The Batten Institute for entrepreneurship and innovation is one of the Centers of Excellence at the University of Virginia's (UVa) Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. It was founded in 1999 with a $60 million gift to the Darden School from UVa alum Frank Batten, chairman of Landmark Communications and founder of The Weather Channel.
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