The Mission of the Institute

is to advance and support entrepreneurship activity by creating opportunities for businesses, government and non-government agencies, and educational institutions in an effort to promote, support and sustain entrepreneurship in the State of Connecticut.

Business Plan Winners Present Timely Innovations
The winners of the sixth annual Barney School Business Plan Competition were presented their awards at ceremonies at the 1877 Club on December 10, 2008.  Cash awards were provided by the competition sponsor, Schupp & Grochmal, LLP; $500 for first place and $250 for second place for both the graduate and undergraduate categories.

The graduate winner, Adela Martinez-Bernard, has a plan for Strategic Solutons, a service that would help banks mitigate their losses and renegotiate and service loans, since banks do not have the staff to handle the current overload of troubled loans. (Photo, L to R: Dean Fairfield-Sonn, Ms. Martinez-Bernard, Prof. Irina Naoumova)

The undergraduate winners, a team of 3, Keith Wood, Kyle Frisch, and Brian Froehlich, presented a plan, called Skyark, for installing wind farms in Lake Michigan to provide renewable energy to communities along its shore. (Photo, L to R: Dean Fairfield-Sonn, Wood, Frisch, Froehlich, Prof. Irina Naoumova)

Click for photos of the awards ceremony.

Entrepreneur’s Day Seminar

On December 4, Connecticut Innovations (CI) sponsored an Entrepreneur’s Day Luncheon Seminar at the University of Hartford attended by students and faculty from CETA and the Barney School of Business. Barney Institute Director Irina Naoumava, in her closing remarks, offered a collaboration of business with engineering and technology and thanked all the speakers who participated.
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