If so, you should plan on attending the following event.

The Tuscarawas County Port Authority is pleased to extend a personal invitation for you to join us for the next “Going Global” International Trade Forum.  Our July forum focuses on doing business with the European Union and features Ken DeVore of the F-Squared Laboratories of Ohio and Maryland. We begin at 7:30 am and will end by 9:00 am on Friday, July 11^th.  We meet in the conference room of the Tuscarawas County Port Authority, 339 Oxford Street in Dover. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided. There is no charge to attend.

Mr. Devore’s expertise in this area does not generally come free, so if you are planning on selling into the EU, or would be interested in what is involved to do so, don’t miss this opportunity for a free primer on the topic.

F-Squared Laboratories is an International Product Certification company that provides Certification Training, Evaluation and Testing specializing in European CE markings. Mr. DeVore has a BS Degree in QA/QC & and a degree in Electronic Technologies. He has 26 years of experience in the Electronics, Electro-Mechanical and Quality Engineering & Management fields and experience with numerous product development projects, RF power measurement devices, running a profitable small business unit, setting up companies in China, England and Germany, and National and International Business Development Consulting. We hope you will join us for this informative and interesting presentation.

Please RSVP to the ITAC office by Noon Wednesday, July 9th

(330) 308-7521       itac@tusc.kent.edu

This program is offered free of charge by East Central ITAC, Northern Ohio ITAC, TechSolve and MTSBDC- Manufacturing, Defense, & Technology Small Business Development Center.  For additional information on international trade assistance contact Bob Cohen at 419 521-2651 or bcohen@braintreepartners.org

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.

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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. 

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

A Memo of Understanding was signed at the recent National Business Incubation Associaton, creating a link between Northeast Ohio and Puerto Rican technology entrepreneurs and businesses.

Bob Cohen, Executive Director of BrainTree Partners in Mansfield, and Hector Carlo of VITEC2 in La Quinta Industrial Park in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, signed the mutually beneficial agreement in order to open markets for technology entrepreneurs in both countries.  The agreement helps BrainTree and NEOinc portfolio companies gain access to the Puerto Rican market and gives Puerto Rican entrepreneurs an entry point for distribution into the Northeast Ohio region.

For more details, read this article from the Mansfield News Journal.

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. 

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

If you are a technology entrepreneur that could benefit from learning more about the supercomputing resources available through The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC),  NEOinc suggests you strongly consider attending this event.  Not only is OSC making it’s supercomputing facilities available to a widening audience, the presenter, whose bio is below, has an entrepreneurial background and could be a valuable contact for your startup. 

CIO Luncheon

The Mansfield Richland Chamber of Commerce and the Northern Ohio IT Alliance invite you to join other Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officers, and Information Technology Managers as we bring together IT leaders from throughout the area.  Our guest speaker will be Ashok K. Krishnamurthy, Ph.D., Senior Director of Outreach at The Ohio Supercomputer Center.  Mr. Krishnamurthy will be discussing the Blue Collar Computing Initiative and the Ralph Regula School of Computational Science programs.

 MONDAY, May 19, 2008
11:30am to 1:00pm
Downtown Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites
116 Park Avenue West
Mansfield, OH 44902 

This luncheon is being offered free-of-charge to CIO and CTOs to make it easy to interact with other IT professionals to promote our area’s technology resources and infrastructure.  Please RSVP to the Northern Ohio IT Alliance by May 13, 2008 at 419-525-1614 or by email at bleach@braintreepartners.org.

How is NEOinc Involved?

The Northern Ohio IT Alliance (NOITA) was formed out of desire to provide an IT organization to represent the areas of northern Ohio not represented by NEOSA and not actively engaged by OhioITA.  NOITA is sponsored by NEOinc incubator Braintree and Bob Leach, Braintree’s Director of Operations, serves as its Director. 

The Northern Ohio IT Alliance sponsors several types of events each year to promote networking and interaction between IT companies and individuals in IT departments.  NOITA has been the organization facilitating Richland County’s interaction with the Ohio Broadband Council for expanding broadband services within the area.  NOITA also works with several technology entities as board members and on steering committees.  

About the Presenter 

Ashok K. Krishnamurthy, Ph.D. is the Ohio Supercomputer Center’s Senior Director of Research and is an associate professor in The Ohio State University (OSU) electrical and computer engineering department.  Krishnamurthy conducts research in signal/image processing, high performance computing and computational models of hearing.  He serves as the academic lead for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program in the area of integrated modeling and test.  Ashok has designed and provided numerous training courses for the DoD User Groups on all aspects of the MatLab programming language.  

On an entrepreneurial leave of absence from OSU, Krishnamurthy started a design center in Dublin, Ohio for Ecrio Inc., a Silicon Valley startup.  He led a team of engineers at the design center developing wireless and handheld communication applications.  As a consultant, he has worked on the development of micro-controller and microprocessor based products, and has assisted in the development of strategic plans to introduce Application-Specific Standard products for multimedia and telephony applications such as speech coders, caller-ID receivers etc.  He earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India in 1979.  He received his master’s and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Florida in 1981 and 1983, respectively.

Energy Technologies Inc., will be awarded the grant through the Ohio Third Frontier Fuel Cell Program, reports The Mansfield News Journal.

The 15-year-old company first applied last year, according to Tim Lowe, VP of Sales. In addition to a power line for the military, the company also provides products to telecommunications, industrial and medical sectors.  The power plant has been in the works for 2 1/2 years and was demonstrated in February at a large military show in San Diego. He offered the example that soldiers could place the power plant in the back of a Humvee to power computers.

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? 

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

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

Time sure does fly.  Here we are at the end of January and it seems like just last week we were opening presents and spending some well-deserved time with family and friends.  As this first month of the New Year winds down, it seems appropriate to take a look back at 2007.  

Normally we are focused on the tenants and clients we assist; in this post however, please bear with us as we toot our own horn a little bit. 

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