{"id":4843,"date":"2018-05-10T08:49:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T15:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=4843"},"modified":"2018-05-10T08:49:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T15:49:21","slug":"invitation-participate-new-center-supportentrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2018\/05\/10\/invitation-participate-new-center-supportentrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitation to Participate: New Center to Support\tEntrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear colleagues,<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0am pleased to announce a new OSU-wide entrepreneurship center led by the College of Business that may be of interest to you, as well as your\u00a0students, faculty and staff \u2013<strong>InnovationX<\/strong>, the OSU Center of Excellence for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. While the center lives in the College of Business, we serve students of all majors across OSU.\u00a0You can find more information here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/entrepreneurship.oregonstate.edu\/\">http:\/\/entrepreneurship.oregonstate.edu\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a quick summary of the services and resources available through the center. I invite you to share this information broadly and to partner with us in this effort:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>FACULTY AFFILIATION<\/strong>.\u00a0We invite faculty who are engaged in innovation\u00a0or\u00a0entrepreneurship research\/service\/teaching\u00a0to consider applying to be a Faculty\u00a0Fellow\u00a0of InnovationX.\u00a0Faculty\u00a0can complete our online interest form (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HojF87\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HojF87<\/a>)\u00a0to learn more. We look forward to building a\u00a0robust\u00a0community of scholars\u00a0and thought leaders who are\u00a0dedicated to innovation and entrepreneurship.<\/li>\n<li><strong>LAUNCH PAD<\/strong>.\u00a0Starting Fall of 2018,\u00a0a new series of first-year courses for undergrads, called Launch Pad,\u00a0will\u00a0be open to\u00a0<strong>first-year students of any major<\/strong>.\u00a0The\u00a0purpose\u00a0of the\u00a0Launch\u00a0Pad\u00a0course series is\u00a0to attract students to OSU who have an interest in entrepreneurship, no matter what their major.\u00a0These aspiring young entrepreneurs and their parents have expressed great excitement about this program.\u00a0We believe\u00a0Launch Pad\u00a0will be a\u00a0unique differentiator for OSU and a program that helps\u00a0<strong>all colleges<\/strong>\u00a0attract entrepreneurial students!\u00a0If you\u2019d like to partner to leverage Launch Pad to recruit entrepreneurial students into your undergrad programs, please let us know.\u00a0Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/business.oregonstate.edu\/innovationx\/launch-pad\">http:\/\/business.oregonstate.edu\/innovationx\/launch-pad<\/a>\u00a0for details.<\/li>\n<li><strong>LAUNCH ACADEMY<\/strong>. Launch Academy is a new OSU student incubator that is open to serve all students (grad and undergrad) from any major across OSU. Launch Academy includes access to competitive seed funding, co-working space, mentoring and training to help students advance their ideas. Launch Academy students also have access to the DAMlab makerspace, the Austin Prototyping Workshop Series and the Austin Entrepreneurship Mentor Network.\u00a0Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/business.oregonstate.edu\/InnovationX\/launch-academy\">http:\/\/business.oregonstate.edu\/InnovationX\/launch-academy<\/a>\u00a0for details.<\/li>\n<li><strong>LAUNCH-U SPEAKER SERIES<\/strong>. Hosted on Thursdays each term, this speaker series features entrepreneurs and innovators from all backgrounds who share their experiences and help students develop their ideas. The speaker series is open for any OSU student to attend and is co-hosted by the Entrepreneurship Student Club and the College of Engineering. We welcome additional partners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope you will encourage your students, faculty and staff to engage with these new resources.\u00a0We anticipate extending InnovationX to Portland and Bend over the coming year.\u00a0I\u2019ll keep you posted as we proceed.\u00a0I\u2019m also copying Audrey Iffert-Saleem (<a href=\"mailto:Audrey.Iffert@oregonstate.edu\">Audrey.Iffert@oregonstate.edu<\/a>) on this note. Audrey leads InnovationX and would be glad to chat with you about our work and how we can partner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Best \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Mitzi<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitzi M. Montoya<\/strong>, PhD<\/p>\n<p>Sara Hart Kimball Dean<\/p>\n<p>Oregon State University | College of Business | 541-737-6024<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/school\/16194655\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0| <u><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InnovationDean\">Twitter<\/a><\/u> | <a href=\"http:\/\/business.oregonstate.edu\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear colleagues, \u00a0 I\u00a0am pleased to announce a new OSU-wide entrepreneurship center led by the College of Business that may be of interest to you, as well as your\u00a0students, faculty and staff \u2013InnovationX, the OSU Center of Excellence for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. While the center lives in the College of Business, we serve students of&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2018\/05\/10\/invitation-participate-new-center-supportentrepreneurship\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}