Entrepreneurship.

The Center for Entrepreneurship Education is a university-wide resource that integrates entrepreneurship and innovation courses, entrepreneurial co-ops in early stage companies, venture incubation through our on-campus venture accelerator, IDEA, and venture funding and launch by helping our entrepreneurs network into the local angel and VC community. We serve undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and alumni from every college in the university.

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Northeastern University’s Center for Research Innovation (CRI) is an impact driven initiative bridging the gap between laboratory research and need-based solutions. The CRI serves as the University-wide portal between industry and leading-edge innovations from Northeastern’s use-inspired research portfolio.

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The Community Business Clinic of Northeastern’s School of Law offer students real-world experience in providing free, business-related legal services to startups, entrepreneurs and small businesses, especially those in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. The clinic’s work aims to support community-led growth.

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Northeastern was one of the first universities to create a formal entrepreneurship program, dating back to 1958. Today, the D’Amore-McKim Entrepreneurship & Innovation Group (E&I) is at the forefront of academic research, curricula, and experiential learning not only in entrepreneurship, but also in corporate innovation. Award-winning scholars and recognized industry leaders come together to form the backbone of E&I’s commitment to conduct impactful research, and to teach, guide, and mentor the next generations of innovators and entrepreneurs.

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As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, Dream, Discover, Disrupt honors the successes of the university’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. This annual event is an evening of inspiration and discovery to celebrate the dreamers, problem-solvers and learners of Northeastern.

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Entrepreneurs Club helps students discover their entrepreneurial drive by providing opportunities to build meaningful relationships and experiences outside of the classroom, from brining in local founders and CEOs to launching student ventures each semester.

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Evolve is a student-led fund and accelerator that empowers early-stage healthcare and life sciences ventures in Northeastern’s entrepreneurial ecosystem to take the next step in their development. At the same time, they provide students with experiential learning opportunities and connect them with entrepreneurs, industry experts, and investors.

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Disrupt is a student-led organization that aims to create a community which drives advancement, education, and engagement in FinTech at Northeastern University.

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Generate is NEU’s student-led product development studio. Our goal is to bring tech-minded people of any discipline into the product world. We build real products for real clients, ranging from smart bike locks to indoor greenhouses to networking apps.

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The Health Sciences Entrepreneurs program is housed in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, and was created to introduce entrepreneurial business opportunities in the health sciences to students, alumni, and faculty. The program, founded in 2005, by alumnus Joseph Fleming, PAH ’70, MS ’71, focuses on educating alumni and faculty entrepreneurs by providing them with the knowledge and tools to build successful companies. The program hosts annual events and a mentoring program for alumni, graduate students and faculty from Northeastern who are starting businesses in the health sciences.

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The Huntington Angels Network aims to simplify the financial ecosystem for Northeastern entrepreneurs by connecting startups with a global network of angel investors and venture capital firms. If you have a start up and are looking for funding, connect with us to become a part of the network.

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IDEA is Northeastern’s student-led venture accelerator that supports entrepreneurs in the Northeastern community to reach their full potential. True to our Northeastern roots, IDEA provides a valuable experiential educational opportunity to everyone involved from the ventures and coaches to the management team and full-time staff. We accelerate the development of ventures using our business planning stage-gate process. IDEA provides the relevant educational and business resources to ventures as they advance through the stages.

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Northeastern’s Innovation Campus at Burlington, Massachusetts (ICBM) accelerates technology and innovation through a powerful model of research driven by partnerships. Here, faculty and students work closely with experts from industry, government, and academia, translating discoveries into revolutionary new technologies, materials, and systems.

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The mission of the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security is to advance resilience in the face of 21st century risks. The institute fosters collaborative, use-inspired research aimed at expanding the capacity of communities, critical systems, and infrastructure to withstand, respond to, and recover from manmade and natural catastrophes.

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The McCarthy(s) Venture Mentoring Network is a university wide resource available to all Northeastern student, faculty, and alumni ventures. The goal of the VMN is to pair Northeastern entrepreneurs with high-quality, experienced mentors that can help address business challenges and make our ventures more successful.

