Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute

Growing up with siblings who have disabilities made Will Bubenik, STHM ’18, realize the importance of accessibility. “I saw from a very early age that it wasn’t that they had trouble accessing the world, it’s that the world wasn’t accessible to them,” says Bubenik.  His concern for his siblings and their ability to have access […]

At the Fox School of Business, there is an emphasis on investing in innovation and entrepreneurship to help address social problems. This mission ensures that the school generates a positive impact on the city of Philadelphia and across the globe.  This sense of social responsibility in entrepreneurship and corporate culture runs deep in Fox School […]

Temple’s own Silicon Valley is about to become a reality at Temple I: The Tech Mansion. 

Philip Michael, entrepreneur, and co-founder of NYCE, a real estate startup, set his sights on Temple University as the site of his own version of a co-living “hacker house” for student entrepreneurs with business venture ideas.

Many people started hobbies in 2020 due to being at home during the pandemic. However, Class of 2023 business management major Torri Burrell took her hobby to a new level. She always had a love for baking—at 12 years old, she started out making simple cakes for family gatherings. However, Burrell wanted to master the […]

What do you do when your internships have been canceled because of the global pandemic? Brothers Kaleb and Kolby Rush decided to create their own real-world experiences. Risk management major Kaleb, Class of 2023, and his brother Kolby, who recently graduated from Penn State, combined their complementary skills and interests to start Saint Rocco’s Treats. […]

Welcome to the future. It was an abrupt adjustment! The COVID-19 pandemic definitely caught most of us by surprise. Then again, organizations with robust innovation intelligence functions were ready to adapt, even if they had never envisioned this specific scenario. That’s because the trends now reflected in our radically different reality actually have been on […]

Temple alumnus to pitch company during Friday, March 5, episode of hit television series PHILADELPHIA, March 1, 2021 — Since its founding in November 2017, Simply Good Jars has enjoyed quite the rise. The company’s Simply Smart Fridges were blanketed all over the city, present in gyms, hotels, coworking spaces and even the convention center. […]

The 23rd Annual Innovative Idea Competition Finalist Event took on its first-ever virtual format this November, where the event was live-streamed on YouTube as this year’s twelve finalists competed for part of the $5000 prize package. The 2020 Grand Prize-winning team was Healthy RFP, submitted by team leader Eric Friedman, a graduate student at the […]

It’s official! The 2020 Innovative Idea Competition Finalists have been selected and will pitch at the Finalist Event this Thursday, November 12th to an expert judging panel, and the track and grand prize winners will take home cash prizes! Our finalists represent six schools at Temple University: College of Engineering, College of Science and Technology, […]

Earlier this month, the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute kicked off this year’s Social Entrepreneurship Summit series with an event presented in partnership with the Innovation Leaders Speaker Series featuring Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a social enterprise Eliminating the Idea of Waste®. Szaky attended Princeton University, where his freshman experience learning profit- and […]

The Lori Hermelin Bush Seed Fund launched in 2017 by Lori Bush, former CEO of Rodan and Fields (Fox ‘85) in partnership with the Fox School of Business and the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute (IEI). The Lori Hermelin Bush Seed Fund supports ideas and models that advance women in entrepreneurship, and since its inception, the […]

Q&A with Professor Marilyn Anthony about Solving Wicked Social Problems If you’re like me, you want to make a difference in the world, but don’t always know if your efforts are really making a difference. Plus, as we know now more than ever, some of the world’s problems can feel too big to solve. But […]

Early last Thursday evening, the 1810 Accelerator hosted the most recent installment of Temple’s Innovation Leader Speaker Series; a panel discussion on Agile Product Development. This round of innovation-based discussion was led by Kerry Slade, Assistant Academic Director for the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute, and featured examples of how the agile method is used to develop […]

It was Philadelphia that Ben Franklin called home when he tied a key to a kite, flew it during a storm, got struck by lighting and discovered the harnessing power of electricity. Since then, the City of Philadelphia has not only been known as the birthplace of our country but a haven for thinkers, innovators […]

B. PHL—Philadelphia’s first citywide innovation festival—will take place from October 15th-17th, aiming to build the city’s reputation as an innovation hub and highlight entrepreneurial organizations ranging from universities to Fortune 500 companies to individual entrepreneurs. Spearheaded by several of the city’s leading corporate innovators, including Independence Blue Cross, Comcast, and Visit Philadelphia, B.PHL will offer […]