Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Map

List of Partners

This is not an exhaustive list of the entire ecosystem, but a general overview.

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Partners, Resources, & Programs - Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation (OVCRI)

INTERNAL PARTNERS

• Grainger Engineering
• City Scholars & Startup City Scholars
• Discovery Partners Institute
• Chicago Innovation Exchange (CIE) & Illinois Partnership
• Quantum Accelerator
• Siebel Center for Design
• Technology Entrepreneur Center (TEC)
• Gies Business
• Origin Ventures Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership (OVAEL)
• Brand Hub
• Office of Technology Management
• IGB – Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
• Illinois Ventures
• Cancer Center at Illinois
• EnterpriseWorks & EW 2.0
• Research Park
• OVCRI – Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation
• Student Organizations
• NCSA – National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• Innovation Living-Learning Community (TEC & University Housing)
• Carle Illinois College of Medicine
• Translational Research Facility

URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

• Pygmalion Tech Festival
• Champaign County Economic Development Corporation
• Illinois Ag Tech Accelerator
• Innovation Celebration
• Champaign-Urbana CEO Roundtable

NATIONAL & REGIONAL

• Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network
• Mayo Clinic & Illinois Alliance
• Discovery Accelerator Institute
• Illinois University Incubator Network
• Illinois Innovation Network
• Midwest Engineering Entrepreneurship Network
• Entrepreneurship Living-Learning Community Roundtable
• Engineering Innovation Leadership Council
• National & Midwest I-Corps Programs
• Jump ARCHES & OSF Healthcare

Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation (OVCRI)

ENTERPRISEWORKS

• AWARE seed grants & mentoring
• Designer-in-Residence Program
• Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program
• Entrepreneurship Workshops
• FAST Center SBIR & STTR Assistance
• Incubator labs, offices, & maker space
• I-Start Accelerator Program

RESEARCH PARK

• AgTech Innovation Summit
• Catalyze: Networking Event
• Company Internships
• Corporate Startup Intros
• Corporate Innovation Centers
• CU Women in Tech
• Entrepreneurship Workshops
• Illinois Reboot Tech Training
• Recruitment Services
• Workforce Development

Illinois Ventures

• Venture Capital & Seed Funding for tech startups from the University of Illinois System
• Evergreen Fund

Office of Technology Management

• Disclosure & Licensing Information
• Illinois Proof of Concept Program (IPOC)

Carle Illinois College of Medicine

• Health Make-A-Thon
• Health Maker Lab

Siebel Center for Design (SCD)

• Assessment & Research Lab
• Design Thinking Courses
• SCD Scholars & Fellows
• Workshops
• The Shop: Maker Lab

Grainger College of Engineering

TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEUR CENTER (TEC)

• Alchemy Technology Foundry
• Cozad New Venture Challenge
• Entrepreneurship Courses, Certificates, & Advising
• Illinois Innovation Award (IIA)
• Innovation, Leadership, & Engineering Entrepreneurship (ILEE) BS Dual Degree
• Innovation Living-Learning Community (TEC & University Housing)
• Intellectual Property Clinic (TEC & College of Law)
• NSF I-Corps
• Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship Workshop
• SocialFuse
• Startup City Scholars (TEC & Grainger Engineering)

Health Care Engineering Systems Center (HCESC)

• Jump ARCHES (with OSF Healthcare and University of Illinois College of Medicine -

Peoria)

Other (Grainger & University Partners)

• Office of the Associate Dean for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• City Scholars & Startup City Scholars (Grainger, UIC, DPI, UChicago, Polsky)
• ECE Open Lab (ECE)
• IDEA Lab: Innovation, Discovery, Design, & Data Lab (Grainger Engineering Library)
• Mottier Innovation Challenge (ISE)

Gies College of Business

ORIGIN VENTURES ACADEMY FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP (OVAEL)

• iVenture Accelerator
• Illinois Social Innovation
• EntreCORPS
• Entrepreneurs Without Borders

OTHER

• Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Major
• Entrepreneurship Courses
• Illinois Maker Lab

Student Organizations

• AXISMED – Healthcare Innovation Pre-incubator
• CUBE CONSULTING – Business, Engineering, & Design Consulting
• ENTRECORPS (Gies) – Startup Consulting
• FOUNDERS: Illinois Entrepreneurs – Student Startup Programs
• ILLINOIS ENACTUS – Social Entrepreneurship Projects
• OTCR CONSULTING – Business Consulting
• ZERO2ONE – Student Startup Programs

Other Internal Partners & Programs

Brand Hub – Hub for Brand Innovation & Advertising Technology
(Sandage Dept. of Advertising, SCD, & Technology Services)

• Professional Online Certificates & Development
• Workshops & Seminars

Cancer Center at Illinois

Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB)

• Kleinmuntz Center

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

• Fiddler Innovation Fellowship

University Housing 

• Innovation Living-Learning Community

CU Community Fab Lab

Innovation Expo (TEC, Founders, Innovation LLC)

External Partners & Programs

URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

• Champaign County Economic Development Corporation
• Champaign-Urbana CEO Roundtable (Research Park)
• Illinois Ag Tech Accelerator (gener8tor, Serra Ventures, Research Park)
• Innovation Celebration (Champaign County EDC, TEC, & Parkland College)
• Pygmalion Tech Festival

CHICAGO

• Chicago Innovation Exchange (CIE) & Illinois Partnership
• Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE)
• City Scholars & Startup City Scholars (Grainger, UIC, DPI, UChicago, Polsky)
• Discovery Partners Institute (DPI)
• Duality Quantum Accelerator (CQE, Grainger, UChicago, Polsky)
• ThinkChicago (City of Chicago, World Business Chicago, UI System, TEC, City Colleges of

Chicago)

• Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at UChicago
• University of Illinois – Chicago (UIC)

NATIONAL & REGIONAL

• Discovery Accelerator Institute (IBM & Grainger)
• Engineering Innovation Leadership Council (NSF, EILC & Grainger)
• Entrepreneurship Living-Learning Community Roundtable (ELLC & TEC)
• Illinois Innovation Network
• Illinois University Incubator Network
• Jump ARCHES (HCESC & OSF Healthcare, UI College of Medicine - Peoria)
• Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN & Grainger)
• Mayo Clinic & Illinois Alliance
• Midwest Engineering Entrepreneurship Network (MEEN & TEC)
• NSF I-Corps