Big 5 is a 5-week innovation bootcamp addressing globally relevant challenges. 30 students from the University of Colorado Boulder are selected to participate. Big 5 seeks participants with diverse backgrounds, such as engineering, design, business, law and social sciences to form teams that will work over 5 weeks to design entrepreneurial ventures to tackle social and environmental problems.

http://www.big-5.org/

The CU Boulder I&E Seed Grant program, administered by the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, encourages faculty and staff to undertake projects involving innovative, entrepreneurial outcomes, or a problem-solving mindset. Cross-campus interdisciplinary projects are highly favored.

http://www.colorado.edu/entrepreneurship/innovation-seed-grant

The New Venture Challenge (NVC) connects the campus with the Boulder community to develop and fund entrepreneurial ideas. Through fall and spring semesters, teams form, work with mentors, and refine their ideas before pitching at the championships. The NVC provides a way for CU Boulder students, faculty, staff, and the Boulder community to learn about the process of launching ventures through events, workshops, mentorship, and networking.

http://www.colorado.edu/nvc/