Industry Partnerships
The Agribusiness and Food Innovation Management program offers businesses of all sizes opportunities to partner with faculty and graduate students to advance your core objectives. There is a range of options.
Ways to Partner With Our Program
Initial Touch Points
- Attend a business networking event at Spur, like the Ag Innovators of Colorado
- Give a guest lecture or seminar
- Host a student tour of your operations
Get Engaged
- Serve as a project advisor
- Judge a pitch competition
- Serve as an “Entrepreneur in Residence”
Give Back
- Scholarships for general, rural, ethnically diverse or inner-city Denver students
- Named places within Spur
- Cash prize for pitch competitions
Partner on a Practicum Subject
- Submit your idea
- Engage a student team for 12 months
- Explore and develop your idea at low cost
- Not a long-term commitment
- Access new resources and expertise
- Work with and evaluate students as potential recruits
Learn more on our Practicum Projects page
Innovate, Recruit, and Grow
- Leverage practicum project outcomes within your business
- Recruit skilled team members
- Raise your profile as an innovative company within Denver’s world class innovation cluster
- Build valuable business relationships with other innovative companies
- Retain your best and brightest employees by supporting their study in the Ag & Food Innovation Management program
Our Key Point of Contact
Laston Charriez
Adjunct Professor and Industry Liaison, Agribusiness and Food Innovation Management
laston.charriez@colostate.edu
Related Innovation Resources at CSU Spur
The Food Innovation Center
Utilize USDA inspected food pilot labs to develop your new meat, dairy, or produce product at CSU Spur. Host a promotional event or test formulations of your new food product in a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen. Test food product appeal with a sensory panel. Ask about business development support and other resources specialized for food entrepreneurs.
The Ag Innovation Center
Locate your agtech startup in office or co-working space alongside likeminded innovative entrepreneurs at CSU Spur. Lease private or shared wet lab space. Ask about business development support and other resources specialized for agtech entrepreneurs.