Launch Your Business, Boost Your Career
Whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur, an inventor, a mid-career professional or someone who is new to the business world, UMass Lowell's Graduate Certificate Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship will give you the knowledge you need to effectively develop and launch a new business or product and promote and implement corporate entrepreneurship to gain a competitive advantage in the rapidly changing global economy.
Relevant for entrepreneurial or start-up environments as well as the creation of new business opportunities at established organizations, this affordable, high-quality program will help you develop fundamental business skills as well as a strong understanding of the new venture creation process.



Available fully online, the program consists of two required courses and two electives. Topics covered include:
- business strategy
- financial forecasting
- value creation
- planning and evaluation models
- market research
- problem-solving techniques in interdisciplinary and multicultural environments
- new product development
- approaches to financing innovation and new technology ventures within existing firms and on a stand-alone basis
- prototyping
- licensing
- corporate experimentation and risk taking
- the development of comprehensive integrated marketing plans

Learn from an Established Leader in Online Education
UMass Lowell has been making its traditional academic programs available to online students all over the world since 1996.
One Success Leads to Another
Apply credits from lower credentials to higher ones. Our programs are designed to build upon themselves:
Students who complete the Innovation and Entrepreneurship certificate program and are subsequently accepted into UMass Lowell's Master of Science in Entrepreneurship program may apply certificate courses in which they received a B or better to their Master of Science in Entrepreneurship degree.
Many of the courses from the Graduate Certificate Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship can also be applied towards UMass Lowell's Online MBA program.

Learn from a Leader in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
UMass Lowell has a robust entrepreneurial ecosystem that includes co-working space for start-ups with the Innovation Hubs in Lowell and Haverhill; M2D2 (the Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center & Biotech Incubator); the Office of Technology Commercialization; the Fabric Discovery Center; and DifferenceMaker®, a campus-wide program that engages UMass Lowell students in creative problem solving, innovation and entrepreneurship.