The Center for Entrepreneurship

From the Director:

Welcome to the Salem State University Center for Entrepreneurship in the Bertolon School of Business, where we help you make your dreams a reality.

This is a place where you can float your ideas past peers and faculty for feedback, direction and suggestion.
This is a place where you can propose programs, projects, research agendas, and innovations related to business.
This is a place where we honor innovative research, practitioner-focused learning, and impactful community projects.
This is a place where things happen!

Please join our community and attend our events. You'll be glad you did, and so will we!

Dr. James Gu, Director 978.542.6660

Our Mission

To empower students, faculty, and the community to drive innovation, create sustainable ventures, and foster economic growth in the region. The center provides experiential learning and mentorship to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset and supports faculty engagement with the community to enhance economic development and sustainability.

What We Do

The Salem State University Center for Entrepreneurship led by the Bertolon School of Business connects students from all colleges including the College of Arts and Sciences, McKeown School of Education, and the Maquire Meservey College of Human Services. Our mission is to encourage and support creativity and innovation across the campus community through entrepreneurial programs and activities.

We believe that the economic future of our local community rests firmly both on the businesses that abound in this area and on the new ventures that Salem State students and others will establish here. Our mission is to support those business ventures and the academic, commercial, governmental, and not-for-profit groups that work with them through educational research and consulting efforts to sustain and encourage entrepreneurial activity throughout the community.

We recognize that not every entrepreneur launches a business, and not every company founder studied business. We are here to link your passion with your practice and provide programming and resources for you to develop tools that will help make you successful – in whatever path you choose.

Students

Find out how to turn your passion into a profitable career through academics, networking, and our technical support. Come to our networking events and our non-credit workshops, join our student entrepreneurship organizations, and connect to our other programs. Sign up for our mentoring program that pairs you with an alumni business owner or a local business. Consider taking a special entrepreneurship course designed for non-business students. Investigate an entrepreneurship minor.

Faculty

Come to the center to discuss innovative ideas integration into your courses or to connect your research interests with partners in our network. We will connect you with a guest lecturer, a research partner, an internship site, or a teaching case.

Community Members

If you are an entrepreneur or a small business and want to connect with our faculty and students, we can help make that happen. Our faculty engage with you in a wide variety of ways – from designing consulting projects to facilitating student internship placements and action research projects.

Programs We Sponsor

Viking Business Pitch Competition

Entrepreneurship Panel

Workshops through SBDC

Workshops through The Enterprise Center

Academic Concentration and Minor

BSBA entrepreneurship concentration
BSB entrepreneurship minor

Learn more about Salem State's academic programs in entrepreneurship.