Program Highlights
2021
September
Build to Scale (formerly Regional Innovation Strategies)
- September 5, 2021 - Arrowhead invests in NMSU alumnus' hydration system dryer (The Las Cruces Sun News)
August
Build to Scale (formerly Regional Innovation Strategies)
- August 25, 2021 - NMSU alumnus receives AIF investment for innovative hydration system dryer (The El Paso Herald-Post)
- August 21, 2021 - Accessing, deploying funds to support coal-impacted communities (The Beckley Register-Herald)
- August 19, 2021 - Susan Ruhlin hired as inaugural director of Dirigo Labs, a new startup accelerator in Waterville (Maine Startups Insider)
- August 16, 2021 - University of Evansville Awarded Elevate Nexus Grant (The City-County Observer)
- August 13, 2021 - Elevate Ventures Awards Entrepreneurship Grants (Inside Indiana Business)
SPRINT Challenge Coverage
- August 2, 2021 - Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque seeks business partners to help build 'drone hammer' (Albuquerque Business First)
STEM Talent Challenge
- August 23, 2021 - Resource Roundup: Join the Entrepreneurs Access Network for Black and Latinx-led companies (Technical.ly Philadelphia)
- August 18, 2021 - Resource Roundup: Level up in cyber, IT and entrepreneurship with these 4 DC-area programs (Technical.ly DC)
July
Build to Scale (formerly Regional Innovation Strategies)
- July 17, 2021 - Innovation & Technology Program Hosts Science, Agriculture & Energy (SAgE) Cohort (University of Nebraska Omaha News)
- July 19, 2021 - NMSU leads clean energy ‘cluster’ initiative (The Albuquerque Journal)
- July 12, 2021 - Champria is latest Arrowhead Innovation Fund investment; Takes competitive esports players to pro (The El Paso Herald-Post)
- July 12, 2021 - Survey for entrepreneurs will help develop Dirigo Labs innovation hub (Maine Biz)
SPRINT Challenge Coverage
- July 28, 2021 - New space technology startup accelerator lands in Albuquerque at the Q Station (Albuquerque Business First)
July
Build to Scale (formerly Regional Innovation Strategies)
- June 29, 2021 - UAS Innovators Complete Functional Drill to Enable Drone Integration into Emergency Response (SUAS News)
- June 22, 2021 - Delaware Innovation Space offers financial option in accelerator program (Delaware Business Now)
- June 14, 2021 - IDEA Hub aims to support, foster entrepreneurship in six counties including Sauk (The Baraboo News Republic)
- June 2, 2021 - Disinfecting robots have a brighter future thanks to Arrowhead Innovation Fund (The El Paso Herald-Post)
June
Build to Scale (formerly Regional Innovation Strategies)
- June 24, 2021 - Arrowhead Innovation Fund continues support for Ganymede Games (The El Paso Herald-Post)
- June 17, 2021 - WATCH NOW: Godwin honored at her final PHCC board meeting (The Martinsville Bulletin)
- June 16, 2021 - Virtual town hall at NMSU to continue discussion on clean energy economy (The El Paso Herald-Post)
- June 6, 2021 - Federal grant group is betting big on a new 'digital ecosystem' in North Iowa (Globe Gazette)
- June 5, 2021 - Powering New Mexico webinar touts clean energy job growth (Albuquerque Business First)
- June 3, 2021 - This Hopkins initiative is accelerating startup innovation in the digital health space (Technical.ly Baltimore)
SPRINT Challenge Coverage
- June 30, 2021 - ENHANCED SUPPORT FOR ENTREPRENEURS (University of Delaware News)
- June 30, 2021 - Business awards earned in Tucson and Southern Arizona (The Arizona Daily Star)
May
SPRINT Challenge Coverage
- May 31, 2021 - Data center project to test crop-picking robots that could be used in space and on farms (NWI Times)
- May 31, 2021 - Monetizing Covid: Solutions get booster shot at universities (BizWest News)
- May 18, 2021 - New entrepreneurial startup hub from UNC, Duke aims to launch 18 companies in 18 months (WRAL TechWire)
- May 17, 2021 - UNC and Duke Team up to Launch Entrepreneurial Startup Hub (Duke News)
- May 17, 2021 - Maine professor creates environmentally friendly disinfectant (WMTW 8 News)
- May 15, 2021 - NKU Awarded $750,000 to Boost Covington-Based Collaborative for Economic Engagement (The River City News)
- May 14, 2021 - NKU awarded federal funds to accelerate economy (The Lane Report)
- May 14, 2021 - These life sciences jobs could triple. Inside the big effort to train workers (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
- May 13, 2021 - UCLA Health wins $750,000 grant to scale COVID-19 innovations and support health equity (News Medical)
- May 12, 2021 - UCLA Health Receives $750K Department of Commerce Grant to Fund COVID-19 Innovation That Prioritizes Health Equity (Newswise)
