NUvention Energy responds to the demand for innovation and entrepreneurship in the sustainable energy space that will increasingly be required to deal with climate change.
Students from engineering, business, arts and sciences, law and other graduate schools across campus will come together in 5-person interdisciplinary teams to develop a product or service, and a business plan, in the sustainable energy industry. The objective of the course is to provide students with a realistic simulation of the challenges and excitement entrepreneurial founding teams face trying to create a business around technologies or services that both meet a market need and reduce the environmental impact of the energy involved in serving that need.
Each team will start with a promising research project from Northwestern, from Argonne National Laboratory, from Advisory Board members, or from the students themselves. Candidate projects must have developed to a point where a needs analysis, product design and market research can be done.
