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Positive Change in Northeast Ohio - August 2008 Recap

NEOinc — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:00:46 +0000

Ah, early Fall in Northeast Ohio. The Tribe, after writing off their season mid-summer, has suddenly woke up and battled back to third place in their division just 10 or so games out. The Browns go 0-4 for the preseason but hopefully have got injuries out of their system early. Hang on, sports fans.

From a news perspective, August was a fairly slow month. We’ve recapped a nice selection of positive news from after the break.

There is a lot of positive change happening in the region, particularly around entrepreneurial activities and economic development. NEOinc follows several regional blogs reporting on these topics. Sometimes the posts shine a spotlight nationally (or internationally) on the region. Every month we publish a short list of some of the stories we’ve noticed that embody the spirit of achievement, growth and change in our region.

Here is NEOinc’s August recap of the articles we feel speak to the growth and positive change that is happening quietly, every day, in our region.

August ‘08 Recap

ARCHAngels and LCCC form new fund
Lake Erie College gains $1M grant
A. Schulman to expand in Akron
CleveX secures $1.4M in funding
Lots of good results reported (Ferro, PolyOne, Hawk, JoAnn Stores, Preformed Line, Olympic Steel, McDermott)
Cleveland Professional Club 20/30 joins Advance Northeast Ohio partners (congrats Dan and Alex)
Ohio outshining Silicon Valley (no, we mean it!)
A. Schulman expanding
PartSource gets $50M in venture funding
NEOinc tenants in the news (Knotice, PolyFlow)
Primus raises $275M for sixth fund
Expedient continues Garfield Heights expansion
Diebold wins Brazilian contract

This list certainly isn’t meant to be exhaustive, merely a representative sample of some of the more positive articles we saw throughout the month. We want to hear from you too! Please use the comment box below to share your thoughts with us here at NEOinc and our other readers. Come on, you know you want to.

We’re also looking for other blogs to follow that report on positive entrepreneurship and economic development activities throughout Northeast Ohio. You can review the list below of the blogs we currently follow. Please post any additional recommendations via the comment box at the end of this post.

NEOinc’s blog reports regularly on entrepreneurial activities within the region, news and successes within the five incubators making up our collaborative, and resources available throughout Northeast Ohio. If you found this post useful, please consider subscribing to our blog. Our “Connect With Us” page will give you all the information you need to subscribe via your RSS reader or receive E-Mail updates.

Sources

NEOinc watches the following regional blogs. Please use our “Contact Us” page, or the comment box below, to recommend a blog not on the list.

Advance Northeast Ohio - the online home of our region’s economic action plan, which was inspired by Voices & Choices. Learn about the actions our region is taking to grow our economy and engage in conversations that shape the plan and evaluate our performance.
Brewed Fresh Daily- topical, wide-ranging, and sometimes irreverant, George Nemeth’s blog is a clearinghouse for the pulse of Northeast Ohio.
Cleveland Plain Dealer’s business blog
Crain’s Cleveland
NorTech - NorTech leads the region’s technology based economic development agenda. By supporting and nurturing Northeast Ohio’s most promising technology projects and initiatives, they help to create new technology industries and make the region ’s economy more globally-competitive.
Ohio Means Business - The OBDC blog is a chance for Ohio executives to share their perspective on how locating in Ohio has enabled them to achieve both their professional and personal aspirations without having to sacrifice one for the other.

Positive Change in Northeast Ohio - July 2008 Recap

NEOinc — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:00:37 +0000

The dog days of summer finally hit us (maybe that’s what the Tribe’s bats needed to wake up). Hopefully, everyone is enjoying their summer vacations. This issue of positive change comes at a welcome time. With recent developments in the region, Cuyahoga County in particular, we could all use some better news to focus on.

We’ve recapped a nice selection of positive news from July after the break.

Here is NEOinc’s July recap of the articles we feel speak to the growth and positive change that is happening quietly, every day, in our region.

July ‘08 Recap

Sources

NEOinc watches the following regional blogs. Please use our “Contact Us” page, or the comment box below, to recommend a blog not on the list.