- May 9, 2021 - Meharry Medical College gets $750,000 for Work Linking Wealth, Health (The Tennessee Tribune)
- May 6, 2021 - Meharry gets $750K for work linking wealth, health (Main Street Nashville)
- May 5, 2021 - Medical college gets $750K for work linking wealth, health (Fox 17 WZTV Nashville)
- May 5, 2021 - Create Portage County using SPRINT grant to help local businesses, entrepreneurs (WSAW-TV)
- May 4, 2021 - CU Boulder begins accelerator for COVID-19 innovations (The Burlington Record)
- May 4, 2021 - Purdue Northwest researchers awarded more than $1M for agriculture technology project (Northwest Indiana Business Magazine)
- May 4, 2021 - Meharry Medical College receives grant to expand ResilienSEED (News Channel 5 Nashville)
- May 2, 2021 - What's New in Civic Tech: Kamala Harris to Tackle Broadband (The Star)
April
Build to Scale (formerly Regional Innovation Strategies)
- April 28, 2021 - County joins in support of federal grant application (The Clear Lake Mirror Reporter)
- April 22, 2021 - Cultivating bright ideas: From grape goggles to berry blockchains, NW Ag Innovation Hub connects growers, technologists (Capital Press)
- April 21, 2021 - Opportunity Alabama announces the OPAL Fund to advance, support local communities (Alabama NewsCenter)
- April 20, 2021 - Nine ventures earn prizes at second annual MSU $50K Venture Competition (MSU News)
- April 20, 2021 - Cerro Gordo County Board of Supervisors endorse NIACC tech plan (The Globe Gazette)
- April 13, 2021 - Six Health-Related Startups Selected for NKU Accelerator (The River City News)
- April 9, 2021 - $1M committed to kickstart bioscience cluster programs for entrepreneurs (Mainebiz)
SPRINT Challenge Coverage
- April 29, 2021 - What's New in Civic Tech: Kamala Harris to Tackle Broadband (Government Technology)
- April 29, 2021 - New MAGNET program designed to boost manufacturing companies’ post-pandemic recovery (Freshwater Cleveland)
- April 28, 2021 - Community program to be launched (Stevens Point News)
- April 23, 2021 - New space for tech entrepreneurship opens in Nob Hill (Albuquerque Business First)
- April 23, 2021 - New Mexico’s First Ever Aerospace & Directed Energy Tech Collaboration Hub Opens in Nob Hill (City of Albuquerque News)
- April 23, 2021 - Grant launched to look at solving problems from pandemic (Murray Ledger & Times)
- April 22, 2021 - Grant launched to look at solving problems from pandemic (Kentucky Today)
- April 22, 2021 - UofL receives grant to launch COVID-19 tech accelerator (University of Louisville News)
- April 22, 2021 - TechTown receives $545,600 grant to support Detroit Urban Solutions program (Crain’s Detroit Business)
- April 22, 2021 - DBusiness Daily Update: McLaren to Open New Facility in Shelby Township, TechTown Detroit Launches Detroit Urban Solutions, and More (DBusiness Magazine)
- April 20, 2021 - AgLaunch scores $750K grant from U.S. Department of Commerce, looks to bolster specialty crop efforts (Memphis Business Journal)
- April 20, 2021 - Warren energy incubator plans to partner with energy start-ups and bring jobs (WFMJ 21)
- April 16, 2021 - Digital platform program will bolster seafood industry (The Mount Desert Islander)
- April 16, 2021 - University affiliate NextCorps receives federal grant to help create software companies (University of Rochester News)
- April 14, 2021 - MAGNET attracts 624,000 grant to aid companies post-pandemic (The Cleveland Jewish News)
- April 14, 2021 - WSU Health Sciences' Incubator 'sp3nw' Receives $750,000 Grant for Pandemic Response (Big Country News)
- April 14, 2021 - RAIN receives $748,833 to support rapid recovery (The Newport News Times)
- April 12, 2021 - MBI wins $252K to spur biomedical entrepreneurship (Worcester Business Journal)
- April 12, 2021 - University of Puerto Rico gets $213K grant to support entrepreneurs crippled by COVID-19 (News Is My Business)
- April 9, 2021 - Brite’s $571,355 EDA Grant Will Support Expansion Efforts (The Business Journal)
- April 9, 2021 - RI Delegation announces $724K EDA grant for 401 Tech Bridge to support economic recovery (What’s Up Newp)
- April 8, 2021 - MCA awarded $750K to create Product Development Lab; Will support local manufacturers, suppliers (The El Paso Herald-Post)
- April 8, 2021 - MAGNET receives federal funding to support local innovation, investment (Crain’s Cleveland Business)
- April 8, 2021 - LTU, Jackson Incubator Get Grant To Boost COVID-19 Response With Startups’ New Tech (MI Tech News)
- April 8, 2021 - Meet the digital health companies in the Science Center’s new Launch Lane accelerator cohort (Technical.ly Philadelphia)
