March 22, 2022

As the 2022 DAAP Distinguished Alum of the Year, Kristen has embraced the spirit of the program’s curriculum and her co-ops to boldly found DŌ, Cookie Dough Confections, the world’s first edible cookie dough confectionery. Along with some other entrepreneurial alumni, she is also the impetus for DAAP’s new Creative Entrepreneurship Initiative.

March 3, 2022

UC's Nursing + Design Collaborative creates interprofessional opportunities for innovation for students in the colleges of nursing and DAAP.

February 10, 2022

Joe Niehaus has been cultivating his entrepreneurial tendencies since he was a child. He constantly directed questions to his small-business-owning father. He sold lemonade at the local Independence Day parade, as well as candy and T-shirts to his middle school and high school classmates.

November 16, 2022

University of Cincinnati President Neville Pinto, UC Executive Vice President Ryan Hays, Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted and entrepreneurs within the Cincinnati Innovation District today celebrated the economic impacts of the Ohio IP Promise — a statewide commercialization initiative launched in 2019 that streamlines the patent and licensing process, enabling inventors to own their intellectual property.

November 14, 2022

Preston Rhodes has held a long-standing interest in digital assets. The third-year finance major founded the UC Cryptocurrency Club nearly two years ago and recently interned with a blockchain startup. Over the summer, Rhodes came across a software as a startup (Saas) business model that piqued his interest, leading to the founding of his first company, Neoteric Solutions.

November 17, 2022

Researchers at colleges and universities across Ohio used to face a number of obstacles when it came to commercializing their ideas.

May 19, 2022

His future was set. John Hollis, BBA ’22, would join Integrity Express Logistics full-time as a freight broker once he graduated following the spring 2022 semester with a marketing degree.

November 22, 2022

For the second year, four students from the University of Cincinnati have been named University Innovation Fellows (UIF), a program run by Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.

May 12, 2023

Your promising new business is off and running. But, how do you let the world know what it can do without spending a fortune on brand designers? New AI image generator programs are changing the trajectory of business success — young and old — like never before.

June 14, 2023

Want to launch a winning business right here in Cincinnati? Thanks to the services available through the University of Cincinnati’s 1819 Innovation Hub, you don’t have to do it alone. As the front door to UC, the hub connects small business owners, entrepreneurs and innovators to services that will help turn your venture into the next big thing.