Rice Entrepreneurship

Programs and Initiatives at Rice

• Rice Alliance
• Jones Graduate School Entrepreneurs Organization
• OwlSpark
• Rice Launch
• Rice Entrepreneurship Initiative

Studying Rice

• Finding Rice Entrepreneurship Information

Constituents

• Students
• Faculty and staff
• Alums
  • Owlspark and JGS Entrepreneurs Organisation open to Alums - Connections for funding/employment
• University policy
  • University ecosystem players
  • Organizations interested in promoting entrep.
• Academics studying universities

Ideas for Pages

Somethings might be sections within pages, and others might be pages. When we have whole pages on things we can include sections of them automatically elsewhere.

We should consider adding content for the following.

• University institutions:
  • McMurtry Innovation Space
  • OEDK
  • Sewall Arts Studio (that basement thing?)
  • The Technology Transfer Office
  • We should also build a timeline of entrepreneurship institutions at Rice
• Classes
  • Business School classes - although this is covered on the REI website, we should probably have our own too
  • Engineering classes
  • Classes from other faculties. If we put together a list, Ed can call department heads and ask what they have.
• Clubs and Societies
• Start-ups at Rice
  • We might do case studies and follow their progress
  • Some 'projects' are pre-startups. We should think about how we can classify them and record info about them.

Ranking universities

We should probably work out how to quantify university ecosystem performance. To start with, let's find out who ranks universities, what their methodologies are, and whether we can get their data.

Possible metrics:

• No. classes, students trained, degree of training
• Relevant faculty and experts
• No. start-ups by students, faculty/staff, and alums
  • And value created!
  • Resources provided (flex-space, fab shops, etc.)

Lunch

We could do a monthly (?) lunch and invite alums. School of social science does one through the Gateway program. They invite 5 alums and a max of 25 students, and have 1 alum with 5 students. This isn't really networking, more life information. We could do something better?