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1. Students for Startups

   Vision
   Contribute to sustainable net job growth by lowering the barriers to connecting burgeoning businesses with local talent and free support, enhancing their mutual strength with improved resources.

   Value
   Strengthening workforce development, job creation and placement creates healthier communities. Removing barriers to resources for startups and micro businesses will help them create and sustain jobs. Giving students more opportunities to work and train with startups and micros in diverse industries will better prepare our workforce. Furthering research will improve sustainable net job creation strategies. Success will be measured by participation rates, participant feedback, and direct measurement of participant job creation and placement.

   Virtue
   For the health and welfare of local communities, we need long-term solutions to unemployment. Students for Startups will support the growth of small and young companies, improve training and placement of our current and future workforce, and enhance our knowledge of job creation through further research.

   Visibility
   Partnerships will be formed and nurtured with the public, private, and non-profit sectors to create visibility for the program. Students and program participants will further engage interested parties through fundraising, integrated inbound and outbound marketing, and word of mouth.

   Viability
   Annual program costs of $50-100k per pool are limited to center management salaries, student stipends, and software/hardware tools and will be managed by donations, grants, fundraising events, publication and event sponsorships, volunteer hours and participant payments.

   Who? Students for Startups directly serves startups, micro businesses and students, as well as providing the local, regional and national population with improved work force development, job creation support, and employment research for a stronger economy.

   What? A training, development, research, and support organization to improve sustainable net job creation and strengthen work force development for micro businesses and startups

   1) Students will receive internship hours, resume qualifications, diverse on-the-job training, and specialized instruction at one-hour sessions presented by businesses in the program.
   2) Organization research will be made available to the public, private and non-profit sectors to support improvements in net job creation rates.
   
   3) Professionals in transition can eliminate holes in their resume by volunteering as working mentors.
   4) Lease managers can donate commercial space in exchange for visibility to growing businesses.
   5) Educational institutions can donate space to add value to training and placement programs.
   6) Small and young companies will be connected with more time and cost effective resources.

   Why? Continued high unemployment can only be solved by the creation of net jobs at a rate that can keep pace with the employment market. Startups and small businesses, our engine for job growth, often lack resources (financial, human, physical, intangible). There is a need to increase startup rates and improve the ongoing health of very small, very young companies for a more sustainable and effective job engine.

   When/Where/How? High school and college students can apply quarterly to be a part of an intern ‘pool’ managed by business professionals at co-working office spaces set up in their region, and work 10-20 hours per week from pool locations on projects submitted by program clients. Businesses who qualify can send projects via an online form, exchanging 1 hour of training for every ten they utilize and agreeing to interview participants in the program first for any new job openings they have.

   Vision
   Contribute to sustainable net job growth by lowering the barriers to connecting burgeoning businesses with local talent and free support, enhancing their mutual strength with improved resources.

   Value
   Strengthening workforce development, job creation and placement creates healthier communities. Removing barriers to resources for startups and micro businesses will help them create and sustain jobs. Giving students more opportunities to work and train with startups and micros in diverse industries will better prepare our workforce. Furthering research will improve sustainable net job creation strategies. Success will be measured by participation rates, participant feedback, and direct measurement of participant job creation… more

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2. Student Venture Funds: Stanford Start-X, North Dakota Venture Group, University of Akron

   The University of North Dakota Center for Innovation fosters hands on learning through Mueller Entrepreneur Internships (funding students to start a venture) and the Dakota Venture Group, the nation's first fully student run venture fund where the students need to source deals, screen, conduct due diligence, negotiate investment terms, syndicated with angel funds and other investors, close deals, manage portfolio, and arrange for exits. They work closely with nine area angel funds. They also invest in student ventures. More than 100 students have participated so far in this vibrant entrepreneur and angel investor ecosystem.

   Student Venture Fund at The University of Akron

   Student Venture Fund at The University of Akron provides graduate students the opportunity to participate in pre-seed funding decisions for high tech start-ups, including student-led deal flow screening, due diligence, and funding recommendations. The Student Venture Fund receives funding support from the Ohio Third Frontier and has expanded to include other universities and colleges in Northeast Ohio.

