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<span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview:</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The greatest incentive a university can offer a student to encourage learning is credit towards graduation. By applying entrepreneurial and innovative courses into to the existing curriculum structure , students will have an opportunity to grow their skill set in within the I and E space.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A lean startup course has already been proposed by the NCIIA Pathways group and is being implemented during the Summer of 2014 as a pilotcourse. This course will hopefully grow in size and popularity as more students become interested in innovation and entrepreneurship.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Right now Michigan Tech doesn’t offer any comprehensive graphic design and or marketing crash course. This (new) course will teach students the basics of the Adobe Creative suite Suite, as well as basic marketing psychology. The course instruction will center around working with real -world clients and applying the concepts to small businesses (start -ups) and student organizations. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span>

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15;">As a continuation of a course already offered by Michigan Tech, this section will focus on how to transform research into a viable business. With a strong focus on customer voice of customer and the business model canvas, this class helps will help researchers and innovators bridge the gap between idea and market success.</span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While these classes mark a great start in empowering students to extend their development in innovation and entrepreneurship , they won’t be enough in the long term. As a part of LearnX , faculty and staff will be encouraged to offer one -credit seminars in areas they’re passionate about. This could range from an exploration of Google Glass to a series of lectures of on programming competitively.</span></span>

<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-4f2f08f3-2544-76d2-b25c-c680ee93c0f0"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This collection of courses is designed to give students who think they may be interested in innovation or entrepreneurship the opportunity to grow , and dabble , in a formalized setting.</span></span>