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<p>N. Squirrel Road, Rochester, MI 48309-4401 • 248-370-2100</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oakland.edu/">http://www.oakland.edu</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Technology Transfer </strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>Office of Grants, Contracts and Sponsored Research</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www2.oakland.edu/research/research_new/pages/index.cfm?CFID=994098&CFTOKEN=80620413&jsessionid=dc30a9eb5d716666122b">http://www2.oakland.edu/research/research_new/pages/index.cfm?CFID=994098&CFTOKEN=80620413&jsessionid=dc30a9eb5d716666122b</a></p>
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<p>The Office of Grants, Contracts and Sponsored Research directs and facilitates pre- and post-award processes by ensuring compliance with Federal, State and University guidelines. It also oversees regulatory compliance activities to ensure safe, ethical and responsible conduct of research. In addition, the office is responsible for enhancing the research infrastructure of the institution as well as developing and monitoring policies related to the stewardship of research activities, intellectual properties, and technology transfer.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>Multi-University Technological and Expertise Assets Management for Enterprise Development</em></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Oakland University is a partner in U-TEAMED, a collaborative effort seeking to promote and expand the utilization of research and intellectual property assets at universities with emerging and established small sponsored research programs. A complementary goal is to increase technological collaborations between these institutions. The primary goal of U-TEAMED is to advance the research and commercialization objectives of the participating institutions by leveraging complementary experiences, networks, and core competencies and through actively promoting their research and intellectual property assets. These assets encompass the entire research enterprise including, for example: expertise and core competencies of individual researchers, research groups, and research centers; invention disclosures and patents; and laboratories, equipment, and other specialized facilities. The current participants of U-TEAMED are: Michigan Technological University (lead partner), Central Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University, and Oakland University.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Incubators</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>OU INCubator</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www4.oakland.edu/?id=110&sid=117">http://www4.oakland.edu/?id=110&sid=117</a></p>
<p> David A. Spencer, Executive Director, (248)-648-4800, <a href="mailto:daspence@oakland.edu">daspence@oakland.edu</a></p>
<p></p>
<p>Oakland University's SmartZone Business Incubator, OU INCubator (OU INC), provides entrepreneurial resources and strategic business solutions to develop intellectual property. By providing flexible office space, professional business services and access to capital and business development programs and resources, OU INC fosters entrepreneurial ideas from early stage, emerging and accelerated business development until the graduation stage of growth. The incubator supports existing and grows new technology-based and life science businesses with university resources, decision support technology, business counseling services and financial/capital acquisition assistance. The state of Michigan, city of Rochester Hills and Oakland University created a certified technology park (CTP) under the auspices of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC). It is part of the Great Lakes Interchange, an Oakland County Automation Alley SmartZone, and includes tax increment financing to support OU INC.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The Rochester Hills CTP and OU INC are committed to commercializing technology and life sciences innovations emerging from the university, SmartZone businesses, and regional high-technology industry. OU INC and the SmartZone program enhance the rich matrix of technology and business services currently provided by Oakland, one of the country’s 110 doctoral, research-intensive universities.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>OU INC Collaboratory</em>: The OU INC Collaboratory is a unique electronic decision support system environment that empowers group work teams to simultaneously brainstorm information and ideas in order to foster collaboration, categorization, prioritization and consensus building. It provides an interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities, associated processes, and personnel for collecting, processing, storing, disseminating and managing information on demand. The Collaboratory is available for anyone to use - from individual entrepreneurs to OU faculty to municipalities and Fortune 500 businesses. You do not need to be a client of the OU INCubator to hold a session, although INCubator clients are offered reduced rates and many other member benefits.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Programs of the incubator include the Corporate Partners Program and the Kitchen Cabinet Program:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Corporate Partners Program</em> - is a public-private sector business alliance between OU INC and experienced, pre-qualified business professionals. Top corporate, business and financial leaders provide entrepreneurs and up-and-coming incubator client companies with direct business development assistance on a pro-bono and reduced fee consulting services basis. Sponsors include, but are not limited to, venture capital firms, angel investors, general legal counsel, patent counsel, accounting, audit and tax, marketing and advertising, business consulting, IT and Web development, banking and financial services, insurance, HR and payroll services and other specialties.</li>
