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= Ohio University =

Established in 1804, Ohio University is a public university located in Athens, Ohio. The campus is home to nearly 23,000 undergraduate, graduate, and medical students. The university is ranked number one nationally in overall student satisfaction. In 2015, the Center for World University Ratings ranked Ohio University in the top 3% of high education institutions globally and the university has received a Carnegie Classification for high activity research universities. Ohio University has many prestigious alumni among them are Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and president of the Royal Society; George Voinovich, former Ohio governor and U.S. senator for Ohio and Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson in the Simpsons T.V. series.

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At Ohio University, students are encouraged to embrace innovation and entrepreneurship in courses, extracurricular clubs, competitions, and other specialized programs.

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=== Academic Pathways: ===

*'''Entrepreneurship Major: '''Graduate with the confidence to start a new entrepreneurial project.

*'''Entrepreneurship Certificate''': Graduate with real-world experiences that students gain through taking a variety of classes across different colleges.

*'''~~~~Business Venturing Concentration, MBA: '''Offers those who are pursuing their MBA at OHIO the opportunity to focus in on new business creation and development. *'''Environmental Sustainability Graduate Certificate:''''' ''Certificate program offered to all graduate-level students at OHIO who are not already pursuing a masters degree in environmental studies.

=== Classes/Course Programs: ===

*'''Designing to Make a Difference: '''Senior capstone project for engineering undergraduate students.

*'''Integrated Business Cluster: '''Be able to solve real-world business problems as a team.

*'''The Bobcat Launchpad''': The Bobcat Launchpad will provide real-world, hands-on learning on what it's like to actually start a company.

*'''Sustainable Construction:''' A course focused on challenging civil engineering students at OHIO to problem solve field-specific challenges with a sustainability mindset. 

*Numerous classes that incorporate innovation and entrepreneurship into their curriculum (i.e. Business in Aviation, Entrepreneurial Sales, Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship)

=== Student Organizations ===

<li~~>Ohio University Entrepreneurs: As an Ohio University Entrepreneurs, students are taught the skills to become leaders and entrepreneurs through networking, guest speakers, and workshops. Members are exposed to resources across campus to help them build a business of their own.~~~~</li><li~~>Enactus:~~~~ A national~~~~non~~non-~~profit organization with a goal of improving communities through social entrepreneurship and innovation. Members apply business concepts to teams to develop outreach projects.~~~~</li><li>EpsilonNuTau:TheNation’sfirst entrepreneurship fraternity. This coed, professional organization will help members launch and maintain sustainable businesses. Members ultimately run their own nonprofit business, including everything from recruitment & marketing tactics and sales contests to legal documents, event coordination, and financial statements.</li>~~<li>Think Design: An advertising agency that connects Ohio University’s student organizations with people who have professional media talents. The organization aims to help place students in a position where they can develop their professional skills and expand their portfolio.~~~~</li><li>Consulting</~~span><~~span>Fellows: </span~~>Consulting</span~~>Fellowsgive Fellowsgive future leaders tools to build analytical skills and business knowledge, as well as a complementary set of so-called soft skills which are becoming critical in today’s business environment.~~~~</li><li~~>'''Amplified Communication''': Amplified communication is a student organization that focuses on the value 'students helping students". This organization works with students and their brands to connect them to art, entertainment, entrepreneurship, and lifestyle.</~~span~~li><li>'''yOUdesign: '''yOUdesign is an interdisciplinary student organization that strives to empower students to create innovative and sustainable solutions to problems using design thinking. </li>

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=== Competitions: ===

<li>'''Ohio Creativity and I''''''nnovation Challenge: '''Challenges students to propose soluations to on-campus issues with a cash prize.</li><~~span~~li>'''Business Pitch Competition''': </span~~>Enables young, aspiring entrepreneurs to practice developing, researching, and articulating their ideas in a fast-paced, fun forum. Participants learn how to effectively pitch an idea before~~~~judges~~judges~~,demonstrate why their idea is going to work,and to do so in a short amount of time.</li><li>'''~~'''~~Scripps Innovation Challenge ~~'''(Currently suspended)~~: '''A university-wide student competition that gives Bobcats the opportunity to create innovative solutions to real-world media and communication problems. The goal of the competition is to harness the creativity of Ohio University students in order to develop new and innovative service, product or process solutions as the basis for a new startup business.</li><li~~><span~~>Startup Weekend: </span~~>Anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams~~~~formaround the~~around the~~ top ideas then have the weekend for business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekend ends with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.</li>

