The Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (CCEI) recently announced a research seminar series aimed at furthering professorial interest and expertise in entrepreneurship and innovation.Continue Reading
Experiential Learning Accelerators
Entrepreneurship Doesn’t Always Deserve the ‘Risky Business’ Reputation That It Is Assigned
Most of us are aware of the state-wide efforts underway to jumpstart the Connecticut economy by inspiring entrepreneurship. As we consider these efforts, it is worth contemplating how it is that the entrepreneur does what she does. Continue Reading
Colleges, students embrace entrepreneurship as course of study
UConn Fuels Insurtech Boom with Innovative New Program
When Hartford Innovation Places announced a plan to make the state capitol a center for the burgeoning insurtech industry, professor Timothy Folta, faculty director of the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI), was listening very carefully. Continue Reading
UConn Prominent in Stamford Innovation Week 2018
The UConn School of Business will bring top experts to present three timely and cutting-edge programs as part of Stamford Innovation Week (SiW), running Sept. 14 through 23 throughout the city. Continue Reading
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
UHART, UCONN SET TO LAUNCH INSURTECH CURRICULUM
Innovation Destination Hartford– This piece originally appeared in HartfordBusiness.com August 22, 2018.
Timothy Folta, professor of management, leads a class at the Graduate Business Learning Center in Hartford. (Photo courtesy: Peter Morenus/University of Connecticut.)
Q&A talks with UConn School of Business professor Timothy Folta and University of Hartford Barney School of Business clinical instructor Ken Goldstein about the schools’ joint InsurTech program.