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= <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship</span></span>&nbsp; </span></span> =

<span idstyle="docsfont-internal-guid-a77508aa-3f11-388d-1196-9f1a9b7e0258size:small;"><span style="font-sizefamily: 13.3333px; fontarial,helvetica,sans-family: Arialserif; "><span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"></span></span>Student innovation and entrepreneurship is are encouraged in select fields, namely business and to a certain extent, in engineering. There is a huge variety of course offerings that focus on have a strong entrepreneurial emphasis. In all of these courses, students work with problem owners to not only validate that the problem exists but to create new solutions that have unique value. Through this process, students create new product products or business ideas, which they further develop over the course of the semester by talking to potential consumersforming relationships with these same problem owners mentioned before. While this is promising for business students, engineering students are primarily interested in innovation and recognize it as a skill required of them. All students have a basic awareness that there are a multitude of resources on campus for them, but if they are interested in pursuing entrepreneurship, although, there is always room for improvement. Faculty members and stakeholders are very extremely supportive of implementing an innovation and entrepreneursip entrepreneurship initiative on campus. The [http://www.udel.edu/apply/undergraduate-admissions/enrichment-opportunities/delaware-innovation-fellows/ Delaware Innovation Fellows], administered by the University of Delaware 's [http://lerner.udel.edu/centers/experiential-learning-centers/horn-program-in-entrepreneurship/ Horn ProgramEntrepreneurship], offers a four -year enrichment experience for those who want to be more immersed in entrepreneurship and leadership. This is just one example of many. Horn Entrepreneurship is University of Delaware's entrepreneurship program full of programs in and out of the classroom, as well as a Venture Development Center where deserving students have 24/7 access to work on their ventures.</span></span> <div><span style="font-familysize: arial, helvetica, sans-serifsmall;"><span style="font-sizefamily: smallarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The ability to communicate ideas with others is crucial to&nbsp;<br/></span></span>entrepreneurship development. The&nbsp;</div><div><span style="font-familysize:arial,helvetica,sans-serifsmall;"><span style="font-sizefamily:smallarial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The ability to communicate ideas with others is crucial for developing entrepreneurs. Horn's Startup Village program involves a group connects specialized professionals to student entrepreneurs in the form of professionals that provide free 30-minute one-on-one appointments to meetings. Horn Entrepreneurship offers a variety of programming in and outside of the classroom for student entrepreneurs . Those in the UD communitymajor practice their skills every day through the venture support program VentureOn and hear from renowned entrepreneurs every Friday through Free Lunch Friday. Horn works as a meritocracy - that means that the students who work the hardest are awarded the most promising resources. Another program promoting student innovation is Examples of these programs are Hen Hatch and the Summer founders Founders pre-accelerator. Hen Hatch is open to all students, faculty, and alumni that have business concepts and want to compete for real cash prizes totaling $100,000.The Summer Funders program is a 12-week program pre-accelerator designed for students with early -stage startups to work on their ventures and receive a stipend, mentorship and education sessions. Seaking Speaking of sessions, the Sigfried Youth Leadership Program (SYLP)&nbsp;</span></span>invites UD students to a&nbsp; a&nbsp;<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">semi-annual confrence conference to engage with motivational speakers, explore what it means to be a success, begin defining life-goals, and start paving paths forward toward bright futures.</span><div><br/span></div>