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In a corner of a cluttered chemical engineering lab at Case Western Reserve University, Felipe Gomez del Campo V watched intently as a blue flame leapt from a slender fuel nozzle of his own design. Read More ...

A new collaboration between manufacturing advocacy and economic development groups Magnet and Wire-Net is designed to help manufacturers in Cleveland grow and to increase the number of jobs available in the city.
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Who are you wearing? Where can I buy it? Fashion-conscious consumers could answer such questions quickly with a smartphone app -- called Tag N' Snag -- that a Kent State University graduate is developing. Read More ...

The Youngstown Business Incubator, having raised nearly four-fifths of its $2.5 million campaign goal, is targeting individuals, including local residents, to raise the balance. Read More ...

The Youngstown Business Incubator is requesting the community’s support.The No. 1 university-affiliated incubator in the world is hoping to raise $2.5 million through public contributions for “critical” investments for portfolio companies and to draw in more companies, YBI Chief Executive Officer Jim Cossler said in a release. Read More ...

Magnet and Nasa Glenn Research announce an Akron/Canton roadshow to help manufacturers solve technical problems. Read More ...

The Wooster Opportunity Loan Fund, a hyper-local source of funding that supports young technology companies located in or willing to move to Wayne County, is now accepting applications for its next funding round. Interested entrepreneurs can apply for loans of up to $35,000 by Dec. 12. Read More ...

Best-selling author Brad Stone is coming to Hudson on Nov. 18 to give a free talk about his best-selling book on Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos. Read More ...

Local grass-roots efforts continue to raise awareness of 3-D printing technology and additive manufacturing to students. Read More ...

Northeast Ohio has won a $1 million national prize to help students stay in college and graduate in a timely fashion. Read More ...

As manufacturers continue to look for ways to close the skills gap and attract new employees to the industry, Magnet's Work-Based Learning program could serve as a possible model. Read More ...

In 2009, math teacher Elijah Stambaugh was looking for technology that would allow him to assess how much his students were absorbing in class so that he could adjust his instruction to improve their grasp of the material. Read More ...

Students from Case Western Reserve University and Kent State University who have created start-up companies will compete Tuesday, Oct. 28 in New York City in the first Blackstone LaunchPad Demo Day. Read More ...

Entrepreneur Joe Rotunda, owner of Rotunda Scientific Technologies, is currently in the process of establishing an additional company to focus on the development of new products, an endeavor that has been undertaken with the help of Braintree Business Development Center. Read More ...

Hacking, rocking — some people think they have a lot in common. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a few weeks ago dipped its toe into the high-tech world of hackers when it hosted the Rockathon. Read More ...

The Ohio Development Services Agency (formerly the Ohio Department of Development) issued the following news release: Today the Ohio Third Frontier Commission approved $12.5 million to support start-ups and commercialize technologies, while also helping more established companies develop innovative products. Read More ...

When Zev Siegl co-founded Starbucks with Jerry Baldwin and Gordon Bowker in 1971, "coffee culture" didn't exist yet. The three entrepreneurs gradually opened six stores over the course of a decade, roasting and selling beans, tea and coffee making equipment. Read More ...

On one front, it’s been a tough three years for the Tech Belt Energy Innovation Center. On another front, however, things have been going quite well for the business incubator, said Dave Nestic, the facility’s chief executive of regional operations. Read More ...

Manufacturing is rebounding nationwide, and in Northeast Ohio the uptick is taking shape with new jobs, new businesses and more programs aimed at helping people who make things find new ways to innovate. Read More ...

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's first foray into entrepreneurship and the Cleveland startup scene probably won't be its last. Read More ...

The Incubator at MAGNET has announced six finalists for its first product-focused pitch contest. The ProtoTech competition, co-sponsored by NASA Glenn Research Center, concentrates on technology-driven wares and the companies aiming to bring those products to market. Read More ...

Rarely has anyone drawn as much inspiration from a cup of coffee as Zev Siegl. Forty-three years ago, the former history teacher parlayed his love of dark-roasted coffee into a café named for a character in Moby Dick. Today, Starbucks is a global icon and its co-founder a champion of restless entrepreneurs who resemble his younger self. Read More ...

The Youngstown Business Incubator has moved a step closer to expanding its campus in downtown Youngstown. Read More ...

There are innovators in Italy, France, China and more than 60 other countries undoubtedly asking the same question today: “How did the Youngstown Business Incubator in Youngstown, Ohio, get the better of us and secure the No. 1 ranking in the world?” Read More ...

If there is a room full of innovative minds, Scot Tukovics, vice president of Engineering, Rockwell Automation (IW 500/158) wants to be there. Read More ...

The most effective university-based business incubator in the world is in Northeast Ohio. Read More ...

Northeast Ohio Medical University now houses the Timken Foundation of Canton Innovation Corridor, part of the school’s REDIzone (Research, Entrepreneurship, Discovery and Innovation Zone) at its campus here. Read More ...

The Fund for Our Economic Future, a collaboration of 50 foundations, higher education institutions, health care systems, businesses, and others, has approved up to $1.9 million of grants to support the job creation efforts of regional economic development organizations BioEnterprise, JumpStart and Magnet. Read More ...

Last summer, Paul McAvinchey started TechPint, which he describes as a mini tech conference in a bar. But he always wanted to launch a real tech conference in Cleveland. Read More ...

The Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) Foundation continues to demonstrate success in its efforts to strengthen the financial capacity of the University, announcing a banner fundraising year and welcoming new members and officers to its 26-member volunteer Board of Directors. Read More ...

The accelerator model of business development, firing on several cylinders in Cleveland, is coming to Akron with a Rubber City twist. Read More ...

The local technology community has been waiting desperately for a day like July 31. Read More ...

When a group of real estate site selectors toured Cleveland last year, one of them didn't realize the city edged up to a lake. Another asked where all the pollution was, recalled Tracey Nichols, the city's economic-development director. Read More ...

Nyna Sayarath spent part of her summer vacation brainstorming ways to protect the minds of athletes. Read More ...

All eyes seem to be on Youngstown. After all, it is home to the first additive manufacturing hub established by the President Barack Obama administration. Read More ...

Startups looking to enter the marketplace with technology-related products or processes, listen up. Read More ...

Big data and the cloud have a profound impact on business operations in almost any industry today, allowing companies of all sizes to more effectively serve customers, perform risk-analyses and create new revenue streams. Read More ...

The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron hardly mirrors what its founders envisioned six years ago. Two partners have departed. The reality of local collaboration hasn’t matched the talk. Funding has not arrived as promised, especially from the state. Yet somewhat like a startup, the organization, led by the energetic and accomplished Frank Douglas, has recast its mission, still offering the city and surroundings something they readily can use. Read More ...

An effort to enhance the region’s economy through medical-related research and commercialization is getting a multimillion-dollar lifeline. Read More ...

In the nearly 20 years that Monette Richards has been in the computer programming industry, she’s often been the sole woman in her department. Read More ...

In this week’s Exploradio, WKSU’s Jeff St.Clair talks with Third Frontier Commission chairman David Goodman. Read More ...

Josh McManus, a highly experienced entrepreneur and city development professional, will join the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as the program director based in Akron. Read More ...

Now Northeast Ohio has two angel investment funds. A group of 34 individual “angel” investors from Stark County and surrounding areas plan to form the Impact Angel Fund, which aims to invest in high-tech startup companies across the southern portion of Northeast Ohio — from Mansfield to Canton to Youngstown. Read More ...

Akron hasn't kept pace with other cities when it comes to having a nurturing place for tech-savvy entrepreneurs to live their dreams and start a company. Read More ...

In today's “3 Minutes With,” Jim Cossler, CEO of the Youngstown Business Incubator, discusses the principle of net neutrality and response to his recent column on the topic in The Business Journal, businesses' increasing reliance on the Internet, and what the loss of net neutrality could mean for small businesses and startups. Read More ...

This fall, the Cleveland-area business accelerator LaunchHouse will provide $20,000 to 10 tech startups. Read More ...

The Cleveland Foundation announced $17.9 million in grants on Thursday focused on projects in health, education, the arts and economic development. Read More ...

Three years of planning and work have paid off for the local business leaders who want to assist business start-ups and entrepreneurs.
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These days, local entrepreneurs are drinking a lot more coffee and beer with one another, and all because of a book called “Startup Communities.” Read More ...

Decision for some "Doe-Re-Mi." There is a tech company in Lakewood that is experiencing tremendous revenue growth and engaged in raising capital for its next expansion. Read More ...

On Wednesday, June 25, Cleveland will become the 43rd U.S. city to join the 1 Million Cups campaign, a national effort to engage, educate and connect entrepreneurs both locally and nationally -- and eventually internationally. The program, funded by the Kauffman Foundation, is based on the idea that entrepreneurs network and move their ideas forward over one million cups of coffee. Read More ...

The White House lists a Case Western Reserve University innovation development effort alongside similar ventures at MIT and Carnegie Mellon University. Case’s “Thinkbox” project was among the three highlighted this week during the Obama administration’s “National Day of Making.” The event underscored the importance of manufacturing. Read More ...

An additive manufacturing initiative set out to impact eight local companies actually will expand to at least 15 companies statewide.

City council will consider legislation Wednesday to provide up to $500,000 to a proposed $5 million expansion of the Youngstown Business Incubator. Read More ...

