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The university pipeline: Notre Dame's engine, checked for a Lakeville line

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The pipeline exists, it is documented, it is fifteen miles away — and no line from it to this ground was found. The institutions, dated, as the item requires them named: the University of Notre Dame's Innovation Park stands at the university's south edge in South Bend, and its IDEA Center (Innovation, De-Risking and Enterprise Acceleration) — established 2016, operating from early 2017 as the university's commercialisation engine (55,000 square feet at Innovation Park; the McCloskey New Venture Competition as its annual contest) — launched 27 startups in its first year (July 2017–June 2018), against 33 in the university's entire prior history. IU South Bend's innovation and entrepreneurship programming stands as the region's second seat. Tested for a Lakeville line: no startup, competition entrant, incubator graduate or founder from Lakeville or Union Township appears in the centres' records as reached, and no company in the township's own record (the banked businesses and dot-com files whole) came through either pipeline — the town's one winner of 1995 predates the engine by two decades and grew without it. The pipeline article prints as a boundary negative: the machinery that produced the region's second wave stands documented, and this ground's documented share of its output is zero.

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Source: The university pipeline: Notre Dame's engine, checked for a Lakeville line, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/dot-com-era/university-pipeline-notre-dame-s-engine-checked-for-a/