Entrepreneurship at UConn
- Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship & InnovationCCEI inspires a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation across all academic disciplines throughout the University by offering programs that support new venture development, teaching courses that engage students in innovation and new technologies, and connecting the University with and enhancing the greater entrepreneurial ecosystem within the State.
- Innovation House (Learning Community Program)Innovation House brings undergraduates from across disciplines together, fuelling creativity towards the creation of new problem-solving products and technologies.They offers students multiple in-roads to mentorship and exposes students to a myriad of on-campus programs that support entrepreneurship.
- Innovation Zone Makerspace (IZM)
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Located at the Peter J. Werth Residence Tower. Besides being a makerspace with equipment, they also host student-led Skillshare sessions.
Entrepreneurship and Starting a Small Business
Use the following resources to find background information on entrepreneurship and starting a small business
Online Magazines & Newspapers:
- EntrepreneurAn excellent site with wealth of information for small businesses on a variety of topics including business ideas, sample business plans, marketing, advertising, franchising, management, and human resources. Each section includes "how to" guides that are easy to read and provide practical tips on frequently asked questions.
- Inc.Another great site with brief articles and "how to" guides on many aspects of starting a small business.
- Small Business: the Wall Street JournalFeatures news, articles, and columns on topics of relevance to small business including franchising, financing, technology, running a business, building awareness etc.
Scholarly journals, trade and popular magazines, newspapers, and wire services resources:
- ABI/INFORM CollectionIncludes articles, dissertations, news content and reports covering the various areas of business, advertising, insurance, public administration, real estate, and telecommunications
- Business Source CompleteComprehensive coverage of business journals.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Resources
Creativity and Innovation
The Art of the Start by
A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new anything - where there's a will, Kawasaki shows the way with his essential steps to launching one's dreams.
ISBN: 1591840562Publication Date: 2004
Creativity by
Who is creative...and why? And what does it mean to be creative? Is a creative individual a master-of-all trades or a master of one? In other words, is creativity a generalized attribute or is it a domain-specific attribute? In Creativity: The Psychology of Creative Potential and Realization, authors ponder these questions and discuss the attributes that lead people to be creative in various fields such as the arts and letters, the sciences, and business.
ISBN: 1591471206Publication Date: 2004
Explaining Creativity by
Explaining Creativity is an accessible introduction to the latest scientific research on creativity. The book summarizes and integrates a broad range of research in psychology and related scientific fields. In the last 40 years, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists have devotedincreased attention to creativity; we now know more about creativity than at any point in history.
ISBN: 9780199737574Publication Date: 2012-01-12
Break the Rules! The Six Counter-Conventional Mindsets of Entrepreneurs That Can Help Anyone Change the World. by
Discover the six counter-conventional mindsets to be a changemaker In Break the Rules!: The Six Counter-Conventional Mindsets of Entrepreneurs That Can Help Anyone Change the World, celebrated London Business School entrepreneurship professor, keynote speaker, and best-selling author Dr. John Mullins delivers an eye-opening and insightful exploration of what sets successful entrepreneurs apart from other business people and from those who fail to reach their goals. You'll discover a compelling argument that successful entrepreneurs exhibit one or more of the six break-the-rules mindsets revealed in this book. Each of these six mindsets can be learned, practiced, and built upon--by anyone, in any business setting large or small, old or new--, to create thriving businesses that grow and prosper. Mullins draws on over two decades of research to show you how to do exactly that. You'll also find: Explanations of why the six break-the-rules mindsets fly in the face of conventional business and business school wisdom Strategies for dealing with, skating around, or otherwise overcoming the daunting obstacles that stand in every innovator's way Ways to challenge assumptions and mitigate risk in order to take advantage of opportunities that present themselves along your entrepreneurial path Steps you can take now to make one or more of these mindsets your own. An essential new take on entrepreneurship and on what it takes to be or become more "entrepreneurial," Break the Rules! sheds new light on an oft-discussed--but rarely understood--area of business.
ISBN: 9781394153022Publication Date: 2023-01-18
How to develop your creative identity at work : integrating personal creativity within your professional role by
According to the World Economic Forum, creativity is considered to be the third-most-important skill for employees, behind complex problem-solving and critical thinking. This book will help you rethink your creativity and its value in the work life, giving you access to intellectual, emotional, and reputational benefits that were previously unattainable. Based on a collection of interviews and research, this book translates the latest findings on the creative beliefs, confidence, and mindset into digestible thoughts for experts with an itch for improvement and innovation in domains like technology, entrepreneurship, and education. It brings a new perspective to creativity by focusing on how individuals can understand their creativity and what the implications are on what they want to achieve. How to Develop Your Creative Identity at Work is based on the most recent creativity research, which analyzes how creativity plays an important part in the individual's sense of identity. What You'll Learn Understand how personal beliefs about the innate creativity are influenced by past experiences See how the creator's personality can be shaped through new habits of curiosity, emotional risk-taking and insight Establish a creative communication style that enables others to navigate smoothly through the challenging moments in a feedback conversation Become an ambitious person with a sense of meaning in the work you do Identify all the familiar and less familiar in-house creative experts Who This Book Is For The primary reader is a knowledgeable expert, in a creative or less creative role, who is curious to bring a better fit between their inner experiences and the external environment. The secondary audience are the experts in roles like learning and development, people and culture change, and team leads who are interested in facilitating a space where employees feel safe to share their original ideas and express their curiosity.
ISBN: 9781484286807Publication Date: 2022
A Mindful Approach to Team Creativity and Collaboration in Organizations Creating a Culture of Innovation by
This book examines how contemplative arts practice and a mindful approach to creativity, can be used to offer new possibilities for facilitating team creativity and collaboration in organizational settings. The author employs a qualitative, action research paradigm, using arts‐based and ethnographic methods, to explore the perceived effects of a contemplative arts workshop process on team creativity and collaboration within an organization. The book demonstrates how a contemplative arts workshop process may be used to facilitate mindfulness, trust, communication, collaboration, and creative insights among teams and working groups. It explores each of these themes in depth and develops a model based on those findings. The model includes five elements: 1. Individual-Level Mindfulness, 2. Trust and Authentic Communication, 3. Team Cohesion and Collaboration, 4. Creative Ideation and Insights, and 5. Leadership: Creating a Culture of Innovation. Combining theory and practice, the book offers a series of mindfulness and contemplative arts exercises that facilitators can use to address each of the five levels of the model. This book weaves together contemporary psychological research on mindfulness and organizational creativity along with practical applications and contemplative arts exercises for practitioners and scholars of workplace creativity, management and organisational and industrial psychology.
ISBN: 9783030476755Publication Date: 2020
The Proximity Paradox : How to Create Distance From Business As Usual and Do Something Truly Innovative by ISBN: 9781773055183Publication Date: 2020
Titles on Entrepreneurs
Money-Smart Solopreneur : A Personal Finance System for Freelancers, Entrepreneurs, and Side-Hustlers by ISBN: 9781613084335Publication Date: 2020
The Hybrid Entrepreneur : A Novel Career in Science and Business. by
Do you want to start your own company? This book describes the management expertise, organizational skills, and vocabulary necessary to be a successful entrepreneur based on the author's academic and business career. This book discusses: What are the successful characteristics of an inventor, entrepreneur, and a CEO? Understanding the vocabulary of the entrepreneur's ecosystem. What are the evaluation criteria for the team, product, business model & exit plan? Do consumers need or want your product? How to create the story that will fit the right investor for funding? Understanding the investor evaluation and screening process. Readers will learn how to ask the right questions to build a strong ecosystem with service providers, customers, and investors. If you want to be an entrepreneur, read this book. It is about the author's personal experiences as a scientist, an inventor, an entrepreneur, CEO, and investor.
ISBN: 9781637424452Publication Date: 2023-03-07
The Freelance Mindset : Unleashing Your Side Hustles for Better Work, Play, and Life by
Offers concrete ways to navigate the uncertainty of freelancing to build a life that is financially and emotionally rewarding. In The Freelance Mindset we discover our illusions about the way we work are just that-stories we make up, or, worse, stories that were made up for us. The current way of work is, in fact, not working for us, but there is another path forward: one that leverages our innate creativity and human need to make a living. Readers here discover what pulls us toward freelancing, develop tools to meet its challenges, and realize that we can succeed as either freelancers or traditional employees. What we cannot do is go back to seeing the world in the limited nine-to-five way we once did. Author Joy Batra compares traditional employment with the freelance lifestyle and keenly observes the gaps between the two. She shares concrete ways to help current and future freelancers navigate the uncertainty of freelancing in order to build a life that is both financially and emotionally rewarding.
ISBN: 9781538167700Publication Date: 2023-03-08
Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution : A Handbook for Entrepreneurs. by
As the cofounder of Waze—the world’s leading commuting and navigation app with more than 700 million users to date, and which Google acquired in 2013 for $1.15 billion—Levine is committed to spreading entrepreneurial thinking so that other founders, managers, and employees in the tech space can build their own highly valued companies.
ISBN: 9781637741993Publication Date: 2023
The Essential Entrepreneur : What It Takes to Start, Scale, and Sell a Successful Business by
A toolkit for entrepreneurial success In The Essential Entrepreneur, celebrated entrepreneur and business strategist Richard Turner delivers a practical, step-by-step approach to starting and growing a thriving enterprise. If you're ready to take your fledgling business to the next level--and finally follow that brilliant big idea--this guide covers everything you'll need to navigate the challenges ahead. Richard shares straightforward advice and hands-on, real-world lessons outlining the key points you need to know to start and grow your venture. And his lessons are supported by the experience and wisdom of a panel of diverse experts: Tobi Pearce (co-founder of SWEAT), Flavia Tata Nardini (of Fleet Space), Simon Haigh (of Haigh's Chocolates), and Kirsten Bernhardt (skilled investment manager). You'll discover how to: Make a splash in your industry by taking advantage of market weaknesses, disrupting the status quo and creating new openings Sort the good ideas from the bad: validate your business (whether it's a product or a service) and maximise its value Position your brand so that what you do is clear and instantly recognisable Create a business plan that really works, factoring in timing, going to market, managing finance, managing growth and more Understand the logistics of a successful and profitable operation, from sourcing suppliers to production, warehousing and distribution Most small businesses struggle to get moving. This is the book that will help you get ahead in the race. A can't-miss resource for start-up entrepreneurs and business owners, The Essential Entrepreneur outlines everything you need to know to hit the ground running.
ISBN: 9781119984597Publication Date: 2023
Black Belt : A masterclass for start-ups and entrepreneurs. by
Disillusioned with the four big Australian banks' culture and strategy, Joseph Healy and David Hornery started thinking about a startup that would improve and disrupt the immovable banking sector. Although they were self-professed ' no spring chickens' who fell outside of the usual millennial startup entrepreneur demographic, they forged a plan to start a new bank that would service small and medium-sized businesses (a sector the big banks were neglecting) in a highly regulated industry monopolised by four of Australia' s biggest companies. Inspired by the Netflix mantra ' that will never work' , Joseph and David founded Judo Bank in 2016 and disrupted the Australian banking market against all odds. The name is a nod to the fact that in judo, the smaller, weaker person can overpower a stronger opponent through the efficient use of energy. In Black Belt the authors share keys lessons from the Judo journey and their decades in business prior to the startup. This is a true masterclass in planning, launching and scaling a business.
ISBN: 9781922611567Publication Date: 2023-02-21
