Our Unique Entrepreneurial Curriculum

When your college or university partners with the Institute for Entrepreneurship, we deliver a proven educational system taught by successful entrepreneurial professionals while also supporting your students with exceptional resources.


Our program is unlike any other curriculum. With our network of diverse entrepreneurial communities, we not only deliver the courses, and the professors, we also help fill the desks for you.


The Entrepreneurial Economy

ENT 100 - 3 Credits

This course is designed to enable students to recognize the unique opportunities and challenges faced by entrepreneurs in today's dynamic business environment and combine essential business and interpersonal skills for a successful career as an entrepreneur. Both the structure and dynamics underpinning today's entrepreneurial economy will be examined. Major topics areas will include the role of small business in the economy, how start-up firms compete for competitive advantage, and the 'mind-set' required to be a successful business owner. The course will underscore the importance of having a strong sense of personal values, and a healthy tolerance for risk taking.

Public Relations and Networking Skills

ENT 250 - 3 Credits

This course is designed to build effective communication and networking skills so that students can leverage contacts and relationships to create business opportunities. The importance of building a professional and trustworthy business reputation is also addressed.

Sales and Negotiation Skills

ENT 350 - 3 Credits

This course builds the skills and techniques required for successful negotiations with suppliers, buyers, contractors, employees, financial institutions, etc. The strategies and tactics required to negotiate win-win agreements even from a position of lesser power are covered. A negotiations simulation will provide an experiential learning opportunity for students.

Legal Aspects for Entrepreneurs

ENT 351 - 3 Credits

This course provides student teams with the opportunity to compete in a simulation exercise that exposes them to the day-to day challenges owners/managers face in a start-up environment. Decision-making skills and the ability to operate under conditions of uncertainty will be honed. Students will analyze and interpret dynamic economic, financial, and market factors in order to make sound business decisions using a technology-based business simulation exercise.

Entrepreneurship Experience I

ENT 352 - 3 Credits

This course is designed to enable students to recognize the unique opportunities and challenges faced by entrepreneurs in today's dynamic business environment and combine essential business and interpersonal skills for a successful career as an entrepreneur. Both the structure and dynamics underpinning today's entrepreneurial economy will be examined. Major topics areas will include the role of small business in the economy, how start-up firms compete for competitive advantage, and the 'mind-set' required to be a successful business owner. The course will underscore the importance of having a strong sense of personal values, and a healthy tolerance for risk taking.

Venture Capital

ENT 353 - 3 Credits

This course examines the growth of the venture capital market and provides students with an understanding of the advantages and risks associated with venture capital financing. Both start-up and growth needs are explored. The course will focus on the more practical aspects of structuring transactions that add value for the firm, owners, and financial backers.

Social Entrepreneurship

ENT 450 - 3 Credits

This course is designed to enable students to recognize the unique opportunities and challenges faced by entrepreneurs in today s dynamic business environment and combine essential business and interpersonal skills for a successful career as an entrepreneur. Both the structure and dynamics underpinning today's entrepreneurial economy will be examined. Major topics areas will include the role of small business in the economy, how start-up firms compete for competitive advantage, and the 'mind-set' required to be a successful business owner. The course will underscore the importance of having a strong sense of personal values, and a healthy tolerance for risk taking.

The Entrepreneurial Economy

ENT 100 - 3 Credits

This course is examines the importance of societal wealth ventures, social responsibility, community outreach, and giving back to the community in order to ensure balance between private and societal interests. The concept of identifying social issues as new business opportunities is fully explored

Social Entrepreneurship

ENT 450 - 3 Credits

This course is examines the importance of societal wealth ventures, social responsibility, community outreach, and giving back to the community in order to ensure balance between private and societal interests. The concept of identifying social issues as new business opportunities is fully explored.

Special Market Sectors

ENT 451 - 3 Credits

This course is examines the unique opportunities and challenges inherent in a number of special small business market sectors such as family-owned, professional, franchises, services, and import/exporting.

Entrepreneurship Experience II

ENT 452 - 3 Credits

This course is the capstone applications class where student teams will compete in a simulation exercise that exposes them to the day-to day challenges owners/managers face in a start-up environment. Decision-making skills and the ability to operate under conditions of uncertainty will be honed. Students will analyze and interpret dynamic economic, financial, and market factors in order to make sound business decisions using a technology-based business simulation exercise.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

ENT 453 - 3 Credits

This course examines the importance of creating innovative work environments in small, medium, and large-scale organizations in order to ensure the long-term competitiveness of the firm. Innovation is explored from the perspectives of product development, internal process improvements, and strategic shifts. Students will have the opportunity to participate in an experiential innovation project.