Enterprise

Enterprise (occasionally used with the archaic spelling Enterprize) may refer to:

Economics and business

• A business
• A company
• Entrepreneurship, the practice of starting new organizations, particularly new businesses
• Enterprise Architecture
• Enterprise Asia, a regional NGO for the development of entrepreneurship, based in Kuala Lumpur
• Enterprize Canada, a Canadian student-run entrepreneurial business plan competition and conference
• Enterprise Capital Fund, a type of venture capital in the UK
• Enterprise for High School Students, a non-profit organization
• Enterprise GP Holdings, energy holding company
• Enterprise Holdings, the parent company of Enterprise Rent-A-Car and several other car-rental agencies
• Enterprise Plc, a civil engineering and maintenance company in the United Kingdom
• Enterprise Products, natural gas and crude oil pipeline company

Vessels

Watercraft

• HMS Enterprise, any of fifteen ships of the British Royal Navy (four others did not use the HMS prefix)
• USS Enterprise, any of several ships of the United States Navy including:
  • USS Enterprise (CV-6) (1936) Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, and the most decorated US Navy ship
  • USS Enterprise (CVN-65) (1961), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
• Enterprise (1776), a ship of the Continental Navy during the American Revolution
• Enterprise (1814), a privately owned steamboat captained by Henry Miller Shreve
• Enterprize (1829), Australian topsail schooner that was involved in the founding of Melbourne; a replica was launched in Melbourne, Australia in 1997
• ‎Enterprise (1855)‎, a 19th century steamer on the Columbia and Fraser Rivers
• Enterprise (1862), pioneer stern wheeler on the upper Fraser River
• Enterprise, a sailing ship caught in a storm off St. Ives, Cornwall in 1903
• SS Flying Enterprise, built in 1944 and originally commissioned as the SS Cape Kumukaki (C1-B)
• London Enterprise, an oil tanker built for London & Overseas Freighters in 1950 and scrapped c. 1974
• London Enterprise, a Panamax oil tanker built for London & Overseas Freighters in 1983
• Enterprise (dinghy), a class of sailing dinghy
• Discoverer Enterprise, deepwater drillship that gives its name to the Enterprise class of large drillships

Aircraft

• Enterprise (balloon), a hot air balloon used by the Union Army during the American Civil War
• Enterprise, an early Goodyear Blimp

Spacecraft

• Space Shuttle Enterprise
• VSS Enterprise, the inaugural vessel of the Virgin Galactic suborbital tourism fleet

Fictional

• Starship Enterprise, any of several ships by that name in the Star Trek fictional universe
• Enterprise, a ship in the game Final Fantasy III
• Enterprise, an airship in the game Final Fantasy IV
• Enterprise, a starship in H. Beam Piper's novel Space Viking
• Enterprise, the title ship in the 1959-1961 television series Riverboat

Computing

• Enterprise (computer), an 8-bit home computer from the UK, also known as Flan and Elan
• Enterprise software
• Enterprise storage, the storage, protection, and retrieval of data in large-scale environments
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP), an Information Technology term referring to a hardware or software system that serves all departments within an enterprise

Geographic locations

United States

• Enterprise, Alabama, a city
• Enterprise, Amador County, California, an unincorporated community
• Enterprise, Butte County, California, a former settlement
• Enterprise, Lake County, California, an unincorporated community
• Enterprise, Shasta County, California, an unincorporated community
• Enterprise, Florida, an unincorporated community
• Enterprise, Kansas, a city
• Enterprise, Minnesota, an abandoned townsite
• Enterprise, Mississippi, a town
• Enterprise, Nevada, an unincorporated census-designated place
• Enterprise, Oregon, a city
• Enterprise, Utah, a city
• Enterprise, Wisconsin, a town
• Enterprise (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Enterprise Township, Michigan
• Enterprise Township, Jackson County, Minnesota
• Enterprise Township, Valley County, Nebraska

Canada

• Enterprise, Northwest Territories, a hamlet
• Enterprise, a hamlet in the township of Stone Mills, Ontario
• Enterprise No. 142, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality

Guyana

• Enterprise, Guyana, a village

Other

• Enterprise (ride), an amusement ride
• Enterprise (train), an inter-city train service between Belfast and Dublin
• Social enterprise
• Enterprise Records, a record label
• Enterprise, original title of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise
• USS Enterprise (BLDG 7115), a U.S. Navy Recruit Barracks named in honor of the Navy's Enterprise ships

 The winner of the 1930 America's cup was named Enterprise

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