BS Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) major is designed to leverage existing strengths in innovation and entrepreneurship by offering students a cross-disciplinary, flexible major that provides them with the knowledge and skills.

Toward this end, students are required to have fundamental knowledge of the creative process, market analysis and research, consumer behavior, commercialization, and organizational design. Students may choose to deepen their knowledge by further study in negotiations, e- business, venture finance, management of technology, and project management. Students earning a degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship must complete 120 credits including the following: 33 credits of Clarkson Common Experience requirements (including the Clarkson Seminar, two mathematics courses (calculus and statistics), two science courses (one of which must include a lab), five knowledge area courses, and a technology course); 42 credits of foundation coursework in business; 27 credits of specialized business courses to satisfy the major requirements; and 18 credit hours of electives. Since 50% of coursework must be taken outside the School of Business (no more than 3 economics and 2 statistics courses can count as non-business courses), most of the electives, depending on courses chosen for the Clarkson Common Experience, will need to be taken in other schools within Clarkson University.