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Landscape Analysis 2024

Institutional Resources

  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative (I&E)
  • Duke Engineering Entrepreneurship (EngEn)
  • Duke in Silicon Valley

Certificates, Programs, or Concentrations

  • Innovation & Entrepreneurship Certificate
  • Innovation and Impact Network (IIN)
  • Foundations in Environmental Entrepreneurship
  • Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  • Markets and Management Certificate

Minors

  • No specific minors in entrepreneurship, but the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Certificate serves a similar purpose.

Graduate Degrees in Innovation and/or Entrepreneurship

  • Design & Technology Innovation - Master of Engineering
  • Master of Engineering Management -  Entrepreneurship Concentration

Research Centers

  • Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE)

Entrepreneurs in Residence

  • Entrepreneurs in Residence Program (EIR)
  • I&E Network of Entrepreneurs in Residence
  • Melissa & Doug Entrepreneurs

Living Learning Dorms

  • The Cube LLC

Entrepreneurship, Design, or Technology Centers

  • Innovation Co-Lab
    • Co-Lab roots program
  • The Foundry
  • Duke Engineering Design Pod
  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship Bullpen

Advisory Board for Centers/Programs

  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship Advisory Board

Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship or Innovation

  • Endowed Chair at Fuqua School of Business for Entrepreneurship

Estimated Number of Startups Per Year

  • 12+ startups per year from various Duke programs (including The Duke Start-Up Challenge and The Cube). - https://researchenterprise.org/2022/10/27/a-look-at-recent-startups-at-duke/

Creative Culture (1 low - 10 high)

  • 9-10, with many events, hackathons, and resources supporting entrepreneurial activity.

Spin Out

  • Duke New Ventures (Examples: Humacyte, Cereius).

Technology, Industrial Park, Manufacturing, and/or Wet Lab Space

  • Chesterfield Building (Biotech Hub)
  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship Bullpen (provides wet lab space)

Regional Sources of Capital (Angel, VC, State, or Institutional Funds)

  • Duke Angel Network (Duke Capital Partners)
  • Triangle Venture Alliance
  • Duke Start-Up Challenge

Mentoring, Advisory, or Business Networks Strategies

  • StartupConnect Mentorship Program
  • DukeGEN Mentorship Program
  • Duke Angel Network
  • Melissa & Doug Entrepreneurs
  • DukeGen
  • Duke New Ventures

Incubators, Venture Accelerators, Bootcamps, or Startup Venture Spaces

  • The Duke Start-Up Challenge
  • Innovation Co-Lab
  • The Cube LLC
  • Melissa & Doug Entrepreneurs

Seed Funding Sources

  • Duke Angel Network
  • Environmental Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program Summer Grant Proposal Request
  • The Duke Start Up Challenge
  • Melissa & Doug Entrepreneurs Program

Tech Transfer Offices, Standards, and/or Express Policies and Related Offerings

  • Duke Office of Licensing & Ventures (OLV)

Grant Writing, Legal, and/or Other Venture Assistance

  • Innovation Co-Lab’s Legal Services for Startups
  • Fundamentals of Startup Law Workshop
  • Law and Entrepreneurship Society

Courses (Theory, Case and/or Discussion-Based; Concepts of Opportunity Recognition, Value Creation, and Risk Tolerance)

  • Building Financial Acumen
  • Idea to Marketplace
  • Innovation, Ideation and Design Thinking
  • Product Management
  • Strategies for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  • Social Innovation
  • Design Climate I
  • Design Climate II

I&E Courses

  • I&E 89S Improvisation
  • I&E 171 Business Anthropology
  • I&E 172 Anthropology of Design and UX
  • I&E 230s Arts Policy and Leadership
  • I&E 243S The Art of Improvising
  • I&E 250 Building Global Audiences
  • I&E 252 Learning to Fail
  • I&E 253 Social Marketing for Entrepreneurs
  • I&E 261 Social Innovation
  • I&E 262 Designing Transformative Learning
  • I&E 263S Problem Solving in Global Health
  • I&E 265S Digital Feminism
  • I&E 271 Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise
  • I&E 272S Documentary and Policy
  • I&E 275 Media, Entertainment & Tech
  • I&E 281 Basics of Technology Commercialization
  • I&E 283 Product Management
  • I&E 290 Sports Entrepreneurship and the Evolving Marketplace
  • I&E 295S Arts Entrepreneurship
  • I&E 302 Fieldwork Methods: Cultural Analysis and Interpretation
  • I&E 310S Introduction to Non-Profit Cultural Institutions
  • I&E 350 Customer Empathy & Brand Experience Design
  • I&E 352 Strategies for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • I&E 359A Introduction to Global Los Angeles: An Interdisciplinary Survey
  • I&E 385 New Ventures: Discover
  • I&E 395 New Ventures: Develop
  • I&E 396 New Ventures: Deliver
  • I&E 499 Innovation & Entrepreneurship Capstone
  • I&E 510 Social Innovation Practicum
  • I&E 511 Designing Ethical Tech
  • I&E 525s Corporate Empires
  • I&E 545 Design Climate 1: Discover
  • I&E 590 Design Climate 2: Develop
  • I&E 590 Global Health Practicum
  • I&E 710 Research Tech Translation
  • I&E 711 Commercializing Healthcare Technologies
  • I&E 712 Commercializing Climate Technologies
  • I&E 720 Design in Healthcare 1
  • I&E 721 Design in Healthcare 2
  • I&E 722 Design in Healthcare Deploy
  • I&E 745 Narrative Design Seminar Series
  • I&E 748 New Ventures: Discover
  • I&E 750 New Ventures: Develop
  • I&E 752 New Ventures: Deliver
  • I&E 800 Business and Organizational Fundamentals for Entrepreneurial Action
  • I&E 835 Innovations in Drug Development

