- Master Classes: Collaborate, engage and learn from guest speakers in workshops that focus on important skills like creative problem-solving, building revenue models, understanding market segmentation, learning how to start a startup and more. Explore classes & workshops
- Competitions & Challenges: Working hard and taking risks are what entrepreneurship is all about. Student teams go head-to-head to solve challenges in different arenas like design and technology in a variety of events that promise mentoring, experience, excitement (and prizes). Find a challenge
- Venture Coaching: Free, confidential, one-on-one support from experienced student coaches and mentors from the professional community can help develop your specific innovation from idea to reality. Find a coach
- Networking: At UB, entrepreneurs have access to a vast community of resources to develop and accelerate innovation. The CoLab network includes on-campus partners offering research, guidance, space and collaboration, and off-campus connections to mentoring, funding, exposure, and so much more. Connect with us.
- Internship & Leadership Development: The CoLab Ambassadors for Student Engagement and Recruitment (BLASER) are an elite group of students who forge new paths for entrepreneurship while earning important career-building skills, opportunities for campus and community involvement, and internship credit.
- Be a BLASER: Entrepreneurship in the Classroom. UB offers several courses focused on entrepreneurship. While not all classes listed below are open to all majors, chances are there are a few options there that will work for you. Check the HUB for up-to-date listings and course availability.
- Design and Entrepreneurship, ART 422
- Intro to Entrepreneurship, MGO 660
- Design Process and Methods, MAE 451
- Persuasion, CL 199
- Entrepreneurship Academy, UE 149
- Product Design, CE 404
- Entrepreneurship and Small Business, MGO 330
- Improve the World, MGO 199
- Entrepreneurship Marketing Strategies, MFC 338
- Small Business Entrepreneurship
- Technological Entrepreneurship, MGO 365/665 and Innovation, GEO 503
- The Entrepreneurship Lab (eLab), MGO 493/695*
* The Entrepreneurship Lab is a hands-on, 3-credit course that equips you with the skills to develop, launch and manage a successful new venture. eLab is for students who have entrepreneurial ideas but need help developing them prior to venture creation. If you need to work in a team, you should have yours formed before taking the course. Open to students from all disciplines and degree programs.
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