Entrepreneurship courses at Iowa State teach essential skills for launching and managing businesses, from identifying opportunities to structuring, financing, and marketing ventures. Students apply concepts through hands-on projects and exercises.
This course is an introduction to the entrepreneurial process, from the creation and discovery of entrepreneurial opportunities to starting viable business ventures. Students will develop core entrepreneurial and innovation skills instrumental for business startups as well as for established businesses, and foster fundamental understanding of how to organize, structure, finance, market and launch new ventures. Opportunities to apply introduced skills, tools and frameworks through class projects and exercises.
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Certain entrepreneurship courses may be restricted to specific academic year classifications, depending on the course requirements. If you are interested in growing your entrepreneurship skills, consider consulting your academic advisor to explore the possibility of incorporating an entrepreneurship class into your schedule.
Opportunity Type
- Academic
- Community Outreach and Projects
- Competitions/Challenges
- Course
- Creative/Technical
- Entrepreneurship
Skills and Competencies
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Creative Problem-Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Innovation
- Personal Development
- Professional Development
- Technology
Eligible Majors
- Agricultural and Life Sciences Education
- Agriculture and Life Sciences Exploration
- Agricultural Communication
- Agricultural and Rural Policy Studies
- Agricultural Business
- Agricultural Studies
- Agricultural Systems Technology
- Agronomy
- Animal Ecology
- Animal Science
- Biochemistry
- Biology
- Culinary Food Science
- Dairy Science
- Diet and Exercise
- Dietetics
- Environmental Science
- Environmental Studies
- Food Science
- Forestry
- Genetics
- Global Resource Systems
- Horticulture
- Industrial Technology
- International Agriculture
- Microbiology
- Nursing
- Nutritional Science
- Seed Science
For Students In
- All students
Semester Offered
- Fall
- Spring
Digital Badges Available
- Entrepreneurship Impact