Advance Northeast Ohio - the online home of our region’s economic action plan, which was inspired by Voices & Choices. Learn about the actions our region is taking to grow our economy and engage in conversations that shape the plan and evaluate our performance.
Brewed Fresh Daily- topical, wide-ranging, and sometimes irreverant, George Nemeth’s blog is a clearinghouse for the pulse of Northeast Ohio.
Cleveland Plain Dealer’s business blog
Crain’s Cleveland
NorTech - NorTech leads the region’s technology based economic development agenda. By supporting and nurturing Northeast Ohio’s most promising technology projects and initiatives, they help to create new technology industries and make the region ’s economy more globally-competitive.
Ohio Means Business - The OBDC blog is a chance for Ohio executives to share their perspective on how locating in Ohio has enabled them to achieve both their professional and personal aspirations without having to sacrifice one for the other.

Positive change in Northeast Ohio - June 2008 Recap

NEOinc — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:50:01 +0000

Well, welcome to the halfway point of 2008. That went quick, didn’t it? What started out as a slow month, ended on a high note with lots of positive announcements throughout the region. We’ve summarized a nice selection after the break.

June also saw one of the blogs we follow “going dark”, as they say. Chris Varley’s Tech Futures blog, which grew out of a NorTech study around technology-based economic development, signed off this month with the following note:

The TechFutures site will remain up for some time to come, but this will be the last blog post in this forum. As NorTech adapts to the changes around it, new priorities are emerging and new initiatives are being launched. We invite you to revisit the stories and history of this project here on this site, but even more than that we encourage you to get and stay involved in the new projects NorTech and other economic development groups in the region pursue in the months and years to come.

Here is NEOinc’s June recap of the articles we feel speak to the growth and positive change that is happening quietly, every day, in our region.

June ‘08 Recap

Sources

NEOinc watches the following regional blogs. Please use our “Contact Us” page, or the comment box below, to recommend a blog not on the list.

Advance Northeast Ohio - the online home of our region’s economic action plan, which was inspired by Voices & Choices. Learn about the actions our region is taking to grow our economy and engage in conversations that shape the plan and evaluate our performance.
Brewed Fresh Daily- topical, wide-ranging, and sometimes irreverant, George Nemeth’s blog is a clearinghouse for the pulse of Northeast Ohio.
Cleveland Plain Dealer’s business blog
Crain’s Cleveland
NorTech - NorTech leads the region’s technology based economic development agenda. By supporting and nurturing Northeast Ohio’s most promising technology projects and initiatives, they help to create new technology industries and make the region ’s economy more globally-competitive.
Ohio Means Business - The OBDC blog is a chance for Ohio executives to share their perspective on how locating in Ohio has enabled them to achieve both their professional and personal aspirations without having to sacrifice one for the other.

MAGNET welcomes Halcyon Products

NEOinc — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:52:28 +0000

The MAGNET incubator has a new tenant today. Halcyon Products is moving in over the next couple of days.

Halycon Products supplies innovative products for Fire & EMS, Law Enforcement, Military and Sports Industries to facilitate helping people in emergency situations or to train for emergency situations. As they say on their website, their products save lives!

Halycon is a past recipient of the Cuyahoga County New Product Loan Fund, administered by MAGNET. Halycon used the funds to help bring to market their Fireground Compass product:

Halcyon Products, Inc. is now offering the first ever FireGround Compass, a tool designed by firefighters and incident commanders. Both affordable and easy-to-use, this life saving tool can be used by any firefighter to orient themselves at an emergency scene thereby reducing the possibility of becoming lost, trapped, injured or killed.

Another entrepreneur looks ready to take off with the help of NEOinc resources.

Positive Change in Northeast Ohio - May 2008 Recap

NEOinc — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:00:04 +0000

With nighttime lows that have dipped into the 30’s recently, it’s hard to believe we are making the turn into Summer, but here we are in June already. The temperatures are quickly on the rise (if only the Indian’s bats were heating up as well), and the Summer Solstice is only a couple weeks away.

Lot’s of good economic development news hit in May. Selfishly, we here at NEOinc are most proud of Mike LeHere’s award by the National Business Incubation Association as the top incubator innovator of 2008. Mike is the CEO of the Akron Global Business Accelerator (AGBA) and the innovation was the Global Technology Commercialization Initiative in conjunction with the City of Akron. Three links to separate articles are in the list below, but since we write this blog, we’re linking here too. Follow this link to read our original article on Mike.

