Jessica McBride


Industry-Academic Program to Grow Entrepreneurial Know-How

Timothy Folta, professor of management, leads a class at the Graduate Business Learning Center in Hartford. Folta is director of the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UConn. (Peter Morenus/UConn File Photo)
Timothy Folta, professor of management, leads a class at the Graduate Business Learning Center in Hartford on Dec. 6, 2013. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

A new industry-academic initiative to increase entrepreneurial education and output among the state’s top researchers has been launched recently by the University of Connecticut, Unilever, Quinnipiac and Wesleyan Universities, and The Jackson Laboratory, with funding through a grant from the CTNext Higher Education Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fund.

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