Werner G. Kuhr serves as Director of the McNeil Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO. Werner works with internal and external stakeholders to integrate entrepreneurship into the University's educational programs, sponsored research and technology commercialization activities. Previously, he served as the Technology Commercialization Director and the founding Director of the Stevens Venture Center at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Prior to this, he was Vice President of Research at ZettaCore, Inc., a company he founded and sold into the semiconductor and printed circuit board industry. ZettaCore was based on research performed while he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside. At UC Riverside, he ran a research program that graduated 25 Ph.D. and MS students in fifteen years, published roughly 100 papers (H-index =60) and received extramural funding in excess of $8 million. He has participated in the formation of five start-up technology companies, several of which were based on translation research in protein diagnostics and genomics.