Entrepreneurship and innovation

The Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (E&I Minor) educates students to serve as leaders in the innovation economy with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to develop, scale, and deliver breakthrough solutions to real-world problems. They will be prepared to do so within a range of organizational contexts: an entrepreneurial start-up of their own, as key members of a founding team, or as an entrepreneurial member of a large organization. Jointly offered by the Schools of Engineering and Management, the minor is designed as an interdisciplinary program with a coherent combination of conceptual and practical elements that draws on a wealth of prior educational activities in this domain. Students who complete the E&I Minor will have developed knowledge and skills in: The minor requires five courses: a core curriculum of two E&I Foundations subjects and an elective subject in each of the three domains—E&I in Context, Leadership of Teams and Organizations, and E&I Experiential. Subject has prerequisites that are outside the program. Students in the GEL1 Certificate program may satisfy the requirement by completing a combined 12 units of 6.902, 6.911, and 6.912. With permission of the minor advisor, one 9- or 12-unit D-Lab subject meeting the criteria for this category may be substituted. In special cases, other advanced project coursework may be substituted with the appoval of the minor advisor. A minimum of three subjects (or 36 units) taken for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor cannot also count toward a student's major or other minor. For more information, contact the Innovation Initiative academic program manager, Liz Friedman, Room E70-1234, 617-715-2331.