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Joel Wooten is an Associate Professor of Management Science at the University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business. His research focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship, and his classroom experience includes courses in Innovation and Design, Web-Based Products and Services, Sports Analytics, and Statistics.
Recent projects include work with innovation tournaments and recommendation systems as well as research partnerships with XPRIZE and Merck. With a history of entrepreneurial involvement, he has helped companies ranging from Fortune 500 firms to a local barbeque restaurant chain. Professor Wooten holds doctoral and master's degrees from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor's degree from Georgia Tech. |
Innovation Tournament ResourcesUnderstanding tournaments: Innovation Tournaments (by Ulrich & Terwiesch)
Running your own tournament: Darwinator, Torneio Tournament marketplaces: Kaggle, Innocentive, Jovoto Graphic design tournaments: 99Designs, Crowdspring Moore School & University of South CarolinaOfficial Moore School home page: Joel Wooten, Data Lab
Entrepreneurship: FABER Center, GrowCo, USC Incubator |
Online Tools for EntrepreneursOnline publishing and design: Weebly, Wix, InVision, Pidoco, Moqups
Creating a great name: Wordoid, BustAName, naming (by Ulrich) Logo generation: Squarespace, GraphicSprings, 99Designs, Crowdspring Buying or selling domain names: Dynadot, Sedo Website services: Google Analytics, Paypal, Skype Prototyping: SketchUp, TinkerCAD, Ponoko, component vendors Data sets and searches: Kaggle, Wolfram Alpha Data scrapers: Import.IO, Chrome Scraper |
