The Creative Economy Career and Business Launch Pad
Thrive in today’s gig economy
Careers in the creative industries are dynamic and fluid, moving across disciplines, sectors, and local and global economies. The Creative Economy Career and Business Launch Pad is designed to equip individuals, groups and organizations of all kinds with tools and support needed to thrive in today’s fast paced gig economy.
The Launch Pad is a hub for cross-sector learning that is technologically empowered, global and inclusive, with both in person and online service including:
Test ideas, develop business models and access pitch competitions and mentorship.
The J. Orin Edson Entrepreneurship + Innovation Institute offers self-guided learning, collaboration spaces, and mentorship opportunities for students, faculty, staff and community members interested in entrepreneurship, including introductory courses such as What Is Creative Entrepreneurship?
For students interested in a degree-based pathway, the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts offers a graduate program that integrates entrepreneurship with creative practice: the MS in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. This STEM-certified, one-year program brings together engineering, business, and design to prepare the next generation of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs.
