Starting a business isn't always intuitive to a scientist. Innovate Arkansas helped biotech company founder Ellen Brune find her way through the early paperwork and logistics of building a company.
From the time RxResults and Innovate Arkansas started working together in 2009, when the company was in its early founding days, to today when the bond is still strong, RxResults President and CEO Tery Baskin says the Innovate Arkansas network has been the biggest benefit.
The UA's Walton Business College hosted 39 aspiring student entrepreneurs for its residential Spirit Scholars program, which teaches entrepreneurship and innovation to first generation, low-income and under-represented students.
Around the IA horn we go with the Innovation Hub announcing a partnership with the Fayetteville Chamber to expand northwesterly, Iron Yard coding school classes starting in Little Rock and more.
The UA's Winthrop Rockefeller Institute is hosting a social entrepreneurship boot camp, a partnership between WRI, the UA's Clinton School of Public Service, the UA Office of Entrepreneurship and the Innovation Hub.
In case you missed it, Kordate Solutions from the UA won the graduate division of the 2015 DWR Tri-State Governor's Cup in Las Vegas after finishing second in the Arkansas competition.
The expansion will allow Picasolar to greatly reduce the time it takes to produce its patent-pending product that improves solar cell efficiency while reducing the amount of silver needed in the manufacture of solar panels.
John James, Acumen Brands founder, is filling up the Old Post Office on the Fayetteville square with his Hayseed Ventures, and ARK Challenge alum Justyn Hornor and his Real Agent Guard have received a funding round from XCelerate Capital.
Ralph Henry, a researcher at the University of Arkansas and co-founder of Innovate Arkansas client firm InterveXion Therapeutics, will be one of five UA innovators at the third-annual Southeastern Conference Symposium.
Innovate Arkansas client firm and UA startup CycleWood Solutions has signed an agreement to develop a line of eco-friendly pet waste bags called Green Pups.
