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The C.V. Starr Program in Commerce, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship (COE) engages faculty and students in the study of commercial activity, entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and the organizations within which such activity occurs. The initiative spans a number of departments, disciplines, and co-curricular activities at the University, and it supports the research of leading scholars at Brown. COE will educate students to be creative and flexible leaders in a number of careers.
At the center of the initiative is a new multidisciplinary, multi-track undergraduate concentration in Commerce, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship, offered for the first time in the fall of 2005. Sponsored by the departments of Economics and Sociology and the Division of Engineering, this concentration offers students a coordinated, integrated, and synergistic approach to teaching and learning about commerce, organizational theory, entrepreneurship, and technological innovation. COE places specific emphasis on the formation, growth, and organization of new ventures, innovation in commercial applications, financial markets and the marketplace, and management and organizational theory. Students learn the methodological approaches of economics, sociology, engineering, and entrepreneurship to study for-profit and nonprofit enterprises in the national and global economic context.