-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arialCorps are able to become integrated within the general downtown Birmingham business scene through various networking opportunities and mixers, gain knowledge of the business model canvas through one on one training sessions,helveticaa chance for up to $2,sans-serif;">Business Research Certificate Program500 in funding directly from UAB’s division of the program, and the opportunity to apply for the NSF National I-Corps program $50,000 grant award.</span></span></span></span> ==    <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Each session will include demonstrations of Sterne Library databases, print materials, and reputable web sites as well as effective search strategies and tips.</span<span id="docs-internal-guid-e6bbe089-7fff-0b30-db45-2b00f4481d5a"> <span style="font-familyvariant-numeric:arial,helvetica,sansnormal; font-variant-east-serifasian: normal;"vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You will UAB also have the chance for handsboasts non-on research practice each week aggressive Intellectual Property rules, encouraging UAB faculty, employees, and multiple chances students to win Sterne Library travel mugsdiscuss scientific discoveries and possible inventions with their patent office as early in the research as is possible in order to navigate important issues such as commercial potential, intellectual property rights, and the timing of public disclosures.</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arialPatents can be directly filed through the University, and if the legal fees are covered by UAB,helvetica,sans-serif;">Wicked Problem Case Competition<they may be entitled to royalties and a possibly partial or total ownership/span></span> == <span style="font-family:arialequity of the innovation in question if applicable. Disclosure of discoveries and inventions which appear to have commercial value are made to the UAB Institution for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. According the Board’s Rule 509, all faculty members, university employees,helveticaand students,sans-serif;">All as a condition of their employment and/or enrollment, are required report all inventions and discoveries that were made while they were employed or enrolled as a student at UAB in order to make IP disputes and filing as seamless as possible. In order to make navigating the technology transfer function as easy problems have been solvedfor campus innovators as possible, UAB has established four offices that handle issues related to filing patents and topics relating to intellectual property - the CIRB, leaving us with what Professor John Kao calls “Wicked Problems”HIIE, those highly complex problems whose potential solutions require creativeOSP, interdisciplinary thinkingand OIE. The Dean of the School of Public Health will sponsor the Wicked Problem&nbsp;Case Competition to bring together some of the best teams of thinkers from UAB and in our community to provide solutions to a particular problem.&nbsp</span></span></span></span>   <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif; The winners of the competition will be recognized during National Public Health week on April 9th</span"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6bbe089-7fff-0b30-db45-2b00f4481d5a"> == <span style="font-sizevariant-numeric:smallnormal;"><span style="font-familyvariant-east-asian:arial,helvetica,sansnormal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-serifwrap;">Graduate Certificate in TechnologyOne of the advantages UAB has for making I&E impact is its location: Birmingham, Commercialization, & Entrepreneurship</span></span> == <span style="fontthe most-populated city in Alabama. The university partakes in an array of partnerships with different industries and businesses throughout the city. One of UAB’s most notable university-family:arialindustry collaborations is iLab,helvetica,sans-serif;">which is the Collat School of Business’s collaboration with Birmingham’s Innovation Depot. The graduate level Entrepreneurship Certificate, also known as the Graduate Certificate in Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship, is designed to expose students (MBA and nonUAB Innovation Lab (iLab) provides students with hands-on-MBA) experience and scientists an opportunity to engage with the business foundations of Birmingham entrepreneurship and technology commercializationcommunity.&nbsp; The program is designed to blend knowledge and experiential learning Additionally, iLab supports students with mentors to help move scientific discovery them develop their ideas. Regional funding is also available for aspiring entrepreneurs through EDA, Alabama Launchpad, i6 Grant, and inventions out of the lab and into the marketplaceBVC Spark Match.</span></span></span></span>   <span style="font-size:small;"> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The intended sequence of the courses takes the student from general awareness of issues associated with technology commercialization to running a growing technology<span id="docs-internal-guid-e6bbe089-7fff-0b30-db45-based business.&nbsp; It is possible for a student to progress their own intellectual property through the course sequence. However, the courses may be taken in any sequence.</span2b00f4481d5a"> == <span style="font-sizevariant-numeric:smallnormal;"><span style="font-familyvariant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:arial,helvetica,sanspre-serifwrap;">Alabama Launchpad</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arialOverall, UAB is a powerhouse for academic, clinical and research innovation that positively contributes to the city of Birmingham,helveticathe state of Alabama,sans-serif;">Alabama Launchpad promotes the nation and the world. According to the 2015 NSF Report on Higher Education Research and rewards high-growthDevelopment Survey, innovative startups from across AlabamaUAB ranks in the top 25 federally financed public research universities. The program is for newIn addition to this, innovative ventures UAB is the largest single employer in the seed or early-growth stagesstate of Alabama and generates significant impacts for its employees and the state in terms of economic, or for existing businesses moving into employment and government revenue impacts on a new high-growth marketdaily basis. Participants have unique opportunities to access sound business advice The university itself, the UAB Health System, and critical startup capitalSouthern Research drive a significant amount of the Alabama economy every year. Alabama Launchpad gives early-stage startThe UAB community includes more than 19,500 students, 23,000 full-ups momentum to take an idea from concept to reality.