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.
MBAxMS Capstone Showcase
Attend the MBAxMS Capstone Showcase event on May 6 to learn about exciting engineering capstone projects by the MBAxMS Class of 2025, the first graduating cohort of the new program.
May 6th, 4:00 – 5:00 PM, Carleton Commons, Mudd Building
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.
2024 – 2025 Calendar of Events
Spring 2025
January 8 – 24 Start Me Up Winter Bootcamp
January 22 Innovation Forum: Immigration and Entrepreneurship
February 3 Millard Chan ’99 Startup Columbia Technology Challenge Deadline
February 27 Innovation Forum: The Art of the Pitch
March 6 Engineering at the Columbia Startup Lab – Open House
April 17 Millard Chan ’99 Startup Columbia Technology Challenge Finalé
April 25 Ignition Grant deadline
April 25 – May 8 Start Me Up Bootcamp
May 6 Innovation Forum: Lunch with a VC
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 30 Fast Pitch application deadline
November 13 Fast Pitch Prep Workshop
November 20 Fast Pitch 2024 pitch competition
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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.