Tom O'Neal
biography :: conference marerials
Tom O'Neal currently serves as the associate
vice president of research at UCF and director of the UCF Technology Incubator.
He has assisted in the formation of several spin-off companies for technologies
developed at UCF, and, in 1999, established the UCF Technology Incubator, of
which he serves as the founding director. The Incubator was recently named the
Incubator of the Year by the National Business Incubator Association. O'Neal
has published papers on the subjects of business incubation, entrepreneurship,
and economic development and has received funding from the Kauffman Foundation,
the NSF, the NCIIA, and others to support entrepreneurship and innovation initiatives.