</span> <span style="fonttime and part-family:arialtime employees,helveticaand 120,sans-serif;">The proof of commercial relevance competition 000 active alumni worldwide. With its academic rigor, health care presence, robust research activity, and economic activity, UAB is for startups an excellent university that need additional proof-of-concept work. Startups will compete for multiple proof-of-concept grants. Individual awards based on budgets submitted.cultivates innovation and entrepreneurship.</span></span> == </span style="font-size:small;"></span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">REV Birmingham<div><br/span></spandiv> = = <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">REV Birmingham (REV) revitalizes places <span style="font-size:medium;">Promoting Student Innovation and energizes business to create vibrancy in the City of Birmingham. REV is an economic development organization that stimulates business growth and improves quality of life in Birmingham’s City Center and its Neighborhood Commercial Centers. REV fuels commercial vitality through proactive business recruitment and retention activitiesEntrepreneurship</span></span> = == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica, and by encouraging private and public investments that support economic growth citywide. REV’s initiatives generate positive results for partnerssans-serif;">iLab</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial, enhance tax revenuehelvetica, generate sans-serif;">The UAB Innovation Lab (iLab) is a partnership between the UAB CSOB and sustain jobs, increase tourism Innovation Depot; it serves as a conduit between students and positively influence perceptions about the City of Birminghamentrepreneurial community. REV is iLab opened its doors in Summer 2014 and serves as a private-public partnership that was formed resource for students interested in 2012 by the strategic merger of Operation New Birmingham entrepreneurship and Main Street Birminghaminnovation.</span> == <span style="fontThe Lean Startup Model is used as the iLab common language. Programming offered by the iLab provides students with the hands-size:small;"on learning needed for success in the workplace and is designed to support students as they incubate and accelerate their startups.</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CO.STARTERSEntrepreneurship Minor</span></span> ==  <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">COThis experiential program is designed for students in any major other than business.STARTERS It is a platform designed to help communities grow local business. Every week for ten weeks, this facilitator-led program helps you examine your assumptions complement your core skills and test whether knowledge from your beliefs about your business are rightchosen major. As in our BIZ 1.0 SeriesUpon completion you’ll be ready to launch a new venture around your passion, COcontribute to a team or growing company and think entrepreneurially regardless of your chosen career.STARTERS applies the lean business modeling methods popular among high</span> == <span style="font-growth startups to businesses of all kinds. The concepts are more common to the highsize:small;"><span style="font-growth technology communityfamily:arial,helvetica, but we see great value in this program for any creative business venture and it’s a different model than anything currently offered locally.sans-serif;">Business Research Certificate Program</span> == </span style> =="font-size:small;"> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics (FEAST)Each session will include demonstrations of Sterne Library databases, print materials, and reputable web sites as well as effective search strategies and tips.</span></span> style== <span style=""font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http:/You will also have the chance for hands-on research practice each week and multiple chances to win Sterne Library travel mugs.</bhamfeast.com/ BHAM&nbspspan> == <span style="font-size:small;FEAST] (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) is a public micro"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-granting supper during which diners vote to democratically fund projects that use design as a transformative tool to better our community. The grant amount to be awarded at the 2015 dinner is $2serif;">Wicked Problem Case Competition</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,500 plus sans-serif;">All the proceeds from ticket and bar sales at the event (estimated to be an additional $2easy problems have been solved,000). Unlike conventional grant programsleaving us with what Professor John Kao calls “Wicked Problems”,</span> <span style="font-family:arialthose highly complex problems whose potential solutions require creative,helvetica,sans-serif;">Bham FEAST brings people together for conversation centered on design and innovationinterdisciplinary thinking. This The Dean of the School of Public Health will be Birmingham’s second FEAST, in conjunction withsponsor the Wicked Problem&nbsp;[http://www.dwbhmCase Competition to bring together some of the best teams of thinkers from UAB and in our community to provide solutions to a particular problem.com/ Design Week Birmingham].</&nbsp; The winners of the competition will be recognized during National Public Health week on April 9th</span>  == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Education ScrimmageGraduate Certificate in Technology, Commercialization, & Entrepreneurship</span></span> ==  <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Education Scrimmage is a full-daygraduate level Entrepreneurship Certificate, immersive event that will bring together those who care about making a positive impact also known as the Graduate Certificate in the communityTechnology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship, teach them a new set of skills is designed to expose students (design-thinking MBA and rapidnon-prototypingMBA), and then immediately apply them scientists to real challenges being faced in the education sectorbusiness foundations of entrepreneurship and technology commercialization.</&nbsp; The program is designed to blend knowledge and experiential learning to help move scientific discovery and inventions out of the lab and into the marketplace.</span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">At the end The intended sequence of The Education Scrimmage, real education-focused organizations will walk away the courses takes the student from general awareness of issues associated with technology commercialization to running a prototyped solution to their most pressing challenges, you will have a new skillset that you can apply elsewhere, and you will have connected with others who want to make our city bettergrowing technology-based business.