Entrepreneurship

MIT Sloan is the management school for entrepreneurship that matters.

Centers + Intiatives

Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

Our mission is to advance knowledge and educate students in innovation-driven entrepreneurship in a manner that will best serve the world in the 21st century.

Centers + Intiatives

MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship

The MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship was founded on the belief that entrepreneurs and their innovation-driven solutions are key to advancing sustainable and inclusive prosperity in global growth markets.

REAP

MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program

This dynamic global initiative engages with communities around the world to strengthen innovation-driven entrepreneurial ecosystems and transform economies.

U.S. universities are filling a regional innovation gap

Universities can seed regional economic growth by attracting and training top talent who go on to file patents and found local companies, a new study shows.

Create a work environment where innovation thrives

From defining impact to soliciting input, here’s how to drive innovation within your organization.

Trust the Process: A podcast on the journey of MIT entrepreneurs

Experts on business growth talk about time management, leadership, team building, and more, as well as their journeys taking ideas to execution.

MIT entrepreneurs explain what founders need to know now

Launching a venture? Here’s advice from MIT entrepreneurs in residence on navigating artificial intelligence, the economy, and uncertainty.

3 MIT startups taking on the global waste challenge

These alumni entrepreneurs are applying MIT know-how to keep goods out of landfills, reduce energy costs in recycling, and provide safe sanitation.

Universities must become active launchpads for innovation

Research labs must move beyond passive spillovers and become active launchpads for new companies that leverage federally funded research, say Gene R. Keselman, lecturer, and Dame Fiona Murray, associate dean of innovation, both from MIT Sloan.

Download: Insights for success in entrepreneurship

This new report collects insights from MIT Sloan experts, with practical guidance for launching ventures, shaping strategy, and making innovation work.

MIT’s singular passion for entrepreneurship is inspiring, energizing, a little bit exhausting, and a whole lot of fun. This passion is also an essential element of our strategy to organize for positive impact and transform our world.

Sally Kornbluth

President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

We’re not here for knowledge for knowledge’s sake; we’re here to apply that knowledge to the world’s greatest challenges.

Bill Aulet

Managing Director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

The MBA E&I Certificate gave me the skills to be an entrepreneur. Without it, I wouldn't be starting my climate-tech venture.

Stwart Peña Feliz, MBA '23

Co-founder & CEO of MacroCycle

We tell entrepreneurs not to be afraid that they may have to pivot, but also to understand that if they pivot around core strategic choices, it will take time and effort. In most cases, a startup only gets so many chances to do that.

Scott Stern

David Sarnoff Professor of Management at MIT Sloan

Our mission at the Trust Center is to advance the field of innovation-driven entrepreneurship everywhere ... We have to practice entrepreneurship in a rigorous, systematic way that increases the odds of success.