CMKL Corporate Innovation Project
A place where academics and corporates partner up for success!
Do you have a good and solid entrepreneurial idea that you want to bring it to life? And Corporates, have you considered shaking hands with academics to foster your innovation and growth?
Join a cohort of peer companies and work with Carnegie Mellon - CMKL Program graduate students to investigate what’s possible over the course of a semester.
At The Venture, we pair teams of graduate students with companies looking to be more entrepreneurial. We incorporate, explore ideas, develop robust prototypes, and find key customers and investors.
The Venture is an innovative group focused on researching and promoting the mission of transformative innovation within corporations by sharing knowledge, activities and resources.
Testing and validating ideas in a controlled environment allows companies to build more robust and customer-oriented solutions.
Gain new techniques and tools during the course to apply to future innovation projects. Get the insider intelligence and insights needed to accelerate their go to market strategy.
Interact with high potential graduate students and establish recruiting relationships. Students who will potentially turn into young professionals and bring a wealth of new knowledge into their company.
Meet other executives focused on developing innovation competencies at other organizations. Be able to access and utilize the latest technological advancements to produce next-generation products and services.
Educating students to serve as leaders in the innovation economy with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to develop, scale and deliver breakthrough solutions to real-world problems.
Learn methods for developing business ideas.
Embrace your creative confidence
Collaborate with the whole cohort
Prototype, test, fail, repeat. Eliminate risk through experimentation
In-person sessions on campus (CMKL University) or online sessions (due to Covid-19) attended by key employees of each partner company.
Weekly check-in (In-person/Online) from same key employees to provide feedback on student work and project direction.
Financial contribution to CMKL University to sponsor a project. Please reach out to learn details.
The following course projects illustrate how ECE graduates bring creativity into our industrial partners and tech communities to create benefits at a business and societal level through innovation and entrepreneurship. Many are still operating, some have sold, and others evolved into something new.