   Stanford Start-X; http://startx.stanford.edu/ Student start-up accelerator

   The University of North Dakota Center for Innovation fosters hands on learning through Mueller Entrepreneur Internships (funding students to start a venture) and the Dakota Venture Group, the nation's first fully student run venture fund where the students need to source deals, screen, conduct due diligence, negotiate investment terms, syndicated with angel funds and other investors, close deals, manage portfolio, and arrange for exits. They work closely with nine area angel funds. They also invest in student ventures. More than 100 students have participated so far in this vibrant entrepreneur and angel investor ecosystem.

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3. Barbara Glazer Weinstein and Jerome S. Glazer Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (CIE) Learning Community

   Got an idea? The Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (CIE) Learning Community at Syracuse University is an idea laboratory! CIE is open to students from any major who have the energy and drive to implement an idea.

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4. Syracuse Center of Excellence

   Syracuse Center of Excellence engages collaborators at 200+ companies and institutions to address global challenges in clean and renewable energy, indoor environmental quality, and water resources. Our members conduct targeted research, demonstrate new technologies, commercialize innovations, and educate the workforce

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5. Kauffman Entrepreneurship Engagement Fellows at Syracuse University

   Kauffman Entrepreneurship Engagement Fellows (KEEF) student at Syracuse University receive mentorship, space, and a year of graduate tuition at SU while working on their venture. The KEEF program is for any student who would like to start a for-profit or non-profit venture in Central New York after graduation.

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6. New York State Science & Technology Law Center

   The mission of the NYS STLC at Syracuse University is to assist and provide information to New York's Centers for Advanced Technology, Strategically Targeted Academic Research Centers, Advanced Research Centers, Centers of Excellence, Generating Employment Through New York Science Centers (collectively, “Research Centers”) and startup and early stage technology companies as they develop and market new technologies and seek to compete in the high technology marketplace. To this end, the NYS STLC advises the Research Centers, NYSTAR, academic institutions, and other public and private stakeholders on a wide range of technology-related legal issues, including the protection and commercialization of intellectual property, technology transfer practices, patents, copyright and trademark law, and licensing agreements..

   The mission of the NYS STLC at Syracuse University is to assist and provide information to New York's Centers for Advanced Technology, Strategically Targeted Academic Research Centers, Advanced Research Centers, Centers of Excellence, Generating Employment Through New York Science Centers (collectively, “Research Centers”) and startup and early stage technology companies as they develop and market new technologies and seek to compete in the high technology marketplace. To this end, the NYS STLC advises the Research Centers, NYSTAR, academic institutions, and other public and private stakeholders on a wide range of technology-related legal issues, including the protection and commercialization of intellectual… more

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7. Syracuse's South Side Innovation Center- University and Community Partnership

   The South Side Innovation Center (SSIC) is a partnership between Syracuse and Syracuse University. SSIC provides services and facilities to current and emerging entrepreneurs,– all in an energized environment of entrepreneurial activity. SSIC’s mission is to increase the strength and size of the area economy by helping a diverse group of emerging and mature businesses reach their potential size and profitability

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8. Near West Side Initiative

   Syracuse and the SALT District are in the heart of “New York’s Creative Core,” dubbed that because of its long history of innovation and creativity. This region has been the cradle of social and artistic movements (such as the Women’s Movement and Arts & Crafts Movement) and the home to hundreds of well-known artists, writers, musicians, and innovators. The NWSI is a partnership between Syracuse and Syracuse University to provide economic development and support entrepreneurship.

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9. Syracuse University: Raymond von Dran IDEA Sandbox & Entrepreneurship Accelerator

   The RvD IDEA at Syracuse University supports student entrepreneurs to start new ventures that provide economic growth. It includes courses and an academic minor at Syracuse University, the RvD IDEA Student Sandbox incubator in partnership with the Syracuse Technology Garden, the RvD IDEA Awards to seed student ventures, and the RvD IDEA student connectors which organize activities and events for student entrepreneurs.

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10. Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities

    The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) offers cutting edge, experiential training in entrepreneurship and small business management to post-9/11 veterans with disabilities resulting from their service to our country. EBV was founded at Syracuse University in 2007.

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11. Iowa Medical Innovation Group (IMIG)

    The University of Iowa's IMIG program provides interdisciplinary student teams from the colleges of engineering, medicine, law and business the opportunity to collaborate with top faculty and industry experts to innovate and advance new medical devices from conception to commercialization.

