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Turner School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Dream, Design and Develop Your Ideas!

Welcome to the Turner School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation where your creative ideas are celebrated, your innovative spirit is nurtured, and your entrepreneurial and innovative skills developed. Together, we'll dream big, design smart, and develop for success.

Thanks to the support and generosity from Robert and Carolyn Turner, the Turner School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation offers an inclusive, interdisciplinary journey to shape a brighter future for individuals, communities, and our planet!

Our Mission

Through innovative curriculum, co-curricular engagements, and community connections, we facilitate learning adventures to conquer challenges with innovative thinking and ingenuity.

Our Mantra

Dream, Design, Develop your ideas

  • Dream: Leverage your creativity for a better tomorrow
    Be-creative, Be-innovative, Be-You. The Turner School community fosters creativity and innovation. Join us to nurture your entrepreneurial spirit and bring your ideas to fruition.
  • Design: Map your ideas through hands-on action
    Be-brave, Be-collaborative, Be-involved. At the Turner School you’ll find coaching and an engaging curriculum to advance you from ideas to workable solutions.
  • Develop: Build a scaling framework for success
    Be-courageous, Be-confident, Be-limitless. Turning your ideas into action is what the Turner School is all about. Overcoming challenges with ingenuity and flair prepares you to evolve yourself and your idea from problem solving to impactful solution.
Robert and Carolyn Turner

Robert and Carolyn Turner, the donors who endowed the Turner School

Innovative

  • We invite students, professors, and entrepreneurs to don their thinking caps, mix in a bit of imagination, and join together to make cool stuff happen!
  • We define “innovative” as the ability to tackle challenges, problems, and opportunities with a creative and forward-looking mindset, it is our DNA.
  • We commit to offering pathways through innovative curriculum and co-curricular engagements that encourage convergence of creative thinking to solve problems and drive toward executable outcomes.

Inclusive

  • We encourage you to Be-You.
  • We believe that when everyone is welcome, excellence thrives.
  • We commit to creating an environment through our language and actions - in our courses and activities - where all feel valued and empowered to succeed.

Interdisciplinary

  • We welcome Innovative Minds from Different Majors to work together to conquer local and global challenges.
  • We believe discoveries evolve from a comprehensive understanding of topics from various disciplinary and individual perspectives.
  • We commit to connecting different areas of study in meaningful ways in our approach to teaching and programming.
Turner School Values

You’ve found the place to nurture your entrepreneurial spirit and elevate your ideas to achieve success. We accomplish our mission by focusing on three areas: Curriculum, Co-Curricular Engagement, and Community Connections. Reach out to us to learn more!

Innovative Curriculum: Whether through the Interdisciplinary Innovation (SEI INV) degree completion program, a minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (SEI SEI) or a transcript distinction from the Entrepreneurial Scholar Program, the Turner School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation seeks to ensure an academically rich environment for all Bradley students to build the necessary entrepreneurial skills and innovative thinking for a successful career.

Co-Curricular Engagement: Vital learning also happens outside the classroom. We provide this through: Brave Pitch, Social Impact Challenge, Big Idea student-venture competition, entrepreneurial internships, mentoring connections, the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization (C.E.O) student club, and much more!

Community Connections: Build your business network across campus, the community or around the world, all with our support. The Turner School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation provides ongoing opportunities to immerse yourself in the entrepreneurial ecosystem by connecting you with entrepreneurs and experts while you pursue your innovative ideas and passions.