As Lansing's first business incubator, innovation is the golden standard for
The Center for New Enterprise Opportunity. "It's been an exciting and productive learning experience," says founding member, Thomas Stewart. "We're still developing and tweaking our programming and trying to figuring out the best methods for accelerating entrepreneurial success."
The NEO center was created in response to the growing need for an environment that supports small business ecology and that is unhindered by the existing boundaries. Promoters of sustainable economic development and preventers of deterioration, the NEO Center is looking to expand programming to other incubators in the region and the state.
"We'd like to develop a wide network of entrepreneurs and help standardize entrepreneur education across the state," says Stewart.
The past year has been an exciting and productive one for the incubator, graduating four client entrepreneurs from the incubation program and receiving additional support from major corporate sponsors. NEO Center alumni include:
VizKid Designs,
FlightLead Development,
Tucknologies, and
Oceanvue.
10 clients call the Center home, in what is primarily called a mixed-use incubator. Most clients are service-based businesses. Stewart says they're currently accepting people interested long-term leases and new clients to our incubator program.
Source: Thomas Stewart, NEO Center
Writer: Veronica Gracia-Wing, Innovation News
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