Columbia Engineering


Innovation

Design and

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.

2024 – 2025  Calendar of Events

Fall 2024

September 18  Innovation Forum: Entrepreneurship at Columbia Engineering
October 10  Innovation Forum: Columbia Startup Lab
October 10 – 31  Start Me Up Fall Bootcamp
October 28  Ask Me Anything: Fast Pitch 2024 (RSVP tbd)
October 30  Fast Pitch application deadline
November 20  Fast Pitch 2024 pitch competition

Spring 2025

January   NSF I-Corps Info Session
January  Innovation Forum: Immigration and Entrepreneurship
January – February  Start Me Up Winter Bootcamp (dates tbd)
February   Innovation Forum: TBA
February  Meet SEAS at the Columbia Startup Lab
February   Millard Chan ’99 Startup Columbia Technology Challenge deadline
March   Innovation Forum: TBA
April   Millard Chan ’99 Startup Columbia Technology Challenge Finalé
April – May  Start Me Up Spring Bootcamp
May   Ignition grant application deadline

Fall 2024 Courses

Register this Fall for one or more entrepreneurship courses to kick off the school year. Courses include: Human-Centered Design and Innovation, Foundations of Entrepreneurship, Launch Your Startup and more.

Meet Your Match

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News and events

Stay up to date on the latest news and community announcements, explore the recent newsletters.

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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