We connect faculty and student founders with advice and mentorship, facilities where they can grow their startups, funding opportunities and campus partners with expertise in IP management and regulatory compliance
Supports incoming first-year students of need who show academic and leadership potential and interest in founding ventures
A business incubator in downtown Durham, NC, which is home to Duke-affiliated startups
Maker space and more, teaching design and entrepreneurial skills. Home to a collaborative effort to discover how to make innovation easier, faster and cheaper
Using virtual communication platforms, experienced advisors help student, staff and faculty founders along the startup journey
In this course, student teams craft solutions to authentic defense-related design challenges posed by program partners (Previously known as Hacking 4 Defense)
Brings together engineering and business graduate students with medical trainees to design solutions to authentic clinical problems
In this follow-up to First-Year Design, engineering undergrads refine projects that have strong potential to be delivered to clients
Free, weekend in-depth sessions with startup and industry experts.
Prepares recent Duke BME PhD grads to launch startups
An accelerator program supporting the development and commercialization of new medical devices
A course in which students investigate their own potentially marketable solutions to problems they identify
Student members share an interest in solving global health care problems and gaining new entrepreneurial skills.
A master's degree program teaching startup strategies and skills
Master's degree and graduate certificate programs which students engage in hands-on design projects alongside Duke Health clinicians.
Provides meeting and instructional space to help Duke students develop and launch new ventures
Entrepreneurship coaching, practice and community for Duke students interested in starting new ventures. A joint program with the Duke I&E Initiative
Supports the Duke entrepreneurial community with an investing platform and a co-investment fund.
Connects investigator-founders to funding, project management, datasets and other resources
A one-year experiential program in innovation and entrepreneurship. An educational program of the Duke I&E Initiative
A university-wide hub connecting Duke students and faculty to educational programs, mentoring, resources and community
A cross-disciplinary certificate that covers innovation, design, business and entrepreneurial action. An educational program of the Duke I&E Initiative
A Duke resource providing support to help meet the regulatory requirements that accompany biomedical translational research
Ensures that Duke innovations reach the marketplace for the benefit of society and to enable future investment in research and innovation
A program based in Duke BME that funds clinician-engineer teams on collaborative projects that address unmet clinical needs
An NFL and Duke CTSI partnership that funds innovation challenges related to head-injury prevention
A creativity incubator offering innovation grants as well as access to 3D printing and other prototyping technologies
A year-long fellowship for current undergraduates in which students create their own startups
Offers high-quality and cost-effective access to nanotech processes — including fabrication, characterization and imaging
A 7,600-square-foot maker space offering reservable workspaces and access to the latest in rapid prototyping technology