News by Topic: Entrepreneurship

The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well at RIT. Thanks to resources and programs from the Saunders College of Business and the Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, students are encouraged to take their out-of-the-box ideas and develop them into a fully realized products and business ventures.

March 1, 2017

Student enters game into Intel Showcase at GDC

John Miller, a third-year game design and development student, debuts his game Gibraltar in front of students and faculty from the nation’s top gaming schools at the highly anticipated Intel University Games Showcase at the 2017 Game Developers Conference.
February 22, 2017

Global Payments exec headlines Power Your Potential

Jane Elliott will be discussing “What is your personal Big Hairy Audacious Goal” as Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology hosts the eighth annual Power Your Potential women’s leadership event on March 3.
February 21, 2017

Health Innovation Challenge to open Imagine RIT

Each year, the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival has opened with a challenge from RIT President Bill Destler. This year, the contest is an interdisciplinary health innovation challenge.
February 15, 2017

RIT to receive I-Corps grant

A partnership between NTID and the Simone Center for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship will use National Science Foundation funding to provide support for deaf and hard-of-hearing STEM entrepreneurs.
February 15, 2017

Alumni pitch business on ‘Shark Tank’

Two Saunders College of Business alumni will pitch their Elephant Pants product line on the ABC network reality TV show Shark Tank in an episode airing Feb. 24.
February 10, 2017

Venture Creations grad partners with Delaware North

Electronic-sports franchise Splyce, a 2016 graduate of RIT’s Venture Creations business incubator, has signed a deal with Delaware North, a global food service and hospitality company.
February 2, 2017

Venture Creations company featured in NASA report

Dimension Technologies Inc. was lauded by NASA for its LCD display technology that enables viewers to see full-resolution 3-D images without the need for special glasses or headsets.
January 3, 2017

RIT alumnus named Forbes ‘30 Under 30’

RIT alumnus Sean Petterson landed on the prestigious 2017 Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ list in manufacturing and industry. Petterson, who graduated from RIT in 2013 in industrial design, is a founder of the industrial safety products company StrongArm Technologies Inc.
December 8, 2016

Venture Creations welcomes two new companies

Empire Medicinals, a biotech manufacturer, and Dimension Technologies, a research and development company, have joined RIT’s business incubator, Venture Creations.
November 30, 2016

RIT hosts Silicon Europe Alliance

Members of the Silicon Europe Alliance, Europe’s leading micro- and nano-electronic business clusters, traveled to New York to meet with economic development organizations, high tech companies and universities to discuss advanced nanoelectronic technologies. Their final stop was at RIT.
November 21, 2016

RIT eyes deeper engagement in Silicon Valley

San Francisco Bay area alumni in July provided feedback on how RIT can amplify its presence and network out West. An 82-member delegation also held strategic meetings with 27 global high-tech companies and organizations.
November 16, 2016

Professor: High-end chefs’ success starts at home

In a new study, John Ettlie, professor and Rosett Chair for Research at RIT’s Saunders College of Business, found that success as a master chef of haute cuisine depends less on going to culinary school than having an innovative support team along the way.

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