InBIA’s Entrepreneurship Center Management (ECM) Certificate Program provides a comprehensive guide to all components of entrepreneurship center (EC) management and explores all stages of center development from building a center and or program from scratch, securing funding, facility management, and much more. With more than 1,500 entrepreneurship program managers graduates, the ECM Certificate Program has been providing practitioners with the foundational knowledge and resources they need to run successful programs for more than a decade.

InBIA’s online ECM Certificate Program offers you the ultimate flexibility to fit professional development into your busy life. Complete your certificate from the comfort of your own office or home.

When is it?

The summer course runs in four ten-day modules between May 4 and July 2, 2021. The fall program runs similarly, August 3 - September 24, 2021.

How do I sign up?

Summer enrollment is open now. Enter the code CBIA in the Discount Code box.

Course 4: Space Design, Software, and Other Ways to Streamline Operations

Summer Dates: June 22 – July 2, 2021

No matter what provisions you offer or where in the world your center is located, this course will teach you how to design and streamline your behind-the-scenes operations and, in most cases, the physical location and space itself, to help you deliver the experience that ensures your participants thrive. Whether you are offering services in your own brick and mortar, at partner or public locations, or a hybrid of these approaches, this course will teach you how to select, manage and maximize your location(s) and your processes for management and monetization. Topics covered include creating your culture with space, leveraging multiple locations, client relations and communications infrastructure, best practices for site selection, space monetization, translating your business model into space requirements, design considerations, furniture/fixture/equipment (FF&E) selection for all budgets, software solutions and IT, metrics that matter, KPIs, and meaningful reporting. Course participants will have access to sector-specific catalogs of recommendations from experienced peers for the specific needs of cleantech, biotech, ICT, advanced manufacturing, and more, enabling them to high growth through the use of shared capital equipment. The course will conclude with a capstone workshop where participants will share their most pressing challenges and engage in a collaborative discussion where everyone benefits as they learn about real life solutions to problems they may currently share or may encounter in the future.

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