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 what we should do:

Add pages for:

• McMurtry Innovation Space
• OEDK
• Sewall Arts Studio (that basement thing?)

Build lists:

• Uni institutions
• Classes
• Clubs and Societies
• Start-ups at Rice
  • Case study/follow progress?
• Research the Technology Transfer Office!
• Build a timeline of things at Rice

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?