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There are many ways Yale has increased its investment in which Yale can improve innovation, largely spurred by a grant from Joseph Tsai to create Tsai CITY, the culture surrounding entrepreneurship on -campus. We have an amazing group of innovators who have plenty of resources available center welcoming diverse students to thempursue innovative ventures, howeverprojects, and initiatives. However, one of the biggest issues main barriers to taking that first step to focused innovation is that not enough manhours are being put into a perception of innovationas starting a company. This Another hypothesis is because of lack that students' fear of time for students who want failure poses another barrier to innovate, trialing innovation and also the lack of student innovatorscreation. The more time that can be put into solving big problems, We aim to tackle these challenges through the more amazing solutions can come out of Yalefollowing strategic priorities. I've listed some strategies below, and also described a few things I want to implement immediately on campus 

<br/>{{#Widget:Youtube|id=o0DANkwKqgA}} <br/><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Link if video isn't working: </span>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0DANkwKqgA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0DANkwKqgA] = Strategy #1: Encouraging Risk Taking by Providing InsuranceDe-risking the pursuit of innovation and new ventures&nbsp; =

Yale students are passionate people and it One opportunity for de-risking is really easy providing course credit to excite someone about a meaningful and valuable goalstudents who pursue their own ideas. Social entrepreneurship is thus an effective way to provide motivation because it takes a different set In the Yale School of metrics into account and encourages people to look at impact instead of stability as "success." Clubs such as [[Engineers_Without_Borders|Engineers Without Borders]] Management (SOM), for example, students can take service trips and formally structure them. This allows many people Startup Founders Practicum to work together earn course credit for working on a project and succeed easily where a single person may have a hard timetheir own venture. Classes such as 'Appropriate Technology for the Developing World' There is also align the ideas and goals of a larger set of students in a slightly more structred way to encourage innovationclass offered called "Making it. These kinds of guided entrepenuership classes and clubs help to ease people into the idea of innovating. Successive failures can be demoralizing" Additionally, especially for younger students, so these kinds of activities are esepcially useful for freshmen Tsai CITY offers a semester-long accelerator in which teams receive both funding and sophomores.&nbsp; Having a larger group usually makes activities less risky, so trying guidance to bring people together is an easy way to minimize risk. Another way this can be done is by showing 100 people that if we assign build out their passion/idea to a slightly more general problem, we can easily link multiple people with the same interestventures. Thus, 100 startups with 1 person each can easily become 10-20 groups of like-minded individuals all working towards Having Innovation Advisors (IAs) who have gone through the same end goal. This is acomplished process guide teams in groups such as [[Design_for_America|Design for America]], where, on the first day, everyone throws ideas onto the board, but those ideas are narrowed and focused by forming groups. Similar strategies accelerator can help other organizationsmake students feel safe when they're starting a new company.&nbsp;

FinallyAlso at SOM, groups such as the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute are making progress towards structuring Global Social Entrepreneurship (GSE) course allows students to partner with global non-profits and for-profits to tackle real-world problems. These kinds of guided entrepenuership classes and clubs help to ease people into the process idea of innovation and providing mentorship at every stepinnovating. Having someone who has gone through the process guide Successive failures can make be demoralizing, especially for younger students feel safe when they're starting a new company, so these kinds of activities are especially useful for undergraduates, or anyone who might be exploring innovation and having a dedicated group whose goal is to incubate start-ups further reduces risk by providing experience and knowledgeentrepreneurship for the first time.&nbsp;

= Strategy #2: Creating a Support Network for Engineering Leaders Those Pursuing their Ideas =

Leaders often run into the same problems in very different situations and environments. It would be a powerful tool to have a group of students who regularly meet to discuss these general leadership problems and how to fix them. This can be in the form of something as simple as a weekly or bi-weekly brunchworkshop (e.g., SOM's Startup Club's weekly workshop), or in something as formal as a leadership forum. Either way, having these leaders would be a valuable resource for the members of the group, and also for anyone who would like to join the group of leaders as a leader themselves. Seniors who students know the ins and outs of the engineering department school (e.g., where funding can be found, fastest ways to get approval, who to talk to for outside sponsorships etc.) need to can pass this information along or else time is wasted to avoid other students re-learning something that has already been attempted and/or accomplished for several yearsdiscovered. &nbsp;

