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Strategic Growth Webinar

Event date: May 30, 2023

Event time: | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Explore how your company can strategically assess and prioritize focus areas for growth. Get a 360 perspective, identify your focus areas, and take action!This is a webinar. There is no physical location for this event. Once you have registered for ...

Growing and Harvesting Culinary Herbs

Event date: June 1, 2023

Event time: | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Marble Hill, MO

Herbs can spice up the garden! Come learn about growing and harvesting culinary herbs including basil, cilantro, dill, lavender, oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage, thyme, and others on June 1, 2023 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church, ...

Controlling Pests in the Garden

Event date: June 6, 2023

Event time: | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Perryville, MO

Pests can harm the vegetable garden. Come learn basic cultural , organic as well as chemical control methods of common garden pests. Cost: FreeContact: Donna Aufdenberg, [email protected], 573-243-3581

SBIR Bootcamp

Event date: July 13, 2023

Event time: | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Kansas City, MO

Do you have an innovative, significant technology with commercial potential? Are you interested in or planning to apply for one of the lucrative SBIR or STTR research grants offered by the Federal Government? Then the SBIR Bootcamp may be right for ...

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New MU lab helps food businesses ensure safety

Published: Friday, Oct. 21, 2022

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The University of Missouri’s new Food Processing and Safety Lab helps people who make and sell processed foods ensure they are safe.“Our new lab gives agri-entrepreneurs and food businesses a qualified testing facility to ensure ...

Missouri SBDC receives grant to help businesses in underserved communities

Published: Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021

The Missouri Small Business Development Centers received a $125,000 award for specialized training, business counseling and technical assistance for R&D-focused small businesses under the Federal and State Technology (FAST) Partnership Program.FAST ...

Missouri afterschool programs receive micro-grants for Global Entrepreneurship Week

Published: Friday, Nov. 13, 2020

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Missouri AfterSchool Network (MASN) announces the selection of seven afterschool programs to receive micro-grants for youth entrepreneurship programs during the 2020-2021 school year.The announcement coincides with Global ...

Managing Forward Series

Published: Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020

The Managing Forward Series are online courses to reinforce and strengthen your small business for the future. Hosted by the Missouri SBDC and facilitated by subject matter experts from the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of ...

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Broadband Technologies: A Primer on Access and Solutions

Publication date: June 1, 2021

Sarah A. LowExceed Director and Associate ProfessorCatherine IsleyExceed Graduate Research AssistantAlan SpellExceed Assistant Extension ProfessorMatt KuresCommunity Development Specialist, University of WisconsinTessa ConroyAssistant Professor, ...

Local and Regional Food System Resilience During COVID-19

Publication date: Jan. 1, 2021

Sarah LowAssociate Professor of Regional Economics; Director, ExceedDawn ThilmanyProfessor at Colorado State UniversityElizabeth CanalesAssistant Professor, Mississippi StateKathryn A. BoysAssociate Professor, North Carolina StateKey ...

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Atchison County, Missouri — Broadband Expansion Economic Benefit Analysis (PDF)

This study estimated the 10-year economic benefits that would result from expanding fixed broadband adoption in Atchison County, Missouri.

Bollinger County, Missouri — Broadband Expansion Economic Benefit Analysis (PDF)

This study estimated the 10-year economic benefits that would result from expanding fixed broadband adoption in Bollinger County, Missouri.

Economic Benefits of Expanding Broadband in Northwest Missouri (PDF)

This study estimated the 10-year economic benefits that would result from expanding fixed broadband adoption in three Northwest Missouri counties.

Economic Benefits of Expanding Broadband in Select Missouri Counties (PDF)

This study estimated the 10-year economic benefits that would result from expanding fixed broadband adoption in three Missouri counties.

Executive Summary, Economic Benefits of Expanding Broadband in Northwest Missouri (PDF)

This study estimated the 10-year economic benefits that would result from expanding fixed broadband adoption in three Missouri counties.

Executive Summary, Economic Benefits of Expanding Broadband in Select Missouri Counties (PDF)

This study estimated the 10-year economic benefits that would result from expanding fixed broadband adoption in three Missouri counties.

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