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<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e8a966d-7fff-e50d-3857-dc859a4d89d4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elon currently offers a major and a minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation through the Doherty Center for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation major places strong emphasis on business, startup processes, and design thinking. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor places a strong enphasis on the entrepreneurial process and developing the tools and abilities needed for students to create their own startups. As a registered major and department under the Love School of Business, this program prepares students to become entrepreneurs in either for-profit or social businesses. </span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e8a966d-7fff-e50d-3857-dc859a4d89d4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Established in 2018, the Sankey Hall building houses Entrepreneurship and Innovation professors and staff, as well as the Doherty Center. Our promotion of I&E seeks to inspire students to create and change the world around them in a variety of majors, requiring widespread faculty support and appeals to creativity that match all kinds of students. The Doherty Center Director Alyssa Martina is continuously seeking to expand interdisciplinary opportunities to students from a variety of majors. She has established numerous events and programs that are offered as interdisciplinary in focus and the Doherty Center Scholar Interns work at establishing relationships with students across campus. Its signature event is a 24-hour "hackathon" challenge, known as the Elon Innovation Challenge, where student either alone or in teams from several schools collaborate work to create a prototype to solve a wicked problem on campus to present to a panel of judges. Past challenge. This past year, several universities across the East Coast joined the Challenge. problems have included finding ways to reduce campus waste and how to connect more students on Two other important annual events for the Center are the W.E Do! Women and Entrepreneurship conference and the Black Innovation Matters Conference. Both the Elon Innovation Challenge and the W.E. Do! conferences are co-chaired by a UI Fellow. </span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e8a966d-7fff-e50d-3857-dc859a4d89d4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In addition to the E&I major and the Elon Innovation Challenge, Elon University has funded the Center for Design Thinking on campus. This center works with faculty to facilitate workshops for students to learn how to use design thinking in their classes, projects and throughout their lives. Danielle Lake, the director of the Center for Design Thinking, is working on partnering with different organizations on campus, such as the CREDE and the GLC, to bring the campus together and help educate students about how design thinking can be used to create solutions to social justice issues. This is also shown through their work with Design for America, a nationally recognized organization that uses the design thinking process to bring about social change within the Elon community. Additionally, students have the opportunity to educate their peers on design thinking processes and methods as Design Thinking Catalysts with the Elon By Design initiative. The Center for Design Thinking has also partnered with the Maker Hub to host an event called Pop-Up & Play. This event focuses on helping students bring play back into their lives by using design thinking methods. The Center for Design thinking also offers a one credit winter term course available to students of all majors.</span></span>
University Innovation Fellows
Fall 2024: Helena Hanzal Childress, Cannon Marshall, Eli Striker, Carlo Webber
Fall 2023: [[Fellow:Samuel Abner|Samuel Abner]], [[Fellow:Bryan Connor Floyd|Bryan Floyd]], [[Fellow:Ian Prohofsky|Ian Prohofsky,]] [[Fellow:Margaret Rolfe|Maggie Rolfe,]] [[Fellow:Aidan Walsh|Aidan Walsh]]