Our Approach

By developing new frameworks and methodologies for health interventions and impact entrepreneurship, Emergence mobilizes talent, capital, and resources to achieve its goals. And, by developing a cross-sector collaborative ecosystem, including public and private sectors, Emergence supports the next generation of impact entrepreneurs in their journey from need-finding to launching and scaling innovations to bring its vision to fruition.

Research

In collaboration with colleagues in multiple departments at Stanford, we develop new frameworks for health innovations to address the systemic drivers of health. We also develop methodologies and innovation processes for aligning purpose and profit in developing new products and businesses. We research successful examples and create case studies and models that can be used to inspire and educate more entrepreneurs to focus on these areas.

Education 

We develop experiential learning opportunities, formal coursework, and co-curricular content at Stanford to create innovative and scalable solutions for societal health. We support students to translate their ideas to impact through entrepreneurship, publish our research, and use our platform to affect change beyond Stanford and Silicon Valley.

Accelerator

We support a cohort of highly driven social and environmental student entrepreneurs each year. Through select workshops and speakers, a network of like-minded peers, connection to funding partnerships, and one-on-one mentorship from industry professionals’ students are supported to ideate, develop, and launch impact driven ventures that address health challenges.

Ecosystem

We develop a community and an ecosystem of change-makers across the public sector, corporations, foundations, academia, investors, and startups to develop an action oriented impact entrepreneurship ecosystem to support entrepreneurs' working to address systemic health challenges in key areas.