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Degrees
The Law and Entrepreneurship LLM (LLMLE) Program – School of Law
This one-year LLMLE program fuses law, business, and innovation to build knowledge crucial to entrepreneurial ventures. The program integrates rigorous coursework, real-world experience, and high-level networking opportunities to position students to advise, create, and lead the innovative ventures that will drive tomorrow’s global economy.
Master of Engineering Management (MEM) Program – Pratt School of Engineering
The MEM program is a one-year master’s degree program that prepares engineering and science graduates to become future industry leaders. Students take a core curriculum consisting of marketing, finance, intellectual property and business law, and management, and can select several elective courses in innovation and entrepreneurship.
Master of Management Studies (MMS) Program – Fuqua School of Business
The MMS program is one-year, pre-experience master’s degree program for recent graduates of all academic majors. In an innovative an entrepreneurial environment, students learn the concepts from all the functional areas of business—strategy, decision analysis, management, accounting, marketing, operations, economics, and finance— and apply them to real-world situations.
Concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation – Fuqua School of Business (Daytime MBA)
Daytime MBA students may choose to pursue a Concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, wherein they learn to chart an entrepreneurial path by acquiring the skills needed to identify and assess potential opportunities and environments; obtain and protect key resources necessary to pursue these opportunities; develop strategies to generate market interest; and manage organizational operations, transitions, and growth.
Concentration & Certificates
Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Undergraduate Students
This certificate provides undergraduate students with a pathway to pursue a rigorous cross-disciplinary study of innovation and entrepreneurship that is complementary to any major and enables students to be innovative and entrepreneurial in their of… ...+
This certificate provides undergraduate students with a pathway to pursue a rigorous cross-disciplinary study of innovation and entrepreneurship that is complementary to any major and enables students to be innovative and entrepreneurial in their of pursuit of knowledge in service to society. The certificate requires an in-depth course of study examining the theories of innovation and entrepreneurship, coupled with hands-on practice in both areas.
The Environmental Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate Program – Nicholas School of the Environment
The Nicholas Environmental Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate seeks to teach students to develop, evaluate, refine and launch a new sustainable product or service, using both experiential and traditional teaching approaches. Students learn to focus upon valuable, practical ideas, to directly interact with end-users or potential customers, and then to ultimately act in order to implement these ideas.
Programs
CONCEPT
The Center of Nursing Collaboration, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (CONCEPT) fosters creative, relevant and robust innovation at the Duke University School of Nursing. The objective is to move great ideas from the bench to the bedside, and from the classroom into the national conversation.
Program for Entrepreneurs (P4E)
P4E assists entrepreneurs in launching new businesses and social ventures. Through team-based courses and access to a broad community of practitioners with whom to work, entrepreneurs learn about, and work towards, defining, planning, establishing, and financing new ventures.
Duke in Chicago
Duke in Chicago is a six-week, two-course-credit program in Chicago for undergraduate entrepreneurs who love the arts and for artists who want to become entrepreneurial. Through meetings, internships, mentorships, and site visits with prominent individuals in arts-related fields, students will gain valuable knowledge of how arts entrepreneurs have shaped the development of Chicago’s unique theater, music, dance, visual arts, and comedy scene.
Duke in Silicon Valley
Duke in Silicon Valley is a comprehensive four-week, one-course-credit program in northern California’s Silicon Valley for undergraduates with an interest in entrepreneurship. The program is designed to give students an intensive experience in the creation of new ventures, both commercial and social, through coursework, site visits, meetings, and exposure to the heart of the nation’s hub for innovative enterprise.