{"id":49695,"date":"2018-01-04T08:44:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T13:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=49695"},"modified":"2018-01-04T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T13:53:10","slug":"wright-state-looks-to-establish-new-innovation-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2018\/01\/04\/wright-state-looks-to-establish-new-innovation-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"DBJ story: Wright State looks to establish new innovation lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Wright State University is looking to establish an innovation laboratory that is meant to help foster the growth of entrepreneurship in the Dayton region.<\/p>\n

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The $2 million project would create the Ronald D. Bullock\/Bison Gear Innopreneurship Laboratory, to be housed in the basement of the Russ Engineering Center at Wright State.<\/p>\n

The facility will encompass more than 15,000 square feet of innovation, design and learning space for more than 3,000 engineering and computer science students at the university.<\/p>\n

Designed to promote creative thinking and problem solving in various engineering disciplines, WSU officials see the project as an opportunity for students to take their innovative design ideas and produce them in a lab setting.<\/p>\n

The lab will help build a “design-centered entrepreneurial culture throughout the engineering programs at Wright State University,” according to\u00a0Nathan Klingbeil<\/a>, dean of WSU’s College of Engineering and Computer Science.<\/p>\n

In addition, it will provide a regional hub for exploration of engineering careers through interactions with the university’s K-12 and industry partners, Klingbeil said.<\/p>\n

It is expected that several hundred prospective students and their families will tour the facility annually, while dozens more K-12 students involved in WSU pre-college programs will participate in hands-on activities in the lab.<\/p>\n

The hope is that, by providing students with both creative space and state-of-the-art technology, WSU graduates will be able to take their ideas from concept to market.<\/p>\n

“We believe providing students with access to a facility like the Innopreneurship Laboratory will provide a work force with greater innovation, creativity and hands-on skill, and a subset of these students will gain insight and inspiration for entrepreneurship here in the Dayton region,” Klingbeil said.<\/p>\n

The project is not meant as a direct job creator, but the university anticipates anywhere between 500 and 1,000 new “spin-off” positions will be induced in the next decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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