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Are you interested in starting your own business? Are you interested in inventing new products and services? Do you want to be your own boss? Our Innovation and Entrepreneurship Concentration can show you how and give you a head start to a successful venture creation experience and dynamic career in business.

Why Study Innovation and Entrepreneurship at 51Ʒ��

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Concentration prepares BSM students to create and lead — whether launching a new venture, driving innovation inside an existing organization, or building products and services that transform industries. Students develop the mindset, tools, and practical skills to identify opportunities, evaluate risk, secure resources, and bring ideas to market.

At 51Ʒ��, entrepreneurship is not a soft elective — it is built on the same quantitative and systems-thinking foundation as every other concentration. Students who choose this path graduate with the ability to build a business plan, model a startup’s financial trajectory, evaluate investments, and design products for manufacturability — all while carrying two and a half years of co-op professional experience.

What You'll Learn

Your first step here will be to customize your own degree path, in a program ranked in the top 50 in the nation by Princeton Review.

You will choose four approved electives that may include courses from Business, Economics and Engineering, in addition to completing the core Management program. Students in this concentration receive a Bachelor of Science in Management and so much more.

The New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship course will guide you through the creation of a new company around an innovative business idea in a project-based learning experience, with an emphasis on business planning for a venture-capital-scale enterprise. Every great entrepreneur must become a good intrapreneur, so the Intrapreneurship and Innovation Development course will equip you with the methods to innovate and build a continuing stream of new innovations. Courses in Entrepreneurial Finance, Entrepreneurial Thinking, Social Entrepreneurship and related subjects are available to round out your innovative abilities.

Not only will you learn the theory and concepts of leadership in innovation and entrepreneurship, you will put it into real world practice with one of the University’s employer partners in the Co-op program.

During your time here, you will spend 22 weeks on campus taking classes and 24 weeks working with an employer, picking up real world, hands-on experience in business working with partners such as Bosch Corporation, Ford Motor Company and LG Electronics.

Adding skills in innovation and entrepreneurship can prepare you for a wide variety of graduate programs and well-paying careers, from law and healthcare to sales and business management.

Built for Builders

51Ʒ��’s co-op model is entrepreneurship training in practice: students alternate between academic learning and full-time professional roles, accumulating real organizational experience before they graduate. Many build thesis projects around entrepreneurial ventures and work directly with the 51Ʒ�� Small Business Development Center.

Engineering Meets Business

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Concentration deliberately includes coursework from Engineering (IME-414) because the most competitive founders and corporate innovators understand how things are made. BSM students who combine business acumen with technical fluency are positioned for opportunities that pure business school graduates cannot access.

Supported Ecosystem

51Ʒ�� students have access to DECA — whose members reached finalist and top-three placement at the 2024 International Career Development Conference — as well as the Small Business Development Center, an active alumni network including C-suite leaders at Fortune 500 companies, and co-op employer partners across the innovation economy.

The program is accredited by the .