Innovation
The CEI Innovation System
One objective of the Collaborative for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (the Center) is to support the development of commercial applications for research findings and new technology ventures. The Center offers support through an innovation system that includes courses, mentoring, networks, experiential learning, workshops and seminars, a library, radio program, publications, web resources, and competitions.
Center employees, along with business faculty and the Technology Transfer Office, help researchers, faculty, and students identify new business and licensing opportunities created through the University's rich research and academic projects-based environment. Researcher, faculty, and student participation in the validation of ideas, intellectual property protection, patent strategies, venture structuring, and funding pursuit is highly encouraged and supported.
"The Center is particularly concerned with innovation that matters, innovation that is of value to the market and the economy and innovation that significantly contributes to the improvement of society or the environment."
The Center is particularly concerned with innovation that matters, innovation that is of value to the market and the economy or that significantly contributes to the improvement of society or the environment. These innovations may include products, practices, processes, and services. The Center is linked with expansive networks of organizations active in the regional innovation system, is impacting regional economic, political, and social growth, and is leveraging and contributing to innovation ecosystems on a global scale.
The full complement of offerings include entrepreneurship and innovation courses; mentoring for teams or individuals; networks of business service providers, organizations, and investors; experiential learning opportunities such as entrepreneurial projects, internships, speaker events, and dinners with entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators; workshops and seminars on professional development and business related topics; a lending library of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship books and journals; a weekly radio program; a monthly newsletter; web resources; and tiered competitions that through participation, infuse knowledge of the stages bridging idea validation to commercialization.
The Center is a university-wide, as well as, public program housed in the Department of Management of Worcester Polytechnic Institute located in central Massachusetts, a Commonwealth of the United States of America.
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