The CEI has been a huge success and the projects it inspired and incubated are thriving along with others offered by schools and departments across campus (see links below).
The Chancellor's Innovation Circle, led by alumnus Lowry Caudill and Judith Cone, the Chancellor's special assistant for innovation and entrepreneurship, is creating the next generation of cross-campus programs at UNC-Chapel Hill. Visit http://innovation.unc.edu to learn more.
Stay tuned for exciting developments in entrepreneurship and innovation at Carolina.
Business Accelerator for Sustainable Entrepreneurship, the first accelerator in North Carolina designed specifically to support businesses that address the triple bottom line of financial profitability, social equity and environmental sustainability.
Carolina
Challenge
Annual, student-led entrepreneurial business-plan competition for
teams of UNC faculty, staff and students.
Carolina
Launch Pad
Pre-commercial business accelerator for early-stage information technology
startups from the UNC community.
Carolina
Student Biotechnology Network
Student-led nonprofit that hosts events and provides services that
allow members to explore and pursue careers in the life science industry.
Center for Entrepreneurial
Studies, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Center that directs entrepreneurship education for business school
students and, in partnership with others, the Carolina Challenge,
Carolina Launch Pad and Launching the Venture; and advises innovation
and entrepreneurship programs across campus.
Minor for undergraduates enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences to gain the basic knowledge, tools and experience to launch a new venture.
First
Year Seminars
Course-development grants for faculty interested in developing seminars
for entering freshman that focus on selected topics in their disciplines
that relate to entrepreneurship.
Graduate
Certificate in Scientific Entrepreneurship
Certificate for graduate students, doctoral candidates, post-docs,
faculty and staff to complement their studies and work in traditional
disciplines with an exploration of how entrepreneurship is changing
their fields and how to conceive, plan and execute new ventures.
Launching
the Venture
Program to help teams of students, faculty and staff who believe they
are ready to start a new commercial or social venture develop their
business plans and launch.
N.C. Translational
and Clinical Sciences (TraCS) Institute
National Institutes of Health-funded initiative to speed the process
of converting laboratory discoveries into treatments for patients.
Office that manages licensing of UNC technologies and promotes the commercialization of discoveries made by UNC faculty.
Social
Entrepreneurship/
Project: Innovation
Initiative to increase the number of social entrepreneurship courses
taught at UNC, provide comprehensive mentoring to students, and offer
targeted outreach to student organizations that are currently involved
with or want to pursue social justice and environmental justice issues.
Women's
Entrepreneurship Network
Program that offers women enrolled in the entrepreneurship minor opportunities
to connect and network with successful female entrepreneurs and business
executives.
Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative (CEI)
Turning Ideas into Enterprises