INNOVATION
DESIGN &
ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Mission

Our organization helps students learn about innovation, design, and entrepreneurship helping them build a community, form teams, and supporting promising ideas with funding through competitions. We also provide spaces and other resources for prototyping and testing.

Entrepreneurship Mixer Sep 18, 2024
Innovation Forum with Hugh Thomas at Columbia Startup Lab Oct 10, 2024

Startup Columbia’s 2025 Millard Chan ’99 Technology Challenge winners announced

Photo Credits to Sirin Samman Photography

Read more about our winners, finalists, and judges for the 2025 Millard Chan ’99 Technology Challenge.

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News and events

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Text IQ, Apoorv Agarwal PhD'16
From Launching a Successful Startup to Teaching a Class on Entrepreneurship
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The Inadvertent Entrepreneur
Jern Kunpittaya ’23, co-founder of crypto startup Edge Protocol, took an unexpected path into decentralized finance
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COI and IP Resources

Two Online Libraries of Commercialization Resources for Faculty & Students

Columbia Grant Clauses Library contains up-to-date clauses relating to entrepreneurship and technology commercialization for use in grant proposal preparation. The library is available here, with UNI logon.

Columbia Commercialization & Entrepreneurial Resources Database is a university-wide resource geared toward providing a comprehensive and searchable list of all entrepreneurially-related activity at Columbia. Available here.

 

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