<li>
<ul>
<li><em>Kitchen Cabinet Program </em>- is an incubator client mentoring program of the Oakland University SmartZone Business Incubator (OU INC). Kitchen cabinets are advisory boards generally comprised of 8-12 local business and industry executives or subject matter experts who volunteer their time to mentor a company’s management team to help identify and address the strategic issues facing their business.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>University-Industry Commercialization Programs</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Fastening and Joining Research Institute </em></p>
<p><a href="http://www2.oakland.edu/secs/fajri/">http://www2.oakland.edu/secs/fajri/</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>The congressionally approved Fastening and Joining Research Institute (FAJRI) at Oakland University’s School of Engineering and Computer Science (SECS) is the only known facility of its kind in the world: an academic, nonprofit research facility dedicated solely to the fastening and joining of materials. This one-of-a-kind facility pursues fundamental and applied research to develop and disseminate new technologies for the fastening and joining of metals, composites and polymers.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>FAJRI’s mission: Through basic and applied research, the Fastening and Joining Research Institute will develop and disseminate new advanced technologies in the areas of automated assembly of bolted joints, adhesive bonding of composites, resistance welding and riveting, a niche area that significantly impacts the safety and reliability of many products in both the civilian and military sectors of the American economy.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>FAJRI’s vision: Vision 2008: FAJRI will become a nationally recognized academic center for fastening and joining research and advanced technology transfer. Vision 2010: FAJRI will become an international research center for fastening and joining engineering.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Entrepreneurship Education related to Economic Development</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>Applied Technology in Business (ATiB) Program</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www3.oakland.edu/oakland/frames.asp?main=http://atib.sba.oakland.edu">http://www3.oakland.edu/oakland/frames.asp?main=http://atib.sba.oakland.edu</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>The Applied Technology in Business (ATiB) Program is a distinctive and competitive business minor sponsored by some of the leading corporations throughout Michigan. Through a blend of rigorous coursework and the completion of sponsor projects, students learn effective business problem solving skills and project management.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>ATiB ‘s Mission: Our mission is to be Adaptive and learning oriented, stay Technology literate, be Innovative, and act as Business professionals. The program will strive to adapt to the changing business needs while constantly learning new technology and applying it to address these needs. The students will seek new avenues to apply information technology proactively and effectively to help a business stay competitive. All of the participants in the ATiB Program act as business professionals both while representing the program at the sponsoring organizations and as individuals in the Oakland University community.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The ATiB program utilizes several learning holistic and managed techniques to prepare and support students throughout their tenure. Every project is worked on by at least two students. Even if they get to work on projects with two or three firms over the 18-month duration, they are exposed to all the projects others are doing, because of their constant interaction in the ATiB lab and the project discussions/presentations in the classes. Many of the concepts they are exposed to while doing the projects are included in the "continually evolving" curriculum, so they understand the theory behind the events and the issues they have to confront. Learning is also managed in a step like sequence to set up students for success in their sponsor projects and beyond.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Economic Development/Outreach</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>Entrepreneurship Institute</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.sba.oakland.edu/entrep/">http://www.sba.oakland.edu/entrep/</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>The Entrepreneurship Institute (EI) was launched by the School of Business Administration at Oakland University in 2001 to provide entrepreneurship education to economically disadvantaged teens. In just a few years we have successfully provided this region with a variety of programming options that have been made possible by a unique collaboration structure that utilizes volunteer support of local entrepreneurs, business people, teachers, administrators and Oakland University students who are members of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE).</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This volunteer structure enables a rich support system for the teens. Entrepreneurs and corporate professionals provide their time and talent to mentor, to judge contests and to provide feedback on business plans and just to serve as a “credible” ear to the passion and ambitions of these teens. This unique approach also creates a learning opportunity for our own students who are members of SIFE. These college students supply EI with instructional manpower to help teach these teens.</p>
