Helping Others to Aspire, Create and Achieve

The CEI is UCF’s campus-wide academic entrepreneurship center. It seeks to contribute to the vitality of UCF, Central Florida, and the entrepreneurship discipline by pursuing the following goals:

  • Create awareness of entrepreneurship’s contribution to economic and societal well-being
  • Provide all UCF students with entrepreneurship education opportunities
  • Provide all UCF students with opportunities to develop and realize entrepreneurial ideas
  • Provide the UCF community with access to entrepreneurship thought and practice leaders
  • Provide the Central Florida community with resources that enrich our entrepreneurship ecosystem
  • Contribute innovations to the academic entrepreneurship community
  • Support scholarly research related to entrepreneurship and innovation

Fulfilling these objectives will enhance UCF's overall capacity for research commercialization, new venture creation, and economic development by empowering opportunity creation and realization. Our mission is carefully integrated with UCF Research Commercialization and economic development initiatives such as the Economic Development Office, Technology Transfer Office, Incubator Program, Venture Lab, and Small Business Development Center. By empowering opportunity creation and realization within the campus community, CEI seeks to enhance UCF's overall capacity for research commercialization, new venture creation, and economic development. Working together is how "UCF Stands For Opportunity"

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