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Entrepreneurship and Innovation
For Students: Experiential Learning
Mines surrounds students with the best technology, facilities, mentors and industry projects, enabling you to hone skills and fall in love with your future.
For Faculty: Advancing Science
Mines provides the resources to turn big ideas into real-world impact, allowing faculty to play a multi-faceted role as scholars, teachers and industry collaborators.
For Partners: Bringing Ideas to Market
Aspiring entrepreneurs gain access to world-class mentorship, resources, technology and networks, enabling them to turn their visions into viable ventures and transform industries, driving positive change.
Access to Mines Resources
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Mines Facilities
Great ideas and talent thrive in our primary technology-sharing and innovation spaces, including the Labriola Innovation Hub and Aramco xWorks Innovation Space.
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Mines Talent
Colorado advanced technology companies and a global energy and materials sector rely on Mines faculty consultants and on a steady flow of STEM-minded interns and graduates. Partners include Lockheed Martin, Ball Aerospace, Newmont, Chevron, Xcel Energy and various agencies.
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Mines Ventures
The Beck Venture Center and McNeil Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation provide capital, ideas and community to drive scientific discovery and foster a culture where the spirit of innovation has the power to transform the world.
Mines Venture Fund
At the forefront of engineering and applied science innovation, Mines Venture Fund One (MVF1) is a strategic venture fund deeply integrated into Colorado School of Mines, a top-ranked R1 research university. This pioneering collaboration highlights the value of rigorous applied learning and financial support, demonstrating a commitment to transforming cutting-edge research, inventions and technological breakthroughs into solutions that redefine industries and shape the future. Operating alongside the university’s entrepreneurial and innovation programs—such as the Beck Venture Center, the Labriola Innovation Hub and the McNeil Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation—MVF1 fuels scientific discovery and fosters a culture where the spirit of innovation has the power to transform the world.
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The Critical Materials Innovation Hub is one of five nationally designated DOE Energy Innovation Hubs. Modeled on the Manhattan Project and AT&T’s legendary Bell Laboratories, the DOE Energy Innovation Hubs are integrated, multidisciplinary research centers that combine basic and applied research with engineering to accelerate scientific discovery and address critical energy issues.
Led by Ames National Laboratory, the CMI Hub unites expertise from national laboratories, universities, and over 30 industry partners to address supply chain challenges for materials critical to the energy transition. CMI researchers aim to accelerate innovative, scientific, and technological solutions that develop resilient and secure supply chains for rare earth metals and other critical materials essential to the success of clean energy technologies. The CMI Hub conducts research in four key focus areas: enhancing and diversifying supply, developing substitutes, building a circular economy, and undertaking cross-cutting research.
10-Year CMI Hub Highlights
- 12 R&D 100 Awards
- 202 Invention Disclosures
- 50 U.S. Patents
- 20 Technologies Licensed
- 635 Peer-Reviewed Publications
- $80+ Million in Additional Government Awards
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A campus-wide program that connects you with your peers across engineering disciplines. The Studio serves as a hub for student exposure to large-scale projects, new technologies like automation and robotics, and collaboration between disciplines. The Studio also hosts informal events to allow you a chance to interact directly with partner companies in the industry.
Welcome to the Oredigger Way
Collaborative Research Initiatives
Mines works closely with industry, government and academic partners to address critical scientific and engineering challenges, including energy and environmental sustainability, mineral deposit and exploration research and sustainable stewardship of resources and supply chains for clean energy technologies.
Structured Innovation Programs
Mines supports a suite of signature hands-on design experiences embedded in the curriculum and supported by dedicated spaces in the Innovation Hub, including Innov8x, the Cornerstone and Capstone Design Programs.
Industry and Academic Partnerships
Mines maintains deep partnerships with industry leaders, academic institutions and government agencies, through collaborations with companies such as Chevron and partnerships with agencies like the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
Global Initiatives
Mines extends its impact globally through educational and research collaborations, such as the Center for Mining Sustainability (Peru), Satbayev University (Kazakhstan), the Navoi State Mining Institute (Uzbekistan) and the University of Guam and AstroAmerica.
