Have you ever wondered how the companies we all know came to be? They all had to start somewhere, most of the time with the help of external investors. If you’re anything like me, the concept of a company before reaching the stock market may perplex you. What...
Will Camels Replace Unicorns?
I bet you thought that unicorns don’t exist. Well, the kind that we envision as a horse-like creature with a horn attached to their noggin still don’t exist, but what they represent do. The magical, ethereal, seemingly impossible idea of a unicorn has been adopted and...
Opportunity Corps Entrepreneurship Programs Announce 2023 Fellows
UNeTech Institute is pleased to announce the fellows accepted into the second year of Opportunity Corps: Women in STEAM and the first year of Opportunity Corps: Bell-Jewell, our ten-month programs to teach community members about entrepreneurship using both I-Corps...
How Startups Can Survive Recession
As we all know, prices are rising. With the Fed relentlessly hiking interest rates, the general economy has been struggling despite few areas. This matters because the Fed funds rate is "the interest rate depository institutions charge each other for overnight loans...
Startups Create the Future
Startups may not seem all that important, but they quite literally shape the world we live in. They also affect the quality of life that is achievable. Eric Corl from Medium.comTake some of the household names we know today for example: Google, Uber, Square, Apple,...
Opportunity Corps 2023
Applications are now open for the 2023 Opportunity Corps program for women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math and for Black and African American entrepreneurs.The UNeTech Institute and Bio Nebraska are accepting applications for Opportunity Corps:...
Opportunity Corps: Women in STEAM graduates 19 fellows from inaugural program
UNeTech Institute is proud to announce the graduation of 19 women from Opportunity Corps: Women in STEAM, a ten-month education program focused on entrepreneurship and leadership development that matches women academic and industry professionals in Science,...
A commonwealth of innovation: the importance of technology transfer
Who owns the inventions made from university research? It is a fundamentally technical question that seems best answered by serious people wearing dark suits, possibly on weekend C-SPAN. It is the sort of question you likely need three different reference books and a...
Excellence through Failure – There’s a Reason it’s One of Our Values
At UNeTech we write a lot of grants. Most of them we don’t get, except the ones we do. UNeTech had a busy spring writing and submitting a wide variety of proposals. Two of them were funded and, with a recent spate of good news, I wanted to take a few moments to thank...
Big Government, Small Business: A Guide to the SBIR and STTR Programs
Part 5: Tragedy Averted: The SBIR/STTR Extension Act of 2022 In this series, Jace Gatzemeyer discusses the history, legacy, goals, successes, and shortcomings of the SBIR and STTR programs. Dr. Gatzemeyer is UNeTech’s Grant Writer, and one aspect of his job involves...