North Dakota Business and Economic Development

"Churches were the glue that held rural communities together," says Dale Bentley, Preservation North Dakota’s executive director. "In some ways, they’re the most important buildings in the state."

The first wholly owned canola biodiesel plant in the United States.

Minot was awarded two of the six new jobs creation and economic development projects this past week.

The initiative is open to all residents of North Dakota, or people who want to start a venture in the state. In last year’s competition, one third of the submissions came from rural counties in the state.

The center helps innovators, entrepreneurs and researchers to launch new ventures, commercialize new technologies and secure access to capital from private and public sources.

"The angel funds in Grand Forks and Fargo include the DVG members in their meetings while they determine which entrepreneur ventures to invest in," Gjovig noted. " The students sit next to angel investors in North Dakota learning from their expertise and process, while adding a valuable extra hand in analysis, due diligence and decision making. Angel investors have welcomed the input of the DVG members as they are well prepared and serious and wish they had this experience when they were in their twenties."

North Dakota Farmers Union President Robert Carlson said about 650,000 tons of carbon dioxide was sequestered under the state program last year — about the equivalent of the carbon emissions from more than 130,000 cars.

Innovate ND, a new statewide economic development initiative designed to help entrepreneurs turn business ideas into functional businesses.

What started as a family farm searching for markets for peas has turned into an international exporting business that sends North Dakota commodities all over the world.

Boeing Delivers Major Deal for Growing Crosby Company – SEO Precision, Inc. designs and builds electro-optical
solutions for Government and Commercial applications,
specializing in Fast Steering Mirror (FSM) technology.