Black Fire Innovation Hub, which opened last year, represents UNLV’s first foray into the world of business accelerators in the gaming and hospitality space.
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The program for college students includes a $15-per-hour wage for a maximum of 40 hours per week and housing at Red Rock Resort, Sunset Station, Palace Station or Green Valley Ranch.
UNLV Incubator is envisioned as a place “where ideas will be incubated into companies of the future,” said hub director and UNLV professor Robert Rippee said Wednesday of the space in the Hughes Center.
For hotels, resorts and the hospitality industry at large, the new era of higher-tech and lower-touch ushered in by the COVID-19 pandemic is likely here to stay.
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