Students will be able to access online entrepreneurship materials based on the Sputnik ATX accelerator, with one each year invited to sit in on Sputnik classes.

University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) teamed up with US-based startup accelerator Sputnik ATX on Wednesday to unveil an entrepreneurship curriculum for its students. The curriculum will consist of online materials based on the accelerator made exclusively available to UT Austin students. Participants in the program each receive $100,000 in funding. Sputnik ATX also plans to offer one student each year a spot in the accelerator to study the curriculum alongside the selected cohort, though they will not be eligible for the funding. The accelerator accepts entrepreneurs based within a 300-mile radius of Austin or those willing to relocate to the area. Sputnik ATX’s second cohort is currently underway, with startups in the midst of a three-month regimen ahead of a demo day in October 2018. Applications for the next intake will be invited from this autumn. Les Nichols, interim director of UT Austin’s office of technology commercialization, said: “We are pleased at the opportunity to partner with Sputnik ATX to help UTA’s budding entrepreneurs address the challenges of starting their own companies. “Providing entrepreneurs with business skills not only helps them on a personal level, but entrepreneurial innovation is also essential for society. New enterprise helps us to be globally competitive and is an engine for economic growth and prosperity.”

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