Creative Entrepreneurship
About Creative Entrepreneurship
For more than a decade, we have seen a surge in global efforts to energize entrepreneurial efforts. These efforts have boosted the Cincinnati region into a national top 10 location for entrepreneurial ventures. Our university has established the 1819 Innovation Hub that houses Venture Labs, a reimagined technology transfer office focusing on transforming academic research into viable consumer products and services.
The DAAP disciplines add value in creating products, services, and systems that create positive user experiences. Our goal is to bring our inherent strengths in creative problem solving into business and entrepreneurship and return such knowledge to the creative fields. DAAP faculty, staff, and students live Design Thinking and have the ability to realize and test conceptual ideation through digital and physical making to come to action with impactful and meaningful solutions. We have the expertise and capacity to collaborate in and be valuable contributors to solving wicked problems and naturally thrive in disrupting the norm as a value transaction framework.
Centers, Labs, and Initiatives
- App Development
- Consumer Products
- Service Design
- Construction and Fabrication
- Conceptualization
- Research Methods
- Prototyping
- User Testing
Ashley Kubley,
Associate Director Associate Professor
Brooke C Brandewie,
Associate Professor
Claudia Beatriz Rebola,
Associate Dean for Research, Associate Professor
Renee Seward,
Associate Professor, Communication Design Coordinator
Steven J. Doehler,
Associate Professor, Industrial Design Coordinator
- Seeword - Evidence-based methods to develop the skill and will to read - Renee Seward
- AntiOD - Narcan Access Community Based Program - Dr. Claudia B. Rebola
- 39A.design
Steve Doehler
- Homegrown - Steve Doehler and Brooke Brandewie
For inquires about Creative Entrepreneurship, please contact
Steven J. Doehler,
Associate Professor, Industrial Design Coordinator
513-556-4576
Claudia Beatriz Rebola,
Associate Dean for Research, Associate Professor
513-556-4239
For partnerships in alignment with faculty research areas and expertise in Creative Entrepreneurship, please contact: