Missouri Innovation Centers

CET is nationally recognized for providing the infrastructure and resources needed for early-stage, high-growth companies that are developing breakthrough technologies. 

CET

• Operates a 92,000 sq ft incubator/accelerator facility offering wet and dry labs, production and office space, and shared equipment, conference rooms and amenities.
  
• Provides training programs for technology entrepreneurs and service providers, and introductions for potential corporate and university partnerships.
  
• Partners extensively with Washington University, Saint Louis University, University of Missouri – St. Louis, the BioGenerator, CORTEX, The Plant and Life Science Coalition, St. Louis RCGA and Innovate St. Louis.  

The Rolla Innovation Center, operated by Missouri Enterprise is integrated with the NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership and is the only Center of Excellence in Missouri for Manufacturing Innovation.

The Center:

• Is closely affiliated with the Missouri University of Science and Technology (MS&T) and its Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development
  
• Provides research and general business counseling to start-up technology-based business ventures and entrepreneurs.
  
• Operates an Incubator facility on the MS&T campus with wet lab and manufacturing lab support.

Contact
Rick Prugh
Executive Director
1706 East 10th Street
Rolla, Missouri 65401
573-341-0117
rprugh@missourienterprise.org

Specialty: Manufacturing

Associated University
Missouri University of Science & Technology

MIC's goal is to grow the life science and technology industry cluster in mid-Missouri.

MIC provides

• New venture creation support to all of the Colleges, Centers and units of the University of Missouri, Columbia campus
  
• Technology entrepreneurship support throughout the mid-Missouri Region 
  • MU Life Science Business Incubator at Monsanto Place a 33,000 sq ft life science business incubator with biomedical and engineering laboratory suites
  
• Access to capital through Centennial Investors

Contact
Dr. Jake Halliday
Executive Director
University of Missouri-Columbia
419 Cornell Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
573.884.0487
hallidayja@missouri.edu

Specialty: Life Sciences

Associated University
University of Missouri -- Columbia

The Southeast Innovation Center, located on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University, offers new businesses access to resources that can assist them with their ideas, business plans, patent searches, marketing studies, financing, training and engineering.

The Center

• Operates 6,000 sq ft incubator for small businesses involved in service, research, technology development, assembly or light manufacturing
  
• Is developing the Southeast Missouri State Technology Village a 400-acre mixed-use park.

The site embraces the local agricultural flavor of Southeast Missouri while emphasizing development of plant science and environmentally friendly technologies.

Contact
James Stapleton
Executive Director
Southeast Missouri State University
One University Plaza
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
573.651.2287
jstapleton@semo.edu

Specialty: Plant Sciences

Associated University
Southeast Missouri State University

The Newman Innovation Center assists entrepreneurs during their initial start-up phase, as well as assisting existing businesses. 

The Center:

• Operates an 11,000 sq ft incubator with general business, light manufacturing and wet lab space.
  
• Partners with the Missouri Center for Advanced Power to research and develop cutting edge power systems and a program to educate and train a highly skilled workforce.

Contact
Steve Russell, Executive Director
320 E. 4th Street
Joplin, MO 64801
417.624.4150
srussell@joplin.com

Specialty: Power Systems

MREIC is dedicated to the needs of entrepreneurs in Northeast Missouri. Its primary focus is to enhance entrepreneurship by providing a supportive infrastructure for entrepreneurs allowing them to enhance their capabilities, broaden their network and successfully grow their companies

MREIC’s location near Truman State University and A.T. Still University allows the center to focus on available University resources to generate new ventures; including innovations in healthy aging and information intensive technologies.

MREIC currently is supporting the start-up of client ventures with products ranging from food innovations to construction components and from products with military applications to those for information-intensive security systems.

Specialty: Rural development, healthy aging, information technology

Associated Universities
Truman State University
A.T. Still University

Brush Creek Enterprise Center/UMKC Innovation Center – Kansas City, MO

The UMKC Innovation Center joins university, community, and global resources to create a hub for commercialization across the Kansas City, MO region.

The center fully integrates the Small Business and Technology Development Center at University of Missouri – Kansas City, the Missouri and Heartland Procurement Technical Assistance Centers, University of Missouir Extension services, MOFast and U.S.SourceLink, including MOSourceLink, KCSourceLink and StLSourceLink, under one umbrella. 

The Center is closely aligned with the University of Missouri offices of research and economic development and technology transfer and serves faculty, students and the community in moving commercialization opportunities to market.

Specialty: Technology Commercialization

Associated University
University of Missouri – Kansas City

The center provides access to a wide network of business support services including:

• Financing
  
• New markets
  
• Technical assistance
  
• Education and training

Specialty: nanotechnology, bio-materials, advanced technologies, genomics/proteomics, bio-systems, software engineering and medical material device and instrument technologies

Associated University
Missouri State University

Entrepreneurial Innovation and Development Corporation dba Entrepreneur Zone
Warrensburg, MO

The Entrepreneurial Innovation and Development Corporation provides technical support for small-to medium sized technology-based business and high-growth enterprise through:

• Market research and sales support
  
• Business and financial planning
  
• Product evaluation, assessment and development
  
• Intellectual property research and patent filing
  
• Engineering support
  
• Advanced manufacturing (Lean & Six Sigma)

Associated University
University of Central Missouri

• Animal health and nutrition products and services
  
• Basic or applied research, product enhancement, development and/or engineering
  
• Pre-pilot, pilot, or proto-type development
  
• Human health and nutrition products and services

The mission is to provide access to the resources of MWSU, foster close interaction between businesses located in the KC Region, MWSU, and the private sector, nurture start-up and emerging technologies, promote economic development in Missouri, and facilitate transfer of technology from the university lab bench to the commercial production line.

Specialty: Animal Health and nutrition

Associated University
Missouri Western State University