Startups  June 28, 2016

Bour leaving Innovation Center of the Rockies

BOULDER — Tim Bour is leaving his job as executive director of the Innovation Center of the Rockies, a nonprofit entrepreneurial support organization in Boulder, to become a director for 4iNNO LLC in Cincinnati where he will help science and technology companies grow.

Bour will start his new job July 5.

Bour

“I thought this was a good opportunity,” Bour said. “I’ll be working in a consulting role, combining some of the things I did at the Innovation Center with 4iNNO’s concepts of open innovation and lean startup methodology.”

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4iNNO works with Fortune 100 companies and helps clients bring in new ideas from the outside to boost their revenue. 4iNNO also has offices in New York City, San Francisco, Princeton, N.J., and London.

Bour had been with the Innovation Center of the Rockies since September 2007. Early on during his tenure at the center, Bour focused on the commercialization of university inventions. Starting as a commercialization partner of the University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office in September 2007, he developed similar relationships with the Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, the University of Denver and most recently the University of Wyoming. The Innovation Center under Bour’s leadership later developed programs for early stage companies in a variety of industries such as natural and organic, software, renewable and sustainable energy, bioscience, nanotechnology and aerospace.

Bob Gill, chairman of the Innovation Center’s board of directors, said an interim director will be chosen from the existing staff, and the board will begin a national search for Bour’s replacement.

BOULDER — Tim Bour is leaving his job as executive director of the Innovation Center of the Rockies, a nonprofit entrepreneurial support organization in Boulder, to become a director for 4iNNO LLC in Cincinnati where he will help science and technology companies grow.

Bour will start his new job July 5.

Bour

“I thought this was a good opportunity,” Bour said. “I’ll be working in a consulting role, combining some of the things I did at the Innovation Center with 4iNNO’s concepts of open innovation and lean startup methodology.”

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