Create new ventures or pursue successful careers in innovation-related roles with larger companies.
The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Concentration within the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA-IE) prepares students to create new ventures or pursue successful careers in innovation-related roles with larger companies. This concentration provides an in-depth overview of the entrepreneurial process with 12 credit hours of core courses.
An extensive list of electives allows students to tailor the concentration to their specific areas of interest. Electives span across degree programs and include courses such as startup launch, innovation and creativity, social entrepreneurship, international marketing, professional selling, digital and internet marketing, or an internship with a startup or larger company. With advance permission, up to two upper-level courses from any JSOM major may be included to help meet the 12 credit hours of electives that are required.
Graduates of the BSBA-IE program typically launch their own companies or pursue innovative positions with established firms.
Key Features
- Ranked No. 28 in Princeton Review’s Top Undergraduate Entrepreneur Programs in 2024.
- Exceptional faculty with significant real world professional experience, including as company founders, CEO’s, CTO’s and investment professionals
- Startup Launch courses enable students to validate their business concept and launch their company while receiving mentoring and academic course credit.
- Internships with startups or larger companies; Projects with new ventures and established companies.
- Interaction with entrepreneurs and venture finance professionals
- Outstanding student programs
- Work alongside the Department of Defense to solve real-world challenges with the Lean Innovation for Public Service course
- Practice due diligence and experience what it takes to make an investment in a venture as a student analyst in the Seed Fund Venture Analyst Course
Emily Choi, PhD
Director, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Degree Programs
In addition to the exceptional classroom experience, we offer students multiple opportunities to meet, learn from, and network with leading industry professionals, including entrepreneurs, investment professionals and executives from larger companies. Students are encouraged to compete in the annual Business Idea Competition in the fall, participate in the Entrepreneurship Club events and Distinguished Speaker Series, work as interns in startup companies through the Venture Development Center (the UT Dallas incubator), and get involved in the community outreach programs of the award-winning Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship News
Discover how Innovation and Entrepreneurship faculty are researching, publishing, speaking and engaging in the business community. The authors of these articles also include Innovation and Entrepreneurship students, staff and friends.
Student Spotlight: Cat Kim
Cat Kim is pursuing their Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with an Innovation and Entrepreneurship concentration at the Naveen Jindal School of Management.
Series of Life Events Leads JSOM Grad Student to Entrepreneurship
A graduate student at the Naveen Jindal School of Management looks forward to a promising future in entrepreneurship, having recently won three competitions — and taking home $40,000 in cash and prizes in the process.
Women’s Summit Headliner Kendra Scott Charted Her Own Course to Success
Women attending the fourth annual UT Dallas Women’s Summit were encouraged to chart their own entrepreneurial paths by speakers who included jewelry icon Kendra Scott and Kelly Burton, executive director of the Black Innovation Alliance.
UT Dallas Institute Wins Education Award for Program for Middle-School Girls
The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has won a specialty education award from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers for efforts to introduce middle-school girls to STEM-based and entrepreneurial careers.
Texas Business Hall of Fame Scholars Began With Bright Ideas in the Food Biz
A Jindal School MBA student and a recent graduate of the Erik Jonsson School will be the 2021 UT Dallas recipients of Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation Scholar Awards meant to encourage their entrepreneurial efforts.
Jindal School Student’s Organizational Efforts Lead to National Office
When a Jindal School business administration student did not find a favorite club on campus, she decided to start a UTD chapter. Once the group was operational, she ran for national office and got elected president.
Senior Wins Student Entrepreneur and Collegiate Marketer of the Year Awards
A marketing senior recently brought home two major competition awards, one from Dallas Startup Week for her entrepreneurship and one from the DFW chapter of the American Marketing Association, which named her Collegiate Marketer of the Year.
Jindal School Students Earn Scholar Award for ‘Rolling with the Punches’
Three Jindal School students have been named recipients of $15,000 Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation Scholarships.The students as well as the foundation have had to make pandemic-related adjustments to doing business.
Welcome Back: Be Sure to Raise Your (Virtual) Hand
Welcome to fall semester, Jindal School students. You have many options to learn and many opportunities to shine. Whether in class in person or attending online, Senior Associate Dean Monica Powell encourages your participation.
A Message from Jindal School Dean Hasan Pirkul
Jindal School Dean Hasan Pirkul reaches out to students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters with an update on the state of the school as classes resume following spring break and during the coronavirus outbreak.
Autonomous Vehicles: A $4 Trillion Disruption
Cars that drive themselves will disrupt far more than the automotive industry, an engineer for a company that helps power such vehicles said at a Jindal School event presented by the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Tech Titans.
UT Dallas Big Idea Competition Sharpens Students’ Entrepreneurial Mindsets
The annual UT Dallas Big Idea Competition awarded a service that helps applicants align their résumés to keywords in job postings the $25,000 grand prize in an event that showcased five other contenders and gave $40,000 in prizes.
