Bruce Lincoln, the founder and chief design scientist of the Urban Cyberspace Company, has been appointed the first entrepreneur in residence for CTICE’s Engaged Entrepreneurship Program.

The entrepreneur in residence is a key player in all CTICE entrepreneurship programming. The entrepreneur in residence advises students, faculty, alumni, and community members on business ideas and new ventures and helps ensure that students interested in entrepreneurship have access to a diverse array of resources, including outside experts. Lincoln will not only help match student entrepreneurs with alumni mentors and entrepreneurial resources but also perform the first review of student entrepreneurship proposals to the program.

Lincoln sees Columbia students not simply as potential entrepreneurs, but as leaders in the new economy. “My vision turns on the idea to prepare engineers to take advantage of the entrepreneurial opportunities that will arise with the oncoming innovation economy,” he says. “These opportunities will drive the second decade of the twenty-first century.”

In his new role, Lincoln also will work with CTICE Executive Director Jack McGourty, Senior Associate Director for Entrepreneurship Rebecca Rodriguez, alumni, and faculty on future entrepreneurship efforts, including an entrepreneurship speaker series, plans for a new venture incubator, collaborations with other colleges and universities, and additional courses and programs.

Urban Cyberspace Company is a design consulting and marketing company that specializes in next generation Internet technologies for sustainable development in urban and rural markets.

Lincoln graduated from Princeton with a degree in English Literature in 1978. He credits Professor Thomas Kuhn, author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), with introducing him to the idea of the “information society” and in spurring his interest in a career in this area.

He was the first Ford Fellow in Educational Technology at the Center for 
Children and Technology. He has been a fellow at the National Center for Technology in Education at Bank Street College of Education.