Center for Entrepreneurship
At Worcester State University, the Center for Entrepreneurship is dedicated to encouraging and supporting students and alumni to be entrepreneurial in the broadest sense possible—anything from starting a business with a brand-new idea, to bringing innovation to a family’s business, to being an “intrapreneur” who nurtures innovation within an existing organization.
For students, we sponsor activities that enhance the written and oral communication, teamwork, ethical decision-making, and critical-thinking skills taught in the classroom and provide opportunities to apply that learning. Our courses and extracurricular activities focus specifically on collaboration and how to work for, own, or manage small businesses.
Alumni can benefit from our relationship with Worcester’s Idea Lab. Through a special arrangement, WSU sponsors office space in the Idea Lab for new start-ups whose founders have ties to WSU.
The center, which is housed in the Business Administration and Economics Department, also oversees 2 contests designed to spark the entrepreneurial spirit of WSU students and made possible by generous donors: the Robert K. O’Brien Next Big Idea Contest and the DCU Innovation Contest. Both contests are outstanding opportunities to showcase WSU students’ ideas and work.