UT Dallas Conference Equips Women to Pursue Entrepreneurship
The second annual UT Dallas Women’s Summit offered interviews and inspirational keynotes from groundbreaking entrepreneurs, three rounds of business-building how-to sessions and more encouragement for women to pursue their own paths.
UT Dallas, Jindal School Featured Prominently on List of Young Innovators
A Jindal School graduate and two current students have been named to 2019NTX Inno Under 25, a list of young leaders and entrepreneurs in North Texas under the age of 25. In all, nine of the 14 honorees have UT Dallas ties.
Restaurateur Talks About Successful Entrepreneurship at Weitzman Institute Event
The Herbert D. Weitzman Institute for Real Estate at the Jindal School hosted restaurateur Phil Romano at a special event. Romano, creator of EatZi’s, Trinity Groves and other eateries, spoke about his new book and his journey as an entrepreneur.
Institute’s Innovate(her) Program Earns Tech Titan Award
The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s Innovate(her) program for middle-school girls won a university-level Tech Titan award for to steering students toward and inspiring them to pursue engineering and technology-related disciplines.
AT&T Funds STEM Learning Company Founded by Jindal School Grad Student
A Jindal School student’s startup is the first North Texas company accepted into an AT&T accelerator program.The STEM-learning company focuses on teaching kids coding, electronics and engineering in a fun way.
JSOM Entrepreneurship Program Leads Enterprising Student to New Career Path
Jindal School courses, Blackstone LaunchPad mentoring, UT Dallas and other university competitions — and even failed ideas — have laid the groundwork for a rising innovator to graduate into a full-time career as an entrepreneur.
Marketing Student Turns Strawberry Beauty Hack Into Hot-Selling Serum
Fragrant strawberries mean the sweet smell of success for a JSOM marketing student who developed a sellout skin-care serum using the aromatic fruit. Using marketing and innovation skills learned at UT Dallas, she already is working on new ideas.
Earth Day Conference Drills Into Energy Entrepreneurship
Innovative ideas in all kinds of energy, from traditional coal, gas and oil, to renewable geothermal, nuclear, solar and wind, were up for discussion at the first Earth Entrepreneurship Forum, held at UT Dallas on Earth Day.
Second Annual EmTech Summit Scores High Marks with Gaming Aficionados
Focused on esports and gaming, the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s second annual Emerging Technologies Summit homed in on their economic viability and highlighted the launch of the UT Dallas esports program.
Cannabis Entrepreneur Plants Business Ideas Among UT Dallas Students
Cannabis and marijuana are illegal in Texas and at the federal level, but entrepreneur Robert Birnbaum said prohibition is fading away during his insider’s look at the industry recently presented by two Jindal School-based institutes.
Speakers Share Valuable Insights at New Wise Words Event
Graduate students on the Jindal School Dean’s Council debuted Wise Words, a TED Talks-inspired event to encourage conversation and out-of-the-box thinking, with presentations from a student, faculty member, community leader and corporate employer.
Entrepreneurship Luminary Offers Advice to Students During UT Dallas Visit
“Obssesion,” VIP entrepreneur Brad Feld told students during a campus visit, is what differentiates a successful startup from one that fails. Feld is co-founder of an accelerator that backs the UT Dallas Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Capital Factory Join Forces
An agreement between the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Capital Factory marks the latest in a series of partnerships to elevate the role of UT Dallas in entrepreneur-driven economic development in North Texas and North America.
UT Dallas Seed Fund Invests in Alum’s Child-Friendly Gaming Video Platform
A gaming video platform for kids started by a JSOM online MBA graduate has gained $25,000 from the UT Dallas Seed Fund, a program that invests in technology startups founded by UTD students, faculty, staff, alumni and other program affiliates.
Jindal School Innovation and Entrepreneurship Creator and Crusader Retires
Colleagues, students, alumni, family and friends celebrated the Jindal School’s founder of innovation and entrepreneurship programs and the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Dr. Joseph C. Picken, at a December retirement reception.
Jindal School Students Gain Consulting Experience in Collaborative Class Project
Jindal School graduate students in the Entrepreneurial Experience class served as consultants to a technology consulting company looking for fresh ideas that could transform its business model and lay the foundation for future growth.
Experts Explain How North Texas Can Become Epicenter of Fintech Disruption
New financial technologies — fintech — are reordering the financial services industry. Professionals schooled in the changes made a case for Dallas and the surrounding region’s competitive advantage at a recent NTX Disruptors event at JSOM.
Disruptive Digital Technologies Drive the Need for Innovation
Recent disruptive digital innovations have changed the relative cost calculus and thus the best business structures and best business models in most industries. Digital transformation is underway.
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