Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Minor/Certificate)

Explore how ingenuity and imagination can be applied to create sustainable solutions.

When innovative solutions solve real problems to improve people’s lives, blessings abound. Innovation & Entrepreneurship are reflective of God’s redemptive pattern: to restore order where there is chaos in the world.

The Innovation & Entrepreneurship minor/certificate is open students from any major. You will be equipped to recognize opportunities, think outside the box, initiate risks, accept failure as part of the growth process, and appreciate the correlation between hard work and success. Our guiding goal is to prepare you to solve problems with excellence and integrity for Kingdom.

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Degrees

Minor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Certificate in Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Minor
Certificate

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Build skills in:

Theoretical and empirical practices for starting profit or nonprofit companies

Conducting feasibility studies

Build business plans

Incorporate strategies into business models

Negotiating with partners and investors

Networking

Career opportunities:

Product/Marketing Manager

Consultant

Venture Capitalist

Entrepreneur

Small Business Owner

Non-profit Manager/Director

Sales Professional

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Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE)

Located in Horne Academic Center, the CIE serves as the focal point for encouraging and gathering innovation from across campus and the community.

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Trojan Arena

Don't wait until after graduation to flex your entrepreneurship muscles. Bring your business concepts before a Shark Tank-style panel of judges and compete for cash and in-kind prizes. Past Trojan Arena winners such as Allera Tech, Sky Manufacturing, Lucidity Statistical Consulting, Godspeed, and Cord Puck have gone on to establish businesses pre- and post-graduation.

Start Your Business in Class

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship curriculum emphasizes real-world, hands-on experiences where we truly learn by doing.

ENT 225 Exploring Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Starts a business using lean start-up methodology. This exercise might lead into a Shark Tank entry and potentially a real start-up opportunity.
ENT 320 Transformational Entrepreneurship

Work through the ideation and design processes to deliver a potential business concept by the end of the semester.
ENT 422 New Venture Planning

Participate in Cash and Burn, a 12-day rapid start-up where the only metric is income generation, and a business planning project on class-generated concepts.

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Curriculum Guides & Degree Options

Students interested in course descriptions and academic policies can check out our Undergraduate Catalog.

A Taylor liberal arts education will prepare you to live and work in a fast-changing world. It also goes a step further: laying a strong spiritual foundation that cultivates wisdom. You’ll become a well-versed individual, equipped with critical thinking skills, a lifelong love of learning, and an appreciation for God’s creation.

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Innovation & Entrepreneurship Opportunities

Intercollegiate Business Plan Competitions
Earn investment money through intercollegiate business plan competitions. Most recently, TU students placed 2nd and 4th out of 20 student teams at Olivet Nazarene University in Illinois. These students earned $3,000 and $1,000 cash for their efforts. Additionally, they were able to network and learn from some very successful entrepreneurs resulting in even more business-building opportunities.
IMPACT Camp
Build your leadership capabilities by serving as leaders in the IMPACT Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program. This year-long program exposes rising high school juniors and seniors to the ideation, validation, and business planning processes to solve some of society's greatest needs. IMPACT is anchored by a week-long Immersion camp in the summer.
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Founders Fellows
Founders Fellows exposes students to the realities of living the life of an entrepreneur. You’ll meet seasoned, successful entrepreneurs and investors, as well as support ecosystems and founder communities. Mentors and guest speakers guide you in the highs and lows of life as a founder, how to order your spiritual and personal lives to flourish in the profession, and where possible, speak directly to integrating a redemptive framework into your ideas and thinking.