The Botha Chan Innovation Program program offers Stanford graduate students an experiential learning opportunity to investigate and validate a for-profit venture idea over the summer.
Entrepreneurship is a journey best learned by doing. And startup ideas are best validated through an immersive process of understanding customer needs, then formulating and testing hypotheses about the product or service, value proposition, go-to-market strategy, and value creation model. Testing these hypotheses requires getting out of the building.
Instructors: n/a
Faculty Principal Investigator (PI) Required?: No
- Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
- Sustainability: Light Sustainability Focus
- Eligibility: Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students
- Objective(s): Discover, Evaluate
- Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
- Quarter(s) Available: Summer
- Provided By: Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES), Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), Stanford University
- Updated: January 27, 2024
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The Living Laboratory Fellowship Program for Sustainability provides Stanford students real-world sustainability leadership and project management opportunities that meaningfully advance Stanford’s operational sustainability goals. Offered in partnership with the LBRE Office of Sustainability, the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, and the Bill Lane Center for the American West, the program collaborates widely with schools, departments, and operational units across Stanford, including the O'Donohue Family Educational Farm, Residential & Dining Enterprises, and Business Affairs.
- Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
- Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
- Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
- Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
- Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
- Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
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The Realizing Environmental Innovation Program (REIP) is intended to provide next stage funding (up to $500k) to PIs to move existing interdisciplinary environmental research projects toward actual solutions implemented by public stakeholders and private market actors. To be considered, projects should demonstrate both significant progress in identifying solutions and strong potential by private market or public end users...
- Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
- Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
- Eligibility: Stanford Faculty
- Objective(s): Accelerate, Discover, Evaluate
- Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
- Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
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The Stanford Woods Institute EVP program provides seed grants from $10,000 to $200,000, for up to two years, for interdisciplinary research projects that seek to identify solutions to pressing problems of the environment and sustainability. Research projects are evaluated for their intellectual merit, potential to solve critical problems, the integration of the disciplinary strengths...
- Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
- Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
- Eligibility: Stanford Faculty
- Objective(s): Accelerate, Discover, Evaluate
- Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
- Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