</span>&nbsp;It is possible for a student to progress their own intellectual property through the course sequence. However, the courses may be taken in any sequence.</span> ==<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Harbert Institute of Innovation and EntrepreneurshipAlabama Launchpad</span></span> == </spanstyle="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Alabama Launchpad promotes and rewards high-growth, innovative startups from across Alabama. The program is for new, innovative ventures in the seed or early-growth stages, or for existing businesses moving into a new high-growth market. Participants have unique opportunities to access sound business advice and critical startup capital. Alabama Launchpad gives early-stage start-ups momentum to take an idea from concept to reality.</span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The proof of commercial relevance competition is for startups that need additional proof-of-concept work. Startups will compete for multiple proof-of-concept grants. Individual awards based on budgets submitted.</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">REV Birmingham</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">REV Birmingham (REV) revitalizes places and energizes business to create vibrancy in the City of Birmingham. REV is an economic development organization that stimulates business growth and improves quality of life in Birmingham’s City Center and its Neighborhood Commercial Centers. REV fuels commercial vitality through proactive business recruitment and retention activities, and by encouraging private and public investments that support economic growth citywide. REV’s initiatives generate positive results for partners, enhance tax revenue, generate and sustain jobs, increase tourism and positively influence perceptions about the City of Birmingham. REV is a private-public partnership that was formed in 2012 by the strategic merger of Operation New Birmingham and Main Street Birmingham.</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CO.STARTERS</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CO.STARTERS is a platform to help communities grow local business. Every week for ten weeks, this facilitator-led program helps you examine your assumptions and test whether your beliefs about your business are right. As in our BIZ 1.0 Series, CO.STARTERS applies the lean business modeling methods popular among high-growth startups to businesses of all kinds. The concepts are more common to the high-growth technology community, but we see great value in this program for any creative business venture and it’s a different model than anything currently offered locally.</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics (FEAST)</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://bhamfeast.com/ BHAM&nbsp;FEAST] (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) is a public micro-granting supper during which diners vote to democratically fund projects that use design as a transformative tool to better our community. The grant amount to be awarded at the 2015 dinner is $2,500 plus the proceeds from ticket and bar sales at the event (estimated to be an additional $2,000). Unlike conventional grant programs,</span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Bham FEAST brings people together for conversation centered on design and innovation. This will be Birmingham’s second FEAST, in conjunction with&nbsp;[http://www.dwbhm.com/ Design Week Birmingham].</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Education Scrimmage</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Education Scrimmage is a full-day, immersive event that will bring together those who care about making a positive impact in the community, teach them a new set of skills (design-thinking and rapid-prototyping), and then immediately apply them to real challenges being faced in the education sector.</span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">At the end of The Education Scrimmage, real education-focused organizations will walk away with a prototyped solution to their most pressing challenges, you will have a new skillset that you can apply elsewhere, and you will have connected with others who want to make our city better.</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Harbert Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The UAB Bill L. Harbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HIIE) strives to be a first-in-class institution created to serve as the nexus for UAB innovation, entrepreneurial educational models, applied research, management of intellectual property and the entry point for industries seeking to collaborate with UAB, our world-class university.</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px;">&nbsp;</span>[http://www.uab.edu/research/innovation/ The Harbert Institute&nbsp]</span>[http://www.uab.edu/research/innovation/ <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">;online</span>]<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://www.uab.edu/research/innovation/ .]</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Commercialization Accelerator</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The new Commercialization Accelerator will be a key component of the university’s plan to attract innovators within the university, help them refine and develop their ideas and connect them to the city’s larger innovation ecosystem to grow and mature. Headed by Max Polec, the Commercialization Accelerator will host meet-ups, design sprints, pitch competitions, and a wide range of student and community resources focused around innovation and entrepreneurship.</span> = <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Competitions</span></span> = == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Innohack</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://www.uab.edu/shp/hsa/innohack Innohack] is a competition that challenges participants to form innovative solutions to the biggest health care crises facing Alabama. Students and community members converge to form interdisciplinary teams from various backgrounds. Doctors, teachers, politicians, engineers, and members from every profession under the sun are represented in the competition. Think you're smarter than the rest? Think you're better than the best? Then put your mind to the test.</span>

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