Dyer Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Dyer Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is the central entrepreneurship hub at Lafayette College, founded in 2017. Located in the Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center, it serves all Lafayette students with a three-pillar framework: Get Inspired, Build Knowledge, and Take Action.

• Dyer Venture Studio — rolling-admission venture incubator with up to $3K funding
• Berg Summer Accelerator — selective 10-week summer accelerator with up to $20K per team
• Big Idea Pitch Competition — annual campus-wide pitch competition
• DYER Fellowship — 4-year program for first-gen/underrepresented students, $4K junior investment
• Makerspace — collaborative hands-on learning space
• Impact Lafayette Grant — community impact project funding
• Dyer Innovation and Seed Funding Grant — innovation project funding
• Innovation Hour — weekly informal idea exchange
• Pathways to Real Estate Entrepreneurship — JLL Capital Markets partnership

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