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Our mission is to provide tangible resources that speed integration of technology, innovation, making and entrepreneurship within universities and the technology innovation ecosystems that surround them. We work with our members to define, and practice, better ways to Many universities desire to achieve or maintain a competitive advantage by cultivating a culture of making on campus Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Making: Many great ideas lead to products to solve problems or address needs. Our mission is to provide tangible resources that speed integration of technology, innovation, making and entrepreneurship within universities and the technology innovation ecosystems that surround them. We work with our members to define, and practice, better ways to Our vision is to build a global consortium that defines the needs, and creates the resources, to build university-wide, and regional environments that attract, educate, support, employ and deploy the next generation of innovative and entrepreneurial makers. We are creating a new paradigm for the smart deployment and use of resources in technology innovation ecosystems. We believe these values are central to developing university ecosystems, and regional ecosystems, wherein students convert pas*ion • the MARRIAGE OF MAKING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS has a key role in skill development and the perspective needed to solve real problems • technology innovation ecosystems thrive when they have “MAKING LITERATE” entrepreneurs and “ENTREPRENEURIAL LITERATE” makers as*essment and improvement of makerspaces leads to more impactful making and entrepreneurship programs collaborating together to provide solutions where opportunities exist — in short, a community that supports its members to dream, invent, innovate and make impact. A community that forces the fusion of technology, innovation, making, and entrepreneurship. The Make Impact Consortium is an extended community of like-minded individuals and institutions, dedicated to facilitating connections so that the whole