Initiative for Health Entrepreneurship and Innovation

The Initiative for Health Entrepreneurship and Innovation will:

• Expand accelerator for health-related companies to include special cohorts focused on wet lab space applicants.
• Create a reverse mentoring program for health care systems to recruit the businesses they need to ensure post-COVID success.
• Evolve its Entrepreneur-in-Residence program to support wet lab clientele.
• Scholarship NKU’s graduate certificates in Clinical Trials Research and Health Care Commercialization for regional attendees.
• Provide paid internships from Biological Sciences, Cybersecurity, Health Informatics, and Entrepreneurship to support wet lab clients and medico-health-related startups.

It will also support:

• Economic forecasting through NKU’s Center for Economic Analysis and Development
• Legal assistance through NKU’s Chase Law Clinical for Small Businesses and Non-profits and partner law firm DBL,
• Patent support through NKU’s Patent & Trademark Resource Center, and
• Additional support for entrepreneurs through the Collaborative.
• The IHEI will help provide the tools that bioscience and health-related entrepreneurs need to thrive-knowledge, data, talent, and capital.