The Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Venture Innovation offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs for students who want to be tomorrow’s business, community, and academic innovators. Faculty in the program discover and disseminate knowledge through their research, supporting Arkansas, economic development and the academic community.
The marketplace has evolved in the past decade or so to provide an increasingly large lane for those who want to pursue their own passions.
Start your own for-profit or non-profit venture. Manage and grow small businesses, or enter the workforce with an entrepreneurial mindset and skills in innovation and technology commercialization.
Learn MoreGain the skills and experiences to turn great ideas into great products. The part-time Master of Science in Product Innovation advances your professional skills through coursework and the hands-on practicum experience – without stepping out of the workforce to advance your education.
Learn MoreThe Entrepreneurship Undergraduate Microcertificate will teach students the core tools necessary to start a new business venture, allowing them to learn the process by the practical building of their own new venture.
Learn MoreThe Organizational Innovation Undergraduate MicroCertificate is designed to help further develop organizational innovation leaders through an undergraduate practicum-based program in organization innovation.
Learn MoreLove biking, fishing, climbing, camping or hiking? Earn an Outdoor Products and Services Micro-Certificate to gain an understanding of the business side of outdoor recreation. This micro-certificate consists of nine credit hours, is open to students from all disciplines and no prerequisites are required.
Learn MoreInterested in creating a sustainable business, financially viable and with a net positive impact on society and the environment? Come join us and earn a Social Innovation Micro-Certificate to gain an understanding of the business side of social change.
This micro-certificate consists of 9 credit hours, is open to students from all disciplines and no prerequisites are required.
Learn MoreThis program provides a fast-paced, experiential environment to develop your skills as a founder alongside intensive mentoring and soft skills development.
Designed to pair graduate students from business and non-business disciplines into an incubation-like setting for exploring ideas and connecting new technologies to market opportunities.
Learn MoreThe department offers a PhD program in Business Administration that prepares students for careers as scholars focused on problems facing businesses. The program offers areas of emphasis in Entrepreneurship, Nonmarket Strategy, and Corporate Social Responsibility, and Micro foundations of Strategy and Entrepreneurship.
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The idea, known as Fay-Day, was conceived during the Converge: Freshmen Innovation Experience, which paired students from the Sam M. Walton College of Business and the College of Engineering.
09/16/2024 | By Brandon Howard
Nhiem Cao and Angel Treat, students in the Master of Science in Product Innovation program, want to make the world “cleaner, greener, greater” through their jet fuel startup company ProPika.
07/12/2024 | By Lori McLemore
Graduate students (l-r) Seth Baker and Morgan Reese present their solutions for more comfortable biking helmets in the Principles of Product Design and Prototyping (SEVI 5443) class, a component in the Master of Science in Product Innovation program.
05/29/2024 | By Lori McLemore