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From mentorship to student organizations to the latest news about resources for entrepreneurs across ASU, engage with the Edson E + I Institute to help you advance your ideas, build a team, and find the support you need.

Mentorship

Not sure the quickest way to get your startup to the next stage? We’ve got you covered.

Entrepreneurs have a lot of big ideas. They also have a lot of creativity and the grit needed to navigate the rough waters of starting a new business. That’s why our mentors are such an important part of the startup process. Mentors provide the experience, guidance, and support that can help founders keep moving their idea forward, mitigating risks and leveraging opportunities.

Student organizations

ASU embraces transdisciplinary learning in the classroom and beyond. Explore student organizations through the Edson E + I Institute to meet like-minded entrepreneurs, students from other schools exploring the same solutions you are, and to connect to the larger startup community across the Valley and Arizona.

 

Collaborators

Across ASU, there are a number of partnerships that can benefit you — and your entrepreneurial ideas. Explore the many resources within America’s most innovative university to discover labs, maker spaces, competitions, and other projects outside the Edson E + I Institute, and more.

Entrepreneurship + Innovation

E + I empowers students, faculty, and communities to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors by providing the information and resources needed to explore, share, and advance impactful ideas.

Knowledge Enterprise Development Shared Resources

Research and entrepreneurship initiatives are supported by the 100 core facilitates, labs, shops, clinics, museums, and collections available through KED shared resources.

Skysong Innovations

ASU’s exclusive intellectual property management and technology transfer organization that works with faculty, investors, and industry partners to translate ASU innovation into a broad societal impact.

ASU Foundation

A private, nonprofit organization coordinates all major fundraising campaigns on behalf of ASU for the benefit of our entrepreneurial programs and other impactful initiatives.

Changemaker Central

With locations on all four ASU campuses, Changemaker Central @ ASU brings together students who want to develop innovative solutions for global challenges.

MKR Services

ASU students can make a significant impact in the local and global community through innovation by building their vision of the future at MKR Services.

E + I @ Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

HIDA Enterprise + Entrepreneurship leaders coordinate cross-institute programs and activities that engage directly with entrepreneurship and enterprise development in design and the arts.

E + I @ the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

E + I @ the Fulton Schools empowers all undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni to leverage an entrepreneurial mindset to advance their ideas for the benefit of our economy and society.

 

W. P. Carey School of Business | Arizona State University

Entrepreneurship + Business Design

  BAC 328
400 E Lemon Street
Tempe, AZ

A collection of signature entrepreneurship and innovation courses, workshops, expert mentoring, new venture competitions, and other curricular and extra-curricular events that expose students to the Business of Entrepreneurship, including value creation, activation, implementation and marketplace impact.