Bryan Boots serves as Associate Teaching Professor with the Bloch School of Management, and Managing Director for Applied Research on entrepreneurship with the Regnier Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. In his time at UMKC, Bryan has coached and mentored hundreds of rising entrepreneurs in the Kansas City region and beyond.
He teaches classes on product development, technology entrepreneurship, and technology management, among others. Bryan also leads the Regnier Institute's portfolio of applied research into entrepreneurship and innovation. This new initiative is aimed at helping university-based entrepreneurship centers, entrepreneurship support organizations, startups, and entrepreneurial ecosystems to better understand the forces driving or inhibiting entrepreneurial activity. This includes five pillars: better understanding goals and motivations of entrepreneurially-minded students; better understanding the role of mentors and mentorship in the entrepreneurial development process; better understanding university-based entrepreneurship programs and centers; better understanding entrepreneurial networks and entrepreneurial ecosystems; and sponsored research with regional startups or innovation-driven corporations. Previously, Bryan led the Regnier Institute's portfolio of Venture Creation programs, which includes the Entrepreneurship Scholars (E-Scholars) program, competitions, mentorship programs, and technology commercialization.
Bryan has started his own ventures, has worked as an employee or consultant with startups, and worked in product development with Garmin. His most recent venture, Growth Map Consulting Group, helps organizations identify and implement opportunities for innovating in their industries.
PhD - Systems Engineering - Colorado State University - research areas: applied network science, complex adaptive systems, cybersecurity, software engineering
MBA - Entrepreneurship and Finance - University of Missouri-Kansas City
MS - Engineering, focus in electrical and digital communications engineering - University of Arkansas