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= <span style="font-size: 21pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STUDENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP</span><br/> =
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Students at Georgia Tech are an active part of research and discovery. In fact, over 70 percent of invention disclosures name one or more students among the inventors. As part of a broader effort to foster innovation and entrepreneurship within its student community, Georgia Tech has several initiatives, including:</span></span>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">[http://inventionstudio.gatech.edu/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; 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;">Georgia Tech Invention Studio</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">— student-run design-build-play space open to all Georgia Tech students. It is staffed by University Lab Instructors, student volunteers who are on hand to train new students on machines and help with invention prototypes.The space provides resources for designing, prototyping, and sharing ideas through workshops, vendor networks, experienced guidance, and access to cutting edge machines.</span></span><br/><br/></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">[https://industry.gatech.edu/researcher-toolkit/launching-startup <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; 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;">Georgia Tech Integrated Program for Startups, GT:IPS</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">— An initiative that supports faculty and student inventor-entrepreneurs through two components: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GT:IPS Facilitation</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a graduated program of support, information, and education for new company founders; and </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GT:IPS License</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which offers the same terms to all Georgia Tech startups in the same field and provides them with transparency into Georgia Tech Research Corporation’s (GTRC) licensing processes.</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">[https://inventureprize.gatech.edu/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; 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;">InVenture™ Prize</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">—</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An annual competition that inspires undergraduate teams to create inventions that will be judged by experts for more than $30,000 in cash prizes from Georgia Tech and sponsoring corporations. First and second place winners receive patent filings funded by GTRC, and in March 2011, a “People’s Choice” award was sponsored by NCR Corporation.</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">[https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/centers-initiatives/tiger/index.html <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; 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;">TI:GER</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; 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;"></span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">— An award-winning program and partnership between Georgia Tech and Emory University School of Law that brings together PhD, MBA, and law students to experience the challenges of commercializing innovative technologies. Now approaching its 10th anniversary in 2012, TI:GER is expanding to global entrepreneurship and has become an established part of the entrepreneurial education of graduate students on both campuses.</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">[http://innovation.cae.gatech.edu/businessplan <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; 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;">Business Plan Competitions</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">— An annual competition, held by the Scheller College of Business and the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship to foster entrepreneurship among Georgia Tech students and recent alumni is just an example among many of Business Plan Competitions available at Georgia Tech. Since its inception, more than 650 participants have received approximately $570,000 in cash and services, and each year several teams launch companies to take their product concepts to market. To date, eight winning teams have been accepted into Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center.&nbsp;</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">[https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/centers-initiatives/ile/i2s/index.html <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; 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;">Ideas to SERVE (I2S)</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">— An annual competition of ideas where creativity, imagination, and the use of technology are applied innovatively to solve community and social issues and sustain the environment. Started as a specialty track of the Business Plan Competition in 2009, I2S has quickly grown into a separate event, contributing to Georgia Tech’s portfolio of programs that foster entrepreneurship. I2S is open to Georgia Tech students and recent alumni.</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">[https://create-x.gatech.edu/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; 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;">Startup Summer, Create-X</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">— A GT program founded in the summer of 2015 that offers student teams $20,000 and mentorship over the summer to pursue their startup with a full time commitment. It is part of Create-X, a Georgia Tech initiative to instill entrepreneurial confidence in students and empower them to launch real startups. The broader goal of this initiative is to provide the knowledge, skills, abilities, and experiences that will give Georgia Tech graduates the confidence to create their own future and confidently pursue entrepreneurial opportunities.</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">[http://www.startup.exchange/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; 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;">Startup Exchange</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">— This is a student run organization that meets weekly, and organizes huddles and meetups with other student entrepreneurs, students looking to be entrepreneurs and successful entrepreneurs from the Atlanta area.</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">[https://create-x.gatech.edu/idea-prototype <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; 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;">Idea to Prototype</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- This is a GT run program that offers course credit, research grants and faculty mentorship to student teams that want to pursue their idea and turn it into an actual product, over a period of 1-2 semesters.</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">[https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/centers-initiatives/ile/gsvc/index.html <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; 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;">Global Social Venture Competition</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- This is a global competition for student entrepreneurs in the social sector. Georgia Tech is the East Coast hub of the GSVC, with Berkeley in the West Coast.</span></span></li>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">[http://www.cic.gatech.edu/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; 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;">Convergence Innovation Competition</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- This is a technology innovation competition organized by the GT RNOC every semester, to foster innovation in specific areas of technology, like telecommunications and transport.&nbsp;</span></span></li>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">[http://designcollaborative.gatech.edu/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; 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;">Design Bloc</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– A classroom and prototyping space that emphasizes design thinking through design behavior. The 5 tenants that students are taught are Empathy, Rapid Iteration, Contextual Awareness, Entrepreneurial Spirit and Creative Craft.</span></span>
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*<span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">[http://designcollaborative.gatech.edu/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; 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;">Design Bloc</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– A classroom and prototyping space that emphasizes design thinking through design behavior. The 5 tenants that students are taught are Empathy, Rapid Iteration, Contextual Awareness, Entrepreneurial Spirit and Creative Craft.</span></span> <span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">​</span></span> *<span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">&nbsp;</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-524685bd-7fff-faec-c63b-b01fb01e65c1">[https://www.vip.gatech.edu/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; 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;">Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP)</span>]<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- A program that engages undergraduate and graduate students in multidisciplinary project teams that are led by faculty in many areas of scholarship. Undergraduate students earn credit for their efforts, and have the opportunity to work with teams on different projects.</span></span> =&nbsp;
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