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Innovation & Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate

Inspired by the PhD Innovation Program, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate program empowers scholars across STEM disciplines to bridge the gap between research and real-world impact.

This program equips students with the skills needed to commercialize their work by translating ideas into marketable solutions and navigating the complexities of bringing them to market.

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Eligibility

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate program is open to any registered graduate student or postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth. Participants must receive permission from their principal investigator (PI) or research supervisor.

Requirements

The program has two main components: three required courses and one capstone project. Students receive a certificate upon successful completion of each.

COURSE TYPENUMBER OF REQUIRED COURSESCOURSES
Certificate Coursework3 courses

Choose three courses from the following:

ENGS 172.2: Techno-economic Analysis in a Developing Country Context
ENGM 178: Technology Assessment
ENGM 179.1: Strategy and ENGM 179.2: Organizational Behavior (must be taken together)
ENGM 180: Accounting and Finance
ENGM 181: Marketing
ENGM 186: Technology Project Management
ENGM 187: Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship
ENGM 188: Law for Technology & Entrepreneurship
ENGM 189.1: Medical Device Commercialization and ENGM 189.2: Medical Device Development (must be taken together)
ENGM 191: Product Design and Development
ENGG 321.1: Advanced Innovation & Entrepreneurship I and ENGG 321.2: Advanced Innovation & Entrepreneurship II (must be taken together)*

Qualifying Capstone Project1 course

Choose one course from the following:

ENGG 321.1: Advanced Innovation & Entrepreneurship I and ENGG 321.2: Advanced Innovation & Entrepreneurship II (must be taken together)*

I-Corps Program

Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Cancer

Dartmouth Innovations Accelerator for Digital Health

Greenshot Climate Solutions Accelerator

Students may propose a capstone project for approval by emailing Professor Eric Fossum at eric.r.fossum@dartmouth.edu with Jessica Moody cc'ed at jessica.moody@dartmouth.edu.

* ENGG 321.1 and ENGG 321.2 may be taken as either certificate coursework or a qualifying capstone project, but may not be counted toward both. This course is typically restricted to PhD Innovation Fellows except for extraordinary cases. Instructor permission is required.