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Creating Innovators, Not Companies: Measuring the Success of an Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Course

José Lugo and Mari Luz Zapata Ramos of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez share how VentureWell funding helped in expanding their entrepreneurship course.

Celebrating ReJoule, VentureWell’s 2024 Sustainable Practice Impact Awardee

ReJoule won our 2024 Sustainable Practice Impact Award for its circular economy for lithium-ion electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

OPEN 2024 Deserves a Spot on Your Spring Calendar—Here Are Three Reasons Why

Still considering whether you might attend OPEN this year? Here’s what you missed at OPEN 2023.

Five Most Highly Rated OPEN 2023 Breakout Sessions

These five workshop sessions were rated by OPEN 2023 attendees as having “extremely” valuable content and as being “extremely” engaging.

Celebrating Sylvia Robles, Our 2023 Sustainable Practice Impact Awardee

Dr. Sylvia Robles from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley was named our 2023 Sustainable Practice Impact Award winner.

Dr. Jeremy Faludi: Celebrating a Sustainable Design Trailblazer

Sustainable design strategist, Dr. Jeremy Faludi, is the recipient of the 2021 Sustainable Practice Impact Award at the VentureWell OPEN conference.

the show must go on: what we learned from producing our first virtual conference 

Looking to put together a virtual conference? We outline how we produced virtualOPEN to help you plan your online event.

Melanie Nakagawa: Rhetoric Versus Reality Around Climate Change Solutions

We spoke with Melanie Nakagawa about the rhetoric versus reality surrounding U.S. environmental policies to address climate change.

OPEN 2019: Engaging, Inspiring, and Transforming the I&E Ecosystem

The VentureWell OPEN 2019 conference was one for the books. Here’s a photo essay highlighting the engaging and inspiring conference.

Mission 2025: Planning the Future of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education

What are the topics and challenges in I&E education that should be addressed between now and 2025?

Intensive Design Experience: Preparing Engineering Students for the Real World

An intensive design experience simulates a high-performance team situation to show students what it takes to succeed in the workforce or as an entrepreneur.

Blind Passion for Your Invention? Time for Tough Love

Innovators need tough love to help them balance passion with data to ensure their invention effectively solves a real-world problem.

Leveling the Playing Field in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education

How can faculty help cultivate a diverse pipeline of science and technology innovators through entrepreneurship education?

University of Oregon’s Kiersten Muenchinger: Redesigning Sustainability Education

Sustainability education is the cornerstone of the University of Oregon’s innovative undergraduate and graduate Product Design program.

Faculty Spotlight: Jeremy Faludi

Jeremy Faludi, Assistant Professor of Engineering at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, concentrates on teaching sustainable design methods.

OPEN 2018: Inventing for the Future of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education

OPEN 2018 provided opportunities to learn emerging best practices in the rapidly evolving field of technology entrepreneurship education.

Innovator Spotlight: Haley Marie Keith

Haley Marie Keith of MITO Material Solutions found that a strong network helped her team wade through the unknown of starting a new venture.

Is it Time to Breakup With Your Venture?

All innovators and entrepreneurs face crucial moments when they have to decide if it’s time to breakup with their venture.

Faculty Spotlight: Nathalie Duval-Couetil

Nathalie Duval-Couetil launched Purdue University’s undergraduate entrepreneurship program, which includes entrepreneurship capstone, global entrepreneurship, and women and leadership courses and initiatives.

Big Ideas in Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Emerging Trends to Watch in 2018

We identified five big ideas in innovation and entrepreneurship taking shape in the coming year.