The Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) Center, established at Drexel in 2013, pursues activities at the intersection of three crucial areas for the future: Design, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Through the ExCITe Center we have a unique opportunity to develop a more cohesive academic ecosystem of learning, exploring, and advancing the application of new knowledge, particularly for the emerging digital creative economy, and to engage in problem solving with stakeholders outside of higher education.