Princeton innovators turn discoveries into tools to benefit humanity.
The Princeton Innovation Video Series highlights researchers who are making a difference through their discoveries and entrepreneurial spirit.
Check out the full series to learn about each discovery's potential to improve life, benefit the planet and grow the economy.
START Entrepreneurs
The START Entrepreneurs program is an integrated program that is part academic fellowship and part startup accelerator. The goal of the program is to help aspiring commercial and social entrepreneurs translate academic scholarship into highly impactful new ventures. The START program strongly encourages applications from groups that have been historically, and are presently, underrepresented in academic entrepreneurship.
Princeton Startup Bootcamp, Powered by VentureWell
VentureWell, a leading startup accelerator, provides an intensive entrepreneurial education workshop for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. If you already have an idea for a product, service or solution—that’s great, but it is not required! Sessions are held in January and June each year.
Engage 2022
Upcoming Events
This provocative and stimulating faculty presentation kicks off a TigerTalks series focusing on social entrepreneurship and impact investing. This is one of the major themes of the 2023 slate of TigerTalks events scheduled throughout the year.
Technology is a key driver of both innovation and disruption. This TigerTalks event will explore the journeys of four exceptional alumni founders and their development and application of technology to help change and positively impact the world.
Princeton University's Empower conference strives to promote diversity, equity and inclusion by celebrating and empowering academic entrepreneurs who are committed to these efforts, including those from historically underrepresented groups.
Princeton Research Day is a celebration of the research, scholarly and creative work conducted by early-career researchers from across the campus in the arts and humanities, natural sciences, social sciences and engineering.