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<p>N. Squirrel Road, Rochester, MI 48309-4401 • 248-370-2100</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oakland.edu/">http://www.oakland.edu</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Technology Transfer </strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>Office of Grants, Contracts and Sponsored Research</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www2.oakland.edu/research/research_new/pages/index.cfm?CFID=994098&CFTOKEN=80620413&jsessionid=dc30a9eb5d716666122b">http://www2.oakland.edu/research/research_new/pages/index.cfm?CFID=994098&CFTOKEN=80620413&jsessionid=dc30a9eb5d716666122b</a></p>
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<p>The Office of Grants, Contracts and Sponsored Research directs and facilitates pre- and post-award processes by ensuring compliance with Federal, State and University guidelines. It also oversees regulatory compliance activities to ensure safe, ethical and responsible conduct of research. In addition, the office is responsible for enhancing the research infrastructure of the institution as well as developing and monitoring policies related to the stewardship of research activities, intellectual properties, and technology transfer.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>Multi-University Technological and Expertise Assets Management for Enterprise Development</em></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Oakland University is a partner in U-TEAMED, a collaborative effort seeking to promote and expand the utilization of research and intellectual property assets at universities with emerging and established small sponsored research programs. A complementary goal is to increase technological collaborations between these institutions. The primary goal of U-TEAMED is to advance the research and commercialization objectives of the participating institutions by leveraging complementary experiences, networks, and core competencies and through actively promoting their research and intellectual property assets. These assets encompass the entire research enterprise including, for example: expertise and core competencies of individual researchers, research groups, and research centers; invention disclosures and patents; and laboratories, equipment, and other specialized facilities. The current participants of U-TEAMED are: Michigan Technological University (lead partner), Central Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University, and Oakland University.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Incubators</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>OU INCubator</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www4.oakland.edu/?id=110&sid=117">http://www4.oakland.edu/?id=110&sid=117</a></p>
<p> David A. Spencer, Executive Director, (248)-648-4800, <a href="mailto:daspence@oakland.edu">daspence@oakland.edu</a></p>
<p></p>
<p>Oakland University's SmartZone Business Incubator, OU INCubator (OU INC), provides entrepreneurial resources and strategic business solutions to develop intellectual property. By providing flexible office space, professional business services and access to capital and business development programs and resources, OU INC fosters entrepreneurial ideas from early stage, emerging and accelerated business development until the graduation stage of growth. The incubator supports existing and grows new technology-based and life science businesses with university resources, decision support technology, business counseling services and financial/capital acquisition assistance. The state of Michigan, city of Rochester Hills and Oakland University created a certified technology park (CTP) under the auspices of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC). It is part of the Great Lakes Interchange, an Oakland County Automation Alley SmartZone, and includes tax increment financing to support OU INC.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The Rochester Hills CTP and OU INC are committed to commercializing technology and life sciences innovations emerging from the university, SmartZone businesses, and regional high-technology industry. OU INC and the SmartZone program enhance the rich matrix of technology and business services currently provided by Oakland, one of the country’s 110 doctoral, research-intensive universities.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>OU INC Collaboratory</em>: The OU INC Collaboratory is a unique electronic decision support system environment that empowers group work teams to simultaneously brainstorm information and ideas in order to foster collaboration, categorization, prioritization and consensus building. It provides an interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities, associated processes, and personnel for collecting, processing, storing, disseminating and managing information on demand. The Collaboratory is available for anyone to use - from individual entrepreneurs to OU faculty to municipalities and Fortune 500 businesses. You do not need to be a client of the OU INCubator to hold a session, although INCubator clients are offered reduced rates and many other member benefits.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Programs of the incubator include the Corporate Partners Program and the Kitchen Cabinet Program:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Corporate Partners Program</em> - is a public-private sector business alliance between OU INC and experienced, pre-qualified business professionals. Top corporate, business and financial leaders provide entrepreneurs and up-and-coming incubator client companies with direct business development assistance on a pro-bono and reduced fee consulting services basis. Sponsors include, but are not limited to, venture capital firms, angel investors, general legal counsel, patent counsel, accounting, audit and tax, marketing and advertising, business consulting, IT and Web development, banking and financial services, insurance, HR and payroll services and other specialties.</li>
