iDEA Institute

iDEA Institute A CWRU initiative for change

Vision
Inspire and facilitate:
CWRU Students
CWRU Faculty
Outside Partners
to Create great:
Products
Services
and an Entrepreneurial Culture

Entrepreneurial environment
Students involved in active projects
Expand curriculum for entrepreneurial studies
Create a semi-exclusive club – support network
Produce bootcamps, unconferences, live events
Provide access to experienced and successful entrepreneurs

On-line tools
Virtual teamwork
Peer review
Leave no student behind
Mentoring in many forms
Nothing wrong with failure
Culture of Innovation, Collaboration and Risk Taking

iDEA = the “NEW” CWRU
iDEA = new ideas, networking activities, inter-disciplinary approach
Put together deals and projects
Produce live events – of all shapes and sizes
Break down the fiefdom walls
Use iDEA to differentiate

New kinds of Events

Unconferences, Workshops

In depth work groups

New iDEAs formulated Projects produced, Products shipped

Integrated platform
Synergistic approach to tools, collaboration and project management
Virtual platform – can be accessed anywhere
Connect disparate departments, institutions and partners with students
Combine:
Academic
Business
Social/Economic efforts

On-line tools
Social Network/Dashboard
Google Sites, Docs and Apps
Skype
Wiki
Open:
APIs (application programming interface)
Data
Source
Standards
Ideas

Put together Deals
Work with high level professionals, designers
Cherry pick best projects
Put together team:
Product Engineering
Productization
Marketing/Sales
Project Management
Leverage Tech Transfer
Find funding
Sell products and services

Identify low hanging fruit
Many projects are ready to go:
Medical
New Materials
Energy
Job Creation
Use seed money to get these projects going
Get students involved
Then find funding for each project
Apply for Fed grants, based upon early successes

Develop Student projects
Identify the best student iDEAs
Put together deals by matching student interns to mentors and experts
Get students assigned to projects, learn the ropes by assisting experts
Students go through the entire productization process, learn by doing
We help find funding for their projects

Schedule
Q1 ’10
Form/Announce, initial events, recruit students, define the platform
Put together first deals, first teams formed, on-line tools available
Q2 ’10
First projects started, networking events produced, first success
Large funding applied for, bigger deals put into place, Lab Director hired
Q3 ’10
First projects shipped, more events, lab construction started
Larger projects funded, second round of recruiting, refined tools
Q4 ’10
Partners and deals announced, evidence of success, weekly events
Program expands, open ‘sandbox’ lab, regional alliance forms
Q1-Q2 ’11
Over 100+ student entrepreneurs, large projects start to ship
On-going multiple projects, multiple alliances and partners
Q3-Q4 ’11
iDEA Culture appears, CWRU becomes a place to come to invent things

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