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. Follow the journey @iwvuchambers.
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.
Meet the Change Makers
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.
Bureau 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.
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Fostering close relationships among academia, business, and government in the United States and China.
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 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 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 MoreData Driven WV
Now beginning its third year of operations, Data Driven WV works to support faculty research, student experiential learning and the prosperity of West Virginia and the surrounding region. DDWV focuses on creating impact for organizations through the use of data analytics and cybersecurity and, more generally, data technologies.
Learn MoreThe latest in innovation and outreach
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On Saturday, May 14, more than 600 business students will once again link arms and sing Country Roads in the West Virginia University Coliseum, as they turn their tassels and become part of our alumni family.
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A $1.8 million gift to West Virginia University from Mountain State natives Kimberly and Rusty Hutson, Jr., will bolster education, health care and outreach efforts to aid residents across the state.
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WVU students prepare for cyberspace attacks with Operation Locked Shields
Armed with keyboards, ones and zeros, a squad of West Virginia University students were among the 2,000 participants who competed in Operation Locked Shields, an international cyber defense exercise run by NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia. The teams, which included members of the West Virginia and North Carolina National Guard, took orders from the Department of Defense and the Defense Information Systems Agency during the April 19-21 exercises.
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Four visionary leaders welcomed into 2022 class of West Virginia Business Hall of Fame
The 2022 class of the West Virginia Business Hall of Fame recognizes four visionary leaders who have transformed the business landscape of the Mountain State through their illustrious and groundbreaking careers in manufacturing, engineering, pharmaceuticals and an iconic West Virginia business.
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WVU’s top seniors named, eight honored with 2022 Order of Augusta
A Black Appalachian first-generation college student graduating with a cumulative 4.0 grade-point average, a two-term Mountaineer Mascot passionate about finding novel therapies for mental health disorders and a young entrepreneur who has worked to empower small farmers in West Virginia are among the accomplished student leaders who have been honored with West Virginia University’s most prestigious student award, the Order of Augusta.
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Originally from Kanawha County, West Virginia, Crystal Good took many twists and turns in life.
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Time to Consider our Graduate Programs
As the spring semester concludes, our students may be considering an online graduate program to coincide with a full-time job or attending a face-to-face program to develop new skills. No matter where they are on their academic journey, the graduate program staff is available to assist them in finding the perfect graduate program. It is a rewarding experience to learn about our students’ goals and desires for their future careers and how we can contribute to their professional success.
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April 2022 Department Digest and Awards
Our faculty and staff are always doing amazing things. View the latest Department Digest to see what they have been up to and catch what they’re saying in the media.
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