UF Entrepreneurship
The Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center was created to teach, coach and inspire students to be entrepreneurial in their lives. The Center provides students the tools and experiences necessary to creatively pursue new opportunities and innovations in the start-up, social, and corporate venture arenas.
Through courses, degree programs and complementary activities such as speakers and workshops, the Center currently serves more than 2,000 students per year. Partnering with other colleges at the University, the Center delivers introductory and specialized courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level, and offers every graduate student at the University of Florida the option to earn a graduate minor in entrepreneurship. In addition, the Jeff Gold Experiential Learning Laboratory—which houses the GatorNest program, the Gator Hatchery student incubator and the IdeaGators Co-Working Space—provides students the opportunity to experience real life entrepreneurship while still in school. Co-curricular programs that include consulting to disadvantaged entrepreneurs in South Africa and our community partnerships in Gainesville, FL, as well as the $40,000 Big Idea Competition, provide additional opportunities to “learn and do”, helping students create an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset.
In addition, the Center offers the nation’s most comprehensive specialized degree program focused on entrepreneurship, the Thomas S. Johnson Entrepreneurship Master’s Program.
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News Archive
- 12.03.2019: Gator Hatchery Graduates Make Forbes 30 Under 30
- 07.02.2018: UF Collaboratory Provides Strategic Solutions for Women Innovators
- 07.02.2018: 2018 Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium
- 10.04.2017: Cocovana wins “Get Started Gainesville” competition
- 05.04.2017: Tackling a tough tropical treat
- 04.25.2017: UF hosts sixth annual JumpstART
- 04.07.2017: Luke Torres co founder of Phlex on WCCO Minneapolis during the EIX competition
- 03.30.2017: ‘Go For It’: Vera Bradley Co-Founder Encourages Entrepreneurial Women At UF
- 11.20.2016: Wall Street Journal Report: Should the Government Support Only High Growth Businesses? Editorial Debate by Michael Morris (UF) and Scott Shane (Case Western Reserve)
- 03.11.2015: Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellow featured on NPR’s All Things Considered
- 02.19.2015: UF Veterans Entrepreneurship Program: providing those who served an opportunity to thrive
- 02.18.2015: Young Entrepreneurs for Leadership & Sustainability alumna and current Cornell University student shares her experience
- 02.16.2015: 7 Tampa Bay companies make first Gator 100 list of fastest growing companies led by UF alums
- 02.16.2015: UF celebrates entrepreneurial spirit at inaugural Gator100 Awards
- 02.11.2015: 18 Central Florida companies rank among Gator Nation’s fastest-growing companies
- 01.27.2015: UF entrepreneurs to be honored at inaugural Gator100 Awards, presented by Entrepreneurship Center
- 12.02.2014: MSE Alum tells Fast Company how he broke it to his parents that he was ditching med school to become an entrepreneur
- 12.01.2014: What’s the Big Idea? Entrepreneurship Center hosts 2nd Annual Big Idea Gator Business Plan Competition
- 11.19.2014: UF Entrepreneurship Club hosts job fair with local startups
- 11.18.2014: eClub brings FedEx CIO, UF alumnus to campus to speak on global design
- 10.31.2014: UF Entrepreneurship Center, UF CLS and Advantage Publishing partner to present the first ever Purpose 20 Award
- 10.22.2014: Center’s Entrepreneurship Club finds inspiration in safe living
- 10.02.2014: EESA student team featured in South African documentary, “Against All Odds”
- 09.08.2014: Entrepreneurship Center Professor Bill Rossi nominated for 2014 Spirit of Gainesville award for his entrepreneurial and educational impact
- 07.19.2014: MSE alumnus Rob Castellucci’s company RoomSync featured in The New York Times
- 07.06.2014: Young Entrepreneurs for Leadership and Sustainability take to the trees to learn about teamwork, sustainability
- 07.01.2014: MSE alum named CEO of Voalte; Tom Johnson appointed to Board of Directors
- 05.13.2014: Water purifier wins first place in Entrepreneurship Center Big Idea Gator Business Plan Competition
- 05.06.2014: Military vets get crash course on business at UF boot camp
- 04.24.2014: 2014 VEP delegate featured in national Air Force publication
- 02.17.2014: MSE alum-founded RoomSync partners with student-housing company Campus Apartments
- 02.07.2014: UF Launches Veterans Entrepreneurship Program
- 02.07.2014: UF offers free program to help disabled veterans who own or want to start businesses
- 02.06.2014: Company founded by MSE alums named favorite by Tech Crunch
- 02.06.2014: UF off-campus residence hall to draw entrepreneurial students
- 02.03.2014: Social entrepreneurship gaining currency in Gainesville: making money and a difference
- 02.01.2014: Business Portrait: Gainesville