Enter your Fearless Idea in one of the many on-campus competitions
with over a quarter-million dollars in prize money!
An innovation competition for clean energy technologies
Be the Solution Business Plan Competition
Innovation and entrepreneurship in the behavioral and social sciences.
Nationwide competition for student entrepreneurs
Social Impact – Advance your favorite cause
Faculty inventors have the opportunity to pitch their new technologies to a team of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs from the region
Create an initiative that helps increase academic performance through improving health and
wellness on campus
Design a plan to strengthen patient engagement
with healthcare providers using information
technology
Create an app that supports campus life
University of Maryland Business Model Challenge
Take your technology-based research or idea and validate it with the marketplace!
No Limits Social Impact Pitch Competition
Social entrepreneurship
Events
There are innovation and entrepreneurship events all across campus throughout the year. Dive in today!
Weekly Events
Semester Events
Annual Events
Got a Fearless Idea? Meet with mentors to turn it into reality!
Whiting Turner Business and Entrepreneurial Lecture Series
Brings leading technology enterprise thinkers to campus–men and women from large,
established companies or small and promising start-ups, who deal with the real-world
challenges of a fast-paced, global economy
Test the market by selling your product or service to UMD students, faculty and staff at
an upcoming Terp Marketplace
Venture creation boot camp
OTC Invention of the Year Reception
Honors inventors and inventions from the previous year
From sustainability to social entrepreneurship, the Social Enterprise Symposium helps connect
students with thought leaders who are using the tools of business to change the world
Discover innovation and entrepreneurship
Competitions
