Undergraduate Programs - Entrepreneurship/Innovation
Clarkson students know how to be entrepreneurs because they actually develop and operate real businesses.
We know that the best way for our students to learn how to launch and manage a successful business is by actually doing it.
From the moment you step foot on the Clarkson campus, you will be challenged to use creative and integrative thinking, work within teams, launch new ventures, and develop the flexible skills necessary for later success in a global marketplace.
As a first-year student you are enrolled in a two-semester course in which you must work as part of a team developing and managing an actual small business. You will learn about marketing, operations, human resources, accounting and technology. You will present a business plan to venture capitalists and investors and have the opportunity to secure funding for your venture.
During the second semester, the class runs the business and, at the end of the year, donates profits back to the community.
Students develop valuable business skills and move on to the second year with a shared business context, so courses such as Accounting and Organizational Behavior make a lot of sense.
It is this kind of comprehensiveness that makes our programs among the best in the nation. In 2005, Entrepreneurship magazine named Clarkson's entrepreneurship programs as one of the top 40 U.S. programs.
