Venture Lab is the entrepreneurship center at the Wharton School that serves all students and alumni across the University of Pennsylvania who are interested in entrepreneurship and innovation. We maximize the ability of our students and alumni to address important challenges through entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking.

Penn Engineering Entrepreneurship collaborates with Venture Lab by supporting the Engineering MakerSpaces and through Jeffrey Babin, our faculty member and Engineering Faculty Director for Venture Lab.

Venture Lab is housed in Tangen Hall and is open to ALL Penn students.

• Start Here! – Schedule an appointment to learn all about what Venture Lab has to offer!
• Venture Lab @ Penn
• Venture Lab Events Calendar
• Fabrication Studios – Providing free 3D printing, laser cutting, and other fabrication tools.

The Penn Engineering Quad, made up of the Levine Hall, Moore Building, Towne Building, and Skirkanich Hall houses a number of resources available to Penn Engineering students.

• AddLab – High quality 3D printing through lab staff
• Detkin Lab – Electronics lab restricted to students in ESE programs
• Garage Lab – Provides a variety of metal and wood working tools
• MatSci MakerSpace – MakerSpace for materials-centric projects
• Rapid Prototyping Lab (RPL) – Laser cutting and PLA 3D printing
• Stephenson Foundation Bio-MakerSpace (BE Labs) – Fabrication tools for all projects, open to ALL Penn students.

• Mack Institute for Innovation Management
• Penn Center for Innovation
• Innovation @ Penn GSE
• Penn Health-Tech
• Penn Medicine Center for Healthcare Innovation and PennHealthX
• Innovation at Penn Nursing

• Venture Café Philadelphia
• Philly Tech Week, the annual celebration of technology and innovation happening in our region
• Nucleate Philadelphia, Nucleate is a student-led organization that represents
  the largest global community of bio-innovators.
• First Round Review, a guide for Entrepreneurs by First Round Capital
• Tutorials and Other Links – A variety of tutorials and links provided by the Stephenson Foundation Bio-MakerSpace (BE Labs)

We draw some of our key readings in our courses from the following books. These are well worth a complete read to gain insights about building great hi-tech ventures. Some of these books were written years ago; however, classics remain relevant!

• “Marketing High Technology: An Insider’s View,” William H. Davidow (http://amzn.to/1qfSldc)
• “Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” Peter Drucker (http://amzn.to/1qfSI7w)
• “Crossing the Chasm,” Geoffrey Moore (http://amzn.to/1qfT1iE)
• “The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses,” Eric Ries (http://amzn.to/1qfT3ab)
• “Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers,” Alex Osterwalder (this book is required for EAS546, (http://amzn.to/1qfTh12)
• “Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology,” Henry Chesbrough (http://amzn.to/1qfT8KX)
• “Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail,” Clayton Christensen (http://amzn.to/1qfTmBY)
• “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t,” Jim Collins (http://amzn.to/1qfTr8E)
• “Emotional Intelligence,” Dan Goleman (http://amzn.to/1qfTtxe)
• “Marketing That Works: How Entrepreneurial Marketing Can Add Sustainable Value to Any Sized Company” (http://amzn.to/2i5Anw5)
• “The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup” (https://amzn.to/2MEWqK3)
• “Disciplined Entrepreneurship,” Bill Aulet (https://amzn.to/3huFk4Q)
• First Round Capital’s First Round Review (https://review.firstround.com/) – required reading for entrepreneurs. Here are some good starting points:
  • Most widely read articles since The Reviewfirst started in 2013, https://review.firstround.com/collections/classics
  • First Round Resources, https://review.firstround.com/resources
  • All of our Must-Reads, https://review.firstround.com/articles/must-reads
  • Summer Book Recommendations from the Smartest People We Know, https://review.firstround.com/summer-book-recommendations-from-the-smartest-people-we-know