Economics & Entrepreneurship

Adam Solovay is able to pursue his dream of working in space thanks to ProtoFund support

How one Mines student used 3D scan innovation to make dental tech more accessible—with support from Mines’ ProtoFund and the Labriola Innovation Hub.

A team of Capstone Design students is using the InnoHub ProtoFund to innovate RC car parts and gain real-world prototyping experience.

Explore business engineering at Mines—where technical skill meets entrepreneurial thinking to solve real-world industry challenges.

The outsized role critical minerals play in defense and renewable energy applications fuels much of the attention on this sector now. China has raced ahead of the rest of the world in mining, refining

The findings, published in the journal Science, show that improved recovery of critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium and rare earth elements currently being discarded as tailings of other mineral streams could meet the U.S. demand for energy, defense and technology applications.

The Mines Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem is supporting Mines-grown research that is ready to launch from the lab through the new Faculty Startup Fellowship, which give Mines professors course relief and support from Beck Venture Center to commercialize their technologies.

Despite being just one year old, the 31,000-square-foot facility on the Mines campus is incubating 57 startups and counts more than 250 business members and more than 30 investor members.

A team of students from Colorado School of Mines has been selected by NASA to participate in the University Student Research Challenge (USRC), an initiative designed to engage university teams in real