The 2015 UConn Innovation Quest (iQ) Program kicked off on
February 16, 2015, with over 200 undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D.
students attending from across UConn. Participating students
represented 27 academic disciplines. UConn management professor and
iQ program director Rich Dino noted that he has "been blown
away with the breadth and depth of the turnout."
The iQ Program is designed to encourage innovators at UConn to
develop their product and business ideas into working prototypes
and business plans. The iQ Program consists of an intense 10-week
program of mentoring, market research and product development. The
program culminates in the presentation of awards on April 30, 2015
(which include seed funding for the winning teams) and invitations
to participate in UConn's "iQ InQbator," an incubator
that in the past has served as a bridge to launching a team's
business or to a later-stage incubator program, such as UConn's
Technology Incubation Program. Over the
