Goshen College partners with Ascend Indiana to help students with career and internship searches while providing one-on-one support
Companies, students, startups, academics and innovators to compete for $25,000 grand prize; Registration ends September 30 INDIANAPOLIS, IN — AgriNovus Indiana, a non-profit focused on growing Indiana’s agbioscience economy, launched a challenge today to inspire innovation that creates new revenue streams from current on-farm processes to increase efficiency and return on investment for producers’ operations. In partnership with the Indiana Corn Marketing Council and Indiana Soybean Alliance, the Producer-Led Innovation Challenge is a seven-week accelerator that creates an opportunity for companies, entrepreneurs, students and innovators to compete for a $25,000 grand prize by developing technology to create and access new sources of on-farm profitability rooted in existing workflows. “Farmers are entrepreneurs by definition,” said Mitch Frazier, president and CEO of AgriNovus. “The Producer-Led Innovation Challenge provides a unique opportunity for farmers and tech innovators to come together, identify a challenge [...]
CICP launches statewide survey to determine Hoosier businesses’ use of artificial intelligence and help shape future support for it
University of Evansville partners with Ascend Indiana to help students with career and internship searches while providing one-on-one support
AgriNovus Indiana-commissioned study identifies opportunity to unite state's strengths in agbioscience, tech INDIANAPOLIS — AgriNovus Indiana, an initiative to grow the state’s agbioscience economy, released new research today showing Indiana as an emerging hub for agtech innovation due to its strengths in agriculture and technology. Conducted by TEConomy Partners, the study entitled The Intersection of Agbioscience and Tech, identified the growth of tech-related positions across the broader Indiana economy and in agbioscience, including identifying the occupations contributing to the growth. “The agbioscience economy is the only economy in the world that touches every person on the planet given it centers on food,” said Mitch Frazier, president and CEO of AgriNovus Indiana. “Given Indiana’s strength in agbioscience and its history of success in technology, significant opportunity exists to further unite these two industries to build the next chapter of Indiana’s economy.” [...]
Optimistic about expected growth in Indiana life sciences/healthcare sector, BioCrossroads prepares for the future INDIANAPOLIS – Already a global leader in life sciences and healthcare innovation, Indiana is poised to meaningfully grow the sector in the coming months, including medical devices and pharmaceutical manufacturing, but must focus on growing the talent needed to realize that potential. Talent development and support will be a priority in the future for BioCrossroads, the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) initiative focused on growing the life sciences sector in the coming years, said CICP CEO Melina Kennedy. "It’s an exciting time to be involved in Indiana's life sciences at every level now and in the coming months and years," Kennedy said. Among the opportunities facing the sectors is the potential for Indiana to be named one of 20 regional tech hubs under the 2022 Creating [...]
INDIANAPOLIS (Sept. 5, 2023) — This Thursday, TechPoint, Indiana’s industry-led growth initiative for the state’s digital innovation economy, will host a summit to kick off the second phase of its Mission41K initiative, a collaborative effort to inclusively grow the Hoosier tech workforce by 41,000 people by 2030. The half-day gathering of hundreds of Mission41K participants and supporters will include a keynote address from Cordell Carter, Esq., executive director of the Aspen Institute Socrates Program, a global education forum and the founding director of the Aspen Institute’s Project on Belonging. An industry panel of experts who have been implementing work-based learning strategies will discuss what they’ve gleaned over the year, and participants will take that information into breakout sessions designed to help develop action steps. Launched in September 2022, Mission41K is a state-wide, cross-sector effort with more than 100 companies and organizations [...]
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