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= <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Overview</span> </span> = <span style= 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)"font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial, the Innovation Depothelvetica, 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 sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e6bbe089-7fff-0b30-db45-2b00f4481d5a"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space, : pre-wrap;">The Edge University 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 Alabama at Birmingham (UAB students include Velocity ) encourages student innovation and the Clinton Global Initiateentrepreneurship through multiple avenues. Each of these is located through This includes: general courses that promote the Innovation Depot concepts and ideas of I&E, Speaker Series, newsletters, university-wide conferences about the UAB Service Learning department, respectfullyimportance of I&E. The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship offers the UAB Research Foundation as an asset In addition to students when dealing with technology transfer. The UAB Office for Undergraduate Research this, there is also helps in providing sponsorship and funding for newly developed initiatives while assisting in technology transfer. Grant writingan entrepreneurship minor, certification programs, legalstudent organizations, and venture assistance is well established campus-wide competitions that allow students to become more involved in the university’s campus ecosystemand put I&E concepts into action. The Honors College’s Science and Technology Honors Program provides direct support Students also have the option of going to collaborative spaces such as the Makerspace, Edge of Chaos, or the Project Lab to students develop their ideas and training in how to write grants while also connecting students with faculty that are trained in such activitiesbuild prototypes. 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-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship<//span></span></span></span> = ==    <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">iLab</span></spanid="docs-internal-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;">The In addition to having many resources internally, UAB Innovation Lab (iLab) is a partnership between the students and faculty also have access to many external resources. UAB CSOB and Innovation Depot; it serves as a conduit between students and the actively encourages faculty to develop their entrepreneurial community. iLab opened its doors pursuits by linking them directly to opportunities to commercialize their ideas: whether they are centered around their own biomedical research conducted in Summer 2014 their labs and serves as a resource for students interested funded through the NIH, or independent, solution driven ideas that need external funding from local investors in entrepreneurship and innovationorder to reach their full potential. The Lean Startup Model Faculty have the option of applying for seed funding from UAB’s Institutional Funding pool, which is used as the iLab common languagecomprised of donations from more than 25 of Birmingham’s local businesses and VCs. Programming offered by Because of UAB’s close proximity to the iLab provides students with the handsEconomic Development Partnership of Alabama (the EDPA), Faculty are able to easily access the resources necessary for them to apply for i6 grants -on learning needed for success in the workplace and is designed funds set aside solely to support students as they incubate translate ideas and accelerate their startupsinventions into products, services, companies, and jobs.</span> == <span style="fontAcademic researchers and private investigators are also encourage to participate in I-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arialCorps,helveticaa three week program designed to help faculty explore and evaluate the market potential for their research. Along with access to mentorship from industry veterans,sansparticipants in I-serif;">Entrepreneurship Minor</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arialCorps are able to become integrated within the general downtown Birmingham business scene through various networking opportunities and mixers,helveticagain knowledge of the business model canvas through one on one training sessions,sans-serif;">This experiential program is designed a chance for students in any major other than business. It is designed to complement your core skills up to $2,500 in funding directly from UAB’s division of the program, and knowledge from your chosen major. Upon completion you’ll be ready the opportunity to launch a new venture around your passionapply for the NSF National I-Corps program $50, contribute to a team or growing company and think entrepreneurially regardless of your chosen career000 grant award.</span> == </span></span></span>   <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Business Research Certificate Program</span></spanid="docs-internal-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;">Each session will include demonstrations of Sterne Library databasesUAB also boasts non-aggressive Intellectual Property rules, encouraging UAB faculty, print materialsemployees, and reputable web sites students to discuss scientific discoveries and possible inventions with their patent office as early in the research as well is possible in order to navigate important issues such as effective search strategies and tips.</span> <span style="font-family:arialcommercial potential,helveticaintellectual property rights,sans-serif;">You will also have and the chance for hands-on research practice each week timing of public disclosures. Patents can be directly filed through the University, and multiple chances if the legal fees are covered by UAB, they may be entitled to win Sterne Library travel mugsroyalties and a possibly partial or total ownership/equity of the innovation in question if applicable.</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arialDisclosure 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,helveticauniversity employees,sans-serif;">Wicked Problem Case Competition<and students, as a condition of their employment and/span></span> == <span style="font-family:arialor enrollment,helvetica,sans-serif;">All 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, leaving us with what Professor John Kao calls “Wicked Problems”UAB has established four offices that handle issues related to filing patents and topics relating to intellectual property - the CIRB, 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</span></span></span></span>   <span style="font-size:small;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 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-serifalign: baseline;">Graduate Certificate in Technology, Commercialization, & Entrepreneurship</span></span> == <span style="fontwhite-familyspace:arial,helvetica,sanspre-serifwrap;">The graduate level Entrepreneurship CertificateOne of the advantages UAB has for making I&E impact is its location: Birmingham, also known as the Graduate Certificate most-populated city in Alabama. The university partakes in Technology Commercialization an array of partnerships with different industries and Entrepreneurshipbusinesses throughout the city. One of UAB’s most notable university-industry collaborations is iLab, which is designed to expose the Collat School of Business’s collaboration with Birmingham’s Innovation Depot. The UAB Innovation Lab (iLab) provides students (MBA and nonwith 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 and inventions out of the lab and into the marketplacethem develop their ideas.