Senior Shield took home $10,000 from the UGA Entrepreneurship Program’s second Health and Wellness Pitch Contest at Studio 225.
Category: Innovation
Led by Aaron Luque (MBA ’16), EnviroSpark oversees 8,500 chargers, boasts 150 employees and holds more than 50 operating licenses in 20-plus states.
Terry College graduate students toured Trilith Studios in Fayetteville, Georgia as part of a course on Business in the Creative Economy.
Terry College graduate students gained first-hand experience of a intentional, working creative ecosystem when they toured Trilith Studios.
Dawgtown Moving, a student-owned moving company with over 20 employees, took home $2,500 at the UGA Entrepreneurship Program’s Idea Accelerator pitch contest.
Terry management Associate Professor Susan Cohen’s early interest in innovation led her to study startups and how startup accelerators foster new ideas, new products and success.
In their paper, “Knowledge monopolies and the innovation divide: A governance perspective,” Hani Safadi and former Terry College MIS professor Rick Watson argue dominant tech firm’s exclusive access to proprietary data also has a chilling effect on innovation, competition and the kinds of services consumers have access to.
Boehringer Ingelheim began operations nearly 140 years ago as a small chemical manufacturing company in rural Germany and has grown into a global leader in pharmaceutical innovation. The private, independently owned business thrives in 130 communities with a workforce population of a small city — 53,500 — providing medical needs and solutions for humans and animals to live healthier and longer.
In May, Terry College of Business students traveled to Sweden, Finland and Denmark to see how a region with a radically different regulatory structure and cultural norms support a booming innovation ecosystem.
Supported by private donations, seed grant funding for the college’s Business, Systems, and Technology Innovation Initiative and then its Sustainability Initiative was offered to faculty to support key goals in the college’s five-year strategic plan. To date, 21 grants have been awarded to 31 faculty members, representing all of Terry College’s academic departments.