Innovation and impact
Katherine Cota is the Director of Economic Development for Dakota State University. She brings 25 years of experience to the position and has held similar positions at the University of Northern Iowa and California State University Sacramento. Her work involves faculty, staff, student, and community entrepreneurship, innovation, intellectual property, licensing, and commercialization. She has taught academically and non-academically and will bring her extensive portfolio of curriculum and training to DSU to benefit students, faculty, staff, and community entrepreneurs. She has coached businesses, managed equity funds, built or renovated facilities, created programs, and won awards for entrepreneurship. She manages the Paulson Cyber Incubator and Entrepreneurial Center at DSU and helps faculty license or commercialize their intellectual property from their research or MadLabs® programs.