<li>'''Student Research & Creative Activity''''''Expo''':Over800students from 56 different departments and schools showcase their original research at Ohio University’s biggest-ever Research and Creative Activity Expo with live performances, presentations and interactive demonstrations.</li>

<li>Student Expo: Once a year, undergraduate and graduate students are invited to present their research and receive recognition.</li>

<li>Eco Challenge: Eco challenge partners students across disciplines to create sustainability solutions for Ohio University's campus. Projects are evaluated based on the triple bottom line, which seeks solutions that consider the impact on people, planet, and profit.</li>

<li>Human Powered Vehicle Challenge: The Human Powered Vehicle Challenge, through the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, provides opportunities for students to design and build highly engineered vehicles and test them against one another through sprint and endurance races. They demonstrate how sound engineering design can create and improve sustainable and practical transportation alternatives.</li>

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*'''One Day Workshops:''' Periodically, students at Ohio University can find a free workshop to attend. Recently, Ohio University Entrepreneurs (see above) hosted a design thinking workshop. The organization brought in Gary Coombs (a professor here at OU) to talk about and demonstrate design thinking. There is another workshop coming up, unrelated to OUE, about film makingthat is also free to attend

=== Media: ===

*'''Center for''''''Entreprenuership''''''Twitter:''' with around 400follows,the CoE twitter is an avenue to notify students of upcoming events and other news the center may have. *'''Perspectives Magezine:''' The Ohio University Research department publishes Persepctives Magezine. Each edition covers anything innovative and entrepreneurial. This helps students get inspired and informed.

= Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship =

Ohio University’s faculty is an intrinsically motivated andhighly innovative groupof professionals. Faculty members across colleges have worked on research that has helped generate over eight and a half million dollars in licensing revenue. This earned Ohio Univesrity the title of "most revenue generating university in Ohio" in 2011. Most of the revenue was generated by the Ohio University’s license to the Pfizer corporation for a growth hormone receptor antagonist. This technology is used as a therapeutic for patients with acromegaly, a form of gigantism.

Along with the technologies that Ohio University faculty have worked on, faculty members also engage the innovative culture on campus. Over thepastyear,facultyand staff at Ohio University have participated in a forum called the Innovation Strategy Interim Report.The goal of the forum is to advance forward-looking strategies for collaborative research and innovative academic programs that benefit OHIO students andfaculty,whileengaging with communities regionally and globally.

[http://www.ohio.edu/innovation The Innovation Center] offers flexible office space and scientific laboratory space and equipment for startup businesses. Services also include business mentoring and networking opportunities. The LIGHTS program within the Innovation Center offers start up resources to individuals in the surrounding 28 counties.

Additionally, OhioMakes is a partnership with Ohio University CoLab, LIGHTS and ReUse Industries' MakerSpace. This program offers OU students full access to MakerSpace, mentoring, funding, and trainings in various technical skills.

The entrepreneurial ecosystem offers access to funding opportunities, such as growth grants and pre-seed investment from TechGROWTH Ohio, as well as connections to regional venture capital firms and other sources of financial support.

Ohio University's '''Innovation Center''' is housed in a 36,000 square foot facility and aims to provide business incubation to better the economy of Athens and surrounding regions. Clients of the research center have access to office space, conference rooms, shared lab space, executives-in-residence, workshops, wellness, company discounts, company promotions, and extensive networking opportunities.

'''Adena Ventures''' was founded in 2002 and serves primarily the Appalachian region. This venture firm which operates through the innovation center provides equity capital and operation assistance to high-growth businesses.

'''Athenian Venture Partners''' invests in technology and information technology firms. This firm is renowned for its high returns on investment.

= Ohio University's Landscape Canvas: =

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SOURCE: [http://www.ohio.edu/research/ http://www.ohio.edu/research/]

University Innovation Fellows

Fall 2019

[[Claire McGee|Claire McGee]]

Fall 2017

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Ishan matta

2020 Cohort

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