<li>
<ul>
<li><em>Kitchen Cabinet Program </em>- is an incubator client mentoring program of the Oakland University SmartZone Business Incubator (OU INC). Kitchen cabinets are advisory boards generally comprised of 8-12 local business and industry executives or subject matter experts who volunteer their time to mentor a company’s management team to help identify and address the strategic issues facing their business.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>University-Industry Commercialization Programs</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Fastening and Joining Research Institute </em></p>
<p><a href="http://www2.oakland.edu/secs/fajri/">http://www2.oakland.edu/secs/fajri/</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>The congressionally approved Fastening and Joining Research Institute (FAJRI) at Oakland University’s School of Engineering and Computer Science (SECS) is the only known facility of its kind in the world: an academic, nonprofit research facility dedicated solely to the fastening and joining of materials. This one-of-a-kind facility pursues fundamental and applied research to develop and disseminate new technologies for the fastening and joining of metals, composites and polymers.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>FAJRI’s mission: Through basic and applied research, the Fastening and Joining Research Institute will develop and disseminate new advanced technologies in the areas of automated assembly of bolted joints, adhesive bonding of composites, resistance welding and riveting, a niche area that significantly impacts the safety and reliability of many products in both the civilian and military sectors of the American economy.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>FAJRI’s vision: Vision 2008: FAJRI will become a nationally recognized academic center for fastening and joining research and advanced technology transfer. Vision 2010: FAJRI will become an international research center for fastening and joining engineering.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Entrepreneurship Education related to Economic Development</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>Applied Technology in Business (ATiB) Program</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www3.oakland.edu/oakland/frames.asp?main=http://atib.sba.oakland.edu">http://www3.oakland.edu/oakland/frames.asp?main=http://atib.sba.oakland.edu</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>The Applied Technology in Business (ATiB) Program is a distinctive and competitive business minor sponsored by some of the leading corporations throughout Michigan. Through a blend of rigorous coursework and the completion of sponsor projects, students learn effective business problem solving skills and project management.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>ATiB ‘s Mission: Our mission is to be Adaptive and learning oriented, stay Technology literate, be Innovative, and act as Business professionals. The program will strive to adapt to the changing business needs while constantly learning new technology and applying it to address these needs. The students will seek new avenues to apply information technology proactively and effectively to help a business stay competitive. All of the participants in the ATiB Program act as business professionals both while representing the program at the sponsoring organizations and as individuals in the Oakland University community.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The ATiB program utilizes several learning holistic and managed techniques to prepare and support students throughout their tenure. Every project is worked on by at least two students. Even if they get to work on projects with two or three firms over the 18-month duration, they are exposed to all the projects others are doing, because of their constant interaction in the ATiB lab and the project discussions/presentations in the classes. Many of the concepts they are exposed to while doing the projects are included in the "continually evolving" curriculum, so they understand the theory behind the events and the issues they have to confront. Learning is also managed in a step like sequence to set up students for success in their sponsor projects and beyond.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Economic Development/Outreach</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>Entrepreneurship Institute</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.sba.oakland.edu/entrep/">http://www.sba.oakland.edu/entrep/</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>The Entrepreneurship Institute (EI) was launched by the School of Business Administration at Oakland University in 2001 to provide entrepreneurship education to economically disadvantaged teens. In just a few years we have successfully provided this region with a variety of programming options that have been made possible by a unique collaboration structure that utilizes volunteer support of local entrepreneurs, business people, teachers, administrators and Oakland University students who are members of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE).</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This volunteer structure enables a rich support system for the teens. Entrepreneurs and corporate professionals provide their time and talent to mentor, to judge contests and to provide feedback on business plans and just to serve as a “credible” ear to the passion and ambitions of these teens. This unique approach also creates a learning opportunity for our own students who are members of SIFE. These college students supply EI with instructional manpower to help teach these teens.</p>
