Purpose


The Institute for Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (IIIE@Tandon) is the focal point for all research, educational, and service activities in support of Tandon’s goal to integrate Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship into its academic culture and to advance student and faculty appreciation of and skills in inventiveness, innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurial and design thinking.

The IIIE draws its strengths from the contributions of faculty from multiple departments, a structure that facilitates the integration of inventions and innovations emerging from the departmental faculty and students and linking them to entrepreneurship, i.e. the proactive consideration and realization of open source and commercialization opportunities through various institutional pathways such as Tandon’s Tech Transfer and Future Labs, which facilitate licensing, joint development agreements with industrial partners, and startup incubation.

    • Serving as a one-stop shop for all school-wide activities that promote invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship
    • Generating a nurturing environment for the translation of science and engineering breakthroughs into new technologies, products, and processes in service to society
    • Exploring new learning opportunities that will provide every student with the basic knowledge and experience of entrepreneurial thinking
    • Connecting faculty and students with the NYU Tandon Future Labs, the Convergence of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), the NexusLabs, PowerbridgeNY, NYCRIN, the VR/AR Lab as well as with innovation- and entrepreneurship-related activities across all of NYU such as the Leslie eLab, the Entrepreneurial Institute, the Berkely Innovation Lab, and the Creative Destruction Lab
    • Promoting student participation in NYU Tandon and other NYU competitions such as InnoVention, the Summer Launchpad Program, and the $300k Entrepreneurs Challenge
    • Linking the NYU Tandon community to the broader NYC technology scene through hackathons, workshops, competitions, guest lectures and tech talks
    • Creating the infrastructure for faculty and students to turn their ideas into successful ventures

 

About

The Institute for Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (IIIE@Tandon) serves as the focal point for all research, educational, and service activities in support of Tandon’s goal to integrate Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship into its academic culture and to advance student and faculty appreciation of and skills in inventiveness, innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurial and design thinking.

Contact

Kurt Becker
kurt.becker@nyu.edu
Vice Dean for Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship