Meet the 2023 CometX Summer Accelerator Cohort

The Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is excited to launch the 2023 CometX Summer Accelerator. CometX is a highly impactful startup accelerator that focuses on supporting the most promising and scalable startups in refining their business models and solutions, expediting their customer acquisition efforts, and positioning their ventures for rapid growth and expansion. Participating teams … Continue reading Meet the 2023 CometX Summer Accelerator Cohort

Meet This Year’s Big Idea Competition Finalists

Ten teams have made it to the final event in our university business idea pitch competition open to alumni, current students, and faculty researchers. They will compete for $170,000 in cash and scholarship prizes. The competition is hosted by the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, an interdisciplinary division of the Naveen Jindal School of Management. … Continue reading Meet This Year’s Big Idea Competition Finalists

We Ran an Ideas Competition for Staff Over the Summer. Here’s How it Went.

Wanting to create an event that would encourage and showcase the real-world problem-solving and creative solutions of the universities employees, the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship created the university’s first “Staff Ideas Competition” this summer.  Over 60 people participated in workshops and training sessions in June and July to develop and communicate their product and … Continue reading We Ran an Ideas Competition for Staff Over the Summer. Here’s How it Went.

Institute Welcomes Two New Faculty Members

We’re excited to welcome two new members to the faculty of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UT Dallas. As adjunct faculty, Leah Frazier, who also leads our GalXc Accelerator cohorts, and John Adler will be teaching ENTP 3301: Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the undergraduate level. 3301 is often called our “intro to entrepreneurship” … Continue reading Institute Welcomes Two New Faculty Members

New Research-Focused Programs Launch for Fall

The Office of Research, in collaboration with the Office of Undergraduate Education and the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is offering three new programs this fall for research faculty, Ph.D. candidates, postdocs, and other UT Dallas researchers interested in commercializing their inventions. The programs are: the Bio-Engineering Startup Training (BEST) series, the Venture Development Center … Continue reading New Research-Focused Programs Launch for Fall