Economics & Entrepreneurship

Since opening to the campus community in February 2024, the InnoHub has established itself as the go-to place on campus for student-led collaborations, student maker-oriented clubs and project-based competition teams.

The inaugural fund, Mines Venture Fund 1, provides startup capital to entrepreneurs and innovators with ties to Colorado School of Mines.

Economics and Business' Ian Lange leads a federal subcommittee to examine the role of critical metals in transitional energy sources.

The partnership between Mines and Maybell Quantum grew out of their joint participation in Elevate Quantum, a Mountain West consortium that was awarded $41 million in federal funding and $84 million in state support with the mission to secure the U.S.’ lead in quantum technology.

Mines Assistant Professor Maxwell Brown among the coauthors of the new findings, published in the journal Science

Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, has made a financial gift to Colorado School of Mines’ burgeoning Entrepreneurship and Innovation Ecosystem.

For companies like GelSana Therapeutics, Mines is helping solutions developed in the lab find a path to market.

Chris Tolton and Ken Liang, who also founded space startup Orbital Mining Corp., developed power storage and transmission solutions for lunar exploration.

Geothermal energy startup GTO Technologies, founded by Colorado School of Mines faculty, has closed an initial seed funding round, securing $1.7 million towards its goal of raising $5 million. To

“We got to see (the building) go from a sketch on notebook paper to the real thing,” said Lindsey Nenne, one of the team’s construction leaders, who graduated in May with her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.