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12. Become Globally Competitive: Take a Geographically Unbound Approach to Commercialization

    Over the last decade, Larta has developed and deployed a start-up entrepreneurial education and assistance platform across the globe. This “Network-Centric” approach to enterprise development takes a geographically unbound approach that enhances the global competitiveness of start-ups.

    Such an approach aggregates the best global resources drawn from domain and functional experts and professionals working in marketing, branding, research, law and other relevant areas. These resources are tailored to the unique needs of individual innovators, and are served up “just in time”, truly aligned with the breakneck pace of commerce courtesy of the Web, the demand for externally-developed innovations and the dispersed nature of capital, customers and talent. The platform has developed robust programs in one-on-one mentorship, feedback sessions, educational workshops and webinars and partnership events and showcases. It succeeds where curricular programs and approaches fall short: in preparing start-ups and spin-offs for a frenzied, complex, asymmetrical global marketplace, in enabling them to compete vigorously while being extremely efficient at resource and capital allocation, and in helping them focus on their core abilities by partnering early and extensively.

    In addressing the needs of start-ups emerging from university-funded research, universities will be better served if they tapped into external, road-tested programs with a track record of success like Larta’s CAP (Commercialization Assistance Program).

    Larta Institute has grown its global network and employed the “Network-Centric” model for more than 19 years with over 3,200 publicly funded innovators – many with their roots in universities such as MIT, Stanford, Duke, Columbia and Notre Dame – yielding 29 acquisitions, $575M+ in financing and more than 1,800 new jobs since 2005 alone.

    Over the last decade, Larta has developed and deployed a start-up entrepreneurial education and assistance platform across the globe. This “Network-Centric” approach to enterprise development takes a geographically unbound approach that enhances the global competitiveness of start-ups.

    Such an approach aggregates the best global resources drawn from domain and functional experts and professionals working in marketing, branding, research, law and other relevant areas. These resources are tailored to the unique needs of individual innovators, and are served up “just in time”, truly aligned with the breakneck pace of commerce courtesy of the Web, the demand for externally-developed innovations and the… more

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13. Butler Venture Accelerator Program at Babson College

    Outside the classroom, Babson students live entrepreneurship through the comprehensive John E. and Alice L. Butler Venture Accelerator Program which is the result of faculty and staff working together to define a framework that provides access to resources for student and alumni entrepreneurs to move their business ideas forward. The resources available through the program include workshops on a wide range of topic areas, workspace and advising/mentoring. Each level has one or more faculty advisors who are experienced entrepreneurs. These faculty teach one or more entrepreneurship courses at Babson, so the advice they provide is consistent with the content delivered in the classroom. Resources become more individualized and customized as students progress through the program. Students earn more resources as they achieve specific milestones. In the 2011-2012 academic year, the Butler Venture Accelerator program provided resources to 327 entrepreneurs working on 258 concepts/businesses with 54% of the participants at the Explore level, 34% at the Pursue level and 12% at the Launch & Grow level.

    Outside the classroom, Babson students live entrepreneurship through the comprehensive John E. and Alice L. Butler Venture Accelerator Program which is the result of faculty and staff working together to define a framework that provides access to resources for student and alumni entrepreneurs to move their business ideas forward. The resources available through the program include workshops on a wide range of topic areas, workspace and advising/mentoring. Each level has one or more faculty advisors who are experienced entrepreneurs. These faculty teach one or more entrepreneurship courses at Babson, so the advice they provide is consistent with the content delivered… more

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14. Federal Technology Accelerator Program

    Public Private Innovations is the nation’s first federal technology accelerator program focused on driving public value through private growth in the $180B annual technology public sector marketplace. Please have a look at our website at http://www.publicprivateinnovations.com/ to understand our services, brand, unique positioning and clear differentiation.

    We are looking to collaborate with US universities and industries in the public private innovations arena.

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15. AREA48 Innovation Spaces

    Project Goal
    To advance high-growth entrepreneurs and new product development in regions hardest hit by the global economic crisis in order to accelerate economic recovery, growth and job creation.

