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Barbara Glazer Weinstein and Jerome S. Glazer Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Learning Community |
The CIE [I]magination Team
The Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Learning Community is coordinated by a team of faculty members and students from across the campus, called "The CIE [I]magination Team." Each of the members is designated as a CIE fellow.
Craig Watters, Ph. D.
Director, CIE Learning Community and
Whitman Professor of Entrepreneurial Practice
Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises
P: 315.443.3970
crwatter@syr.edu
Craig Watters is the Director of the CIE Learning Community at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University and a Whitman Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurial Practice. The center focuses on women's entrepreneurship, inner city entrepreneurship, and technology commercialization, integrating students and faculty in community projects, research, and targeted population supports.
Watters was the Assistant Dean for Advancement at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies, professor, and director of its economic stimulus center, the i-Launch Pad, the site for student-led research projects. Currently, the projects evaluate wireless technologies and their implementations as successful answers to rural isolation and economic depression. His research and community work led to his nomination for an economic development award from Senator Hillary Clinton in 2003 and travel to Ireland as part of Clinton's trade mission on 2002. He continues to consult as a information technology industry analyst for Marengo Research.
Watters completed a Ph.D. from Syracuse University's Maxwell School for Public Policy in 2004, researching the impacts of infrastructure on economic development in rural areas
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Arthur C. Brooks
Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Campbell Public Affairs Institute
Email: acbrooks@maxwell.syr.edu
Dr. Brooks received his PhD (Public Policy Analysis) from The RAND Graduate School in 1998. He also has an MPhil (Policy Analysis), The RAND Graduate School, 1997 MA (Economics), Florida Atlantic University, 1994 BA (Economics), Thomas Edison State College, 1993. Dr. Brooks currently is the associate professor of Public Administration at The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. He received the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for outstanding teaching, research and service by an untenured faculty member at the Maxwell School, 2003. |
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William D. Coplin
Ph.D, Professor of Public Affairs
Director of the Public Affairs Program of the Maxwell School
Dr. Coplin received his B.A. in Social Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1960, and his M.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1964) in International Relations from American University. Dr. Coplin has published more than fifty books and articles in the fields of international relations, public policy analysis, political risk analysis and social science education. |
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Norm Faiola
Associate Professor and Chair
Nutrition and Hospitality Management
College of Human Services and Health Professions
nfaiola@syr.edu
Faiola has invented several important devices now widely used in the foodservice industry, and has earned more royalties through patents than any other faculty member at Syracuse University. In 1991, Faiola patented the Rapi-Kool, a device that rapidly cools food in order to help prevent the growth of the bacteria that causes foodborne illness. In 1997, he patented the Stir Station, an automated mechanical device that moves the Rapi-Kool, eliminating the need to operate it manually. In 1999, he developed a wireless temperature monitoring system for refrigeration, hot holding, and cooking equipment. Currently, Faiola is working on a new design for a nailbrush that will facilitate hand washing. A patent is pending.
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Craig R. Watters
Acting Director, Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship
Craig Watters is the Acting Director of the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University and a Whitman Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurial Practice. The center focuses on women's entrepreneurship, inner city entrepreneurship, and technology commercialization, integrating students and faculty in community projects, research, and targeted population supports.
Watters was the Assistant Dean for Advancement at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies, professor, and director of its economic stimulus center, the i-Launch Pad, the site for student-led research projects. Currently, the projects evaluate wireless technologies and their implementations as successful answers to rural isolation and economic depression. His research and community work led to his nomination for an economic development award from Senator Hillary Clinton in 2003 and travel to Ireland as part of Clinton's trade mission on 2002. He continues to consult as a information technology industry analyst for Marengo Research.
Watters completed a Ph.D. from Syracuse University's Maxwell School for Public Policy in 2004, researching the impacts of infrastructure on economic development in rural areas.
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Michael H. Morris, Ph.D.
Witting Chair in Entrepreneurship
Chairman, Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises
Whitman School of Management
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244-2130
Ph: 315 443-3164
Fax: 315 443-5457
mhmorris@syr.edu
Michael Morris holds the Witting Chair in Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University and serves as Chairman of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises. He previously served as the Harold and Sandy Noborikawa Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Hawaii and the Cintas Chair in Entrepreneurship at Miami University. While at Miami, his program was recognized as the National Model Entrepreneurship Program in the USA. A widely published author and researcher, Dr. Morris has written four books and over 100 academic articles. He has served as Chair of the American Marketing Association's Task Force on Marketing and Entrepreneurship and is currently the editor of the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. In addition, he has been a principal in three entrepreneurial start-ups. Twice honored by Pi Sigma Epsilon as their national Faculty Advisor of the Year, Dr. Morris has received Edwin M. and Gloria W. Appel Prize for contributions to the field of entrepreneurship, was recently inducted as a “21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow”. He is a former Fulbright Scholar (South Africa, 1993). |
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Elizabeth D. Liddy
Associate Professor of Information Studies
Ph.D., Syracuse University
liddy@mailbox.syr.edu
Dr. Liddy's main research focus is the application of linguistic theory to information-based tasks. Her DR-LINK system is a full natural language-based information retrieval system which sorts through millions of documents electronically and routes to users only those documents with high potential for relevance. Her research has also focused on applying linguistic techniques to the task of detecting the discourse structure of a variety of text-types and the application of sub-language analysis to the development of commercially successful natural-language systems. |
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Marcene S. Sonneborn
School of Management
msonneborn@cnytdo.org
Marcene S. Sonneborn is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Specialist for the Central New York Technology Development Organization (CNYTDO). She operates the Central New York SBIR Outreach Program which is co-sponsored by the Onondaga Small Business Development Center (SBDC). She is an adjunct faculty for the SU School of Management Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises Program. She has published articles on technology management, and has written a chapter on the marketing of financial services for a textbook which is published in Eastern Europe. She has participated as the marketing representative on a management team for management training programs in Eastern Europe. |
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Minet Schindehutte
School of Management
Minet Schindehutte, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. Dr. Schindehutte joined the entrepreneurship team at Syracuse University in Fall 2004.
She has worked both in academia and the private sector, and her professional background includes technical, marketing and entrepreneurship-related activities. Following completion of her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Pretoria, she spent a number of years with Shell Oil, where she was responsible for new business generation, technical customer consulting, strategic planning, price negotiation, development of new customer service programs and promotional programs, designing and implementing an innovative team-selling system, and production optimization. She subsequently was the founder and managing director of two entrepreneurial start-ups, Proxi Business Resource Centers and PenteVision, Ltd. She has served as a strategic marketing consultant to a number of major companies in South Africa and the United States.
Since 1999, when she joined Miami University (Oxford, OH), she has been heavily involved with on-going curriculum development efforts for the Page Center for Entrepreneurship, contributing to the program winning an award as the National Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program from USASBE in 2001. She has developed courses in Guerrilla Marketing, Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers, Product Innovation, as well as a university-wide honors course in entrepreneurship.
Dr. Schindehutte has published her research in the Journal of Small Business Management, Business Horizons, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Strategy, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, and others. Her current research interests include the interface between entrepreneurship, innovation and strategy, entrepreneurship under conditions of adversity, factors affecting performance and the role of values in entrepreneurial companies. She serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Small Business Management. She is acting as Program Chair of USASBE’s Education Division and is Chair Elect of the AMA’s Marketing-Entrepreneurship Interface SIG.
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