Here is NEOinc’s May recap of the articles we feel speak to the growth and positive change that is happening quietly, every day, in our region.

May ‘08 Recap

Sources

NEOinc watches the following regional blogs. Please use our “Contact Us” page to recommend a blog not on the list.

Advance Northeast Ohio - the online home of our region’s economic action plan, which was inspired by Voices & Choices. Learn about the actions our region is taking to grow our economy and engage in conversations that shape the plan and evaluate our performance.
Brewed Fresh Daily- topical, wide-ranging, and sometimes irreverant, George Nemeth’s blog is a clearinghouse for the pulse of Northeast Ohio.
Cleveland Plain Dealer’s business blog
Crain’s Cleveland
NorTech - NorTech leads the region’s technology based economic development agenda. By supporting and nurturing Northeast Ohio’s most promising technology projects and initiatives, they help to create new technology industries and make the region ’s economy more globally-competitive.
Ohio Means Business - The OBDC blog is a chance for Ohio executives to share their perspective on how locating in Ohio has enabled them to achieve both their professional and personal aspirations without having to sacrifice one for the other.
Tech Futures - This site grew out of a five month process that began in February 2005 when NorTech engaged Global Business Network (GBN), one of the world’s premiere scenario planning consultancies, to help evaluate the region’s strategic options and the role technology-based economic development could play in revitalizing our economy.

MAGNET incubator tenant Torex featured on 19 Action News

NEOinc — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:19:33 +0000

19 Action News recently featured MAGNET incubator tenant Torex, in their “Does it Work?” series.

The verdict? It Works!

Torex makes a family of innovative hot and cold therapy products. You can view the Does it Work? segment featuring Torex by clicking this link. Of course, this is no surprise to us as the Torex team have been honing their products over the past few years, and are well on their way to graduating out of the incubator.

Positive Change in Northeast Ohio - April 2008 Recap

NEOinc — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:41:58 +0000

Much of NEOinc’s management is in San Antonio this week at the National Business Incubation Association’s Spring conference. In our absence, we leave you with April’s recap of positive regional change, and look forward to publishing next week.

Here is NEOinc’s April recap of the articles we feel speak to the growth and positive change that is happening quietly, every day, in our region.

April ‘08 Recap

Sources

NEOinc watches the following regional blogs. Please use our “Contact Us” page to recommend a blog not on the list.

Advance Northeast Ohio - the online home of our region’s economic action plan, which was inspired by Voices & Choices. Learn about the actions our region is taking to grow our economy and engage in conversations that shape the plan and evaluate our performance.
Brewed Fresh Daily- topical, wide-ranging, and sometimes irreverant, George Nemeth’s blog is a clearinghouse for the pulse of Northeast Ohio.
Cleveland Plain Dealer’s business blog
Crain’s Cleveland
NorTech - NorTech leads the region’s technology based economic development agenda. By supporting and nurturing Northeast Ohio’s most promising technology projects and initiatives, they help to create new technology industries and make the region ’s economy more globally-competitive.
Ohio Means Business - The OBDC blog is a chance for Ohio executives to share their perspective on how locating in Ohio has enabled them to achieve both their professional and personal aspirations without having to sacrifice one for the other.
Tech Futures - This site grew out of a five month process that began in February 2005 when NorTech engaged Global Business Network (GBN), one of the world’s premiere scenario planning consultancies, to help evaluate the region’s strategic options and the role technology-based economic development could play in revitalizing our economy.

Deadline for new product loan fund submissions approaching

NEOinc — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:58:09 +0000

Do you need funding to help develop a new product?

If so, MAGNET has loan funding that helps entrepreneurs or small businesses bring their ideas to reality.

MAGNET administers the New Product Development and Entrepreneurship Program, Product Innovation Loan Fundon behalf of the Cuyahoga County Department of Development. In the last three years, the fund has provided over $3 million for new product development in Northeast Ohio and additional funds are now available.

The process is competitive. Applicants will have their submissions reviewed and approved by a committee consisting of local business leaders, venture capitalist, designers, entrepreneurs and representatives from Cuyahoga County. Applications for the current funding round are being accepted with a submission deadline of NOON EDT on Friday, April 25, 2008. Loans of up to $115,000 can be made in phased increments ranging from $15,000 to $60,000 depending upon how much development has already been completed and what remains to be done.

