This is Finalist #1 of 3 in the Business Innovation Factory (BIF-5) Ticket ContestVote for this entry by leaving a comment or sending an @reply to @innovate on Twitter with “I vote for #1″ in it.This entry is about a ongoing educational innovation, a paradigm shift, offering new degrees with a common core focused on teams of students learning and practicing the key elements of the innovation process. It crosses department and college boundaries and changes the product at the very core of the university, replacing the centuries old BA and BS educational silos with a new Bachelor of Innovation™ (BI) degree family with a core built around multi-disciplinary multi-year teaming with real companies.In business, innovation from new startups is common, maybe even the norm. Yet people almost exclusively look/point to the old estabilished research universities when it comes to innovation. Many among the academe, and even the government …