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FORT WAYNE, IN – BioPoly has just announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an IDE clinical study for its BioPoly® RS Partial Resurfacing Knee System. The BioPoly knee is used to treat patients with painful cartilage lesions by filling...
Excerpt “The annual visit by the head of the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center to the Allen County commissioners led to a discussion Friday morning of the challenges in encouraging entrepreneurs in today’s economy. Karl R. LaPan, the center’s...
Individuals who start their own businesses know well they have to serve in many roles to make it happen. Recognizing this as an obstacle for business builders, Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center (WEOC) and Own Your Success (OYS) are teaming to host a workshop...
Santiago Jaramillo, CEO and Co-Founder, Emplify Santiago Jaramillo, CEO and Co-founder of Emplify, will serve as keynote speaker for The NIIC’s Ideas@Work event on April 16, 2019, at the Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation. Attendees will be engaged and...
Excerpt “The rate of women-owned businesses has grown nearly four times that of male-owned businesses the past 20 years, according to “Women-Owned Businesses: A Tale of Two Types of Entrepreneurs,” Forbes. Whether located in urban areas or in the...
Excerpt The Foellinger Foundation announced more than $120,000 in grant funding Thursday for four local nonprofits. The money comes from the foundation’s Breakthrough Fund, a $500,000 initiative “to support people-focused ideas that create a significant...
Excerpt FORT WAYNE –Four organizations have been awarded grants from the Foellinger Foundation Breakthrough Fund. The half-million dollar grant opportunity was made available earlier this year as part of the Fort Wayne-based foundation’s 60th anniversary....
Interactions among business owners, clients, and staff can be a deal breaker—and sometimes even a business breaker. The Northeast Indiana entrepreneurial community is invited to attend the final workshop in a four-part series focused on how to build stronger overall...
Seeing is believing. And tasting is believing. That is why small business owners looking for a place to hold a professional meeting, workshop or conference (e.g., strategic planning, sales workshops, customer or employee educational training sessions, off-site...
Excerpt FORT WAYNE – A program designed to rapidly boost women-owned digital business toward viability is open for registration. The Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center in Fort Wayne says its Launch Women Business Builder Program participants will...
Congratulations to WEOC Launch Women Business Builders who have advanced to Phase 2 of the Program. Jen Petro, Virtual Business Coach; Tricia Cavender, Rhapsody Art Gallery & Studio; Melissa Hall, Sample Snap; Alice Payne and Morgan Refakis; Hali Ruisard, Rhapsody...
EXCERPT The Northeast Indiana Innovation Center became the nation’s only technology park last month with a program boasting the latest version of the flagship 9001 quality management systems standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization. The...
Fort Wayne resident, The Verbal Edge business owner, communications skills trainer, and coach Elizabeth MacDonald is also now an author. Her experience in television broadcasting, communications, high school teaching, the airline industry, and her current role...
The NIIC received confirmation of achieving ISO 9001:2015 Registration on June 26, 2018. This means the organization is officially transitioning to the new risk-based quality and management standard. This designation reaffirms The NIIC’s commitment to quality...
Karl R. LaPan, President & CEO, The NIIC, has joined the Ball State University Entrepreneurship Center Advisory Board. The Center is one of the most recognized entrepreneurship programs in the country. “I am excited Karl LaPan has agreed to serve on the...
June 25, 2018, Fort Wayne, Ind.—Mentoring relationships are like any relationship in that they have to be built on trust. Trust is complex and multi-faceted, which makes it difficult to navigate at times. The entrepreneurial community is invited to attend The Trust...
Excerpt “Ball State University is working with the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center on a national research project the university has started in a search of ways technology-driven entrepreneurs can achieve more with their businesses through accelerated...
Excerpt “In honor of Father’s Day, Business Weekly examines the evolving role of dads in the workplace. As mothers continue to climb corporate ladders and shatter glass ceilings, fathers need to not only take on larger domestic roles, but continue providing...
Each year United States businesses lose over $1 Trillion of revenue due to fraudulent accounting practices and embezzlement. Small business owners are invited to attend an anti-fraud workshop to learn 10 No-Cost Ways to Reduce Financial Fraud Risk. “Financial fraud...
May 30, 2018, Fort Wayne, Ind.—Successful entrepreneurs are driven to address unmet market and customer needs. In that same spirit, a national research project is underway to accelerate learning for technology-driven entrepreneurs. “This research is focused on founder...