2027 Office of Academic Innovation Winter Institute

Explore how entrepreneurial mindsets help Broncos recognize opportunities, experiment, collaborate, and turn ideas into meaningful impact. Join us for a two day institute exploring how entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial mindsets can strengthen student agency, career readiness, and innovation across the Bronco experience. Entrepreneurship is more than starting a business. It involves recognizing opportunities, taking initiative, experimenting with ideas, collaborating with others, navigating uncertainty, and creating meaningful value. Participants will explore how these skills can be cultivated across classrooms, programs, departments, co curricular experiences, and community partnerships. The main institute program on January 13 will connect these concepts to real world applications at Cal Poly Pomona. On January 14, Innovation in Action will offer a hands on opportunity to apply these ideas while exploring CPP’s innovation ecosystem, including the iLab, Maker Studio in the University Library, and Community Innovation Hub in Downtown Pomona. Learning Outcomes By the end of the Winter Institute, participants will be able to: • Understand entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial mindsets and their connection to student success and career readiness. • Identify key competencies students need to innovate and thrive in a changing world, including opportunity recognition, initiative, experimentation, resourcefulness, collaboration, resilience, and value creation. • Apply the Innovate Anywhere framework to help students move from ideas to experimentation and action. • Experience hands on innovation, making, prototyping, and community engaged problem solving approaches that can be adapted across disciplines and student experiences. • Develop actionable strategies for cultivating entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial mindsets across the Bronco experience. Participants will leave with practical tools and a deeper understanding of how curiosity, initiative, resourcefulness, calculated risk taking, and resilience can help transform ideas into meaningful impact. For more information, visit the Office of Academic Innovation website or contact us at [email protected].