Your business will grow with the help of business experts, access to leading edge technology and flexible space in a smart facility. From networking contacts to university resources, the Innovation Center offers the fastest route to success.
Our Mission
The Innovation Center provides business services, resources and flexible facilities, fostering entrepreneurship resulting in wildly successful companies and a dynamic prosperous region.
Our VisionThe regional economy will become more diversified, therefore more robust, as Innovation Center companies add higher-paying jobs helping the area incubate and sustain globally competitive companies who want to experience knowledge based innovation and enhanced quality of life.
The state of Ohio's Third Frontier program for research and economic development has awarded an Ohio University professor $972,992 for alternative energy work on hydrogen production, ammonia fuel cells and wastewater remediation.
David J. Bayless, Loehr Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology and director of the Ohio Coal Research Center, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering Fellows for his efforts to improve power generation efficiency and remediate air pollution.
TUPPERS PLAINS - The future of energy looks brighter - and so does the local economy - with the move of American Hydrogen Corp. to Meigs County. The company held a ceremony Friday in Tuppers Plains at the East Meigs Industrial Park celebrating its expansion and move to the park. The corporation holds an exclusive license to commercialize a process which breaks down ammonia to hydrogen, which can then be developed into fuel cells. The process makes hydrogen power more economical and could become the main source of power in the future economy.
Ohio University’s Innovation Center and Edison Biotechnology Institute will sponsor a one-day workshop on Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, September 28.
The Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs and the Ohio Department of Development will host the Third Frontier Program Information Forum from 10 a.m. to noon on Thursday, September 20, in Baker Center Room 242 on the Athens campus of Ohio University.
It would be great -- and more environmentally responsible -- to run cars on hydrogen, but experts say it would cost about four times as much as gasoline. An Ohio University researcher has figured out how to produce hydrogen fuel inexpensively, and today, she and the university signed an agreement to license her technology to a corporation that will take it to the marketplace.
Six companies in Ohio University's Innovation Center created 344 jobs and generated $12.6 million in labor income in Athens County in 2006, according to a new study.
ATHENS, Ohio (March 28, 2007) -- To supplement its November award of $3.5 million, the state of Ohio today has awarded $6.5 million to Ohio University's Voinovich Center for Leadership and Public Affairs and their collaborators for the Southeast Ohio Entrepreneurial Signature Program (ESP) to drive regional economic development by supporting local entrepreneurs.
Government officials, university representatives and local business owners gathered outside the old McBee building Friday afternoon to celebrate the building’s new tenant.
Area investors can get a glimpse of local growing companies in a new investor’s forum developed by area economic development officials, bank and investment organizations, community development organizations, and business support groups.