Shipley Center for Innovation

Turning Your Business Idea Into a Reality

Do you have a great business idea? Enter the Shipley Center for Innovation, an entrepreneurial support hub where we help bring ideas to life.

Through a collaborative, hands-on process, the Shipley Center provides inventors and entrepreneurs with the resources and expertise needed to fully commercialize their products and launch successful new businesses.

What We Offer

Our services include:

Business formation
Customer development
Ignition grants
Incubator spaces
Investor connections
Marketing and branding
Networking
NYS tax incentives
Prototyping
Provisional patent filing
Workshops

About the Shipley Center

The Shipley Center was established through the generosity of Charles R. HD'84 and Lucia Shipley to promote student learning and development in leadership, teamwork and entrepreneurship. Since its inception, the center has served as a valuable community resource, fostering relationships between local businesses and nonprofits and assisting in the development of new ideas.

The Shipley Center continues to play an important role in startup culture across northern New York. Today, it serves as a primary hub for economic development, capitalizing on emerging technologies developed at Clarkson and throughout the region to create cutting-edge ventures for future solutions nationwide.

Clarkson Launches Program to Support Entrepreneurs in Upstate NY

The Shipley Center for Innovation has launched the Upstate Founders program, a massive support network for 400 entrepreneurs across Upstate New York. Participants will be connected to new educational resources, partner organizations and other entrepreneurs.