The loans have an interest rate of 3.5%. There are no interest or principal payments for the first three years after disbursement. Small companies of less than $50 million in sales as well as entrepreneurs can use this money to fund their product development process for such activities as market research, patent services, industrial design, engineering and prototyping efforts.

Full details of the program along with application forms are available at http://www.magnetwork.org/programs/cuyahoga-loan-fund.htm.

If you have further questions you can contact Barbara Paul by phone at 216-432-5322, or by email at barbara.paul@magnetwork.org

Positive change in Northeast Ohio - March 2008 recap

NEOinc — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:39:33 +0000

Ah, Spring. The daffodils are pushing their way out of the dirt, the forecast shows nothing but 50’s and our Tribe opened with a win. What’s not to like?

Here is NEOinc’s March recap of the articles we feel speak to the growth and positive change that is happening quietly, every day in our region.

March ‘08 Recap

NEOinc’s blog reports regularly on entrepreneurial activities within the region, news and successes within the five incubators making up our collaborative, and resources available throughout Northeast Ohio. If you found this post useful, please consider subscribing to our blog. Our “Connect With Us” will give you all the information you need to subscribe via your RSS reader or receive E-Mail updates.

Sources

NEOinc watches the following regional blogs. Please use our “Contact Us” page to recommend a blog not on the list.

Advance Northeast Ohio - the online home of our region’s economic action plan, which was inspired by Voices & Choices. Learn about the actions our region is taking to grow our economy and engage in conversations that shape the plan and evaluate our performance.
Brewed Fresh Daily - topical, wide-ranging, and sometimes irreverant, George Nemeth’s blog is a clearinghouse for the pulse of Northeast Ohio.
Cleveland Plain Dealer’s business blog
Crain’s Cleveland
NorTech - NorTech leads the region’s technology based economic development agenda. By supporting and nurturing Northeast Ohio’s most promising technology projects and initiatives, they help to create new technology industries and make the region ’s economy more globally-competitive.
Ohio Means Business - The OBDC blog is a chance for Ohio executives to share their perspective on how locating in Ohio has enabled them to achieve both their professional and personal aspirations without having to sacrifice one for the other.
Tech Futures - This site grew out of a five month process that began in February 2005 when NorTech engaged Global Business Network (GBN), one of the world’s premiere scenario planning consultancies, to help evaluate the region’s strategic options and the role technology-based economic development could play in revitalizing our economy.

Positive change in Northeast Ohio - February 2008 recap

NEOinc — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:00:54 +0000

Here is NEOinc’s February recap of the articles we feel speak to the growth and positive change that is happening quietly, every day in our region.

February ‘08 Recap

NEOinc’s blog reports regularly on entrepreneurial activities within the region, news and successes within the five incubators making up our collaborative, and resources available throughout Northeast Ohio. If you found this post useful, please consider subscribing to our blog. Our “Connect With Us” will give you all the information you need to subscribe via your RSS reader or receive E-Mail updates.

Sources

NEOinc watches the following regional blogs. Please use our “Contact Us” page to recommend a blog not on the list.

Advance Northeast Ohio - the online home of our region’s economic action plan, which was inspired by Voices & Choices. Learn about the actions our region is taking to grow our economy and engage in conversations that shape the plan and evaluate our performance.
Brewed Fresh Daily - topical, wide-ranging, and sometimes irreverant, George Nemeth’s blog is a clearinghouse for the pulse of Northeast Ohio.
Cleveland Plain Dealer’s business blog
Crain’s Cleveland
NorTech - NorTech leads the region’s technology based economic development agenda. By supporting and nurturing Northeast Ohio’s most promising technology projects and initiatives, they help to create new technology industries and make the region ’s economy more globally-competitive.
Ohio Means Business - The OBDC blog is a chance for Ohio executives to share their perspective on how locating in Ohio has enabled them to achieve both their professional and personal aspirations without having to sacrifice one for the other.
Tech Futures - This site grew out of a five month process that began in February 2005 when NorTech engaged Global Business Network (GBN), one of the world’s premiere scenario planning consultancies, to help evaluate the region’s strategic options and the role technology-based economic development could play in revitalizing our economy.