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Florida SBDC at Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app adds satellite office in DeSoto County

The Florida Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app (Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app) announces its expansion across the 10-county Tampa Bay region with the addition of a new satellite office location.

January 13, 2025Entrepreneurship

Florida SBDC mobile assistance center at Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app helps small businesses impacted by Milton

The Small Business Development Council Florida has been hosting a mobile assistance center (MAC) at the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app Research Park, October 14-16, to assist small businesses impacted by Hurricane Milton.

October 16, 2024Entrepreneurship

Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app sees sharp rise in innovations and technology

The Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app saw a sharp rise in the number of inventions and technologies submitted to the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app Tech Transfer Office—a springboard to turning ideas into global solutions and licensed products. Ranking 15th among American public research universities generating new patents, the number of new inventions, technologies and works of authorship formally disclosed by Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app researchers is up nearly 25 percent since 2019. The secret behind the rise: the implementation of new tools, the help of interns and consistent, high-level performance from Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app inventors.

October 10, 2023Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Student Research

With the help of the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app and a $1 million federal grant, Tampa Bay Wave launched its first accelerator program in early 2013. Ten years later, Tampa Bay Wave is celebrating its anniversary.

February 28, 2023Entrepreneurship, Research

Hundreds of innovations are powered by the Florida High Tech Corridor, an initiative anchored by Florida research universities: UF in Gainesville, UCF in Orlando and Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app in Tampa.

February 21, 2023Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Research

Two students in the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app Health Taneja College of Pharmacy launched a company that may have the newest innovation in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease. Their work opened the way for acceptance to Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app CONNECT's Student Innovation Incubator.

November 2, 2022Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Student Research

During the pitch event, which concluded the inaugural FinTech|X Accelerator program, each company gave a 4-minute pitch explaining a particular problem in the world of finance.

July 1, 2022Entrepreneurship

Pitching with passion? 'More enthusiastic' pitches could turn off investors, study finds

A new study from researchers at the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app offers entrepreneurs some savvy sales advice: when pitching to investors for funding, a high-octane product pitch with great enthusiasm is a double-edged sword.

June 28, 2022Entrepreneurship, Research

St. Petersburg’s fast-evolving Fintech sector continues to expand as Tampa Bay Wave and the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app have confirmed the inaugural cohort of startups for its Fintech|X Accelerator program, which is part of a partnership between Tampa Bay Wave, the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app Muma College of Business and the St. Petersburg Area Economic Development Corporation.

April 12, 2022Entrepreneurship

Tampa Bay Wave, Inc. and the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app Muma College of Business announce the inaugural FinTech|X 2022 Accelerator program cohort consisting of 16 high-growth FinTech startups from across the United States and abroad, including companies from Israel, England, Saudi Arabia and Germany.

April 11, 2022Entrepreneurship

The non-profit Tampa Bay Wave is accepting applications for its new FinTech|X Accelerator, its fourth program intended to help entrepreneurs grow technology-based companies in Tampa Bay.

January 18, 2022Entrepreneurship

As a preeminent research university, the Ôƶ¥¶Ä³¡app has received over 100 U.S. patents annually since 2016; now, the school seeks to boost area startups and create jobs by enlisting local entrepreneurs to commercialize its intellectual property (St Pete Catalyst).

January 12, 2022Entrepreneurship, Innovation