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Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Small Businesses to Benefit From Innovation Studio at North Dakota State University

Sometimes ideas can come from unexpected places. And sometimes, those ideas happen to come at exactly the right time.

North Dakota State University’s Research and Technology Park in Fargo, North Dakota, has long been supporting the state’s economy.

January 2021

The Teton Business and Education  Center is located in Driggs, Idaho

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

In Teton County, Idaho, EDA And ECIPDA Incubate Innovation

With a population of just 25,000, Rexburg, Idaho, may not be the first place you imagine when you think innovation, but don’t let its size fool you.

December 2020

The Teton Business and Education  Center is located in Driggs, Idaho

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Upstate New York Start-up Incubator Guides Hardware Entrepreneurs Through Manufacturing Process

A spice bottle cap that pre-measures your spices. A breastmilk pasteurizer for home use. Gluten-free, wheat stem straws. A battery for storing renewable energy in buildings.

December 2020

CassCaps are a patented device that eliminates the need for measuring spoons by measuring spices straight out of the bottle

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

EDA Supports University of California Efforts to Protect America’s Citrus Crop

The commercial production of citrus fruit generates more than $7 billion annually for California’s economy, a contribution credited with supporting tens of thousands of jobs in the Golden State. That vital economic engine, however, is at constant risk from a variety of diseases that have devastated crops in citrus growing regions around the world.

December 2020

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Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Purdue University Northwest Leverages EDA Innovation Grant to Help Entrepreneurs Manufacture and Bring Products to Market

Michelle Pearson’s idea for an invention came to her in a dream, but the reality of bringing her product to market proved to be a bit more challenging.

Pearson’s invention is an automated communion server, which would automatically dispense the wafer and wine during the Eucharist for Christians in churches, hospitals, nursing homes, and correctional facilities.

November 2020

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Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Manufacturing

Success Story: EDA Innovation Investment Supports Textile Manufacturing in North Carolina

North Carolina has a vibrant history in textile manufacturing, which dates back decades before technological advances such as the high-tech knitting machine.

October 2020

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Innovation & Entrepreneurship

The Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Brings Diverse Economic Growth to Atlanta Opportunity Zone

Founded by the late Herman J. Russell, an Atlanta entrepreneur and philanthropist, H.J. Russell & Company is the largest minority-owned real estate and construction company in the United States.

February 2020

The Health Sciences Complex (HSC) located on the University of Delaware’s Science, Technology, and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Driving innovation for disaster response to support America’s first responders and build resilient communities

Never is the nexus of public safety response and economic impact more prevalent than during a disaster. From flooding to hurricanes and wildfires, during a disaster, it is imperative that public safety and local officials have the best tools and technologies to save lives.

November 2019

The Health Sciences Complex (HSC) located on the University of Delaware’s Science, Technology, and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Delaware Technology Park Gleams With STAR Entrepreneurship Incubator

A major announcement made in the last month of 2015 shook the economic state of Delaware and sent it into heighten uncertainty.

September 2019

The Health Sciences Complex (HSC) located on the University of Delaware’s Science, Technology, and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

EDA Regional Innovation Strategies Grantee RIoT Working to Accelerate the Growth of Internet of Things-focused Companies in North Carolina’s Piedmont Region

EDA’s Regional Innovation Strategies (RIS) Program supports innovation and entrepreneurship capacity-building activities by creating and expanding proof-of-concept and commercialization programs and early-stage seed capital funds through the i6 Challenge and the Seed Fund Support (SFS) grant competition.

August 2018

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