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<p>N. Squirrel Road, Rochester, MI 48309-4401 • 248-370-2100</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oakland.edu/">http://www.oakland.edu</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Technology Transfer </strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>Office of Grants, Contracts and Sponsored Research</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www2.oakland.edu/research/research_new/pages/index.cfm?CFID=994098&CFTOKEN=80620413&jsessionid=dc30a9eb5d716666122b">http://www2.oakland.edu/research/research_new/pages/index.cfm?CFID=994098&CFTOKEN=80620413&jsessionid=dc30a9eb5d716666122b</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>The Office of Grants, Contracts and Sponsored Research directs and facilitates pre- and post-award processes by ensuring compliance with Federal, State and University guidelines. It also oversees regulatory compliance activities to ensure safe, ethical and responsible conduct of research. In addition, the office is responsible for enhancing the research infrastructure of the institution as well as developing and monitoring policies related to the stewardship of research activities, intellectual properties, and technology transfer.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>Multi-University Technological and Expertise Assets Management for Enterprise Development</em></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Oakland University is a partner in U-TEAMED, a collaborative effort seeking to promote and expand the utilization of research and intellectual property assets at universities with emerging and established small sponsored research programs. A complementary goal is to increase technological collaborations between these institutions. The primary goal of U-TEAMED is to advance the research and commercialization objectives of the participating institutions by leveraging complementary experiences, networks, and core competencies and through actively promoting their research and intellectual property assets. These assets encompass the entire research enterprise including, for example: expertise and core competencies of individual researchers, research groups, and research centers; invention disclosures and patents; and laboratories, equipment, and other specialized facilities. The current participants of U-TEAMED are: Michigan Technological University (lead partner), Central Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University, and Oakland University.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Incubators</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>OU INCubator</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www4.oakland.edu/?id=110&sid=117">http://www4.oakland.edu/?id=110&sid=117</a></p>
<p> David A. Spencer, Executive Director, (248)-648-4800, <a href="mailto:daspence@oakland.edu">daspence@oakland.edu</a></p>
<p></p>
<p>Oakland University's SmartZone Business Incubator, OU INCubator (OU INC), provides entrepreneurial resources and strategic business solutions to develop intellectual property. By providing flexible office space, professional business services and access to capital and business development programs and resources, OU INC fosters entrepreneurial ideas from early stage, emerging and accelerated business development until the graduation stage of growth. The incubator supports existing and grows new technology-based and life science businesses with university resources, decision support technology, business counseling services and financial/capital acquisition assistance. The state of Michigan, city of Rochester Hills and Oakland University created a certified technology park (CTP) under the auspices of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC). It is part of the Great Lakes Interchange, an Oakland County Automation Alley SmartZone, and includes tax increment financing to support OU INC.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The Rochester Hills CTP and OU INC are committed to commercializing technology and life sciences innovations emerging from the university, SmartZone businesses, and regional high-technology industry. OU INC and the SmartZone program enhance the rich matrix of technology and business services currently provided by Oakland, one of the country’s 110 doctoral, research-intensive universities.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>OU INC Collaboratory</em>: The OU INC Collaboratory is a unique electronic decision support system environment that empowers group work teams to simultaneously brainstorm information and ideas in order to foster collaboration, categorization, prioritization and consensus building. It provides an interconnected, end-to-end set of information capabilities, associated processes, and personnel for collecting, processing, storing, disseminating and managing information on demand. The Collaboratory is available for anyone to use - from individual entrepreneurs to OU faculty to municipalities and Fortune 500 businesses. You do not need to be a client of the OU INCubator to hold a session, although INCubator clients are offered reduced rates and many other member benefits.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Programs of the incubator include the Corporate Partners Program and the Kitchen Cabinet Program:</p>
<ul>
<li><em>Corporate Partners Program</em> - is a public-private sector business alliance between OU INC and experienced, pre-qualified business professionals. Top corporate, business and financial leaders provide entrepreneurs and up-and-coming incubator client companies with direct business development assistance on a pro-bono and reduced fee consulting services basis. Sponsors include, but are not limited to, venture capital firms, angel investors, general legal counsel, patent counsel, accounting, audit and tax, marketing and advertising, business consulting, IT and Web development, banking and financial services, insurance, HR and payroll services and other specialties.</li>
