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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: x-large;">'''STUDENT PRIORITIES for XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA'''</span>
<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: medium;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Improving an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem on Campus</u></span>
= Create an Innovation Club =
From there students can make low prototypes and design ways to solve those problems and for those who are committed to furthering their idea, they will have access to resources from Enactus in the Entrepreneurship Institute to pitch their ideas to investors. Local guest speakers will be invited monthly to talk to students about their own venture journeys and passions. Innovation challenges will also take place once a month with main objects as simple as a spoon or shoe and students will be given crafty materials to design prototypes to get them thinking outside of the box with a reward of a cash prize. The club can meet once a week and discuss problems and work in teams to brainstorm ways to solve them. This club will be an avenue to give the students resources such as internships, venture firm capital information, StartUp Weekend info, etc.
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== <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Strategy #1:</u> ==
The executive board of the innovation club needs to create social media networks after a charter has been awarded to the organization. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn accounts are very popular ways to convey the message of the group. This will increase the amount of students and professionals aware of the organization create a means of attracting more members who may not be on campus as much, and display the ideas/prototypes that members have created. Social media is changing how the world receives information and that is something that should be taken advantage of. The innovation club has a goal of promoting creativity and entrepreneurial mindsets among college students. This positive vision deserves to be shared via these sites and create an environment where students, innovators, and entrepreneurs can share ideas.
= <span style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.4;"></span>Maker Space<br/> =
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The information obtained from the OPEN 2014 conference revealed so many resources that could be brought back to Xavier’s campus. The employees from LinkedIn, Google, and Stanford University were excited to speak with the university innovation fellows and give feedback to improve innovation and entrepreneurship on their campuses. The New Orleans Bio Innovation Center is a local company that is committed to biomedical research and technology. Xavier University places a strong emphasis on health and science and getting people from this organization to speak to Xavier students would encourage creativity. There are local entrepreneurs that currently speak weekly hosted by the Entrepreneurship Institute in the Business Department. However, there are only a small percentage of students that attend. By opening the current gap to include local innovators as well as entrepreneurs, more students might be interested in the NCIIA’s goal and see that this movement is relevant to them as well.
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= Related Links =
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Xavier_University_of_Louisiana http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Xavier_University_of_Louisiana]