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The Experiential Network (XN) is a new initiative built to ensure experiential learning opportunities for graduate and professional studies students. Partnering with sponsoring businesses and organizations, XN facilitates opportunities for students to work on short-term, real-world projects to complement their academic work. Projects are carried out virtually over a six-week period, and students and sponsors work closely in an authentic professional environment during which students produce deliverables for their sponsors that will go on to inform critical business decisions.

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Mosaic is an alliance of student-led organizations that support venture incubation at Northeastern University. There are currently nine Mosaic organizations with many more being designed and developed within colleges across campus. These student-led organizations work side-by-side with student, alumni, and faculty ventures, designing solutions to the real challenges that entrepreneurs face when starting companies. Mosaic organizations are encouraged to collaborate to bring new forms of services and value to entrepreneurs and ventures across campus.

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NEU Blockchain is a student-led organization whose mission is to cultivate an open community of thought leaders, developers, and researchers to support the education and development of blockchain technologies. We are fostering an open community across undergraduate, graduate, alumni, and industry professionals to build a Blockchain hub at Northeastern University.

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The Northeastern University Library’s Entrepreneurship Librarian supports innovation and venture creation by helping entrepreneurs find the information they need, utilizing a combination of proprietary and open-source resources. Student, faculty, staff and alumni entrepreneurs welcome. 

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NUImpact is Northeastern’s student-led impact investing initiative and fund. We serve as a resource for students to understand purposeful capital and invest in social enterprises locally.

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Origin strives to represent science entrepreneurship and foster the commercialization of deep-tech research on campus that can have a lasting impact on today’s tech industry.

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The Roux Institute is reinventing the way universities support entrepreneurs. They’re launching startups, driving talent development, and supercharging industry in Maine. When you join them, you will have unparalleled access to their global research community and expansive entrepreneurship ecosystem backed by their network of founders, investors, mentors, and partners.

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Scout is Northeastern’s student-led design studio that aims to foster the design community on campus through real client work with early-stage ventures, as well as community events and workshops. We bring passion, craft, and community everything we do.

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Startup Space @ Silicon Valley is a co-working space for selected ventures led by Northeastern alumni or students. Startups that are chosen by application will be invited to use the space free of charge.
Housed in the same campus as our graduate programs in downtown San Jose, CA, the site is newly-renovated and fully-equipped office space. Along with reserved seating for your group, you’ll share access to conference rooms, breakout spaces, a reservable event space, and other building amenities.

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Our mission is to enable interdisciplinary student entrepreneurship in the broadest sense by providing education about tools, concepts, and resources to foster creativity and the ability to develop commercially viable ideas. Since its opening in May 2014, the program’s cur­riculum is designed to arm engi­neering students with the appro­priate entre­pre­neurial skills to suc­cess­fully pitch and com­mer­cialize their inno­va­tions. Work­shops and courses are led by Northeastern fac­ulty and inno­va­tors from industry.

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The Sherman Center Co-op provides entrepreneurial engineers the opportunity to focus solely on their own ventures for a six month co-op period, and are financially supported via alumni philanthropy during this time. The program challenges students to push their ventures forward by defining and working towards monthly goals, and leveraging all aspects of the Sherman Center.

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Inspiring students to explore and innovate beyond the traditional realm of healthcare to better serve patients/clients and their families.

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The Women’s Interdisciplinary Society of Entrepreneurship (WISE) is a student-led group at Northeastern dedicated to helping all university community members develop an innovative mindset through interactive workshops, a thought incubator, mentorship pairings, and a venture catalyst.

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In partnership with Women Who Empower, the Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative (WEI) functions as a structured and rigorous platform to mobilize all entrepreneurs in Northeastern’s network, providing long-term leadership and access to resources. The WEI is guided by a group of global thought leaders, key executives, and influential entrepreneurs from varied backgrounds, experiences, and industries.

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