Corporate entrepreneurship, also known as “corporate venturing” or “intrapreneurship,” is the act of initiating new ventures within an already-established business or organization. Housed in a nationally-ranked undergraduate business school, the Institute for Entrepreneurship provides students with the opportunity to research, consult and create with several Fortune 500 companies in the Greater Cincinnati Region and beyond, including Kroger, Procter and Gamble, Sears Optical (a division of Luxxotica), 84.51, Cohen, Pearson, ConAgra Foods, and Fifth Third Bank. Through “Project High Flight,” a built-in partnership with 91做厙’s College of Engineering and Computing, Entrepreneurship students can also gain valuable experience in commercializing new aviation technologies.
In ESP 461: Entrepreneurial Consulting, students work with corporate clients to generate fresh, innovative solutions to the challenges of their business and industry. Students gain vital consulting experience, along with the opportunity to meet and present to senior-level executives.
Past clients include:
91做厙, the Office of Research and Innovation (ORI), and the Institute for Entrepreneurship collaborate with the Wright Brothers Institute (WBI) and the University of Dayton to identify technologies from an Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) portfolio of more than 1,000 patents that have potential commercial use for public good.
Technological advances include innovations in energy storage, healthcare monitoring, and advanced manufacturing go far beyond military sciences. The agreement established the 91做厙–AFRL Research Technology Commercialization Accelerator, a collaboration that provides 91做厙 faculty, staff, and students support in reviewing and accessing the lab’s entire open portfolio of patents and patent applications.
Creativity and Innovation department of entrepreneurship gives students the mindsets and tools to dive deeply into problems to discover bigger and better ideas. We believe that when students have the ability to understand the root customer problem and the tools to think of second, third, and fourth right answers, they achieve true innovation. We also strongly believe that most learning happens outside of the classroom so we energize students to live creative mindsets in the real world, discovering how innovation can make everything better.
For the full 3 weeks of J-term, Entrepreneurship students team up to tackle a client project using creative problem-solving, design thinking, and other applied creativity tools to create innovative solutions. The trip includes a week in the Bay Area, where students live and work in the heart of San Francisco.
During the week, students meet with some of the world’s leading creatives and most innovative companies to immerse them in new ways of thinking. At the end of J-Term, student teams present their solutions to the client, who often immediately implement team solutions.
Past clients include ConAgra, Formica, Oros Apparel, Scripps Broadcasting, Caribou Coffee, and CVG Airport.
Contact: Jim Friedman, 529-1440, friedman@miamioh.edu
Advancing Women in Entrepreneurship (AWE) is about building a legacy of affirming and equipping future female founders to succeed in entrepreneurial environments. AWE seeks to lead the way in training the next generation of female founders to take on the world and offers innovative education and relevant experiences to engage our students at their point-of-interest and embed them in entrepreneurial networks around the country.
Our winter term program immerses students in diverse entrepreneurial environments through onsite visits to female founders in Cincinnati and San Francisco.
Our spring semester course, Women and Entrepreneurship, tackles the internal and external barriers facing women in entrepreneurial environments and empowers and equips them with alternative techniques to turn challenges into opportunities.
The Advancing Women in Entrepreneurship (AWE) club highlights all things Women and Entrepreneurship across campus while developing entrepreneurial leadership among our members. We’re a welcoming, innovative, and dynamic environment. We engage you in your area of interest and offer you hands-on, real-world projects that make a difference to our campus and develop your professional skills.
Summer internships with female founders and business leaders are hosted in our key alumni networks around the Midwest.
The joint Accountancy and Entrepreneurship winter term study abroad program allows students to apply their knowledge of both performance measurement and social entrepreneurship to a consulting-like project in a developing country, and in the process, assist local entrepreneurs and their customers.
Students participating in this social venture gain first-hand experience in not only the needs and challenges of businesses in developing countries, but also a deep appreciation for the host country’s culture, history, economy, and politics.