Student-Driven Innovation
Kurt Thoroughman from Washington University in St. Louis tells a story about a group of young engineers at his school and considers the ways faculty can support student innovation.
View ArticleChanging the Way We Use Technology
Catalin Voss tells the story of how he went from being a young programmer in Germany to a Stanford student and an Innovator in Residence at StartX.
View ArticleEmpowering Student Entrepreneurs
Brian Kidwell, president of San Diego State University's Entrepreneur Society, is helping to promote entrepreneurship across disciplines on his campus.
View ArticleOffering Engineers a Chance to Build Businesses
Venture For America is a two-year fellowship that places talented graduates at emerging start-ups and early-stage companies in lower-cost cities.
View ArticleNurturing Curiosity and Creativity
Paula Gangopadhyay shares how The Henry Ford museums inspire innovation by nurturing curiosity and creativity in children.
View ArticleA Vast Ocean of Opportunities
Nate Newman's pursuit of innovation has led him to obtain patents, write a successful grant proposal, and found an engineering company to develop marine ecosystem monitoring technology—all before...
View ArticleA Born Innovator
Ian Cinnamon was born to make things, and he's had the opportunity to do so with some of MIT's brightest minds at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.
View ArticleA Space for Design and Engineering
Ph.D. student Cory Hixson describes Virginia Tech's design-focused living-learning community.
View ArticleBuilding an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Entrepreneurship is becoming a way of life at the University of Virginia. Five members of the growing entrepreneurial ecosystem describe how.
View Article1,000 Pitches and 1,000 Light Bulbs
Scott Christopher from the University of Michigan explains how a truckload of light bulbs came to represent 1,000 Pitches, the world’s largest student-run elevator pitch competition.
View ArticleA New Direction in Education
Carl Shan from the University of California, Berkeley, describes how his school's chapter of the Kairos Society has inspired and impacted his national education venture.
View ArticleTeaching Entrepreneurship in Engineering
Babs Carryer speaks to the importance of engineers learning entrepreneurship and shares a story from her years teaching at Carnegie Mellon University.
View ArticlePlanting a SEED
Elliot Roth's pumpkin-explosion business planted a seed for founding a new engineering and design club at Virginia Commonwealth University.
View ArticleA World of Technology Entrepreneurship
John Melas-Kyriazi describes how Stanford University's Mayfield Fellows Program and StartX opened his eyes to the world of technology entrepreneurship.
View ArticleEntrepreneurs Are Artists
JD Wagner asks "What is the difference between entrepreneurs and artists?" and shares his activities at Oakland University.
View ArticleA Taste for New Ventures
Starting a salsa company from scratch whetted Patrick Schwager’s appetite for entrepreneurship.
View ArticleBuilt by and for Entrepreneurs
Chase Harmon of Stanford University shares two opportunities created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs: E2.0 and Stanford's new eDorm.
View ArticleFrom Real Estate to Tech
In four years, Julian Jung from Northeastern University went from the bottom of the real estate food chain to millions in sales and a very personal new tech project.
View ArticleThe Entrepreneur as a Hacker
Hongwen Henry Kang from Carnegie Mellon sees similarities between hackers and entrepreneurs: they both solve problems, take advantage of opportunity, and neither ask for permission.
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