All WPI students have access to a robust innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem designed to help them explore ideas, create value, and build ventures. Through courses, clubs, events, mentorship, and startup resources, students gain the skills and support to turn ideas into action.
Resources available to students include:
- Entrepreneurship curriculum – Learn from faculty who connect science, technology, and business.
- Innovation Studio Makerspace – Prototype ideas and access resources through the MakerBucks program.
- i3 Lab – Develop ideas, validate opportunities, and build ventures through hands-on programs, mentorship, and startup support.
- Office of Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Receive support with intellectual property, marketing, and licensing.
Whether exploring an idea or launching a venture, WPI students have access to the tools, mentors, and resources to innovate.
i3 Lab (Ideate, Innovate, Incubate)
Getting a startup from concept to commercialization requires guidance. The i3 Lab acts as WPI's own cutting-edge incubator and integrated support system for innovators and entrepreneurs ready for the next step.
Office of Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship (OTIE)
This office supports students navigating innovation beyond the classroom. Through this partnership, students gain access to guidance on intellectual property, venture development, technology commercialization, and pathways to bring research and ideas into the real world.
Transformative Research at WPI
WPI's growing research enterprise champions innovation and entrepreneurship that solves difficult global problems. Our faculty and student researchers push the boundaries to see what is possible. The results change lives.
Creating Value with Work
Entrepreneurship at WPI teaches students to do work that has value to others in the world. Across campus, students use an entrepreneurial mindset to solve problems that matter to organizations and communities around the world.
Startup Spaces
The WPI Campus is a hub for innovation and entrepreneurial activities. Students tinker with new ideas in the Innovation Studio's Makerspace, tapping into MakerBucks to fund supplies. Collaborations grow in the university's core research facilities, and students build startups at the Business Development Lab.
Core Research Facilities
WPI's researchers rely on hardware, software, equipment, and consulting services resources. With this kind of support, researchers find an environment where innovation thrives.
Cutting-Edge Lab Equipment
Innovation requires access to lab equipment that advances research and ideas. See the extensive and state-of-the-art lab equipment at WPI.
Student Clubs and Organizations
Outside the classroom, WPI students connect through clubs and associations to innovate and build their entrepreneurial skills.
Some examples:
- WPI Investing Association provides education and practical experience in investing to the WPI community.
- Gompei's Goat Cheese put their knowledge to work through WPI’s first nonprofit student-run business.
- CEO Club: Fosters leadership skills and networking among aspiring business leaders.
- Colibre Club: Merges business and technology for leadership development.
- Enactus WPI: Empowers students to create impactful projects through social entrepreneurship.