Innovation and Entrepreneurs

Many entrepreneurs overextend themselves in growing their businesses. Resources such as the Small Business Administration, SCORE, SBDTC and the SBC are available in North Carolina. Free and confidential mentoring can help to fill the knowledge gaps that are inevitable in a complex business environment.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UNCW CIE

Entrepreneurs, students and financing experts were brought together to ask and answer questions. Rick Graves provided a presentation on the tax and structuring aspects of funding a business with an emphasis on debt and equity. The CIE is a great environment to develop a collaborative model of business development and financing.

University of North Carolina Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

http://uncw.edu/cie/

High Tide Breakfast session at UNCW CIE this spring.

Innovation in Government

Innovation in Government Grant Project in 2012 to 2014

The IDB Project is funded by a grant from the State of Ohio’s Local Government Innovation Fund Grant (LGIF) Program, which was given to Sourcing Office, a statewide council of governments based in Cleveland, Ohio, to pilot test the IDB approach in Butler County, Ohio. The Butler County Port Authority and Butler County Government played a significant role in organizing local support for the project.

The overall purpose of the project is to study the feasibility of the integrated development budget as a future tool to strengthen financing of economic and community development projects. The IDB approach is designed to provide a fuller accounting of all public investments in economic and community development in terms of organizational operating budgets, economic development incentives, and development-related infrastructure and services, and develop new integrated strategies that increase the return on investment (ROI) for Butler County and its communities.

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Governor Strickland Dedicates Intermodal Rail

Rail transportation is another level of RMC services and experience.

Building Demolition

This project involved a nearly $2,000,000 grant and a more than $7,000,000 in private funding demolition and revitalization program from 2008 to 2011.

Project in Cincinnati

Governor Strickland attended project approval ceremony in 2010.