In recognition of National Mentoring Month, I would like to acknowledge the important work being done by our WKI Certified Coaches who dedicate themselves to mentoring and coaching innovators to navigate the path forward to turn their idea into a business with...
First, let me give credit for the title of this post — our customer, Tech Fort Worth, uses this as its mantra. I think it’s a powerful statement. It captures the work we do to help people with ideas turn those ideas into business value, and throughout this process,...
Here at WKI we are lucky to spend our days in the world of new science and technology innovations -- renewable energies, medical devices, AI, and the like. I enjoy seeing our design frameworks help new and often novel approaches find their way to market to make an...
WKI would like to recognize and congratulate the University of Delaware SBDC, a WKI Certified organization, on receiving the 2020 Tibbitts Award. The award is named after Roland Tibbetts, who was instrumental in developing the SBA’s Small Business Innovation Research...
Thank you to USF Connect for hosting our Virtual Fireside Chat yesterday. We had an energetic, founder focused discussion around Building a Winning Startup. We covered a wide range of topics thanks to the questions posed by the attendees: building a startup from the...
Fifteen years ago as I was finishing my first book introducing the So what? Who cares? why you? methodology, I was fortunate to meet Tech Fort Worth. They were launching a new entrepreneurial incubator in Fort Worth, Texas and we became fast friends and partners,...
Innovation and entrepreneurial development are alive and well in the Midwest. Nowhere is this more true than in Dayton, Ohio. I recently had the pleasure to sit down with Scott Koorndyk, President of TEC Dayton. For the past four years, Scott has been leading his...
Mark Long is the Director of Incubation Services at the University Florida. Under his leadership, UF Innovate and the Sid Martin Biotech Institute have both been recognized as world-class Incubation centers. In this interview we talk about four major themes Mark is...
In this episode, Wendy talks with Pete Turner, Vice President of Innovation at Indianapolis based Community Health Network about building an innovation hub in healthcare – the story of Community Launchpad. Listen in as Pete describes how the concept of Community...
