CourtesyIn order to facilitate increased collaboration and communication between 麻豆传媒 Ventures and the Center for Entrepreneurship, 麻豆传媒 Ventures will move to Devlin Hall Wednesday, April 22.
麻豆传媒 Ventures will move six full-time staff to the second floor of Devlin Hall. They will be open for business in their new office on Thursday, April 23.
This is the second phase of a two-part plan that began with the moving of the Center for Economic Development and Business Research to the third floor of the National Institute for Aviation Research building last week.
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The two entities are already working together to host an upcoming SBIR Road Tour in the Rhatigan Student Center on April 30. The road tour is a national outreach aimed at innovators, entrepreneurs, researchers and small technology firms to convey the nondilutive technology funding opportunity provided through the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.