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Student innovation and entrepreneurship are encouraged in select fields, namely business and to a certain extent in engineering. There is a huge variety of course offerings that 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 products or business ideas, which they further develop over the course of the semester by forming 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 there is always room for improvement. Faculty members and stakeholders are extremely supportive of implementing an innovation and entrepreneurship initiative on campus. The Delaware Innovation Fellows, administered by the University of Delaware's [http://lerner.udel.edu/centers/experiential-learning-centers/horn-program-in-entrepreneurship/ Horn Entrepreneurship], 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.

<div~~><br/~~> </div><div>The ability to communicate ideas with others is crucial for developing entrepreneurs. Horn's Startup Village program connects specialized professionals to student entrepreneurs in the form of one on one meetings. Horn Entrepreneurship offers a variety of programming in and outside of the classroom for student entrepreneurs. Those in the major 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. Examples of these programs are Hen Hatch and the Summer 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 Founders program is a 12-week pre-accelerator designed for students with early-stage startups to work on their ventures and receive a stipend, mentorship and education sessions. Speaking of sessions, the Sigfried Youth Leadership Program (SYLP) invites UD students to a semi-annual 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><div> <br/~~></div> <div>At the University of Delaware, our goal is to interlink and connect innovation that is growing in each of the colleges at the University.  In order to do this effectively, we have identified a few different goals. <ol style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">

<li>The need to centralize the resources available across all colleges</li>

<li>Create a streamlined system for anyone that is interested in innovation/entrepreneurship</li>

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= Encouraging faculty innovation and entrepreneurship =

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