{"id":19719,"date":"2014-12-09T21:09:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T21:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=19719"},"modified":"2014-12-09T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T21:09:12","slug":"announcing-uconns-new-entrepreneurship-and-innovation-consortium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/12\/announcing-uconns-new-entrepreneurship-and-innovation-consortium\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Hear This! UConn Has a New Entrepreneurship and Innovation Consortium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing its commitment to fostering new businesses, the University of Connecticut has established the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Consortium.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6330\" style=\"width: 88px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/hadi-photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6330 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/hadi-photo.jpg\" alt=\"hadi-photo\" width=\"88\" height=\"105\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 88px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 88\/105;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hadi Bozorgmanesh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0It\u2019s a collaborative initiative of the Schools of Engineering and Business, Office of the Provost, and Office of the Vice President for Research.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19720\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19720\" style=\"width: 101px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/folta1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19720 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/folta1-126x150.jpg\" alt=\"folta[1]\" width=\"101\" height=\"120\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 101px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 101\/120;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Timothy B. Folta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0Given the wealth of research and ideas at UConn, the consortium will strive to make the most of our resources by inspiring and mentoring our faculty and students, and promoting their ventures both within and beyond the university.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Consortium\u00a0will champion venture-friendly policies and processes, as well as help students, faculty, and others navigate the wide range of entrepreneurship and innovation courses and programs offered at the university. Much of the strength of the Consortium comes from the diversity of its membership, which includes representatives throughout the university including engineering, business, law, technology commercialization, nursing, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Co-directors are Hadi Bozorgmanesh and Timothy B. Folta.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Consortium, go to www.entrepreneurship.uconn.edu, or contact Kathy Rocha at krocha@engr.UConn.edu<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing its commitment to fostering new businesses, the University of Connecticut has established the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Consortium.  It&#8217;s a collaborative initiative of the Schools of Engineering and Business, Office of the Provost, and Office of the Vice President for Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":20020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[43],"class_list":["post-19719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 05:26:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/20020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19719"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=19719"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}