Students at the University of Colorado Law School will rub elbows with entrepreneurs from around the globe next year.

The school's Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship next fall will launch a pilot Entrepreneurs in Residence program, bringing in as many as four business leaders from the United States and beyond to spend between one and three years to pursue their ventures and help students learn the startup process.

Colorado is the first law school to host resident entrepreneurs, dean Philip Weiser said.