Transcript Mississippi Innovation Center

From The Wall Street Journal
(Thursday, March 19, 2015).
Teams are the best way to get work done
and the smaller the group, the better,
according to Jim Fowler, CIO of GE
Capital.
I want problem-solvers who work really
well in team-oriented environment.
Growing an
Entrepreneurial
Ecosystem
Jackson State University
William McHenry
Mary White
Almesha Campbell
MITE-E
Success Story
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Navagis helps enterprises create integrated operating maps that enable decision
makers and operators to visualize critical information across space and time to
realize more revenue, optimize assets, manage costs, and increase safety.
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The Navagis Enterprise Visualization Management (EVM) Suite is built on open
systems, Google Geo technology and designed to scale while integrating
enterprise information sources including location-based and temporal data
components. Navagis offers industry-specific solutions for the telecom, utilities,
agriculture, and defense.
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Navagis is a Google Geo Enterprise Premium Partner and was named Google
Enterprise Partner of the Year for Asia in 2012.
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Navagis is a global company with offices in Jackson, MS; Silicon Valley, CA;
Singapore; and Japan.
Ideas
Faculty
Students
Create@JSU
What is an
Information Technology
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem?
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MITE-E
Vision
To infuse the entrepreneurial spirit throughout the community by
developing student entrepreneurial ambassadors.
Strategy
MITE-E supports a cohort of four six-member teams of college
sophomores through a one-year entrepreneurial growth program.
The Mississippi Information Technology
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (MITE-E)
Goals
1. To nourish the development of student, faculty, staff, and community
entrepreneurs by demystifying the mobile business life cycle
2. To create an ecosystem of business resources that range from data mining tools
for marketable ideas to producing consumer products
3. To inculcate the entrepreneurial culture in central Mississippi
4. To create a MITE-E internship program for JSU students
5. To harmonize incubation, acceleration, and commercialization support activities
6. To build a technology-infused campus which uses innovations regularly in
conducting university services (STEM - to - STEAM)
The MITE-E Partners
The MS e-Center
Jackson Mississippi
Jackson State University
Innovate Mississippi
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MITE-E
The ecosystem:
1. is tailored around its own unique environment
2. operates in an environment with reduced bureaucratic obstacles
3. actively encourages and invites financiers to participate in new ventures
4. is reinforced by academic teaching, research, and service and for profit and nonprofit organizations
5. is relatively free from fear of failure
6. promotes successes
7. is supported by dialogue among various of the entrepreneurship stakeholders
The Role of the Division of Research in
the Information Technology Entrepreneurial
Ecosystem
– Increase the overall research productivity of
faculty in the area of entrepreneurship and
innovations
– Strengthen the capacity of entrepreneurial
innovations among faculty, staff, and students
– Facilitate partnerships between JSU faculty and
outside entities, such as start-up companies, on
STTR/SBIR programs
The Role of the Division in the Information
Technology Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
– Encourage and support the
development, disclosure, protection,
and utilization of the university’s
intellectual property
– Develop appropriate commercialization
strategies for intellectual property,
including identifying prospective
licensees
– Identify opportunities for funding to
conduct research
Key Strategies Facilitated by the Division of
Research
– Innovation Month
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Gov. Phil Bryant declared November as Innovation Month
JSU Innovation Week
Recognize and Highlight innovative faculty and students
Invite local businesses, local, state and federal agencies, and industry
partners
– Mississippi Urban Research Authority (MURA)
• Encourages academic entrepreneurship
• University employees can have material and financial interest in companies
– Blueprint Mississippi Social Entrepreneurship Business Plan
Competition
• Promotes entrepreneurship among students
• Identifies winning strategies for economic growth
The MS e-Center Foundation
Core Principles
Innovation and Creativity
Responsible Partnerships
MS e-Center
listen first
talk straight
clarify expectations
confront reality
create transparency
right wrongs
demonstrate respect
practice accountability
keep commitments
show loyalty
extend trust
deliver results
get better
Based on Stephen Covey’s trust behaviors, in “ The Character of a Coach” by Kay Psencik, as
quoted in the Marshall Memo)
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Master Mind
MITE-E
Research Innovations Center
Toyota. The e-Center received a multiyear grant from Toyota to provide
research opportunities for students and
faculty in areas that involve automotive
manufacturing.
Ideas
Innovations
Career Enrichment Collaboratory (CEC)
The CEC is a community learning empowerment strategy designed to
promote student career success. Proposed services include
individualized CyberTutoring, directed instructional program support,
training for peer-led CyberTeam learning initiatives, proctoring
services, first-year student testing in reading, math, and writing, and
study strategies to support students.
Manufacturing eLogistics Collaboratory (MEC)
The proposed eLogistics Collaboratory supports a group of
technologies for choosing the best set of improvements in a
distributed logistics infrastructure and tool for preparing individuals
leading to an emphasis area in logistics in the Department of
Technology.to meet
the needs of modern industries.
The MITE- Collaboratories
Source: http://www.supplychain247.com/article/do_you_have_the_right_supply_chain_partners_in_innovation/
The First MITE-E Team
Students. The e-Center partners with Good as
Gold, LLC to provide students with internship
opportunities to participate in all areas of media
production.
The e-Design Studio is an e-Center wide media resource.
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Makerspace Community Collaboratory
A diverse workspace with
tools
• Enables participants to design,
prototype, and create manufactured
works that wouldn’t be possible to
create with the resources available to
individuals working alone.
• Supports the democratization of
design, engineering, fabrication, and
education
The Mississippi Information Technology
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Observations
MITE-E preparing entrepreneurs who are:
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problem solvers
project starters
patient sprinters
probing sensors
proactive sharers
progressive scholars
• And Entrepreneurs who learn from their failures
ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVES
• Increasing Cooperative Partnerships
with the Business School and College of
Science, Engineering & Technology.
• Developing Supply Chain Management
courses, including MBA & a STEM-MBA
Five Year Program.
• Extensive “E” Curriculum revisions to
include Certificate Programs in Social
Entrepreneurship and Six Sigma.
“E”…Where Every Path Leads to Opportunity
• “E” Minor for non-business majors,
especially in engineering, music and
science.
• Increased number of International
experiences and internships.
• Passport to the World Program
kicks off Summer 2015 (700 +
signed up). Created a Student Mobility
Fund/Using Crowdfunding to help students.
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The Mississippi e-Center Foundation
The Future