Event Entrepreneurship Essentials (E2): Customer Discovery for Startups with Melissa Byrn November 10, 2026 Join the Polsky Center and Melissa Byrn, Assistant Dean for Clinical Research at the University of Chicago Biological Sciences Division, for an informative workshop on early stage customer discovery for...
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Program Entrepreneurship Essentials Build foundational startup skills through workshops covering strategy, finance, marketing, sales, and venture development.
News Melissa Harris Joins U of C’s Entrepreneurship Center Melissa Harris, the former Chicago Tribune columnist who wrote about innovators and innovation, is now helping promote that work. Read more.
News UChicago Scientists Selected for Argonne’s Entrepreneurship Program Two University of Chicago innovators developing quantum technologies are among six selected for Argonne National Laboratory’s entrepreneurship program, Chain Reaction Innovations, which helps scientists launch and scale their businesses. The...
Event Entrepreneurship Essentials (E2): Building a Pitch Deck with Melissa Harris November 5, 2026 Join the Polsky Center and Entrepreneur-in-Residence Melissa Harris, MBA ’16, for an informative workshop on how to build a pitchdeck. A great pitchdeck is more than a collection of slides....
News Polsky Supports 13 STEM Projects in Spring 2020 I-Corps Program Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the latest cohort of its Polsky I-Corps program, a 7-week highly-experiential program designed to empower UChicago scientists, researchers, and...
News Polsky Supports 13 Teams in Spring Quarter I-Corps Cohort The Polsky Center ran its National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported I-Corps program virtually during the Spring quarter and accepted the largest number of teams of any cohort managed to-date. Polsky supported...
News A Low Tolerance for ‘No’: In Conversation with Polsky’s Innovation Programs Director Breaking boundaries is not glamorous or easy, but having a low tolerance for ‘no’ and finding mentors can help advance professional opportunities for women in historically male-dominated industries. As we...
News Polsky Teams with National Labs, NSF’s I-Corps to Support Midwest Deep Tech Ecosystem The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has partnered with two of the Department of Energy’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Programs (LEEP) and the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) I-Corps program to provide...
News Immunoengineering Conference to Highlight the Latest Developments in Industry, Academia, and UChicago Startups The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering’s Chicago Immunoengineering Innovation Center (CIIC) in partnership with the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is hosting Immunoengineering 2021 – which will highlight the...
News Polsky Center Teams Up with $15 Million Great Lakes Innovation Hub to Catalyze Innovation in the Midwest The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has joined the Great Lakes Innovation Corps Hub, which was established by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support innovation...
