INNOVATION, DESIGN & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Our organization helps students learn about innovation, design, and entrepreneurship helping them build a community, form teams, and support promising ideas with funding through competitions. We also provide spaces and other resources for prototyping and testing. Visit the About Us page to learn more.

Innovation Forum: Immigration & Entrepreneurship on January 28

This month’s Innovation Forum features Jonathan Grode, the U.S. Practice Director and Managing Partner for Green and Spiegel, who will lead the forums on all things entrepreneurship, immigration and building a team.

Startup Columbia 2026 deadline on February 3

Apply for non-dilutive funding to launch your startup. The Millard Chan ’99 Technology Challenge invites entries for business models based on a solid foundation of applied, solution-focused, technological innovation. The School of Engineering provides a prize pool of $60K for winning teams.

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News

Columbia Students Showcase Big Ideas in Just 60 Seconds

📆 November 19, 2025
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Welcome the 2025-2026 Cohort of the Columbia Startup Lab

📆 June 25, 2025
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Breakthrough Ideas from Columbia’s Young Entrepreneurs

📆 April 30, 2025
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Making Hardtech Entrepreneurship (a Little) Easier in NYC

📆 March 17, 2025
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AI, Cybersecurity, and the Power of Networks with Neil Daswani BS’96

📆 October 21, 2025
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Celebrating the First MBAxMS Cohort

📆 May 16, 2025
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A Launchpad for Innovation: NSF I-Corps

📆 April 15, 2025
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Tech CEO: Dean Kamen on Innovation, Impact, and Reinventing Medicine

📆 February 27, 2025
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From Theorist to Tech CEO

📆 July 7, 2025
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Congratulations 2025 Startup Columbia Winners!

📆 May 14, 2025
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Columbia Engineering Mourns IT Exec and Entrepreneur Edward Botwinick BS’58

📆 March 19, 2025
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Ioannis Kymissis Elected to the National Academy of Inventors

📆 December 11, 2024
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