WELCOME TO THE NATIONAL CENTER OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The National Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is dedicated to collaboration and creative thinking in the area of small business development.

The center will be Based out of Rochester, New York and will  focus on three areas to meet the needs of those small businesses and entrepreneurs that it will support. 

The first area will be the formation of a virtual small business incubator.  The center will partner with a California based Start-up to build a collaborative online tool to communicate.  The focus of this incubator will be online based businesses, technology, as well as others in other sectors. 

The second area will be research. The center will work build a series of research based around the areas of collaboration in small business creation and various other areas of job growth.  The research will be published in both popular resources as well as academic journals.

The third focus will be the area of public education.  By working with other non-for profits, the center will be partnering with some yet to be announced local and national movement around the area of small business development to help businesses become successful.

Currently the center is taking applications for its first class of start-ups that are too begain incubation in July of 2012.  If you would like to submit a proposal to be a part of the first virtual incubator project please contact info@ncie.org