    Project Overview
    ASU’s Applied Regional Economic Action 48 (AREA48) will pilot a new model for educating and supporting early-stage entrepreneurs by utilizing a hands-on, “pracademic approach” to create new markets, products, start-ups and jobs. By fostering deep collaboration among diverse entrepreneurial stakeholders, AREA48 will help to streamline existing entities to create a more inclusive and sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem. AREA48 is designed to supplement higher education with a hands-on, real-world-application method of learning by doing. By mixing students at all levels with experienced participants from a range of backgrounds, AREA48 offers experiential learning between both of these groups.

    AREA48 will catalyze business growth and job creation by engaging the non-traditional target populations of retirees; military, veterans and defense (MDV) and recently unemployed yet highly-skilled workers, particularly those in the aerospace and construction fields. AREA48 will transform these “fallow” but high-potential populations into successful entrepreneurs by providing mentorship, advice and practical business training.

    AREA48 is an adaptable and replicable model that can foster entrepreneurship in areas hit hardest by the global economic crisis across the nation. The long-term goal of AREA48, numbered 48 as Arizona is the 48th state, is to export the model to other states, (e.g., Alaska, as the 50th state, would be AREA50).  While Arizona’s AREA48 will target specific groups of ‘at-risk’ unemployed and MDV populations, each geographic region may target other at-risk or unemployed groups relevant to their AREA development.

    Project Description
    Core elements of the AREA48 model include a six-month long entrepreneurial action program that mixes product development activities, multi-disciplinary team development, startup creation and experiential learning based on pracademic teaching modules from Rapid Startup School.  Supported by ASU Venture Catalyst, which has a track record with early stage startups, senior pracademics from outside the program, such as technology, legal, entrepreneurial and venture capital experts including ASU staff, students and alumni, will provide more in-depth education.

    The program will be located in a highly visible urban location in downtown Tempe, Ariz., and will create a ‘front shop’ test area open to the general public. Examples of collaborative space elements include co-working space, ‘huddle’ space, prototyping and testing; Hot Desking, pracademic space, virtual AREA48, front shop and showcase space open to the public, connections with Arizona-based corporate partners, and the ability for ASU to bring in early stage venture capital when the time is right. Through a dedicated physical and virtual space, AREA48 will establish the necessary tools to allow collaborative teams to create, test and bring new ideas to market.

    Project Goal
    To advance high-growth entrepreneurs and new product development in regions hardest hit by the global economic crisis in order to accelerate economic recovery, growth and job creation.

    Project Overview
    ASU’s Applied Regional Economic Action 48 (AREA48) will pilot a new model for educating and supporting early-stage entrepreneurs by utilizing a hands-on, “pracademic approach” to create new markets, products, start-ups and jobs. By fostering deep collaboration among diverse entrepreneurial stakeholders, AREA48 will help to streamline existing entities to create a more inclusive and sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem. AREA48 is designed to supplement higher education with a hands-on, real-world-application method of… more

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16. ASU creates Alexandria Network to create and support co-working spaces in libraries

    Alexandria Network – Democratizing Entrepreneurship

    The Alexandria Network is one of the ‘new ideas’ projects from ASU’s Venture Catalyst unit, along with the Furnace Technology Transfer Accelerator. The Alexandria Network is designed to provide support for the innovation economy within designated libraries, eventually creating a network of locations across the greater Phoenix area and then across the state of Arizona.

    These new locations, called EUREKA spaces, will combine elements of the now popular co-working spaces, along with expert library fact-finding services, and ASU startup resources, into one designated place that innovators and entrepreneurs can use on a daily basis to work on their ideas while also getting mentorship, advice and access to some ‘pracademic’ classes both online and in the libraries.

    Using proven startup content, experienced entrepreneurial mentors, and ‘pracademic’ teaching modules from our successful Rapid Startup School, ASU will support these new co-working and development spaces in designated libraries. The long term objective is to support the hundreds of inventors, problem solvers, entrepreneurs, micro- and small-businesses from across Arizona that need help to advance their ideas.

    Being an inventor, problem solver or entrepreneur is often a lonely task. The EUREKA locations will serve as places for people to connect, as individual networking amongst participants is an important part of the concept. Moreover, local library staff will act as ‘champions’ by offering advice and support to their community of innovators.

    The ASU mentor network will be activated to provide additional expert entrepreneurial support. Online and digital assets from the library system and ASU will also be leveraged to provide additional guidance for the varied users of the EUREKA locations.

    The Alexandria Network is interested in hearing from individuals, mentors and organizations that are interested in supporting this innovation. More details on the resources, classes and supports that will be available will be announced when the pilot location is officially opened in early March.