Extracurricular Clubs and Program Offerings

  • The Cube
  • Business Oriented Women
  • Social Impact 360
  • Duke Business Society
  • Duke Interdisciplinary Social Innovators
  • Duke Student Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship
  • Duke Ventures
  • The Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club
  • Net Impact
  • Law and Entrepreneurship Society
  • Social Entrepreneurship and Policy Initiative
  • Design and Innovation Club
  • Used to be a Duke Creators Space - came together for 2-3 hours every Sunday morning to give space to people working on their own projects, startups, creative projects, etc (very cool space, but does not exist anymore)

Competitions (Pitch, Business Plan, or Business Model)

  • The Duke Start-Up Challenge
  • Duke Startup Showcase
  • Duke Hackathon

Startup Weekend, 3-Day Startup, or Other Engagement Catalyzing Formation of Venture Teams

  • Duke Hackathon
  • Inaugural Triangle VR Hackathon
  • StartupConnect

Experiential Course (Learn-by-Doing, Senior Design, Applied Skills)

  • Entrepreneurial Execution, Planning, and Management
  • Design Thinking Workshop
  • Human-Centered Design Workshop for Social Impact

Non I&E Courses Imparting the Importance of I&E in the Context of Larger Subject Areas

  • Managing Innovation in a Global Organization
  • Medical Device Strategy
  • Many more To be done - lots of courses
    • Areas - education major has some t

Inspiration Sources (TEDx, Events, etc.)

  • TEDx at Duke
  • Duke Conversations (not sure if this fits, but have conversations with Duke professors)
  • Speaker series that Duke is doing for the centennial celebration
  • To be done

How-to Workshops (Day-Long or Short-Term Speaker Series)

  • To be done
  • Duke I&E has workshops through the business school
  • FOCUS program sends out lectures related to current social problems to its “alumni”
  • Centennial celebration speaker series

Infrastructure (Maker, Prototyping or Innovation Space; Engineering Lab Offering Access Outside of Class, etc.)

  • Innovation Co-Lab
  • Duke Engineering Design Pod
  • The Foundry
  • Makerspace
  • Durham’s American Underground (coworking community)
    • https://americanunderground.com/

Internship, Co-Op Opportunity, or Business Plan Projects with External Partners

  • Melissa & Doug Entrepreneurs Program
  • I&E Internship Program
  • Duke in Silicon Valley

2018

Programs:

  • Foundations in Environmental Entrepreneurship
  • Clinical and Translation Science Institute
  • Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Conferences:

  • Sustainable Business & Social Impact Conference

Workshops:

  • FDA Entrepreneurs Workshop
  • Fundamentals of Startup Law
  • Design Thinking Workshop
  • Human Centered Design Workshop for Social Impact
  • What is Design
  • Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur
  • Agile Workshop
  • Inaugural Triangle VR Hackathon
  • Invented at Duke Celebration
  • I&E Research Seminar

Courses:

  • Entrepreneurial Execution, Planning and Management
  • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Advanced Seminar in Social Entrepreneurship
  • Impact Investing
  • Medical Device Strategy
  • Invention to Application
  • Entrepreneurial Strategy
  • Designing Innovations for Global Health
  • Innovation and Policy Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Managing Innovation in a Global Organization

Clubs:

  • The Cube
  • Business Oriented Women
  • Social Impact 360
  • Duke Business Society
  • Duke Design for America
  • Duke Interdisciplinary Social Innovators
  • Duke Student Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship
  • Duke Ventures
  • The Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club
  • Net Impact
  • Law and Entrepreneurship Society
  • Social Entrepreneurship and Policy Initiative
  • Design and Innovation Club

Innovation Spaces:

  • Innovation Co-Lab
  • The Foundry
  • Makerspace

Seed Funding:

  • Environmental Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program Summer Grant Proposal Request
  • The Duke Start Up Challenge
  • The Rocket Fund

Business Networks:

  • Melissa & Doug Entrepreneurs
  • DukeGen
  • StartupConnect
  • Duke Angel Network - supporting the Duke entrepreneurial community by providing capital and matching Duke alumni expertise with portfolio companies 


University Innovation Fellows: Winny Arindrani, Zoe De Bruycker, Griffin Mueller, Justin Tang


Peter's Landscape Analysis (Presentation Summary)

Academic Programs

  • Entrepreneurship training for graduate students:
    • School of Public Policy Enterprising Leadership Initiative
    • Law and Entrepreneurship LLM
    • Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Environmental School
    • CONCEPT Entrepreneurship center at Nursing School
    • Extensive training in Engineering and Business Schools
  • Potential to transfer from Senior Design Project to more extensive Senior Thesis
  • Design and innovation courses across disciplines


Student Initiatives

  • Students lead charge with many school resources (see below)


School Resources

  • DUHATCH- student incubator, primarily for engineering students
  • Coulter Grant for Biomedical Engineering initiatives
  • Need a space to invent products, access commercially viable prototyping tools
  • Design Kitchen coming soon to new Engineering building
  • Duke Global Entrepreneurship Network- offers resources like Entrepreneurship manual
  • Resources open to undergraduates:
    • Duke in Silicon Valley
    • Duke Summer Innovation Program
    • InCube Incubator
    • Duke Startup Challenge


University Innovation Fellow: Peter Hollender

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