Cleveland State University's Washkewicz College of Engineering and Rapid Prototype + manufacturing (rp+m) have partnered in a workforce development effort, and received a $293,000 grant from the Ohio Board of Regents in support of the college's Workforce Development Equipment and Faculty Program in Additive Manufacturing. Read More ...

The Youngstown State University College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics will celebrate National Day of Making Wednesday. Read More ...

Northeast Ohio tech companies and projects received almost half of the $84 million that the Ohio Third Frontier Commission awarded on Wednesday, June 11. Read More ...

News that Cleveland's workforce is growing younger and smarter -- just in time for a new economy -- is starting to reach a wider audience. Read More ...

If you have an idea for a smartphone app or an Internet-based service that could conceivably scale to something big, and make people rich, there are several business groups in Northeast Ohio that might help you get started. Read More ...

Ohio is becoming a go-to place for 3D printing / additive manufacturing. The city of Youngstown, Ohio hosts America Makes. Now, Cleveland, Ohio will host a new 3D printing / additive manufacturing center thanks to the efforts of Rapid Prototype + Manufacturing (rp+m), which announced it is formally partnering with Case Western Reserve University to move its research and development arm to the university, joining forces with faculty researchers to develop new technologies in the growing additive manufacturing market, assist students in entrepreneurship and with research opportunities, and boost economic development in the region. Read More ...

The Youngstown Business Incubator and Youngstown State University have been awarded $500,000 by the Ohio Third Frontier Commission. Read More ...

Regional development as it relates to energy and manufacturing is best served when there is a strong partnership between the public and private sectors. Read More ...

Goldman Sachs today announced that Michael R. Bloomberg, Bloomberg L.P. founder, philanthropist and Mayor of New York from 2002-2013, has joined Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Warren Buffett and Dr. Michael Porter as a co-chair of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Advisory Council. Read More ...

As he studied philosophy and political science at the University of Akron, Daniel Sass acknowledges, he failed to address the crucial question of the age: Who was going to hire him? Read More ...

Northeast Ohio Medical University has surpassed the $1 million mark in fundraising for Parkinson’s disease research. Read More ...

These young Ohio companies are already rich with promise, but they need funding to continue creating economic and job growth, says a survey released Wednesday. Read More ...

Fourteen Chaney High School students spent time after school this year creating an app. Read More ...

Some local colleges are giving students the chance to be true entrepreneurs. So rather than look for jobs after graduation, these students are creating their own. Read More ...

Leaders of the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron (ABIA) and Nottingham Spirk, a national innovation firm based in Cleveland, Ohio, announced today a strategic partnership to accelerate innovation and commercialization of biomedical devices and products.
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Now all three of Northeast Ohio’s business accelerators receive funding from the state of Ohio. Read More ...

The entrepreneurship ecosystem of Greater Cleveland was on artful display Monday, and in a spectacular setting--the Ames Family Atrium of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Read More ...

Medical Mutual of Ohio has awarded NorTech a $750,000 grant to support its work advocating the region’s advanced energy, flexible electronics and water technologies industries. Read More ...

Paul McAvinchey expected 80 or 90 people to show up at the first TechPint event last June. Read More ...

A local man who invented a device to help golfers improve their swings is in full swing with a big customer order: A Texas golf company wants 1,000 of the gadgets. Read More ...

Kritika Cerreta, who moved her new startup business into Braintree a few weeks ago, loves working in her new office in Richland County’s incubator — surrounded by exposed-brick walls and natural light streaming through a high window. Read More ...

The Burton D. Morgan Foundation Board of Trustees awarded grants totaling more than $1 million in February to support programs for youth, college students and adults to help them develop skills and gain experience in starting business ventures. Read More ...

When you step off the elevator on the third floor of the Youngstown Business Incubator, you find a nondescript door not far from the office of U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-13 Ohio. Inside is nothing but an old couch, three desks and a banner hanging on the wall that says SalesKatz in big green letters. Read More ...

A student-run venture fund located at the University of Akron now has $250,000 to invest in start-up businesses and plans to add chapters from other universities. Read More ...

Last year, 118 tech-based companies in Greater Cleveland raised $259 million from venture capitalists and angel investors, according to the region's Venture Capital Advisory Task Force—a 15% percent increase over the amount attracted in 2012. Read More ...

Meet Tim Miller, founder of Abeona Therapeutics LLC, which develops gene therapy for potential cures for children with rare genetic diseases. Read More ...

Youngstown Business Incubator portfolio company via680 LLC is getting an assist from a co-founder of the Priceline.com booking service. Read More ...

A Northern California biomedical company that’s developing an emergency treatment for stroke patients is relocating its business operations in Akron. Read More ...

Student entrepreneurs at Case Western Reserve University will showcase their products next week on one of the nation's biggest stages – the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Read More ...