Q&A with Kay Molkentin

What do you teach? I teach E-Scholar courses -ENT480: Creating a World Class Venture and ENT481: Venture Apprenticeship and help with ENT482: Global Entrepreneurship along with: ENT200: Intro to Entrepreneurship BUS364: Innovation (1 section) BUS487: Social Entrepreneurship What are you working on? Anything and everything entrepreneurship related. Currently I have been busy pulling all the…Continue Reading Q&A with Kay Molkentin

What’s On Your Mind? New Corporate Partner Series: Yuri Ramirez

Contributed by Yuri Ramirez Diversity Drives Innovation Diversity and Inclusion cannot be an “add-in”, it has to be “grow within”. Diversity and inclusion are instrumental in driving innovation and delivering strong business growth, and everyone needs to be on board for this to work. Employee Engagement As an employee, you want the company you work…Continue Reading What’s On Your Mind? New Corporate Partner Series: Yuri Ramirez

Managing Innovation and Technology Across the Globe

Contributed by Juliette Moody, Communications Director at NAEGELI Deposition and Trial GoCirkular The goal of these projects is to apply various scholarly articles read through the semester to strategize with the entrepreneurs to ensure our recommendations are sound and scholarly based.  The project my group and I are working on is called GoCirkular which is a…Continue Reading Managing Innovation and Technology Across the Globe

Pilot Venture Challenge 2021 Results

UP students pitch and win! The Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation once again hosted its annual venture pitch competition, Pilot Venture Challenge, as a live, virtual event due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. However, that didn’t seem to deter students from developing invention and venture ideas to pitch. This year there was a record…Continue Reading Pilot Venture Challenge 2021 Results

Design Week Portland: Designing a New Innovation Minor at UP with Prof. Ian Parkman

What do you wish you could have learned when you were in college? Practitioners, educators, students, and all other stakeholders in the Portland design community are invited to participate in a collaborate workshop helping the Innovation Task Force at the University of Portland apply tenets of design thinking to develop the structure, content, and mission…Continue Reading Design Week Portland: Designing a New Innovation Minor at UP with Prof. Ian Parkman