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Aug 2016
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The innovationAcademy (iA) at UNM is “priming the pump” for a new generation of entrepreneurs across all disciplines at the University of New Mexico. The goal is to capture students interested in all aspects of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship (ICE) and train them for careers as independent business owners and social innovators.
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Aug 2016
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Iowa State University's Extension and Outreach’s Community and Economic Development (CED) program is engaging diversity for a strong Iowa – encouraging business development, helping to create jobs, and expanding entrepreneurial activity to support economic growth and improve quality of life.
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Aug 2016
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TechTown is Detroit’s most established business accelerator and incubator. Originally created to commercialize Wayne State University technologies and draw on the university’s research expertise, TechTown has broadened its mission to encompass a full suite of entrepreneurial services for both tech and neighborhood businesses.
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Aug 2016
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Montana State University is utilizing an innovative approach, based on a museum exhibit, to develop curriculum across many disciplines. Utilizing archaeological digs and a museum exhibit for curriculum and talent development, the project integrates creative research and teaching practices in an innovative, interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Aug 2016
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The Iowa State University Research Park is a 400-acre technology community situated at the southern edge of the Iowa State University campus employing 1,700 individuals, including more than 350 interns, at 65 technology-based companies and specialized university centers. It created an infrastructure of services to help fledgling businesses find assistance with everything from business development, to financing, to access to researchers and talent throughout campus.
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Aug 2016
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From 2000 to 2013 Project HEART (High Expectations for At-Risk Teens) placed tutors in schools, on college campuses and in afterschool programs to help high-risk kids in eastern North Carolina. Using lessons learned from Project HEART, ECU-COE continued its work with AmeriCorps and from 2013-2016 implemented Operation LINK. More than 180 AmeriCorps members served in Operation LINK and leveraged an additional 650 volunteers who provided mentoring services from 2015-2016 to approximately 1289 military children and youth in after school programs. In 2016 STEM-Corps East became the third AmeriCorps initiative and it is designed to help K-8 students who are struggling to master STEM concepts.
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Aug 2016
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To address the need for culturally competent oral health providers, East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine (ECU-SoDM) established Community Service Learning Centers (CSLCs) across the state. This model is unique. Community-based teaching clinics as extensions of a centralized dental school exist nowhere else in the world and could serve as the model for “dental schools of the future”.
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Aug 2016
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STC.UNM, the technology transfer and economic development arm of the University of New Mexico started in 1995. It has since spun off 103 start-up companies from UNM technologies, and twelve new businesses formed with UNM technology in the fiscal year 2016.
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Aug 2016
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Innovate New Mexico is a program started by STC.UNM, the University of New Mexico’s technology transfer and economic development arm, to increase commercialization of research, regional connectivity and entrepreneurship among New Mexico’s research institutions.
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Aug 2016
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The Iowa State University BioCentury Research Farm is the first-in-the-nation integrated research and demonstration facility dedicated to biomass production and processing. This one-of-a-kind facility allows the integration of the production, transportation, storage and processing of agronomic crops to end products.
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Aug 2016
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UMass Lowell developed the Community Co-op Scholars Program to match student passion and talent with community-based organizations seeking assistance. The program engages students early in their college careers, urging them to participate in meaningful, practical experiences that enrich learning and prepare them for work, life and the world.
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Aug 2016
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Wayne State has been intentional in its efforts to transform from a commuter destination to a 24-hour campus, with strategic efforts around housing, transit and mobility, placemaking and public safety.
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