Entrepreneurship and Innovation Working Group
Membership: The Entrepreneurship and Innovation working group was chaired by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Senior Associate Dean for International Business and Finance and Executive Director of Institute for Business in the Global Context, Fletcher School. Detailed member information is listed below.
Guiding Questions:
- What is Tufts doing to encourage entrepreneurial activity among students and researchers? What more can we do and to what end? Do we have sufficient physical spaces necessary to encourage student and faculty entrepreneurial activity?
- Does Tufts have the staff, policies, and incentives necessary to facilitate commercialization of discoveries? What enhancements or additions would have the greatest positive impact in this area?
- What should we stop doing, or start doing very differently, if we aim to achieve our entrepreneurship and innovation goals?
Members
| Name | Title | Phone | |
| Bhaskar Chakravorti (Chair) | Senior Associate Dean for International Business and Finance and Executive Director of Institute for Business in the Global Context, Fletcher | bhaskar.chakravorti@tufts.edu | 7-4965 |
| Gary Roberts (Staff) – no longer at Tufts | Assistant Provost | ||
| Chuck Auster | Alumni | ||
| James Barlow | Director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Program | james.barlow@tufts.edu | 7-3110 |
| Diana Bianchi | Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine | diana.bianchi@tufts.edu | 6-1468 |
| Ujjayant Chakravorty | Professor of Economics, A&S | ujjayant.chakravorty@tufts.edu | 7-6649 |
| John Cosmopoulos | Senior Associate Director, Office for Technology and Industry Collaboration, Office of the Vice Provost | john.cosmopoulos@tufts.edu | 6-0366 |
| Robert Hannemann | Director of the Gordon Institute, Engineering | robert.hannemann@tufts.edu | 7-3603 |
| Phil Haydon | Professor of Neuroscience, Medicine | philip.haydon@tufts.edu | 7-5885 |
| Steve Koltai | Alumni | ||
| Krishna Kumar | Professor of Chemistry, A&S | krishna.kumar@tufts.edu | 7-5651 |
| Fio Omenetto | Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Engineering | fiorenzo.omenetto@tufts.edu | 7-4972 |
| Virginia Rentko | Medical Director of Teaching Hospitals, Cummings | virginia.rentko@tufts.edu | 8-4683 |
| David Walt | Professor of Chemistry, A&S/Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences/Tisch College | david.walt@tufts.edu | 7-3470 |
| Sonia Chokshi | Student | Sonia.Chokshi@tufts.edu | |
| Albert Nichols | Student | albert.c.nichols@gmail.com | |
| Sohini Mazumdar | Student | sohini.mazumdar@tufts.edu |