Incorporating alumni into the system would make it even more valuable because they have experience from outside Yale that they bring to the table. Several of the students I who we spoke with were telling me that mentioned they chose thier current careers based on alumni or faculty mentors who had done similar careers. I can't remember the last time I heard a "Masters Tea" (events with Yale alumni or successful people where they will engage in conversation with students) was held with an innovator. It will become a more popular career interest as soon as we can expose young students to it.&nbsp;

= Strategy #3: Creating Entry Level Positions Opportunities for Entrepreneurship<br/> =

Providing a way for all, even someone with no experience, to get involved in innovation is important for gaining new students and retaining them throughout their time at Yale. We need to find a way to encourage roles stimulate opportunities for freshmen and sophomores in Yale College, or first years in the graduate programs, that will work with their limited engineering skillset and enable them to create without knowing advanced physics or 3D modeling. Perhaps working with freshmen This could come in the form of participating in day-long design and sophomores as leaders while juniors and seniors help lead but innovation sprints. It could also do the heavy lifting on the engineering front. This encourages big ideas look like instigating small internships for younger students and gives older either at Yale or in early-stage startups such that students can have the opportunity to take a deep dive without sacrificing the longevity of a project or club'taste' entrepreneurship and innovation.

= Strategy #4: Give Students More Time Opportunities to Create Innovate =

Certain classes currently exist that are heavily lab based and involve students playing with arduinos, sensors and other basic electro-mechanical elements to create projects. At the end of the semester, the class of predominantly freshmen were able to complete and present engineered solutions to a plethora of problems. Working in small 3 people groups, they develop a range of products and projects, simply because they were given the time to do so. If Yale can somehow make students less busy with coursework, they can encourage students to spend that free time innovating. Almost everyone I talked to said they would innovate and think big if they had time to do so.&nbsp;<br/><br/>Google values this kind of "free time" very highly. Every employee is given 20% time, a time where they can work on thier own ideas that may or may not directly relate to their work. If we consider a student's timefull schedule, 20% would be a LOT significant number of manhourshours. 20% is approximately one class per semester here at Yale, and I we think that there should be required entrepenuership, innovation, or independent work class. This is a new kind of thinking that should not be left out of a liberal arts education simply because it is new.&nbsp;

Intro micro-economics is the bread and butter of a Yale Education. The class is always taught and is the fundamental class many Yale students take at some point during their time here. It is , a basic overview of rational thinking and , is a fundamental course in an undergraduate's Yale Education. An equivalent style class for innovation would be an amazing move a strong step towards completely changing the way our campus looks at engineering and innovation. At a school as traditional as YaleIn SOM, for example, it is important that we students are required to take time to explore the wild possibilities, and many people get locked into a conservative viewpoint early in their time here"Innovator. There should be a contrast to intro micro-economics" However, the this class that all Yalies want does not occur until Spring semester 2, meaning students are left without any concrete training related to take, innovation and that will ideally be taught by an engineerentrepreneurship for the frst 6 months of their limited 2-year education.&nbsp;

= Strategy #6: Increase the Reach of Engineering and Advertise BetterStudent Sharing<br/> =

Many There is opportunity to create more cross-school content and programming that allows students on campus will never see to share their work as well as learn from the amazing creations that are made work of their peers. In SOM, this occurs in the labs on science hilla fragmented way. It might occur during a lunch session in the portion of campus is separated from the housing buildings, off to the side by less than 2 blocks, but ends up being a space were not many non science majors ventureSocial Impact Club. Why is Or it the case that engineers do not present their senior projects to might happen in a broader audience than just the engineering students and facultyclassroom. Yale has programs such as In the Mellon Forumcollege, there are events like 2019's "Chun Challenge for Change," a student presentation series where people can show their senior research and studies pitch night in which the Dean of Students judges students' ideas related to their peers. This is underutilized by engineers; once solving the word gets out about projects happening, people will come and want to helpmost proessing challenges impacting students.&nbsp;

<br/>&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;One opportunity could be creating a podcast on which we host a weekly Q&lt;A/div&gt;background with a student founder. This enhanced reach could help demystify the belief that there is a high barrier to becoming a "founder" or launching a "venture."