About
The Deming Center for Entrepreneurship prepares graduates to embrace our planet’s key challenges by equipping them to think like entrepreneurs, act as social innovators and deliver as successful business leaders. We focus on three key tenets: creativity, sustainability, and access.
Creativity
The mark of an entrepreneur is the innovation, the creativity, the game-changing nature of his or her work – whether inside an existing organization or in a newly created one. Our students are challenged to turn accepted thinking on its head—in the classroom, in real-world industry projects, and by the business innovators who serve as student mentors and advisors.
Sustainability
One of the leading areas for entrepreneurial opportunity is in the emerging field of sustainable business products and practices. We connect students with industry sectors such as cleantech, biotechnology, the outdoor industry and the natural products industry that are well-represented in the region and serve national and international markets.
Access
Boulder is consistently named one of the best places in the country to launch a startup. We engage students with industry leaders via the Deming Network – an active group of world-class entrepreneurs and innovators who are accessible and hands-on. CU-Boulder is also a top research university. Across campus, we help students access opportunities in technology transfer and the engineering, law, biofrontiers, and environmental science programs.
Whether you are a current student, a prospective student, or a member of the Boulder business community, there are many ways to engage in one of the Deming Center’s “productive collisions.”