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Missouri S&T Launches VentureLab to Support Small Businesses and Early-Stage Companies

Missouri S&T Launches VentureLab to Support Small Businesses and Early-Stage Companies

VentureLab is intended to provide services and resources to individuals starting new business ventures and operating small businesses in Rolla and the surrounding communities.

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Garmin to open facility in S&T Technology Development Center

Garmin to open facility in S&T Technology Development Center

Garmin International Inc. is expanding its engineering internship program through the opening of a new software engineering facility at Missouri S&T. The facility is designed to support student internships.

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MU Life Science Business Incubator Receives International Honor

MU Life Science Business Incubator Receives International Honor

The National Business Incubation Association has awarded the NBIA Soft Landings International Incubator designation to the MU Life Science Business Incubator at Monsanto Place, an incubator operated and sponsored by the Missouri Innovation Center.

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UMSL’s Innovative Technology Enterprises Welcomes Two New Tenants

UMSL’s Innovative Technology Enterprises Welcomes Two New Tenants

The two new companies, Retectix and Onshore Outsourcing, bring the total number of companies participating in the program up to eight.

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Research Parks & Incubators

Center for Emerging Technologies

Discovery Ridge Research Park

Life Science Business Incubator

Missouri Research Park

Missouri S&T Innovation Park

Univ. of Missouri St. Louis Research Park

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Research Parks & Incubators

The University of Missouri System’s statewide network of research parks provides a thriving environment for discoveries to move from the laboratory to the marketplace. The atmosphere of innovation and collaboration attracts national and international tenants who create quality employment opportunities for Missouri citizens and millions of dollars of capital investment across the state.

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Office of Intellectual Property Administration

The Office of Intellectual Property Administration (OIPA) supports the economic development mission by encouraging broad practical application of university research for the public benefit; assisting those associated with the technology transfer program with evaluating, protecting, licensing and commercializing university discoveries; and carrying out new economic development initiatives designed to create jobs in Missouri.

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Funding Opportunities

The Office of Research and Economic Development is dedicated to commercializing university technologies - one of the biggest challenges to that mission is funding. To proactively combat the constant obstacle, the office has formulated different funding programs for faculty, students and innovations in all stages of the discovery process.

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Office of Research & Economic Development

The Office of Research and Economic Development was established in 2005 to link research and commercialization from the four University of Missouri System campuses with emerging and existing firms across the state and around the world. Working closely with the chief research officers, chancellors and technology transfer offices from each campus, the office also serves as a conduit to local, state and federal agencies to ensure research results aid the growth of Missouri’s economy.

The Office is dedicated to advancing Missouri through innovation, investment and infrastructure.

Our enthusiasm for these three categories revolves around the development of intellectual property, funding programs and research parks and incubators. Providing support during critical stages in university inventions’ path to the marketplace stimulates Missouri’s economy, jobs and entrepreneurship.

Our vision is to enable and lead Missouri’s transformation toward a knowledge-based economy dependent upon innovation and entrepreneurship.

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309 University Hall
Columbia MO, 65211
Phone: 573-882-6726
Email: email