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What is Runway at Cornell Tech and how does it support PhD entrepreneurs?

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Drawn from Lutz Finger's Forbes column, LinkedIn writing, and Cornell teaching. Sources are cited inline so you can read the originals.

A two-year paid fellowship helping PhDs turn research into companies.

Runway is an entrepreneurship fellowship at Cornell Tech designed to help PhDs commercialize their research. The program accepts five fellows per year and provides a two-year paid fellowship specifically to commercialize technology that you ideally developed during graduate school. It’s a structured way to transition academic research into viable commercial products, giving you financial support and time to build your startup while maintaining ties to Cornell Tech’s ecosystem and resources.

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