The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is a highly competitive United States Government non-dilutive funding source, coordinated by the Small Business Administration. It is intended to encourage domestic small businesses to engage in high-growth research and development (R&D).
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You can’t keep a good incubator down, even with the CO’VID virus. There’s lots of activity a First Flight Venture Center, says new President Krista Covey, even if much of it is virtual. For now.
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COVID-19 has brought more attention than ever to life science research and development as scientists search for a vaccine and better means of treating the deadly virus. And companies from startups to multinationals that operate in Research Triangle Park are part of that effort, but the pandemic has created plenty of challenges as well as opportunities.
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As states and companies across the country wade through reopening from COVID-19 shutdowns, First Flight Venture Center encourages young, science-based companies to take a leap from their stay-at-home, makeshift setups to their own office and lab space.
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Krista Covey is taking over as the new leader for the business incubator, succeeding long-time president Andy Schwab who stepped down recently to become CEO of Panaceutics Nutrition in Durham.
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Emil Runge, program manager at First Flight Venture Center, talks with WRAL TechWire via a Q&A about what’s happening at one of the region’s most established co-working and startup hub centers:
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Here’s our latest wrapup of upcoming conferences, contests, workshops, application deadlines and socials happening across North Carolina through the end of January.
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Here’s our latest wrapup of upcoming conferences, contests, workshops, application deadlines and socials happening across North Carolina through the end of December.
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Eva Garland Consulting (EGC) and the First Flight Venture Center have each been awarded $50,000 as part of the nationwide Growth Accelerator Fund competition.
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