Backed by $300,000 in National Science Foundation funding, UConn said it will kick off its new tech entrepreneurship program on Tuesday.
Under the three-year agreement with the NSF, Accelerate UConn will provide funding, education and mentors for as many as 40 student-faculty teams to develop startup ideas.
The school’s Office of the Vice President for Research and the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation operate the program.
An event Tuesday afternoon at the Storrs campus will feature keynote speaker Anthony F. Viscogliosi of Viscogliosi Brothers, a New York venture capital and private equity merchant bank dedicated to musculoskeletal and orthopedic healthcare startups.