</Regional funding is also available for aspiring entrepreneurs through EDA, Alabama Launchpad, i6 Grant, and BVC 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-db45-2b00f4481d5a"><span style="font-variant-based business.&nbspnumeric: normal; It font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overall, UAB is possible a powerhouse for a student academic, clinical and research innovation that positively contributes to progress their own intellectual property through the course sequence. Howevercity of Birmingham, the courses may be taken state of Alabama, the nation and the world. According to the 2015 NSF Report on Higher Education Research and Development Survey, UAB ranks in any sequencethe top 25 federally financed public research universities.</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arialIn addition to this, UAB is the largest single employer in the state of Alabama and generates significant impacts for its employees and the state in terms of economic,helveticaemployment and government revenue impacts on a daily basis. The university itself,sans-serif;">the UAB Health System, and Southern Research drive a significant amount of the Alabama Launchpad</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arialeconomy every year. The UAB community includes more than 19,helvetica500 students,sans23,000 full-serif;">Alabama Launchpad promotes time and rewards highpart-growthtime employees, and 120, innovative startups from across Alabama000 active alumni worldwide. The program is for newWith its academic rigor, innovative ventures in the seed or early-growth stageshealth care presence, or for existing businesses moving into a new high-growth market. Participants have unique opportunities to access sound business advice robust research activity, and economic activity, UAB is an excellent university that cultivates innovation and critical startup capital. Alabama Launchpad gives early-stage start-ups momentum to take an idea from concept to realityentrepreneurship.</span> </span></span></span><div><br/></div> = <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The proof of commercial relevance competition is for startups that need additional proof<span style="font-ofsize:medium;">Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span> = == <span style="font-concept work. Startups will compete for multiple proof-of-concept grants. Individual awards based on budgets submitted.</span> == <span style="font-sizesize:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">REV BirminghamiLab</span></span> ==  <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">REV Birmingham The UAB Innovation Lab (REViLab) revitalizes places is a partnership between the UAB CSOB and Innovation Depot; it serves as a conduit between students and energizes business to create vibrancy in the City of Birminghamentrepreneurial community. REV is an economic development organization that stimulates business growth iLab opened its doors in Summer 2014 and improves quality of life serves as a resource for students interested in Birmingham’s City Center entrepreneurship and its Neighborhood Commercial Centersinnovation. REV fuels commercial vitality through proactive business recruitment and retention activities, and The Lean Startup Model is used as the iLab common language. Programming offered by encouraging private the iLab provides students with the hands-on learning needed for success in the workplace and public investments that is designed to support economic growth citywide. REV’s initiatives generate positive results for partnersstudents as they incubate and accelerate their startups.</span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial, enhance tax revenuehelvetica, generate and sustain jobs, increase tourism and positively influence perceptions about the City of Birmingham. REV is a privatesans-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;"><serif;">Entrepreneurship Minor</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CO.STARTERS</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 complement your assumptions 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, CO.STARTERS applies the lean business modeling methods popular among high-growth startups contribute to businesses a team or growing company and think entrepreneurially regardless 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 locallyyour chosen career.</span>  == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics (FEAST)Business Research Certificate Program</span></span> ==  <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[http://bhamfeastEach session will include demonstrations of Sterne Library databases, print materials, and reputable web sites as well as effective search strategies and tips.com</ BHAM&nbspspan> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;FEAST] (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) is a public micro-granting supper during which diners vote ">You will also have the chance for hands-on research practice each week and multiple chances to democratically fund projects that use design as a transformative tool to better our communitywin Sterne Library travel mugs. 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-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Wicked Problem Case Competition</span></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 FEASTAll the easy problems have been solved, in conjunction leaving us with&nbsp;[http://wwwwhat Professor John Kao calls “Wicked Problems”, those highly complex problems whose potential solutions require creative, interdisciplinary thinking.dwbhm.com/ Design Week Birmingham].</span> == <span style="font-size:smallThe Dean of the School of Public Health will sponsor the Wicked Problem&nbsp;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serifCase 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;">The Education Scrimmage</span>winners of the competition will be recognized during National Public Health week on April 9th</span>  == <span style="font-familysize:arial,small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Education Scrimmage is a full-dayGraduate Certificate in Technology, immersive event that will bring together those who care about making a positive impact in the communityCommercialization, 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.