Entrepreneurship is often portrayed as a solo journey: one founder, one big idea, one breakthrough moment. But inside the Maverick Technology Venture Alliance (MTVA) at the University of Nebraska Omaha, students learn something different. Innovation happens through...
A Vision Shared: The Symbolism and Future of the Maverick Technology Venture Alliance
Some of UNeTech’s most enduring success stories start not in a lab, but with a conversation. This one began years ago in a campus conference room, over coffee and whiteboards, when the question was first asked: What if we didn’t just file patents? What if we helped...
MTVA Report: Automated Antibiogram >or< how I learned to stop worrying and read a business strategy canvas
We here at UNeTech are so proud to have started publishing our strategies with the MicroWash! James Young and the UNMC Emergency Department have demonstrated what can be accomplished when inventors and entrepreneurs work together to start something new. It’s a...
Entrepreneurship is a collaborative process
Entrepreneurship is a collaborative process. I love that. It can fail for so many reasons: the invention doesn’t work, there isn’t adequate intellectual property protection, or no one is willing to buy it. Coming from a university brimming with technical experts, I’ve...