- April 8, 2021 - No-code software startup accelerator coming to NextCorps (Rochester Business Journal)
- April 8, 2021 - Local planning commission receives $540K grant for pandemic relief (The Wausau Pilot & Review)
- April 8, 2021 - Seattle nonprofit awarded federal grant for new accelerator aimed at tourism, arts (The Puget Sound Business Journal)
- April 8, 2021 - Chicostart wins federal grant for Camp Fire, pandemic recovery efforts (The Chico Enterprise-Record)
- April 7, 2021 - Maryland Tech Council Receives $378,000 Federal Grant to Expand Task Force Advising Tech & Life Science Firms During COVID-19 (Yahoo Finance)
- April 9, 2021 - Nearly $570K coming to Lean Rocket Lab to expand entrepreneur response to COVID-19 (Michigan Live)
- April 7, 2021 - NextCorps to launch software industry accelerator (The Rochester Beacon)
- April 7, 2021 - NextCorps Awarded Economic Development Administration SPRINT Challenge Grant to Launch No-Code Software Startup Accelerator (Globe Newswire)
- April 7, 2021 - YBI Part of Group Awarded $703,000 to Promote Innovation Efforts (The Business Journal Daily)
- April 6, 2021 - St. Louis wins $474,000 federal grant to support entrepreneurs (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
- April 6, 2021 - $750,000 grant to Eugene’s Oregon Regional Accelerator and Innovation Network (RAIN) from Department of Commerce (Southern Oregon Business Journal)
- April 6, 2021 - Launch NY gets funding to help with pandemic recovery (The Buffalo News)
- April 6, 2021 - XLR8X receives $750K federal grant to help Hawaii businesses pivot (Pacific Business News)
March
Build to Scale (formerly Regional Innovation Strategies)
- March 31, 2021 - NMSU Arrowhead Center client UpCycle Power aims to reuse electric vehicle batteries (El Paso Herald-Post)
- March 29, 2021 - BioSTL pushes to become a leader in pandemic preparedness by launching a center for resiliency. But what does resiliency look like? (St. Louis Magazine)
- March 26, 2021 - Arrowhead Innovation Fund helps Osazda Energy grow, investigate environmental effects of solar cells (The El Paso Herald-Post)
- March 23, 2021 - Director hired to lead new innovation hub in Platteville (The Telegraph Herald)
- March 23, 2021 - Clean energy startup UpCycle Power wins 2021 AIF Pitch Competition (The El Paso Herald Post)
- March 10, 2021 - Social Enterprise Greenhouse's Ideator program to help people test ideas for starting a business (The Cranston Herald)
- March 9, 2021 - Ideas for Starting a Business (Newport Now)
- March 8, 2021 - Ideas Wanted: Social Enterprise Greenhouse launches new program to help people test ideas for starting a business (What’s Up Newport)
- March 8, 2021 - Salem’s economic development agency plants seeds to make the region a hub for agriculture-centered tech (The Salem Reporter)
- March 4, 2021 - Arrowhead Innovation Fund announces investment in hybrid event management company Circa (NM State University)
- March 2, 2021 - This Week in Jobs DMV: Just for Kicks Edition (Technical.ly DC)
February
Build to Scale (formerly Regional Innovation Strategies)
- February 25, 2021 - U.S. offering grants to municipalities, regions looking to attract tech companies (ROI New Jersey)
- February 24, 2021 - This federal program is dishing out $38M in grants for tech business growth (Technical.ly DC)
- February 22, 2021 - New MedTech funding, Air Force event open to Dayton-area small businesses (Dayton Business Journal)
- February 11, 2021 - There’s a new science accelerator at the Delaware Innovation Space (Technical.ly Delaware)
- February 10, 2021 - New Startup Accelerator, SCALE Aerospace Ventures, Launches In LA (SoCal Tech)
- February 10, 2021 - Alabama’s Innovation Portal invests in two Mobile-based startups (Alabama News Center)
- February 9, 2021 - Starburst, UCLA Launch Aerospace Accelerator (Los Angeles Business Journal)
- February 9, 2021 - UCLA, Starburst bringing another aerospace accelerator to Los Angeles (L.A. Biz)
- February 5, 2021 - RAIN partners with Hatfield Marine Science Center, hires local entrepreneur (The Newsguard of Lincoln City)
STEM Talent Challenge
- February 15, 2021 - U-M’s Economic Growth Institute awarded US STEM grant to boost cybersecurity within manufacturing (Michigan News)
- February 4, 2021 - Stem jobs for all (The Philadelphia Citizen)
January
Build to Scale (formerly Regional Innovation Strategies)
- January 26, 2021 - Student entrepreneurs can win up to $30,000 in the Inc.U Competition (Penn State News)
