Entrepreneurship

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

The Institute for Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (IIIE@Tandon) aims to empower faculty to become thought leaders in scholarly and educational activities around invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship and to educate its students to become innovative and entrepreneurial thinkers in addition to technology-savvy engineers.

IIIE@Tandon serves as the focal point for all research, educational, and service activities in support of Tandon’s goal to integrate invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship into its academic culture.

The IIIE will realize its mission through a wide range of activities such as:

Serving as a one-stop shop for all school-wide activities that promote invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship
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 that will provide every student with the basic knowledge and experience of entrepreneurial thinking
Connecting faculty and students with the NYU Tandon Future Labs, the NexusLabs, PowerbridgeNY, NYCRIN, the RLab 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

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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.

NYU Ignite Lab
is the new incubator space in Brooklyn, home to the Ignite Fellowship.

The Office of Industrial Liaison/Technology Transfer
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!

Tandon/Rusk Transformer Challenge

Engineers from NYU Tandon and experts from NYU Langone Health’s Rusk Rehabilitation team up to create rehabilitation solutions

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 and the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute that awards teams of students up to $500 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