Entrepreneurship Lab

The Entrepreneurship Lab aims to foster an entrepreneurial mindset that results in innovation, initiative, and commitment. An entrepreneurial mindset consists of self-determination, a belief in one's self and one's ideas, and the ability to visualize these ideas coming to life. Teaching students to develop this type of mindset is invaluable because it is what will ultimately help transform them into successful entrepreneurs. With the help of the entrepreneurship program, students will achieve a sense of self that will instill the confidence and skills necessary to embark on a new business venture. Perhaps even more importantly, this entrepreneurial mindset will teach students how to identify, analyze, and seize opportunities to also help them succeed in life.

Entrepreneurship is much broader than the creation of a new business venture. At its core, it is a mindset - a way of thinking and acting. It is about imagining new ways to solve problems and create value. Fundamentally, entrepreneurship is about opportunity; the ability to recognize a new opportunity, to methodically analyze the opportunity and, ultimately, to actually capture the value of that opportunity. These skills are important not only for those seeking to establish a new venture, but are increasingly critical in a wide variety of professional careers given today's hyper-competitive marketplace, where rapid technological innovation and globalization has led to corporate downsizing and a dramatic change in the very nature of work.