Entrepreneurship

Invention, innovation, entrepreneurship:
They're core to both academics and research at NYU Tandon.

As problem-solvers, engineers are inherently innovators. Even if you never plan to start a company, understanding best practices for inventiveness, creativity, and entrepreneurial & design thinking can be valuable for your life and career.

NYU Tandon offers a range of resources to help faculty & students bring new ideas to life — and to market, if that’s the goal — from educational opportunities to ideation support to incubation, including networking, funding opportunities, and space & equipment. We also link the NYU Tandon community to the broader NYU and NYC technology ecosystem through hackathons, workshops, competitions, guest lectures, and tech talks.

NYU Tandon will realize its mission through a wide range of activities such as:

Generating a nurturing environment for the translation of science and engineering breakthroughs into new technologies, products, and processes in service to society
Exploring new learning opportunities, like the Engineering Innovation Minor, that will provide students with the basic knowledge and experience of entrepreneurial thinking
Connecting faculty and students with the NYU Tandon Future Labs, the NexusLabs, PowerbridgeNY, New York Region I-Corps as well as with innovation- and entrepreneurship-related activities across all of NYU
Linking the NYU Tandon community to the broader NYC technology ecosystem through hackathons, workshops, competitions, guest lectures, and tech talks

Meet Our Innovators

NYU Tandon Initiatives

NYU Tandon Future Labs

The NYU Tandon Future Labs are business incubators for a new generation.

Convergence of Innovation & Entrepreneurship

School-wide, multi-faceted Initiatives

Vertically Integrated Projects

Long-term, large-scale projects that unite education, research, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

MakerSpace

Innovate, collaborate, iterate, create: the NYU Tandon MakerSpace is 10,000 square feet of opportunity.

NYU-Wide Initiatives

The NYU Entrepreneurial Institute (EI) and the Leslie eLab
leads NYU-wide initiatives to launch successful startups and commercialize technology created by the NYU community. The EI team of startup experts offers educational programming and events and helps identify funding opportunities for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Tech Venture Program
will fund and support technology commercialization by teams of NYU faculty, Ph.D. students, postdocs, and researchers. Participating teams are eligible to receive grant funding of over $50,000.

Technology Opportunities & Ventures
manages all activities relating to the protection and commercial promotion of inventions made at New York University.

Endless Frontier Labs
is a structured 9-month mentoring program that provides founders with resources, support, and advice to optimize your chances for success.

NYU Competitions and Challenges

NYU Global InnoVention Competition

Inviting students to build prototypes, pitch commercially viable ventures, and solve real-world problems... from around the world!

NYU HealthTech Transformer Challenge

Inspire, build, and lead new startups solving healthcare’s most pressing problems, with $55,000+ in funding and six paid internships available

NYU Tandon Made Challenge

Inviting new students to use their talents to solve real-world problems

NYU Prototyping Fund

A collaborative program offered by the Design Lab @ NYU Tandon MakerSpace, the Technology Management and Innovation Department, and New York City Future Manufacturing Collective (NYC-FMC) that awards teams of students up to $500 to be used to build hardware or software prototypes, and connects them with the resources, tools, and mentors they need to bring their ideas to life.

Additional Competitions

New York City Business Plan Competition
The New York Business Plan Competition (NYBPC) is an annual Statewide Competition featuring student teams from all of New York State, begining with 10 regional competitions.

PowerUp!
Open to Brooklyn Residents