Center for Digital Entrepreneurship
The Center for Digital Entrepreneurship (CDE), a division of the Institute for the Economy and the Future, engages students, faculty and staff with regional businesses and organizations to collaborate on projects within the emerging and rapid growth segments of the digital economy.
 Students
One of the main goals of the CDE is to engage WCU students with real projects that facilitate cross discipline collaboration. A business student can collaborate with a computer science student, film and commercial music student in order to deliver content and applications that are delivered through the internet.  Facilities
The student workspace is set up and designed for collaboration on projects, and is complete with state of the art digital lab complete with high end computer workstations, digital audio and HD video equipment. The workstations have the entire Adobe suite installed as well as Final Cut Studio 2, Logic 7 Cinema 4d XL studio, and Microsoft Office. Projects
Since the inception of the CDE, students have had the opportunity to engage in real-world projects that require them to collaborate as part of a team, meet deadlines, maintain primary responsibility for project segments, and present their ideas and products at group meetings. The following are examples of projects that employed significant student involvement and contributions.
i7 - April 2006Scientists, policy makers, economic developers and investors came together for a symposium about how science is shaping our future and providing opportunities for regional growth. Students worked on the creation of the digital and paper collateral which include bumpers, a website, trailers, flash-based skip intro and lecture audio podcasts.
[Katrina trailer] [Hardwood Bumper]
Corporate Security and Crisis Management- September 2006The Institute for the Economy and the Future’s Corporate Security and Crisis Management program focuses on helping executive decision-makers gain a better understanding of today’s global opportunities and competitive risks, and the key challenges that arise in protecting corporate assets in an interconnected world. Students worked on the creation of the digital collateral which include bumpers, a website, trailers and DVD's.
[DVD Bumper] Know Your Region - July 2007The “Know Your Region” project is designed to address this discontinuity by developing and disseminating curriculum that enables practitioners to understand and apply core concepts of regionalism and industry cluster development. The project is a tripartite collaboration among Western Carolina University’s Institute for the Economy and the Future, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Regional Economics Applications Laboratory, and The Council for Community and Economic Research. CDE Students worked on the creation of the digital collateral which included bumpers, a website, trailers, DVD's and online e-learning materials.
[Globalization trailer] [Bumper]
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