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Stimulating business development at smaller schools

RSU dedicates new ‘Innovation Center’
Originally published on Friday, December 02

Rogers State University on Friday dedicated its new Innovation Center, which will serve as a business incubator and small business assistance center for northeastern Oklahoma.

RSU held a 10 a.m. dedication ceremony for the Innovation Center, which was formerly known as the Center for Economic and Community Development. The recently constructed Innovation Center is located on RSU’s Claremore campus north of the Student Union.

The 7,000-square-foot building is designed specifically for use as a business incubator to provide resources and services for new or expanding companies. The goal is to develop companies that will emerge from the business incubator program as growing and financially viable entities.

“Oklahoma’s economic expansion depends on providing resources for business and industry entrepreneurs to assist them in nurturing their vision,” said RSU President Dr. Joe Wiley. “The Innovation Center at RSU is poised to help people turn their business dreams into reality.”

Full Story: http://www.claremoreprogress.com/archive/article23393

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Incubator may hatch startups

Lanier Tech seeks grant for site to help entrepreneurs get going

By HARRIS BLACKWOOD

The old Warren Featherbone building on Chestnut Street in Gainesville may be used as a site of a proposed business development center.

Lanier Technical College has applied for an Appalachian Regional Commission grant to fund a business and manufacturing center that would assist entrepreneurs in developing a startup business endeavor.

The center, often referred to as a business incubator, would be similar to an operation that was started in 2001 by Coosa Valley Technical College in Rome.

Rome Mayor Ronnie Wallace is the director of the Business Expansion Center, which is located in a 38,000 square-foot building that once housed a furniture manufacturing company.

The tenants, all businesses that started in the past five years, include a company that manufactures equipment to stop bullets and another company that makes portable cooling towers for business.

"We have created jobs," said Craig McDaniel, president of Coosa Valley Technical College. "We have had a number of businesses created through the Business Expansion Center."

Full Story: http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/stories/20051203/localnews/44107.shtml

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