<span id="docs-internal-guid-9e08d222-7fff-3740-0e2d-d8a865c46aca"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The University of Wisconsin - Madison is a Big Ten Research University located in the heart of the homey midwest. With 30,000+ undergraduate students, 9,000 graduate students, and a faculty and staff of 16,000, UW is a large, thriving campus with individual colleges. The university was founded on the </span>[http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsin-idea/ <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wisconsin Idea</span>]<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, forever forward and innovative. As such, the campus features many resources for innovation and design on campus and is known for its landmark discoveries in various fields.</span></span>
=<span style= "font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#666666; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Student Entrepreneurship:</span><br/> ==
<span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#666666; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The University of Wisconsin - Madison is a great place for students who want a chance to incorporate entrepreneurship into their future careers. </span>[https://bus.wisc.edu/centers/weinert <span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#003399; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship</span>] <span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#666666; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">was created to put emphasis on teaching, research, and service pertaining to entrepreneurial management and start-up development. Students in the Wisconsin School of Business (WSoB) also have the opportunity the </span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#666666; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">to</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#666666; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">pursue an Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Major. For students inside and outside of the WSoB, there is an Undergraduate Certificate for Entrepreneurship. </span>
<span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#666666; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Other Entrepreneurial resources include:</span><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li>[https://bus.wisc.edu/centers/weinert <span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#003399; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Distinguished Entrepreneurs Lunch</span>]</li><li>[http://www.housing.wisc.edu/residencehalls-lc-erlc.htm <span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#003399; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community </span>]</li><li>[https://bus.wisc.edu/current-student-resources/bba/news-events-deadlines/blog/2019/01/18/register-for-partnerup <span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">PartnerUp!</span>]</li><li>[https://sbdc.wisc.edu/start-a-business/biz-smart-training-for-entrepreneurs/ <span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Entrepreneurial Training Program/Biz Smart Training for Entrepreneurship</span>]</li><li>[https://d2p.wisc.edu/programs/ <span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Discovery to Product</span>]</li></ul>
*<span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#666666; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Among these resources, there are also a variety of student organizations that support and encourage entrepreneurship among the student body. Examples of such student organizations include:</span><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li>'''[https://buswww.wisctranscenduw.educom/centers<span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Transcend UW-Madison</weinert Distinguished Entrepreneurs Lunchspan>]<br/>'''*</li><li>'''[http://www.housingmadisonenactus.wiscsquarespace.educom/residencehalls#intro <span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-lcskip-erlc.htm Entrepreneurial Residential Learning Community ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">Enactus UW-Madison</span>]'''</li><li>*'''[https://winwww.wiscinsightwisconsin.eduorg/organization<span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-decoration-skip-ink:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Insight Wisconsin</BE/about Badger Entrepreneursspan>]'''*[http:</li></bus.wisc.edu/degreesul> <span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Arial; color:#1155cc; background-color:#ffffff; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip:none; text-programs/nondecoration-businessskip-majors/wisconsinink:none; vertical-entrepreneurialalign:baseline; white-bootcamp Wisconsin Entrepreneurial Bootcamp]  space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap"></span>
== Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==