The Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Nebraska provides five core services to the university and greater community: teaching, coworking, mentorship, competition and research. Its goal is to connect students, faculty and community members with the resources they need to create and manage successful businesses.

Center for Entrepreneurship website

Contact:
Brent Martin, Entrepreneurship Center Coordinator, brent.martin@unl.edu

The College of Engineering enthusiastically embraces its unique role as the singular intellectual and cultural resource for engineering instruction, research and outreach within the state. It provides the people of Nebraska with comprehensive engineering academic programs to fulfill their highest aspirations and ambitions. Students are provided with professors with national and international expertise in their fields, the latest technology, quality facilities, a vast network of successful alumni and friends of the college and caring staff.

This research addresses problems that vex the world and have a grounding of impact on the people, places and institutions of the state of Nebraska. We study complex problems, develop foundational advances, and generate practical solutions to problems.

College of Engineering website

Contact:
Philip Carter, External/Community Relations Coordinator, pcarter2@unl.edu

The Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department is a collection of groundbreaking curriculum, renowned faculty members and plentiful student resources designed to prepare students for the most challenging, innovative and fastest-growing careers of the 21st Century. Faculty and students alike are very actively engaged in research programs. The Design Studio capstone provides undergraduate students an exclusive opportunity to experience real-world system development by creating innovative software and software+hardware solutions to practical problems.

Department of Computer Science & Engineering website

Contact:
Victoria Grdina, Outreach and Communications Associate, victoria.grdina@unl.edu

The Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design (TMFD) actively engages with constituents and colleagues in Nebraska, across the nation and overseas, and is fully connected to the pulse of the textiles and apparel industries and professions. TMFD is committed to assisting apparel and textile-based entrepreneurs. The department has expertise to share with entrepreneurs in all phases of soft goods-based ventures.

Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design website

Contact:
Andrew Zimbroff, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist - Textiles and Apparel Entrepreneurship, zimbroff@unl.edu

The Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program exists to empower enterprise builders. The program equips its student with the skills, mindset and know-how to build and launch a successful enterprise that aligns with their passion and purpose. Students receive assistance in exploring entrepreneurship and then in growing their businesses, should they choose entrepreneurship as their path. Students from across UNL as well as entrepreneurs from the community are welcome.

Engler Agribusiness Program website

Contact:
Brennan Costello, Chief Business Relations Officer, bcostello3@unl.edu

The Glenn Korff School of Music offers both a Masters of Music (MM) and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in performance. To enhance these two degree programs, the Glenn Korff School of Music and College of Business offer a Music Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate. This program adds to existing degrees by helping students explore the wide range of employment opportunities in the industry and to learn how to learn how to market their musical skills and teaching abilities. Some may want to market themselves as soloists or chamber musicians. Others may want to learn how to begin their own teaching studios. Regardless of the specific venture, students will learn how to plan, implement and successfully launch a new business venture.

Glenn Korff School of Music website

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The International Business program's goal is to graduate students who will change the world. They champion this effort by promoting language study, international experience and academic studies. The International Business program leads 16 Global Immersion Experiences. These programs focus on various topics within entrepreneurship, including: Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Ethics, Entrepreneurship and Design (LEED), International Entrepreneurship and Tourism in Africa and Eco-Tourism, Community and Sustainable Development.

International Business Program website

Contact:
Amy Lester, International Business Program Coordinator, amy.lester@unl.edu

At Jacht, students learn the ins and outs of running an advertising agency by handling the accounts of a variety of real-life clients. Jacht offers many creative services including: strategic branding, integrated marketing communications, campaign concepts, videography, photography, social media strategy, print design and public relations.

Jacht website

The Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science & Management is an honors program that combines business and computer science to produce interdisciplinary leaders. The Raikes School offers a project-oriented curriculum that helps students develop deep understanding of both disciplines. Innovation happens here in Nebraska. Prospective UNL students can apply to be a member of the Raikes School, and industry partners can engage students through the Design Studio capstone program.

Raikes School website

Contact:
Anna Pressler, Director of Recruitment & Student Success, anna.pressler@unl.edu

The Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts is currently under development. It will be an internationally distinct program in film and emerging media that explores the boundaries of where cinematic narrative and storytelling intersects with science, the humanities, computer science, engineering, music, fine arts and other disciplines. Courses and curriculum will be available starting fall 2019.

Carson School website

Contact:
Megan Elliott, Director, Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, megan.elliott@unl.edu

The Nebraska Business Development Center (NBDC) is a university-based business consulting program that provides professional level consulting assistance to small businesses in rural Nebraska. The NBDC for Lincoln and Southeast Nebraska is located in the Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship office.

Nebraska Business Development Center website

Contact:
Umeda Islamova, Lincoln Center Director, umeda@unl.edu
Bradley Cain, Lincoln Center Graduate Assistant, bcain4@unl.edu

Nebraska Extension leads entrepreneurship and innovation programs across Nebraska, promoting the embrace of an entrepreneurial mindset and skills to create new businesses. Nebraska Extension launches new leaders through entrepreneurship programming for all age groups.

Nebraska Extension website

Contact:
Dagen Valentine, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Assistant Extension Educator, entrepreneurshipoutreach@unl.edu

NIC is a research campus designed to facilitate new and in-depth partnerships between the University of Nebraska and private sector businesses. NIC is connecting the talents of experts, companies and the university to create a unique culture of innovation. The campus promotes positive energy and fosters interaction and stimulate ideas, collaboration, sustainability and innovation.

Nebraska Innovation Campus website

Contact:
Brooke Goedert, Administrative Coordinator, bgoedert2@unl.edu

Nebraska Innovation Studio — the UNL makerspace — is the creative and collaborative hub of Nebraska Innovation Campus, where makers and builders team up to conceptualize, prototype and iterate projects that solve problems, influence change and comment on our society. NIS is open to anyone in the Lincoln community. You don't need to be affiliated with UNL to join. Nebraska Innovation Studio is about more than a building full of tools — it's about building a culture of innovation.

Nebraska Innovation Studio website

Contact:
Jerry Reif, Shop Manager, jreif@unl.edu

NUtech Ventures’ mission is to commercialize technologies generated from the research and creative activities of UNL. Namely, NUtech Ventures seeks to facilitate the transfer of innovations from the “lab to the marketplace” for the benefit of society. Whether you’re interested in seeing your innovations licensed, in starting a company, or securing developmental funding for your cutting-edge research, NUTech Ventures can help you connect with potential partners, entrepreneurs and resources.

NUTech Ventures website

Contact:
Alyssa Amen, Marketing & Communications Manager, aamen@nutechventures.org

The Rural Futures Institute (RFI) provides resources to help entrepreneurs unleash the full potential of rural America's leadership, economic capacity, cultural creativity and natural resources. RFI is dedicated to fueling the future of humankind through rural development. RFI connects students from secondary school through adulthood, faculty from NU campuses and beyond and communities of both localities and practice.

Rural Futures Institute website

Contact:
Kayla Schnuelle, Connecting Young Nebraskans Coordinator, kschnuelle@nebraska.edu

The Weibling Entrepreneurship Clinic at the University of Nebraska College of Law provides free advice and legal representation to startup business clients throughout the state of Nebraska. The E-Clinic handles a variety of early-stage legal matters, including entity formation, contract drafting and review, intellectual property protection, regulatory, compliance and other transactional legal matters.

Weibling E-Clinic website

Contact:
LeAnn Frobom, E-Clinic Legal Assistant, lfrobom2@unl.edu