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RFPi among TechConnect 2016’s Innovation Award Recipients
January 17, 2017 · TechConnectTechConnect is proud to announce the annual TechConnect Innovation Awards. The TechConnect Innovation Awards identify the top 15% of submitted technologies as ranked by the TechConnect Corporate & Investment Partner Committee. Innovation rankings are based on the potential positive impact the submitted technology will have on a specific industry sector…. View Article
Medical Imaging Company, RFPi, Secures Angel Financing
January 3, 2017 · RFPiCompany to advance commercial-scale model of non-invasive iCertainty™ platform September 12, 2016 — GREENVILLE, N.C.— The medical imaging company, RFPi, has secured $2 million in angel investor financing. Money raised to date represents the first part of the company’s planned $3.5-million equity round. The financing will support development of a… View Article
PCC Small Business Center Leading State in Startups
November 14, 2016 · The Daily ReflectorThe Pitt Community College Small Business Center is the state’s best in terms of small business startups, according to the N.C. Community College System’s Small Business Center Network Metrics. The report also shows PCC’s Small Business Center to be in the top 10 of each metric recorded for 2014 and… View Article
ECU encourages entrepreneurship, local business growth with new Idea Lab | WNCT
September 15, 2016 · Jessica JewelNew businesses continuing sprouting up across the East and now, professors at ECU are taking steps to encourage even more local growth. It’s part of an innovative project that just launched at ECU called the Idea Lab. The lab is a place where students and faculty can come with an… View Article
Search on: New post to help ECU bolster funding, research
September 5, 2016 · Holly WestEast Carolina University is beginning the search for a position that will help make Chancellor Cecil Staton’s vision of bolstering research and outside funding a reality. A group of 15 faculty and staff members have been chosen as the search committee for the position of Vice Chancellor for Research, Economic… View Article
Pitt County Middle School Teachers Receive Entrepreneurship Training through Grant
July 18, 2016 · Pitt Community CollegeWINTERVILLE — For the second straight summer, Pitt County middle school teachers received training at Pitt Community College on how to embed entrepreneurship principles into their classroom instruction. The course, which took place last week, is part of an overall effort to develop an education-to-workforce pipeline in eastern North Carolina… View Article
ECU to establish school of entrepreneurship with $5M grant from Raleigh entrepreneur
July 15, 2016 · Angelica LiethEast Carolina University announced plans to create the region’s first school of entrepreneurship through a $5 million grant from J. Fielding Miller, co-founder and CEO of Raleigh-based CAPTRUST Financial Advisors, and his wife Kim Grice Miller. The new Miller School of Entrepreneurship will be the first school of its kind… View Article
Beaufort & Pitt County Students Learn Entrepreneurship at Academy
July 15, 2016 · WITNMiddle school students from Pitt and Beaufort Counties showed off their entrepreneur and business skills at East Carolina University Friday. The 28 students spent three weeks working on an innovative project idea. They developed business plans and created models, all while learning how to act and dress like a business… View Article
Amin Attends National Student Entrepreneur Program
June 24, 2016 · Crystal BaityEast Carolina University’s Mona Amin is one of 19 students from across the country selected for a prestigious student entrepreneur program. Amin, an Honors College student from Charlotte, is participating in the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council Student Entrepreneurship Program held June 19-24 in Orlando. “I am most excited about… View Article