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Entrepreneurship and Commercialization

Whether you are an undergraduate, a graduate student, or a Cornell faculty member, we can help guide you on your entrepreneurial journey.

Highlighted Student Opportunities and Spaces

  • Jiang Fellows

    Jiang Fellows is an entrepreneurship program rooted in Cornell Engineering. The program is open to all juniors at Cornell University that have a strong interest in entrepreneurship.

  • Technology Commercialization Innovation Competition

    A competition designed to equip entrepreneurial student teams with the skills to assess the optimal technology commercialization pathway for Cornell intellectual property.

  • eHub

    eHub is a collaboration and coworking space fostering entrepreneurship for the entire Cornell community.

  • eLab

    The eLab student accelerator launches several businesses each year. Student teams apply for the fall semester and participate in programming focused on customer discovery, pitching, and business model development.

Select Entrepreneurship Programs at Cornell

  • Entrepreneurship at Cornell

    Entrepreneurship at Cornell is a diverse, university-wide program that finds and fosters the entrepreneurial spirit in participants from every college, every field, and in every stage of life.

  • Cornell Center for Technology Licensing

    The Center for Technology Licensing brings the Cornell’s scientific discoveries, technological innovations, and medical advances to the marketplace for societal benefit and to foster economic development within New York State and across the nation.

  • Center for Life Science Ventures

    The Center for Life Science Ventures was founded in 2008 as a startup incubator to help develop young Cornell life science companies. They focus on accelerating research and development of technology and products, validating business plans, and strengthening management teams.

  • NSF Interior Northeast I-Corps Hub

    The Interior Northeast I-Corps Hub aims to expand the nation’s geography of innovation by developing a regional I-Corps innovation network that can become a repeatable, effective model of education and workforce training designed for and by innovators based in rural regions and small cities.

  • Praxis Center for Venture Development

    The Praxis Center for Venture Development helps Cornell engineering, digital, and physical science startup companies grow from interesting ideas to self sufficient enterprises.

  • W.E. Cornell

    The W.E. Cornell program helps STEM women commercialize their innovations and overcome the challenges of leading a growing technology-based business. The proven entrepreneurship curriculum provides a focus on leadership development and empowerment.

  • Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellows Program

    The Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellows program provides business students, graduate research students, and postdocs with an interest in health, pharma, med tech biotech, veterinary tech, molecular bioscience, and agritech from across Cornell’s colleges an opportunity to immerse themselves in the practice of technology-based startup creation.

  • Green Technology Innovation Fellows Program

    The Green Technology Innovation Fellows program at Cornell provides business students, graduate research students, and postdocs focusing on clean energy and climate technology from across Cornell’s colleges an opportunity to immerse themselves in the practice of technology-based startup creation.

Additional Resources for Entrepreneurs