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Innovation Navigator

UF Innovate provides the “Innovation NaviGator” program to assist individuals who want to start businesses by connecting them with the correct information and key support.

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Community Calendar for Entrepreneurs

The Community Calendar for Entrepreneurs includes events from all over the community that might interest or benefit entrepreneurs.

Submit Your Event

Do you have an event that entrepreneurs should attend? Tell the NaviGator about it! Enter your event details in the linked form.

Submit Your Question

Learn more about the innovator’s role during some of the key steps of the licensing process.

Contact the Navigator

Elliott Welker is the Innovation NaviGator. You can reach him at ewelker@ufl.edu or by calling (386) 462-0880.

Contact the Innovation Navigator

Alachua County Startup Ecosystem Map

This Google map includes startups, incubators, entrepreneurial support organizations, commercial space and investment groups in Alachua County. If you have any questions or edits, please contact Elliott Welker – .

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Elliott Welker
Assistant Director, Sid Martin Bio
ewelker@ufl.edu
(386) 462-0880
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Elliott Welker

Assistant Director, Sid Martin Bio

Elliott works on programs and progress for startup companies in UF Innovate | Accelerate at Sid Martin Biotech in Alachua.

Before joining UF Innovate, Elliott was a business development intern for ReliOx Corporation, a resident startup at Sid Martin Biotech; a legal assistant for Robert S. Griscti, Esq., assisting him in his practice of white-collar criminal law, criminal defense, federal and state litigation, professional licensing and appeals; and volunteered with the North Central Florida Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.

He earned his BA in history with a minor in teaching English as a second language (2013) and MBA focusing on entrepreneurship and marketing (2017) from UF. He was a Bob Graham Center for Public Service Student Fellow and Poe Center for Business Ethics Education and Research MBA Fellow.

Printable version of Elliott’s bio sketch is available here.