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
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Last week, the UTD Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship hosted the 2023 Big Idea Competition. Ten startup teams from across campus came together to compete for cash and scholarship prizes. This year, the teams pitched in front of a panel of experts at the Blackstone LaunchPad with over 100 people in attendance. Student Track (WINNER) Routora – Tom … Continue reading Big Checks, Big Money and Big Smiles at the Big Idea Competition Finals
Conversations with Dr. Lakshman Tamil, director of the Quality of Life Technology Laboratory at UTD inspired Dr. Tim Cogan BS’15, MS’17, Ph.D.’21 to focus his PhD work in Electrical Engineering on the potential uses of artificial intelligence in medical imaging. Cogan is now Chief Technology Officer and Tamil is co-founder of MedCognetics, a company that spun … Continue reading Alumni’s AI Research Inspires Medtech Company
A random TikTok video sparked the idea for Sam McBroom MBA’19 to launch Strudel3D, an online business selling 3D-printed fidget keys. “This guy was talking about how a lot of people start 3D printing businesses and it doesn't work out because they like to like download a bunch of stuff online that's already out there,” … Continue reading 3D Printing Inspires Alum’s New Retail Business
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
Large corporations are increasingly looking to the principles of lean startups to help develop new business ideas and spur innovation. Such is the case with IgniteConnex Inc., a subsidiary of technology consulting company CG Infinity set up to incubate new companies. CG Infinity has now partnered with several faculty at the Naveen Jindal School of Management … Continue reading New Internship Program Stresses Innovation
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