& Entrepreneurship</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">At the end of The Education Scrimmagegraduate level Entrepreneurship Certificate, also known as the Graduate Certificate in Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship, real educationis designed to expose students (MBA and non-focused organizations will walk away with a prototyped solution MBA) and scientists to their most pressing challenges, you will have a new skillset that you can apply elsewhere, the business foundations of entrepreneurship and you will have connected with others who want to make our city bettertechnology commercialization.</span>&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 style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Harbert Institute intended sequence of Innovation and Entrepreneurship==</span></span> = <span style="fontthe courses takes the student from general awareness of issues associated with technology commercialization to running a growing technology-family:arialbased business.&nbsp; It is possible for a student to progress their own intellectual property through the course sequence. However,helvetica,sans-serif;"the courses may be taken in any sequence.</span> == <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-serifsmall;"><span style="font-sizefamily:mediumarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and EntrepreneurshipAlabama Launchpad</span></span></span><br/> = = <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="fontAlabama Launchpad promotes and rewards high-family:arialgrowth,helveticainnovative startups from across Alabama. The program is for new,sans-serif;">Coming innovative ventures in at #21 in total funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) among all universitiesseed or early-growth stages, UAB has or for existing businesses moving into a [http://wwwnew high-growth market.reportParticipants have unique opportunities to access sound business advice and critical startup capital.nihAlabama Launchpad gives early-stage start-ups momentum to take an idea from concept to reality.gov</award/index.cfm?otspan> <span style=DH"font-family:arial,27helvetica,47,4,52,64,10000,MS,20,16,6,13,10,49,53,86,OTHDH&fysans-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> =2015&state=&ic<span style=&fm"font-size:small;"><span style=&orgid"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">REV Birmingham</span></span> =&distr=&rfa <span style=&om=n&pid= substantial] amount of resources "font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">REV Birmingham (nearly $220 million from the NIH aloneREV) for faculty revitalizes places and energizes business to pursue innovation create vibrancy in a research contextthe City of Birmingham. Faculty are encouraged to pursue ideas REV is an economic development organization that stimulates business growth and are frequently recognized for their innovative work both on-campusimproves 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 campus-wide publications such as [https://wwwencouraging private and public investments that support economic growth citywide.uab.edu/uabmagazine/ UAB Magazine] REV’s initiatives generate positive results for partners, enhance tax revenue, generate and sustain jobs, increase tourism and positively influence perceptions about the [http://wwwCity of Birmingham.uab.edu/reporter/ Reporter],&nbsp;and off, REV is a private-public partnership that was formed in 2012 by news features at the local, regional, strategic merger of Operation New Birmingham and national levelsMain Street Birmingham.</span> == </spanstyle="font-size:small;"> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CO.STARTERS</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">With Birmingham’s entrepreneurial landscape exploding, UAB has recently begun developing partnerships with leaders in the entrepreneurial communityCO.STARTERS is a platform to help communities grow local business. Every week for ten weeks, as evidenced by the collaboration between the Innovation Depot (a local startup incubator) this facilitator-led program helps you examine your assumptions and the Collat School of Business to form the iLab, a student test whether your beliefs about your business incubatorare right. As in our BIZ 1. These partnerships provide opportunities for both students and faculty 0 Series, CO.STARTERS applies the lean business modeling methods popular among high-growth startups to gain the tools needed businesses of all kinds. The concepts are more common to potentially launch their products into the market.</span><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-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-serifsmall;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">But herein lies the metaphorical albatross around our neck—the intellectual property Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics (IPFEAST) rights of students and faculty, not just at UAB but across the entire University of Alabama system</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica, are nonsans-existentserif;">[http://bhamfeast. Quoted from the University of Alabama System’s Office of Technology Transfer com/ BHAM&nbsp;FEAST] (OTTFunding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics), “When University support makes the research effort possible or when it provides support for the development of is a patentable invention, it is reasonable for the University 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 participate in be awarded at the fruits of such development2015 dinner is $2, including reimbursement for its costs.” IP rights reform is needed to ensure that both our students 500 plus the proceeds from ticket and faculty are encouraged bar sales at the event (estimated to innovate and disseminate their innovations into market at largebe an additional $2,000).Unlike conventional grant programs,</span></span> = <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serifBham 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:mediumsmall;">University Technology Transfer</span></span></span> = = <span stylestyle="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Education Scrimmage</span></span> == <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="fontThe Education Scrimmage is a full-size:medium;">Facilitating Universityday, 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-Industry Collaboration</span></span>prototyping), and then immediately apply them to real challenges being faced in the education sector.