Overview
Interested in pursuing a career that requires entrepreneurial skills? A minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship is a great option. This minor, which is open to both business and non-business majors, enables you to gain some proficiency in entrepreneurship while majoring in another discipline.
Courses and activities that emphasize the application of business theories to small ventures will be combined with experiential and project-based learning in the classroom and business community.
With an interdisciplinary spirit, this minor will add value to all majors, including management, supply chain, accounting, nursing, engineering, sustainable agriculture, and pharmacy.
An Innovation and Entrepreneurship minor will enable you to:
- Identify and evaluate business opportunities
- Develop and execute a business concept
- Assess and obtain required resources
- Measure outcomes and plan strategy
- Manage the growth of new ventures
Curriculum
A total of 18 credits is required for a minor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Required Courses:
- INE 149 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- INE 247 Business of Innovation: The Design Process
- INE 249 Business of Innovation: Lean Startup
Select 3 from the following (must fulfill any prerequisites)
- EGR 325 Engineering Entrepreneurship I
- EGR 326 Engineering Entrepreneurship II
- ELE 403G* Launching a Technology Startup
- INE 318 Intellectual Property and its Global Implications
- INE 348 Business of innovation: Social Design
- INE 349* Topics in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- INE 449* Entrepreneurship
- MGT 104G Tackling Grand Social and Ecological Challenges
- MGT 450* Small Business Management
Minor Requirements
- Students must declare Innovation and Entrepreneurship as a minor field of study the semester in which the student expects to complete 75 credit hours.
- Requirements are satisfied by completion of the 18 credits of related studies offered by the College of Business and the College of Engineering.
- A minimum average of 2.0 must be earned in the 18 credits required for the minor.
- At least three courses for the minor must be earned at the University of Rhode Island.
- No more than two courses may apply to both the major and minor fields of study. Courses in general education may be used for the minor. Courses in the minor may not be taken under the Pass/Fail option.