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Discover how Notre Dame turns ideas into profitable business realities

Ben Hoggan Director of De-Risking at the University of Notre Dame's IDEA Center

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Ben Hoggan

Director of De-Risking, The University of Notre Dame's IDEA Center

  • Validated 100+ new market opportunities
  • 84%
    Of IDEA Center companies successfully launched
  • 6X
    Increase in annual revenue generated

Notre Dame’s IDEA Center shepherds the university community’s best business ideas to the marketplace.

Standing for Innovation, De-Risking, and Enterprise Acceleration, the IDEA Center works with faculty, student, community, and alumni entrepreneurs on their commercially viable, early-stage product ideas and innovations.

Startups are responsible for nearly all net job growth in the US and have a profound impact on overall economic productivity in the economy. Between 2017 ...

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