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51ÉçÇø’s Innovation Center, an internationally-renowned business incubator, has been awarded $1.2 million under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
51ÉçÇø’s Innovation Center supported 335 jobs that generated an estimated $22 million in employee compensation in Athens County in 2019, according to a new economic impact report.Â
51ÉçÇø’s Innovation Center has focused its efforts in the last several weeks on helping local entrepreneurs navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and response.Â
A new project at 51ÉçÇø is using high-tech tools to bring ancient artifacts into the digital age—and into the hands of students and the general public.
The Innovation Center, 51ÉçÇø’s business incubator, is offering no-cost workshops for area entrepreneurs.
51ÉçÇø’s Innovation Center is racking up accolades lately—it was named the 2019 Randall M. Whaley Incubator of the Year and 2019 Rural-Based Entrepreneurship Center of the Year by the International Business Innovation Association.
The 51ÉçÇø Innovation Center has received a $1.15 million grant to support facility improvements at the internationally renowned business incubator.
As part of the Ohio IP Promise, a collaboration with the state of Ohio and the state’s public universities, 51ÉçÇø has established a best-in-class process for licensing intellectual property.
The first thing you see in JD Kittle’s office at 51ÉçÇø’s Innovation Center is a table. Not the usual kind with four legs, but a narrow board laid horizontally across a small ladder. Utilitarian and practical. Much like Kittle himself.
![51ÉçÇø Innovation Center’s all-female staff gather at the West State St. facility: [LEFT to RIGHT] Client Services Manager and Executive Coach Erin Rennich, MBA ’13; Accountant Jennifer Pauwels; Director Stacy Strauss; Associate Director Tanya Conrath, BSC ’93; Administrative Specialist Susan Bauman, BSED ’94; and Lab Director Misako Hata, BSISE ’98, MS ’01, MS ’10. Photo by Ellee Achten, BSJ ’14, MA ’17](/sites/ohio.edu.news/files/styles/sub_feature_story_thumbnail/public/2024-03/A%20culture%20of%20community.jpg?itok=jNWcqsrB)
