Reaching Beyond wvu
We’re not only educating, we’re transforming minds and creating solutions for our community, our state and our world. Our centers offer valuable programs to help students, business leaders, entrepreneurs and policymakers across the state, nation and the world.
innovation at chambers
West Virginians know that our home is brimming with tremendous resources and opportunities, but the time has come for West Virginia to think differently about innovation and job creation to move into a future fueled by start-ups and entrepreneurship.
Vantage Ventures
Backed by world-class technology leaders, fortune class companies, and venture investors, Vantage Ventures is an initiative to launch high impact, scalable businesses that tackle complex challenges.
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Rising West Virginia entrepreneurs own their futures during Bridging Innovation Week
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WVU to hold entrepreneurial contest through new Seed WV program
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West Virginia University’s Encova Center announces fall 2020 Grow with Google webinars as a resource for state businesses
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Encova center
The Encova Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship promotes entrepreneurial education,
community engagement, and economic development for our community and state through
K-12 programming, higher education initiatives and business partnerships.
Launch Lab
The LaunchLab applied innovation center provides WVU students and faculty with a community-based center offering hands-on idea development support, education, mentorship, prototyping facilities, resources, and connections to innovative entrepreneurs across the State of West Virginia.
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Encova Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Encova Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship promotes entrepreneurial education, community engagement and economic development for our community and state through K-12 programming, higher education initiatives and business partnerships.
Located in Reynolds Hall Rm 3110
Data Driven WV
Data Driven WV connects organizations, including business, non-profits and government entities, with WVU students and faculty to provide data-driven, technical insights and solutions. We are bridging the skills gap in our West Virginia communities through service-oriented outreach, community projects and subject matter expertise in cybersecurity and data analytics.
Learn MoreBureau of Business and Economic Research
Since the 1940s, the BBER’s mission has been to serve the people of West Virginia by providing the state’s business and policymaking communities with reliable data and rigorous applied economic research and analysis that enables the state’s leaders to design better business practices and public policies.
Learn MoreCenter for Financial Literacy and Education
The Center for Financial Literacy and Education was established in 2015 to promote financial literacy throughout the state. The CFLE created a central mechanism for the outreach, programmatic, and research specific initiatives involving financial literacy and education within the college. Our mission is to bring awareness, resources, programs, and support to constituents across the region that will initiate change agents to promote the economic health and prosperity of the citizens of the State of West Virginia.
Learn MoreKendrick Center for an Ethical Economy
The Kendrick Center’s mission is to promote prosperity and human flourishing in the Mountain State through ethics and economics education, research, and outreach.
Learn MoreSocial Philosophy and Policy
The Social Philosophy and Policy Center supports scholarly research, editorial work, and academic programs at the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. In collaboration with the Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation, Cambridge University Press, and editorial staff of the Center for Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona, the Social Philosophy and Policy Center produces Social Philosophy & Policy.
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Dedicated to advancing research, education, and business practices related to Asia.
Learn MoreCenter for Free Enterprise
Our vision is for West Virginia students, citizens, policymakers, and the business community to understand the roles that the principles and institutions of a free society play in creating widely shared prosperity.
Learn MoreForensic Business Studies
The College of Business and Economics, mostly through collaborations with the WVU Forensic Science Initiative in the Research Office, has created a range of programs that fill previously unmet needs in the forensic community. They fall under two broad concepts: The business of forensics and the forensics of business.
Learn MoreThe latest in innovation and outreach
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West Virginia University is on the front lines of building leaders in the hospitality industry, thanks to a student-focused gift from a neighboring luxury resort and the family who has shepherded it to success.
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"Entrepreneurship is like a dark tunnel. You don’t know how long or short or wide or narrow it is. Everyone’s journey is different.”
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Let's Talk Business: Going First in Your Family
Our Associate Dean of Undergraduate and Graduate Programs writes to the Chambers College's first-generation students.
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Mind Over Mountains: Chambers Student Helps Others Find Purpose
Every WVU student is different, and between their first class and their graduation, they all walk a different path. A new week can present a new assignment, an unforeseen complication, an unexpected challenge – and not all of them are easily surmountable.
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Originally from Elkview, West Virginia – about 15 minutes outside of Charleston – Haley Wiseman was attracted to the online MS Human Resources Leadership program because of the flexibility it offered.
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Interested in Becoming More Involved Within the Chambers College?
Student leadership can set you apart from the crowd, and the Chambers College has three great ways for you to stand out.
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Let's Talk Business: Setting Yourself Up for Professional Success
If you're looking for ways to enhance your professional profile, human resources student Sydney Morris has some ideas.
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Healthy Business: Chambers Student Finds New Path to Medicine
The world of business takes all kinds – and it makes all kinds too. Graduates of the Chambers College become lawyers, educators, politicians, activists and more.
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