Entrepreneurship Courses and Clubs

The Farley Center is dedicated to education and empowering engineers with the skills to be successful entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs. Its mission is to help students understand what is involved in starting a business based on the innovation they have developed. Towards that end, the Center houses an incubator for student start-ups.

inNUvation is a student-run, interdisciplinary group that connects entrepreneurship resources throughout Northwestern University. inNUvation runs entrepreneurship competitions, coordinates events, and provides general support for entrepreneurial students.

Kellogg's Larry and Carol Levy Institute for Entrepreneurial Practice runs the Commercialization Laboratory devoted to develop business plans for Northwestern’s start-ups.  The goal is to better position the start-ups for further financing.  Commercialization Lab is a course designed to give MBA students hands-on experience in real start-ups from Northwestern University. Students prepare business plans and help with strategic decisions for the companies. Students work closely with company founders. The laboratory is led by Professor Sutter, a partner at Hopewell Ventures.   For more information contact William Sutter or see this overview (pdf).

NUvention is a visionary academic partnership among multiple schools at Northwestern, facilitated by the Farley Center for Entrepreneurship, to help our students understand what is involved in starting a business based on the innovation they have developed. For more information contact Michael Marasco.