New Albany tech incubator hatched - Business First of Columbus:

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The New Albany Business Development Centet opened this week at the New Albanyy Business Park off WestCampus Oval. The goal of the center is to turn ideasxinto jobs, said Stephen a business development professional for TechColumbus, which runs the area’d biggest incubator off Kinnear Road in “We wanted to assist them (New Albany) in their endeavors to created a tech economy,” he said Thursday. Jennifer Chrysler , community developmenf director for the village ofNew Albany, hope s the center will help bolstetr the village’s economy. “We wanted to be able to attract smalkl businesses as well as large corporationsw tothe region,” she said.
The center will providwe a variety of services to business developerasand entrepreneurs, Anderson said, includin g business coaching, and access to investment capital and a small-business developmenrt center. Consulting services and attorneys also will be availabld tothe entrepreneurs. “The hope is to brinfg in all these resources and layere them in to help these Anderson said. The New Albany Business Development Centere parallels a similar endeavor by TechColumbusacrosd town, where it helped to open the Dublin Entrepreneurial Center this year. Both suburban incubatord have been in the workzs for almosttwo years.
Though the two have similafr concepts, the centers will “havd their own identity and their own Anderson said. The new center also will house a TechColumbus the New Albany Chamber of Commerceand , a companyg that helps businesses conduct information technologuy test projects. Anderson said having companies such as Platform Labs at the centert will give the nascent businesses direct access to certain services. Creation of the New Albany Business Development Centee and the Dublin Entrepreneurial Center were funded by state grants andprivate investments. New Albanhy contributed $750,000 toward its project, whicy was complemented by $1.
5 millionn from the state’s Third Frontier technology development