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.
Innovation Forum: Welcome Entrepreneurs
September 25, 2025
Join us to kick off the monthly Innovation Forum for the 2025-2026 school year! The Columbia Innovation Forum provides students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to hear startup ideas, network, form teams, and explore next steps. You’ll hear from Columbia faculty and other experts on ways to engage at Columbia, their experience in startups, and more.
Startup Columbia’s 2025 Millard Chan ’99 Technology Challenge winners announced
Read the recent news Breakthrough Ideas from Columbia’s Young Entrepreneurs for a recap of the event. View the full list of winners, finalists, and judges for the 2025 Millard Chan ’99 Technology Challenge.
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Start-up Companies and Conflicts of Interest (PDF)
More info can be found here.
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.