<li>
<ul>
<li><em>Kitchen Cabinet Program </em>- is an incubator client mentoring program of the Oakland University SmartZone Business Incubator (OU INC). Kitchen cabinets are advisory boards generally comprised of 8-12 local business and industry executives or subject matter experts who volunteer their time to mentor a company’s management team to help identify and address the strategic issues facing their business.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>University-Industry Commercialization Programs</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Fastening and Joining Research Institute </em></p>
<p><a href="http://www2.oakland.edu/secs/fajri/">http://www2.oakland.edu/secs/fajri/</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>The congressionally approved Fastening and Joining Research Institute (FAJRI) at Oakland University’s School of Engineering and Computer Science (SECS) is the only known facility of its kind in the world: an academic, nonprofit research facility dedicated solely to the fastening and joining of materials. This one-of-a-kind facility pursues fundamental and applied research to develop and disseminate new technologies for the fastening and joining of metals, composites and polymers.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>FAJRI’s mission: Through basic and applied research, the Fastening and Joining Research Institute will develop and disseminate new advanced technologies in the areas of automated assembly of bolted joints, adhesive bonding of composites, resistance welding and riveting, a niche area that significantly impacts the safety and reliability of many products in both the civilian and military sectors of the American economy.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>FAJRI’s vision: Vision 2008: FAJRI will become a nationally recognized academic center for fastening and joining research and advanced technology transfer. Vision 2010: FAJRI will become an international research center for fastening and joining engineering.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Entrepreneurship Education related to Economic Development</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><em>Applied Technology in Business (ATiB) Program</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www3.oakland.edu/oakland/frames.asp?main=http://atib.sba.oakland.edu">http://www3.oakland.edu/oakland/frames.asp?main=http://atib.sba.oakland.edu</a></p>
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<p>The Applied Technology in Business (ATiB) Program is a distinctive and competitive business minor sponsored by some of the leading corporations throughout Michigan. Through a blend of rigorous coursework and the completion of sponsor projects, students learn effective business problem solving skills and project management.</p>
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<p>ATiB ‘s Mission: Our mission is to be Adaptive and learning oriented, stay Technology literate, be Innovative, and act as Business professionals. The program will strive to adapt to the changing business needs while constantly learning new technology and applying it to address these needs. The students will seek new avenues to apply information technology proactively and effectively to help a business stay competitive. All of the participants in the ATiB Program act as business professionals both while representing the program at the sponsoring organizations and as individuals in the Oakland University community.</p>
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<p>The ATiB program utilizes several learning holistic and managed techniques to prepare and support students throughout their tenure. Every project is worked on by at least two students. Even if they get to work on projects with two or three firms over the 18-month duration, they are exposed to all the projects others are doing, because of their constant interaction in the ATiB lab and the project discussions/presentations in the classes. Many of the concepts they are exposed to while doing the projects are included in the "continually evolving" curriculum, so they understand the theory behind the events and the issues they have to confront. Learning is also managed in a step like sequence to set up students for success in their sponsor projects and beyond.</p>
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<p><strong>Economic Development/Outreach</strong></p>
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<p><em>Entrepreneurship Institute</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.sba.oakland.edu/entrep/">http://www.sba.oakland.edu/entrep/</a></p>
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<p>The Entrepreneurship Institute (EI) was launched by the School of Business Administration at Oakland University in 2001 to provide entrepreneurship education to economically disadvantaged teens. In just a few years we have successfully provided this region with a variety of programming options that have been made possible by a unique collaboration structure that utilizes volunteer support of local entrepreneurs, business people, teachers, administrators and Oakland University students who are members of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE).</p>
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<p>This volunteer structure enables a rich support system for the teens. Entrepreneurs and corporate professionals provide their time and talent to mentor, to judge contests and to provide feedback on business plans and just to serve as a “credible” ear to the passion and ambitions of these teens. This unique approach also creates a learning opportunity for our own students who are members of SIFE. These college students supply EI with instructional manpower to help teach these teens.</p>
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