Research, Funding, and Awards

  • 2/18 Recruiting and Retaining Your Tech Start-Up Team

    UConn’s Technology Incubation Program, TIP, a unit of the Office of the Vice President for Research/Technology Commercialization Services, presents

    Building your team: Recruiting and retaining US and Non-US talent 
    -finding out what you don't know about the legal issues involved in attracting and keeping talented people in your tech start-up

    Presented by Gregg Lallier, Shareholder, Updike Kelly Spellacy and Dana Bucin, Shareholder, Updike Kelly Spellacy 

    This event will be held at UConn Health's Cell & Genome Sciences Building, 400 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT on February 18, 2016 at 2:00p.m.

    Presentation topics include Legal Issues involved in Employing and Retaining Talent for Startup Companies, and Immigration Issues for post docs, grad students and their prospective employers.

    You are required to register for this event at http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=xglxvofab&oeidk=a07ec7vsb79a7007eeb 

    Additional topics for discussion:

    • Confidentiality/ Non-Competition/ Non-Solicitation Agreements
    • Proprietary Information and Invention Agreements
    • Employees vs. independent contractors
    • Incentives and compensation alternatives
    • Hiring foreign nationals
    • Visa and Green Card sponsorship
    • Alternative visa options for investors and entrepreneurs
    • Latest developments in the OPT STEM extension issue affecting graduate students and post-doctoral fellows
    For more information, contact: Natalie D'Oyen at tip@uconn.edu