Project X-ITE Fuels Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Empowering Students with the Skills for Exciting Careers in Business

With the flourishing startup culture of Denver as its backdrop, Project X-ITE provided students with critical, hands-on experiences that enhanced their firsthand knowledge of the skills and concepts needed to launch a successful enterprise. We challenged students to develop their entrepreneurial passions, offering a range of programs designed to support student innovation and providing opportunities to take their ideas to fruition.

About Our Research

We leverage cross-institutional collaboration to address some of today’s most pressing challenges, producing interdisciplinary solutions that influence policymakers to effectively serve the public good. From Stanford to UChicago to NYU, we’ve refined our collaborative process through years of mutually beneficial relationships with institutions nationwide to understand and address challenges like climate change, HIV and youth homelessness.

DU’s current research efforts have been featured in news outlets like The New York Times. They include…

  • exploring the effects of felony disenfranchisement.
  • employing lasers as the medium for quantum science.
  • using theatre to heal and rehabilitate inmates.

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Project X-ITE Program Highlights

Martin Katz

Martin Katz is a nationally recognized leader in legal education, the University of Denver's Chief Innovation Officer and Senior Advisor for Academic Innovation and Design, and Executive Director of Project X-ITE. He's also a professor at DU's Sturm College of Law, where he previously served as Dean. Under Professor Katz's leadership, Denver Law became a national leader in experiential education and doubled its scholarly productivity. In his work with both DU and Project X-Ite, he works to promote innovation and entrepreneurship among both the student population and the larger institution.