- January 26, 2021 - Austin accelerator DivInc expanding into Houston, offers seed capital to diverse startups (Houston Business Journal)
- January 24, 2021 - BRIEFS: PHCC gets $$$$ for welding plan (The Martinsville Bulletin)
- January 12, 2021 - Pueblo Community College health learning center at St. Mary-Corwin gets funding boost (The Pueblo Chieftain)
- January 6, 2021 - Social Enterprise Greenhouse’s online pitch night will feature 17 startups (What’s Up Newport)
STEM Talent Challenge
- January 28, 2021 - Howard Community College Awarded Prestigious Grant from U.S. Economic Development Administration (Scott E’s Blog)
- January 21, 2021 - Science Center scored a federal STEM grant to expand its BULB training program (Technical.ly Philadelphia)
- January 21, 2021 - Maui to receive $300,000 federal grant to create STEM apprenticeship program (KHON2 News)
- January 20, 2021 - Maui Economic Development Board wins national STEM award, $300K (Pacific Business News)
- January 20, 2021 - US Department of Commerce supports innovation, entrepreneurial STEM challenge (MENA FN Newsfile)
- January 19, 2021 - Maui Economic Development Board Awarded $300K to Scale-Up STEMworks Program (Maui Now)
2019
- September 3, 2019 - ODU launches Open Seas technology innovation hub (Southside Daily)
- July 23, 2019 - U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $23 Million to Fuel High-Growth Entrepreneurship Across America (Press Release)
- July 23, 2019 - 2019 Regional Innovation Strategies Competition I6 Grantees Announced (Blog Post)
- July 23, 2019 - 2019 Regional Innovation Strategies Competition Seed Fund Support Grantees Announced (Blog Post)
2018
- December 4, 2018 - U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $21 Million to Accelerate Entrepreneurship Across the Nation; Announces Timeline for Next Round of Regional Innovation Strategies Competition (Press Release)
- December 4, 2018 - Regional Innovation Strategies: From Idaho to Puerto Rico, EDA awards over $16m to support local capacity for high-tech innovation and job creation (Blog Post)
- December 4, 2018 - Regional Innovation Strategies: EDA invests $5m to expand access to early-stage risk capital coast-to-coast and everywhere in between (Blog Post)
- June 5, 2018 - Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern PA and ImpactPHL Advance Tech Startups, Create Positive Impact in Greater Philadelphia Region (Success Story)
- May 31, 2018 - Supporting Local Efforts to Create Great Jobs through Entrepreneurship: EDA Launches 2018 Regional Innovation Strategies Program Competition (Blog Post)
- April 1, 2018 - Success Story: EDA’s Regional Innovation Strategies Program Working to Build and Scale High-tech, Innovative Businesses to Create Jobs and Strong Regional Economies (Blog Post)
2017
- November 1, 2017 - Innovate@EDA: National Entrepreneurship Month: Celebrating Americas Entrepreneurial Spirit (EDA Newsletter)
- September 20, 2017 - U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $17 Million to Accelerate Entrepreneurship Across the Nation to Move Ideas to Market, Create Jobs, and Promote American Innovation (Press Release)
2016
- February 8, 2016 - EDA’s Regional Innovation Strategies Program: Supporting Resources Critical to Entrepreneurial Success (Blog Post)
- February 8, 2016 - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker Announces Awardees of $10 Million in Grants to Advance Innovation Across America (Commerce Press Release)
2015
- August 4, 2015 - Innovation Can Happen Anywhere (Blog)
- August 4, 2015 - U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker Announces Competition for $10 Million in Grants to Advance Innovation (Press Release)
- May 22, 2015 - U.S. Commerce Department Announces $5 Million in Grants to Advance Innovation Across America (Press Release)
- March 3, 2015 - U.S. Commerce Secretary Announces $10 Million in Grants to Advance Innovation Across America (Press Release)
2014
- October 8, 2014 - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker Announces New Members to Serve on the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Press Release)
- September 4, 2014 - U.S. Department of Commerce Announces $15 Million Grant Competition to Spur Regional Innovation (Press Release)
- June 18, 2014 - U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker Announces Call for New Members to the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Press Release)
- May 1, 2014 - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker Announces New Director for the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Press Release)