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JumpStart, NorTech and the Greater Cleveland Partnership (GCP) each were recognized by the International Economic Development Council for their work in economic development efforts in the region with gold excellence in economic development awards. Read More ...

If the name on the sign in front of the Entrepreneurship Innovation Center at Lorain County Community College doesn’t tip you off to its mission, then the inside certainly will. Read More ...

From your seat in the upper corner of The Q, you can almost make out Kyrie Irving as he glides up the court with a basketball. What you also see are the empty, awesome seats scattered about the lower bowl like gaps in a smile. Read More ...

The International Economic Development Council recognized JumpStart Inc. with a Gold Excellence in Economic Development Award in the category of entrepreneurship for communities with populations of greater than 500,000, and NorTech in the category of technology-based economic development. Read More ...

Lynn-Ann Gries, Chief Investment Officer for the nonprofit economic development organization JumpStart Inc., says that the success of companies like Onshift is the culmination of more than a decade of hard work. Read More ...

NorTech has been awarded one of seven Regional Innovation Cluster contracts from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in the amount of $385,000 to support the advancement of FlexMatters®, the flexible electronics cluster in Northeast Ohio. Read More ...

To help pitch their services to smaller companies, Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Akron and Lorain County Community College all signed agreements Tuesday to work with the Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network. Read More ...

Lissette Rivera, SafeCare founder, and Donna Lee, Mascot Secret co-founder, on Bizdom in Cleveland, and the opportunities it’s providing for small businesses. Read More ...

The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) has recognized the transformative work of Northeast Ohio economic development organizations. JumpStart received a Gold Excellence in Economic Development Award in the category of Entrepreneurship for communities with populations of greater than 500,000, and NorTech received a Gold Excellence in Economic Development Award in the category of Technology-Based Economic Development. Read More ...

An estimated 150 Northeast Ohio and statewide leaders today viewed firsthand the technology-filled 30,000-square-foot simulation center in the new headquarters of the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron (ABIA). Read More ...

Following months of delay and debate, the Ohio Third Frontier Commission today approved $12 million that the JumpStart-led group of nonprofits will use to fund entrepreneurial services in 2013 and 2014. Read More ...

Seven technology companies will receive a total of $385,000 in grants recently awarded by the Lorain County Community College Foundation’s Innovation Fund.

The city-sponsored business incubator is making progress with clients and infrastructure, but funding is still an issue and something Council members will look at during budget talks.

The Ohio Third Frontier Commission renewed its commitment to entrepreneurship Thursday as it directed nearly $10 million to programs in Cincinnati and Dayton that offer cash and guidance to fledgling companies.

“Give me a really great idea and a laptop, and we can start a software company.” Jim Cossler, Chief Evangelist of the Youngstown Business Incubator (YBI), is giving a whistle-stop tour of his renovated office space.

Aram Nerpouni, twice a vice president at Cleveland-based biomedical advancement group BioEnterprise, will move into the president's chair in an interim role, effective Sept. 1.

Six Ashland University undergraduate students competed in the sixth annual Entrepreneurship Immersion Week Program held in August at Case Western Reserve University. Entrepreneurship Immersion Week is an intensive six-day educational and networking program topped off by a team business concept competition sponsored by the Entrepreneurship Education Consortium (EEC).

A multimillion-dollar grant, expected to be announced this morning at M-7 Technologies, could shift manufacturing in the Mahoning Valley to the national forefront and secure economic stability in the industry for years to come, sources say.

The Youngstown Business Incubator is pleased to be selected as the site for the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII).

The Youngstown Business Incubator is proceeding with expansion plans at a vacant downtown building even though the expected tenant isn’t relocating there.

Biomedical companies in Northeast Ohio are raising more venture capital than they have since 2007.

Midwest health care startups reported $491 million in total investments across 92 companies in the first half of 2012, according to the BioEnterprise Midwest Health Care Venture Investment Report.

Nowadays, it seems the fast track to wealth is no longer real estate or finance. Instead, more young adults are turning to technology; wide-eyed over the next big idea or giant start-up with the potential to land serious profits.

A decade ago, some very smart people doubted that Northeast Ohio could compete in the rapidly expanding biotechnology sector. They thought this region had already missed that wave.

The Capital Continuum in Northeast Ohio on Thursday, August 2 will feature a panel discussion to help entrepreneurs find ways to access capital for their businesses.

In a wide open office at MAGNET, a manufacturing advocacy organization situated on the Cleveland State University campus, groups of students are fomenting new ideas.

Braintree has been helping generate and grow small businesses for 25 years.

Consumers may not have noticed yet, but a shift in corrugated cardboard packaging for products they purchase is under way -- fed by Walmart's decision to promote environmental friendliness.

The Akron Accelerator sounds like a machine and it sort of is -- one that grows businesses from the ground up.

Battelle, the world's leading independent scientific research and technology development organization, today announced the immediate election of noted scientist and business leader Frank L. Douglas, Ph.D., M.D., to its Board of Directors, which comprises some of the nation's foremost business, military and scientific leaders.

For investors looking to go off the beaten track to find quality deals, Ohio might be the answer. According to the most recent Ohio Venture Capital Report, venture capital activity in Ohio was up more than 80 percent in 2010, surpassing the national average, which was up only 20 percent.

Big and bold. That’s what the Youngstown Business Incubator (YBI) is going for with its newest project.

Youngstown’s innovation narrative gets a new chapter his week. Risk Management Technologies (RMT), a Youngstown Business Incubator (YBI) startup that helps insurance agencies grow sales while mitigating the risk of lawsuits through its software, has announced a partnership with Utica National Insurance Group.

The Burton D. Morgan Foundation announced grants totaling nearly $550,000 June 27, including $36,700 to organizations in its home community.

“The sun is shining, it’s nice, crisp weather and I’m on the right side of the grass – life is good.” Dr. Roy Church’s meteorology report can also describe the forecast for the nations’ startup community after Lorain County Community College received a $1 million grant from the Kauffman Foundation to take their successful Innovation Fund program to the national stage.

A model for entrepreneurship education and early-stage funding for startups, born in a community college in northeastern Ohio, will make its way to the national stage with the support of a $1 million grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Dennis Cocco has a good problem: he and other leaders of Lorain County Community College's Innovation Fund have a hard time choosing winners each year because applications are so strong.

An unprecedented push to leverage Ohio’s health-care assets is coalescing around three concepts: a forum for entrepreneurs to pitch Ohio-developed medical products; a statewide collaboration on clinical trials; and shared data storage for medical imaging and genomics.

Goldman Sachs announced last week that it will bring its 10,000 Small Businesses (10KSB) initiative to Cleveland. The initiative commits $500 million to entrepreneurial education, access to capital and technical assistance services. Goldman Sachs and the Goldman Sachs Foundation have pledged $15 million to Cleveland.

Baiju Shah leads BioEnterprise, which helps locals innovate. He also chairs the new Global Cleveland, which draws talent to town.

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