Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Open to all Luddy students and the broader IU community, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program helps students seize their future and do things that have never been done before.

We support aspiring innovators and entrepreneurs through a clinic, workshops, mentoring, scholarships, and workspace.

The Shoemaker Innovation Center is a campus-wide, student-focused source of creative and effective approaches to supporting innovation and entrepreneurship at Indiana University. In addition to housing the Cheng Wu Build Clinic, which is focused on product development support, the center regularly hosts talks by experienced technology inventors and entrepreneurs as well as workshops to facilitate the development of the technical skills students need for the successful implementation of their startup concepts.

The clinic facilitates the Luddy School's support of student startups and relationship with industry partners through the following services:

• Assist student startups with system analysis, design, and implementation of a minimum viable prototype.
• Develop business and technical content to enable student growth in areas related to project management, product development, and related technical areas.

To request resources from the center, please complete the Shoemaker Innovation Center Resource Request Form. For general inquiries, please write to luddysic@iu.edu.

Pitch your innovative idea for a slice of $30,000 in funding. The competition is open to all IU Bloomington students.

Each year, a group of Luddy graduate students travels to Silicon Valley to learn firsthand from successful tech entrepreneurs. You pay for transportation, and donors cover the food, hotel, and logistics costs. Grad students, we’ll email you when the application for the next Velocity Conference goes live.