School of Business Learning Accelerators
 | Innovation Accelerator The Innovation Accelerator (IA) is one of the primary outreach initiatives of the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI) at the School of Business. The IA assists entrepreneurial ventures in addressing myriad challenges associated with the identification and capture of business opportunities. All projects operate under the guidance of UConn faculty, with the involvement of the senior management of the participating venture, and the advice of the IA’s Solutions Advisory Board. The teams help move innovation forward and the client venture closer to market by engaging in consulting projects such as performing comprehensive market analyses and associated market-entry strategies, developing strategic roadmaps and sustainable business models, fleshing-out business plans, evaluating the market feasibility of emerging technologies, and constructing customer relationship strategies.MORE INFO |
 | SCOPE SCOPE promotes social entrepreneurship and social innovation by working with non-profit organizations and for-profit companies that have social outreach and community impact as a significant part of their strategic missions. We apply a business-centric lens to improve the sustainability and effectiveness of these organizations.MORE INFO |
 | SS&C Technologies Financial Accelerator The SS&C Technologies Financial Accelerator serves as a real-world lab for developing solutions to insurance and financial services industry challenges. UConn’s Financial Accelerator features a live trading floor, real-time stock feeds, a broad array of financial databases and software, and advanced enabling technology. Bright, skilled, and creative students, UConn's top faculty, and front-line financial industry executives work together in focused teams to investigate alternative markets and trader support tools, study insider trading identification and control, review alternative auction market mechanisms, design financial programs and develop products that enhance competitive advantage, evaluate emerging technologies, and create specialized business processes that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and/or increase revenues.MORE INFO |
 | Stamford Learning Accelerator (SLA) The SLA serves as a collaborative, multi-disciplinary learning space where programs from many UConn colleges and schools will share space and resources to foster a very wide range of student team projects. Given its location within the economic heart of Fairfield County, the outreach and partnering efforts of the SLA will include many regional, national and global businesses, as well as governmental and community programs.MORE INFO |
 | Student Managed Fund (SMF) Established in 1999, UConn’s Student Managed Fund (SMF) is one of only a handful in the nation to have $2 million of real money to manage. Reporting to the University’s Investment Advisory Board, students use their intensive classroom training in stock market theory to help them research and analyze stocks, and develop investment strategies. SMF students also learn the accounting and reporting necessary for professional fund management, and are treated in this regard by the UConn Foundation like any other outside manager of the University's endowment money. Aside from enhancing their marketability to potential employers, students gain vital first-hand experience in investment and portfolio management, and work closely with seasoned professional investment managers within the Investment Advisory Board.MORE INFO |