Their mission: to foster entrepreneurial environments that will facilitate connections and access to resources – and turn ideas into realities. Grand Opening of UNLV Incubator powered by Hughes Center®Īnd with that, the commercial real estate industry and academia are jointly cultivating the next generation of business innovators. “The Incubator is the solution for that in-between phase, when students need to hone their business plans and design.” “Hundreds of brilliant ideas emerge from students’ minds each year that have been shelved and left for someone else to reinvent, because they don’t know how or don’t have the resources to bring their concepts to life,” explains Robert Rippee, executive director of Black Fire Innovation and head of the brand-new UNLV Incubator powered by Hughes Center®.
With a vision to help emerging entrepreneurs bridge the gap between the initial brainstorm and the marketplace, educators and business leaders are trying out a new approach: hybrid workplace-classrooms. But what about the “next _” that just didn’t have the resources and support it needed to grow? For young entrepreneurs, taking a marketable idea from concept to reality can prove a daunting task. Can you name a business that grew out of a college dorm? Your first thought might be of Facebook, famously started by a 19-year-old sophomore at Harvard University, or of Snapchat, sparked in the minds of two Stanford University students, or even the satirical media company The Onion, sprouted by two University of Wisconsin juniors.
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