Center for Innovation Strategies
Undergraduate Programs
A program designed to enhance corporate innovation through a unique student lens.
OnRamp is a corporate innovation idea accelerator driven by innovative students at The Ohio State University. Given initial concepts generated by a sponsor, a group of students conduct customer validation and innovation techniques over a multi-week program to result in unique solutions for real-world change.
Past OnRamp: Mobility Innovation Sprint
You do not have to have prior experience with the innovation process.
The best ideas come from those with an open mind and unique perspective.
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Entrepreneurship & Innovation Minor
The Entrepreneurship & Innovation Minor provides undergraduate students from multiple disciplines and majors with a core understanding of how to develop a new start-up business or create new products and services within an existing organization. Students completing the minor will possess the ability to apply critical thinking skills and cross-disciplinary, collaborative problem solving in the creation of successful new ventures, products and services.
FAQs
Yes! Students will conduct 10 hours of work per week at $11/hr unless otherwise notified. Students accepted into the program will be hired as an Innovation Analyst for the Center for Innovation Strategies and be paid during the weeks of the program.
As long as you work less than 18 hours a week at your current role, you are encouraged to apply. Students at The Ohio State University are allowed to work a total of 28 hours per week; Participation in OnRamp will account for 10 hours. Please check with your current supervisor if you are unsure.
You will be working in a team of 4 multidisciplinary undergraduate students with guidance from CIS staff and innovation leaders from sponsoring companies. Sponsoring companies will change every semester.
Through participation in OnRamp, you will learn the steps it takes to create unique business ideas. Throughout the process, you and your team will build upon skills and gather data-driven information to develop a foundation for new solutions.
The OnRamp program focuses on creating viable ideas based on customer insights from the data you collect. You will not be expected to create fully functioning prototypes or products.
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