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DraftCriteriaforUniversityParticipation Participating in the program is a privilege, not a right. Because a university exists does not mean it has the resources to participate. Resultantly, there must exist prerequisite criteria to determining whether a university is candidate to participate in the software technology entrepreneurial program. More or less criteria may make sense as more experience is gained contextual to the country and societal context under scrutiny. However, for progressive evolution of the program, there must exist a baseline upon which all universities exist to create common launching platform in the interest of funding probability, student experience quality and competent competition participation. The university desiring to participate in this program must actually have a computer science program with software engineering as an available major and students actively pursuing software engineering as a career. Absent the existence of an active, creditable program and associative students, there is no point in having the program at said university as this program is aimed at taking software engineering students (as the core of the student team) and turning them into entrepreneurial software technology leaders in the marketplace, society, country and region.

The university desiring to participate in this program must agree to host an on-company, intra-university competition whereby the program mock companies 'sell' their problem and solution and then defend their problem, solution and operational efficacy as part of the program competition scrutiny. The university desiring to participate in this program must agree to facilitate, encourage and otherwise sponsor the winning two teams in the on-campus intra-university competition to compete at the off-campus, inter-university national and regional competitions.

The five fundamental components must exist on Day 01 in order for the program to have high probability of success. Absent these elements, it is recommended that one or more universities partner together in order to provide the support, decision, resource and encouragement necessary to build up national and regional software technology incubation leadership.

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The university desiring to participate in this program must agree to provide the necessary resources for students to meet, work together and meet the criterion defined by the course and competition in order to be successful and nationally and regionally competitive.

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As the mock companies and teams are designed to be composed of students from multiple disciplines there must first exist Executive Administrative approval of the program's existence, the program's role and purpose, agreement that the program is for-credit, and that the mock companies teams will be composed of students from multiple disciplines including marketing, communications, engineering, finance, law, graphic arts and even music performance dependent upon the software solution type choice. If there does not exist top-down agreement of the need and purpose, as well as, agreement from the individual department chairs of the need for multi-lateral participation, the program will not enjoy the success if deserves providing students with real, first-hand experience constructing teams, companies and marketable solutions.

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