The Alden B. Dow Center for Creativity & Enterprise

...Inspiring creativity in enterprise to drive human progress

Vision

The Alden B. Dow Center for Creativity & Enterprise integrates creativity and free enterprise through intentional and mindful cultivation to realize inventions, innovations and new business opportunities in entrepreneurship and family enterprise.

The Center for Creativity & Enterprise

A resource for the University, students, faculty, alumni, and community businesses, the Center for Creativity & Enterprise uniquely equips Northwood to meet it's mission to develop free enterprise leaders and reach it's goal to become one of the foremost institutions in developing leaders, managers, and entrepreneurs.

Focused Expertise

The Center focuses on four areas:

Family Owned Business
Entrepreneurship
Creativity & Innovation
New Business Development

This focused expertise allows the Center to provide cutting-edge leadership in the integration of free market creativity, innovation and strategy with entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial practices.

Through the Center, businesses and organizations can access creative and strategic free market tools and have the opportunity to renew existing businesses and build viable new enterprises. To facilitate this work, ABDCCE spearheads collaboration with global entrepreneurial support organizations and actively participates in the global academic communities focused in these areas. Further, the Center leads the creation of relevant training modules, workshops, seminars and “must attend” global events, both physical and virtual.

The Center facilitates all entrepreneurially minded students, providing tools, expertise and programming and internships to effectively empower today’s students to creatively address tomorrow’s business challenges. The Center’s events and programming consistently include the integration of entrepreneurial creativity and innovation dimensions. The Center hosts seed-fund business startup competitions, concept development workshops, and one on one student support from entrepreneurs in residence, creating a network where student’s entrepreneurial ideas for enterprises can be supported and accelerated.