Laminated Wood Systems in business for 20 years through innovation, knowledge and education

Laminated Wood Systems, based in Seward, began in 1992. Prior to its inception, two of Laminated Wood Systems’ current owners, President Bob Reisdorff and Vice President of Sales and Marketing Doug Kotil, were providing consultation services to manufacturers producing various products for the electric utility industry at RDM Design Systems. It was there that the [...]

UNeMed to Host Research Commercialization Introductory Course

UNeMed Corp., the technology transfer leader for the University of Nebraska Medical Center, will once again sponsor a free webinar series for all researchers, post-docs and graduate students every Wednesday from Sept. 19 through Nov. 14 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. UNeMed first hosted the series, presented by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer, [...]

Inter-Motion co-founders navigate processes of business creation and sale

In 1984, Ronny Roberts and Jim Zecha started Inter-Motion in Kearney and got to work dismantling, rebuilding and retrofitting old machinery. After years of reworking various machines, the two founders sold Inter-Motion in 2009, and watched the company begin its next chapter under new ownership. Prior to co-founding Inter-Motion, Roberts and Zecha worked in Kearney [...]

AIM Institute Presents – From Innovate to Dominate: Perspectives on Rapid Growth in the Cloud

The AIM Institute has been a longtime supporter of information technology leadership in the region. It does this through a number of different programs and initiatives and one of those has always been a speaker series. For 2012, the AIM Institute is focusing its speaker series around the impact that innovation, marketing, management and ‘the cloud’ have on the business [...]

Talent and Innovation Initiative: A Growing Help for Nebraska’s Businesses

Check back over the next month as we will be highlighting the different programs created this year by the Nebraska Legislature through the Talent and Innovation Initiative. Being an entrepreneur – or being involved in any capacity with a start-up — can be quite the challenge, yet successful entrepreneurs provide reward not only for themselves, but state economies [...]

Insights Into Understanding and Pursuing Successful Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Are you interested in innovation and entrepreneurship?  The Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at UNL would like to share this talk by Barry Uphoff.   Barry will provide a spectrum of insights into understanding and pursuing successful entrepreneurship and innovation. Barry Uphoff is Managing Principal at Capricorn Investment Group and has more [...]

Innovation Seminar Series 4: Orbiting the Giant Hairball

[Shane Farritor's Innovation Seminar series was filmed live at the NET studios in Lincoln, NE. This series is designed to change the way you think about business and engineering. It is designed to encourage you to work with imagination, to improvise, and to try unconventional approaches.] “Orbiting the Giant Hairball,” on Nov. 3rd, gives entrepreneurs [...]

Innovation Seminar Series 3: Brainstorming and Other Thinkertoys

[Shane Farritor's Innovation Seminar series was filmed live at the NET studios in Lincoln, NE. This series is designed to change the way you think about business and engineering. It is designed to encourage you to work with imagination, to improvise, and to try unconventional approaches.] The “Brainstorming” installation of the series, held Nov. 1, [...]

Entrepreneur Spotlight: Adam Switzer of Calamus Outfitters

It all started when Adam Switzer wanted to move back to the family ranch near Burwell, NE. The ranch had supported several families in the 90′s but now could barely support one. In order to make the move possible it meant having to innovate on the business model. Ranching had been the staple of the [...]

Innovation Seminar Series 2: Little Bets

[Shane Farritor's Innovation Seminar series was filmed live at the NET studios in Lincoln, NE. This series is designed to change the way you think about business and engineering. It is designed to encourage you to work with imagination, to improvise, and to try unconventional approaches.] Oct 20 brought “Little Bets,” devoted to understanding how [...]

Innovation Seminar Series 1: We Need Your Gift

[Shane Farritor's Innovation Seminar series was filmed live at the NET studios in Lincoln, NE. This series is designed to change the way you think about business and engineering.  It is designed to encourage you to work with imagination, to improvise, and to try unconventional approaches.] The series kicked off Oct 18, 2011 with “We [...]

Innovation Series Aims to Access Hidden Potential

Creativity and innovation are buzzwords that get a lot of mileage among business owners. But what exactly is innovation, where does it come from, and how do you create it? Shane Farritor, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering professor and entrepreneur, aims to answer these questions and more in his upcoming series of Innovation Seminars. With thought-provoking [...]

Agriculture Innovation with Mark Gustafson

Nebraska Entrepreneur sat down with Mark Gustafson to talk about agricultural innovation in Nebraska and the University of Nebraska’s role in that. Mark Gustafson is the founding director of the Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program and the Paul Engler Chair of Agribusiness Entrepreneurship of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska [...]

Larry Keeley on the importance of continual innovation

Larry Keeley, a leading innovation and strategy consultant, spoke at The Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management. Keeley is a leading innovation and strategy consultant with the Monitor Group, a global management consulting firm that advises the world’s leading corporations and nonprofits on issues of strategy, organization and innovation. Keeley has worked [...]

RockDex earns local and national attention

RockDex, a company in Omaha, lets bands learn how they really rate with fans based on Internet buzz. Their software application tracks data like band mention and song plays on social media sites and other Internet venues, including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and music blogs. RockDex compiles, analyzes and presents the data so that musicians, managers, [...]

Nebraska Farmers embracing new technology

For an occupation that literally feeds the entire planet, farmers and ranchers occasionally find themselves typecast in unwarranted (and uninformed) fashions. All too often, people living in the city assume those dwelling in rural areas are inextricably trapped in the 1800s and that the technological wonders of the 21st century have passed them by – marked improvements [...]

‘Coolest Night in Innovation’ is April 8

Released on 04/02/2010, at 2:00 AM Office of University Communications University of Nebraska–Lincoln WHEN: Thursday, Apr. 8 WHERE: Embassy Suites Hotel, 1040 P Street [map] Lincoln, Neb., April 2nd, 2010 — Innovation, both nascent and thriving, will be featured at the Coolest Night in Innovation 5:30-7:30 p.m. April 8 at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 1040 [...]

Innovation to Commercialization: Is the road ever Straight and Short?

Is the road ever Straight and Short? Dr. Jennie Hunter-Cevera Executive Vice President of Discovery and Analytical Sciences (DAS), Corporate Development, and Government Relations, RTI International Monday, April 5, 2010 10:30 am, Nebraska Union Auditorium, City Campus 3:30 pm, Hardin Hall Auditorium, East Campus Both talks are free and open to the public. Dr. Hunter-Cevera [...]

Kimmel Brings Innovation to Businesses

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Connie Reimers-Hild UNL Kimmel Education and Research Center 5985 G Road Nebraska City, NE 68410 In these current economic times, businesses must continue to find new ways to be productive and continue to turn a profit.  This April, Dr. Connie Reimers-Hild will take this economy head on with an Innovation Retreat [...]