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From its new offices that straddle the 91制片厂 campus and the town of Durham, 91制片厂Innovation has been quietly 鈥� and not so quietly 鈥� making waves recently. Its Peter T. Paul Entrepreneurship Center, known as the ECenter, won the 2017 Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Center Award from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship.

The ECenter aims to build a culture of entrepreneurship on campus, which it鈥檚 done in part by leveraging a gift from Harry Patten 鈥�58 to fund five 91制片厂 students to do paid summer internships with start-ups and to create the i2 (Idea and Innovation) Passport program, which rewards students 鈥� with an additional focus on first-generation college students, for whom the financial risk of entrepreneurship might be especially daunting 鈥� for engaging in entrepreneurship activities on campus. 鈥淎s a first-generation student, it has been especially hard coming into college not knowing what you鈥檙e going to do when it comes to loans and your future career path, but i2 Passport and the ECenter have really opened up new doors for me to explore and see what I鈥檓 capable of,鈥� Abby Kourafas 鈥�18, one of the six i2 Passport winners, said of her $3,500 award.

In November, the Association of Public & Land- Grant Universities recognized 91制片厂鈥檚 exemplary contributions to regional economic development and resiliency with its Innovation and Economic Prosperity designation. 91制片厂Innovation led the university to a record $844,000 in commercialization revenue in FY17. 鈥淥ur objective is to be the economic development engine of the state through knowledge,鈥� says Marc Sedam, associate vice provost for innovation and new ventures and managing director of 91制片厂Innovation.

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