</span> = = <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arialAt the end of The Education Scrimmage,helvetica,sansreal education-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Engaging focused organizations will walk away with Regional a prototyped solution to their most pressing challenges, you will have a new skillset that you can apply elsewhere, and Local Economic Development Efforts</span></span>you will have connected with others who want to make our city better.</span>  = = <span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-serifsmall;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Harbert Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span> == <span style="font-size:mediumsmall;">The Landscape Canvas</span></span></span> = = Related Links = [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama_at_Birmingham <span style="font-family: arialcolor: rgb(0, helvetica0, sans-serif; font-size: medium0);">University of Alabama, Birmingham</span>] [http://universityinnovationThe UAB Bill L.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama_at_Birmingham_Student_Priorities <span style="fontHarbert Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HIIE) strives to be a first-in-family: arialclass institution created to serve as the nexus for UAB innovation, entrepreneurial educational models, helveticaapplied research, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">University of Alabamamanagement of intellectual property and the entry point for industries seeking to collaborate with UAB, Birmingham Student Prioritiesour world-class university.</span>] <br/span>Fall 2016 [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hayley_Adkins <font facespan style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2;">Hayley Adkins</font>] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kane_Agan <span style="font-familycolor: arialrgb(0, helvetica0, sans-serif0); font-size: small15px;">Kane Agan&nbsp;</span>[http://www.uab.edu/research/innovation/ The Harbert Institute&nbsp] </span>[http://universityinnovationwww.uab.orgedu/research/wikiinnovation/Dave_Long <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small">;">Dave Longonline</span>] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Abdallah_J._Matta <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Abdallah J. Matta</span>] [http://universityinnovationwww.uab.orgedu/wikiresearch/innovation/ .]</Joe_Freddie_Moore span> == <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Joe Freddie MooreCommercialization Accelerator</span>] [http:<//universityinnovation.org/wiki/Asutosh_Nanda span> == <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Asutosh Nanda</span>] [http://universityinnovation.orgThe 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.</wiki/Jeni_Weber Jeni Weber] Fall 2015 &#x5B;&#x5B;Rohit Borah|Rohit Borah&#x5D;&#x5D; [[Forrest Satterfield|span> = <font facespan style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2">Forrest Satterfield</font>]] [[John Shelley|<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: ><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> = <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship</span></span></span><br/> = <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Coming in at #21 in total funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) among all universities, UAB has a [http://www.report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?ot=DH,27,47,4,52,64,10000,MS,20,16,6,13,10,49,53,86,OTHDH&fy=2015&state=&ic=&fm=&orgid=&distr=&rfa=&om=n&pid= substantial] amount of resources (nearly $220 million from the NIH alone) for faculty to pursue innovation in a research context. Faculty are encouraged to pursue ideas and are frequently recognized for their innovative work both on-campus, by campus-wide publications such as [https://www.uab.edu/uabmagazine/ UAB Magazine] and the [http://www.uab.edu/reporter/ Reporter],&nbsp;and off, by news features at the local, regional, and national levels.</span></span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">With Birmingham’s entrepreneurial landscape exploding, UAB has recently begun developing partnerships with leaders in the entrepreneurial community, as evidenced by the collaboration between the Innovation Depot (a local startup incubator) and the Collat School of Business to form the iLab, a student business incubator. These partnerships provide opportunities for both students and faculty to gain the tools needed to potentially launch their products into the market.</span></span> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">But herein lies the metaphorical albatross around our neck—the intellectual property (IP) rights of students and faculty, not just at UAB but across the entire University of Alabama system, are non-existent. Quoted from the University of Alabama System’s Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), “When University support makes the research effort possible or when it provides support for the development of a patentable invention, it is reasonable for the University to participate in the fruits of such development, including reimbursement for its costs.” IP rights reform is needed to ensure that both our students and faculty are encouraged to innovate and disseminate their innovations into market at large.</span></span> = <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The Landscape Canvas</span></span></span> = [http://universityinnovation.org/images/thumb/a/a0/UAB_I%26E_Ecosystem.png/800px-UAB_I%26E_Ecosystem.png http://universityinnovation.org/images/thumb/a/a0/UAB_I%26E_Ecosystem.png/800px-UAB_I%26E_Ecosystem.png] = Related Links = [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama_at_Birmingham <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">University of Alabama, Birmingham</span>] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/University_of_Alabama_at_Birmingham_Student_Priorities <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">University of Alabama, Birmingham Student Priorities</span>]   Fall 2018 [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Zahrah_Abdulrauf Zahrah Abdulrauf] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Annisha_Borah Annisha Borah] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Marrielle_Santiago Marrielle Santiago] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Jason_zhang Jason Zhang]   Spring 2018 Haifa AlHarrasi Alex Plazas Callista Cox Joshua Lim <br/>Fall 2016 [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Hayley_Adkins <font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Hayley Adkins</font>] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kane_Agan <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Kane Agan</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"></font>] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Dave_Long <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dave Long</span>] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Abdallah_J._Matta <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Abdallah J. 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