Incubation Nation: Where Great Ideas Are Born
Spun out of university research labs or started by local entrepreneurs trying to supercharge their hometowns, business incubators are everywhere. This map puts the spotlight on 20 initiatives.
- Seattle
- Microsoft alum incubate start-ups
- Corvallis, OR
- Entrepreneurial academics inquire within
- Boulder
- Summer camp for promising start-ups
- Salt Lake City
- Subsidized lab space for techies
- Oklahoma City
- Funding at every stage of development
- Kansas City, KS
- Everybody get a mentor!
- Austin
- Ten weeks of advice from 20 mentors
- Phoenix
- Plans to assist 2,000 start-ups
- San Diego
- First incubator for early-stage tech firms
- Kona, HI
- Harnessing the sun and sea for profit
- Detroit
- New ventures grow in GM’s shadow
- Cleveland
- Seed funding for minority CEOs
- Madison, WI
- Tech transfer in Dairyland
- Fargo, ND
- A patron funds a vaccine corridor
- Rochester, NY
- Business prodigies get their own dorm
- Suffolk, VA
- A nexus of government contractors
- Birmingham, AL
- Some 140,000 square feet of innovation
- Ridgeland, MS
- Funding for 125 start-ups in one year
- Atlanta
- Building on ideas from six universities
- New Orleans
- How about your own MBA team?
