Neil Book School of Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Build leadership and entrepreneurial skills through hands-on, interdisciplinary learning at the University of Delaware’s Neil Book School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Through undergraduate and graduate majors, specializations and certificates, you’ll learn to develop innovative ideas, solve problems and create value in startups, organizations and communities.
Through the Book School’s academic programs, you’ll explore venture development, collaborate with mentors and engage with real-world innovation. At Horn Entrepreneurship, UD’s award-winning hub for innovation and entrepreneurship, you’ll also gain access to student-focused programs, experiential learning opportunities and venture support initiatives such as VentureOn, Hen Hatch and Summer Founders.
Undergraduate Programs
Major
Minors
Accelerated 4+1 Degree
Undergraduate Certificates
Graduate Programs
MBA Program
Graduate Certificates
TOP-RANKED
UD’s undergraduate entrepreneurship programs are ranked 25th of 50 by the Princeton Review and 3rd in the mid-Atlantic.
STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Innovation is for everyone: our top 25 entrepreneurship program serves students from across UD. Through internships, competitions, clubs and more, you’ll learn from alumni and peers and develop an entrepreneurial mindset & skillset you can apply to your future aspirations.
What’s Happening
FACULTY HIGHLIGHT
Associate professor of entrepreneurship Daniel Lee’s research interests include experimental and behavioral economics. He recently joined with two other researchers to seek answers to the question: what impact does grade non-disclosure make on students’ motivations and employers’ hiring practices? Their findings were accepted and published online in the journal Management Science.
Horn’s venture support and commercialization programs provide a continuum of guidance and valuable resources to members of the UD community.
The Venture Development Center is home of UD’s entrepreneurial community supporting student innovators, inventors, technologists and creatives.
Our school programs give high school students hands-on opportunities to explore entrepreneurship, address real problems and bring new ideas to life.
Lerner’s Jill Pante and Jenifer Laird coauthored a Delaware Business Times article that explores the transition from college to career, offering perspective on navigating uncertainty, building connections and finding opportunities along the way.
Recent Stories
For Dave Ferrell, leadership was never about being the loudest voice in the room. It was about showing up early, working hard, staying focused and letting performance speak for itself. That approach defined Ferrell’s athletic career at the University of Delaware,...
For many college students, the path from classroom to career is measured in short bursts: a summer internship, a few weeks of job shadowing or a part-time position squeezed between classes. The University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics...
Moving from college to a career can bring plenty of uncertainty, from choosing a major to landing that first job. In a recent Delaware Business Times article, Jenifer Laird, associate director of undergraduate recruitment at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner...
This article was written by Cori Burcham. At 13, Erin Boettcher — now a first-grade teacher at Brader Elementary School in Newark with 24 years of teaching experience — noticed the strong community the University of Delaware’s Center for Economic Education and...
