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The Ohio University Innovation Center assists emerging businesses by providing space, supportive services, and networking opportunities. We serve as your resource facilitator and advocate in a learning environment that is founded on the concepts of entrepreneurship and regional economic enrichment.
Grow Your Business HereThe Innovation Center is the smart way to grow your business idea into commercial reality.  Here’s how:

• Gives you the skills you’ll need to grow a business, from marketing and management savvy to financial know-how
• Fast-tracks the development of technology into marketable products with assistance from the university’s technology transfer office and other resources
• Places the reputation of Ohio University behind your company
• Attracts the attention of funders
• Develops networks of critical contacts
• Increases odds for success: Businesses in small business incubators have higher success rates than other startups

Could you fit in?We look for fast growing technology and service companies.  To be eligible for consideration, your company must:

• be a new or emerging technology firm or a professional services company that provides business support to technology firms
• have a commercial strategy
• have job creation potential
• have a capable or willing-to-learn management team
• have a product or service with potential to sell outside the region
• have available capital or prospects for accessing capital