What are the expectations of participating companies?
The IA is supported with funding from the State of Connecticut to assist high-technology ventures. The IA’s goal is to provide transformational strategies to a client venture that will enable faster growth and help the economic development of Connecticut. We do not position these as student projects – instead they are positioned as comparable to a consulting initiative from a major consulting firm. Team members become subject matter experts in the participating company’s vertical through a combination of secondary research (internet, reading reports etc) and primary research (talking with other subject matter experts, clients or potential clients of the firm, competitors, and survey research etc.) but that knowledge isn’t what we tell the client. Instead we use that knowledge and the team’s creativity and innovation to provide transformational insights and strategies, supported by the evidence, that the client hadn’t thought of, or didn’t have support for.
