The Center will foster the development and use of cutting-edge equipment, technologies, and informatics that can advance biodiversity and ecosystem research.
Through research, collections, exhibitions, and outreach, the Center will build bridges of mutual respect and present the diversity of world cultures with accuracy, insight and reverence.
The Center will explain how American history, art and culture impact the heritage and the creativity of people from across the globe.
Our Mission
The Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation on the National Mall shares the Smithsonian's vision of celebrating and support inventiveness and entrepreneurship by all Americans, advancing America’s vital role in the 21st century as a source of solutions to global challenges. The Center is an active workspace for realizing entrepreneurial possibilities and catalyzing collaboration.
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The Vision
By nurturing a culture of innovation in Washington DC and beyond, the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation will encourage the discovery, development and deployment of entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges. The Center will foster an entrepreneurial culture that encourages invention, leverages emerging technology and rewards innovation. In an atmosphere of practical creativity, individuals and teams will envision new business models and pathways to market.
Read MoreA Digital & Physical Commons
The Center will leverage the power of new tools and technologies to deliver information in customized and dynamic ways. We share the vision put forth by the Smithsonian to make collections and exhibitions accessible to physical and digital visitors from around the world, speaking to older generations and 'digital natives' alike.
Read MoreA Smithsonian for the 21st Century
The Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation is inspired by the Smithsonian's broader Strategic Plan for 2010-2015. The concept for the Center seeks to blend the tremendous assets of the Smithsonian Institution — the world's largest museum and research complex, unique in its scope and unparalleled in its holdings — with the newest technological innovations available.
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