    For more information on becoming an Alexandria Network location please contact: tracy.lea@asu.edu

    Alexandria Network – Democratizing Entrepreneurship

    The Alexandria Network is one of the ‘new ideas’ projects from ASU’s Venture Catalyst unit, along with the Furnace Technology Transfer Accelerator. The Alexandria Network is designed to provide support for the innovation economy within designated libraries, eventually creating a network of locations across the greater Phoenix area and then across the state of Arizona.

    These new locations, called EUREKA spaces, will combine elements of the now popular co-working spaces, along with expert library fact-finding services, and ASU startup resources, into one designated place that innovators and entrepreneurs can use on a daily basis to… more

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17. Linking Innovation, Industry and Commercialization

    What is an army’s strategic plan without its infantry to implement it? It is but an idea on a piece of paper, with no tangible results; no achievements. The infiltration and reconnaissance efforts of the infantry are a contribution to a greater purpose: advancement and long-term success. The Linking Innovation, Industry and Commercialization (LIINC) program at West Virginia University executes WVU’s 2020 Strategic Plan in the trenches, actively facilitating increased and improved collaboration between WVU faculty researchers, graduate students and the private sector marketplace. LIINC has engaged university faculty and administrators, established corporate relationships, provided new support for research faculty, and elevated the awareness and involvement in innovation and commercialization on campus.

    Launched in 2011 with funding from Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, LIINC has connected 263 representatives from 186 companies from across the U.S. to 382 WVU faculty and 43 graduate students to explore novel commercialization opportunities and avenues for future research. LIINC activities have helped increase the likelihood for research funding opportunities, licensing of technologies, SBIR and STTR partnerships, on-campus patent activity, new research opportunities for students and graduates, and jobs in the research and commercialization sectors. LIINC is a WVU vehicle for advancing research-based innovation and commercialization efforts and the university’s economic impact on the state and the region.

    As the 2012 Award of Excellence winner in the category of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the University Economic Development Association, LIINC has best practices to share based on replicability, scalability, originality and sustainability.

    What is an army’s strategic plan without its infantry to implement it? It is but an idea on a piece of paper, with no tangible results; no achievements. The infiltration and reconnaissance efforts of the infantry are a contribution to a greater purpose: advancement and long-term success. The Linking Innovation, Industry and Commercialization (LIINC) program at West Virginia University executes WVU’s 2020 Strategic Plan in the trenches, actively facilitating increased and improved collaboration between WVU faculty researchers, graduate students and the private sector marketplace. LIINC has engaged university faculty and administrators, established corporate relationships, provided new support for research faculty,… more

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18. A.I.T.S. American Indian Trade skills

    A combation of classrom and on the job training to teach students to design and build passive solar homes on reservations

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19. Teach courses in how to sell so grads, startups and entrepreneurs can successfully acquire paying customers

    Colleges do not teach the very pragmatic skill universally needed - how to sell. Why not?

    That's not marketing BTW, that's going out and knowing how to use the sales process to acquire paying customers B2B, B2C. And no, retail is not the selling I am referring to. Its also knowing How to Acquire Paying Customers online w/o competition via target audience specific social media groups & discussions.

    Why has this critical business skill been ignored in college offerings? Enough theory and analysis, lets teach folks how to go out and grow business so they can survive and thrive. For ideas see: http://bit.ly/q97N8x

    Colleges do not teach the very pragmatic skill universally needed - how to sell. Why not?

    That's not marketing BTW, that's going out and knowing how to use the sales process to acquire paying customers B2B, B2C. And no, retail is not the selling I am referring to. Its also knowing How to Acquire Paying Customers online w/o competition via target audience specific social media groups & discussions.

    Why has this critical business skill been ignored in college offerings? Enough theory and analysis, lets teach folks how to go out and grow business so they can survive and thrive. For… more

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20. Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs

    The Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs houses the TVL Accelerator which partners graduate students from The University of Texas at Austin studying Business, Law, Engineering and the Sciences with start-ups to solve fundamental business problems.

    In three years, the TVL Accelerator has worked with 53 companies and 144 students. Our companies have raised over $45 million and two out of three students go on to either found or work at a start-up.

    This model could likely be duplicated at other major universities to similar effect

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