Connecticut by the Numbers – A new analysis of the status of the business startup community in six American cities – including Hartford – has found that Connecticut’s Capitol City has “strong startup potential,” and in some ways is already standing out among peers and competitors.
Experiential Learning Accelerators
Stemler Participates in CTNext’s Entrepreneurship Retreat
Wesleyan University – Steve Stemler, associate professor of psychology, participated in the High Value Talents and Innovators’ Entrepreneurship Retreat Oct. 26-27 on campus. The new industry-academic initiative, supported by the CTNext Higher Education Entrepreneurship and Innovation Fund works to increase entrepreneurial education and output among the state’s top researchers. The event was sponsored by Wesleyan’s Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship.
Colleges, students embrace entrepreneurship as course of study
UConn Spinout Wins NIH R&D Grant for Artificial Salivary Gland
Stamford Innovation Week: Cultivating Unexpected Opportunities for Growth
Spoke– The region’s most enterprising minds will gather at venues across the city September 13-23, 2018, for Stamford Innovation Week (SIW), an event series designed to connect entrepreneurs, tech talent and investors to create unexpected opportunities for growth.
Stamford Innovation Week launches Sept. 13
UConn Engineering and Connecticut Innovations Bridge the Gap Between Entrepreneurial Success and Failure
UHart, UConn set to launch insurtech curriculum
Hartford Business Journal– Q&A talks with UConn Business School professor Timothy Folta and University of Hartford Barney School of Business clinical instructor Ken Goldstein about the schools’ joint insurtech program.
Fly the Colors Program Raises $18,000 for Disabled Veteran Entrepreneurs
The Ridgefield Press– The Ridgefield Rotary Club’s Fly The Colors program has grown to include donations from more than 500 residents.
The most recent campaign saw the Rotary make a donation of $18,000 to the UConn Foundation to support the experiential training in entrepreneurship for post-9/11 veterans with disabilities.