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Entrepreneurship Opportunities by College

No matter what your major or interests, Iowa State has programs and activities for innovators and entrepreneurs. Read about academic opportunities including project-oriented courses, student incubators, product development assistance, internships with startups, and (so much) more across six of our colleges.

Entrepreneurship Opportunities @ Iowa State

Entrepreneurship is not just what happens in the classroom. Iowa State has a number of ways for you to get involved and stimulate your inner innovator or entrepreneur.

Student Innovation Center
The Student Innovation Center is a hands-on hub for Iowa State students of all programs and majors. This collaborative facility provides a unique, state-of-the-art space for students to exercise their innovative and entrepreneurial muscles — to design, fabricate, test, and demonstrate ideas for everything from culinary to lunar to digital gaming to vehicles.
Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative
The Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative was established in 2005. Based in the College of Agriculture, the Initiative's goal is to To create the foremost program for training and developing high growth agricultural entrepreneurs in the United States.
CBiRC Foundry
Based in the NSF Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals, the Foundry’s mission is optimize the early formative stages of startup companies by providing experienced support for the transition from technological innovation to business opportunity. The Foundry strives to stimulate and nurture technology-led innovation and entrepreneurship in the expanding biobased sector.
Change-Maker Academy - AgEi
Join the Change-Makers Academy to Influence the Future of Agriculture

Each year a select group of students will join a cohort dedicated to cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset. After being selected for the program, students will choose the impact group in which they want to participate. Each impact group will have a professional mentor to meet with throughout the semester and will have the continued support of their peer relationships within the group. To complete the program and receive a scholarship, students will be required to engage in a minimum number of Change-Maker workshops or AgEI programs during the academic year.
Entrepreneurship Minor
The goal of the Entrepreneurial Studies program is to provide the knowledge and skills needed to create value through recognizing and developing opportunities.
Iowa Small Business Development Center
ISU Research Park
Iowa State University Research Park, a rapidly growing technology community of more than 50 companies, many of whom have direct ties with teaching and research mission of Iowa State University.
Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship
The Center has two primary objectives: to create a culture that encourages entrepreneurship and innovation, and to provide the tools necessary for building and improving Iowa's businesses.
Startup Factory
The Startup Factory formal training, resources, and access to a network of business mentors, advisors, counselors, and investors for entrepreneurs.

Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship Opportunities

Opportunities to be involved in entrepreneurship are available to all students at Iowa State, regardless of major. The Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship has information about the many exciting ways to get involved with entrepreneurship at Iowa State!

CyBizLab
Entrepreneurship Minor
Entrepreneurship Major
CyStarters
Women Who Create (tm)
Graduate Courses
Entrebold Network
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External Opportunities

NSF Innovation Core ( I-Core) Program
I-Corps is a public-private partnership program that teaches grantees to identify valuable product opportunities that can emerge from academic research, and offers entrepreneurship training to student participants.