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Three Patents Pending Just the Beginning for UAMS Surgery Resident

Justin Regner, a second-year surgery resident for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, has patents pending on three of his inventions.   // read more

SBA Announces Disaster Assistance for Arkansas Businesses

As a result of the president's federal disaster declaration, SBA is now authorized to offer disaster assistance to Arkansas small businesses affected by the severe storms, flooding and tornadoes that began May 2.   // read more

Arkansas Institutional Fund Invests $4.5 Million in Petra Capital

The Arkansas Development Finance Authority announced Tuesday that its Arkansas Institutional Fund will invest $4.5 million in Petra Growth Fund II, managed by Petra Capital Partners of Nashville, Tenn.    // read more

UA Team Takes 1st Place at Tri-State Governor's Cup Event in Las Vegas

MerchantEyes, a graduate business plan team from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, took first place Thursday in the first Tri-State Donald W. Reynolds Governor's Cup competition in Las Vegas.   // read more

Fort Smith High School Entrepreneurship Program Awards Scholarships

A high school entrepreneurship program offered through the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at Fort Smith awarded $500 scholarships to two teams for their winning business plans.   // read more

Donald W. Reynolds Governor's Cup Winners Announced

Winners of the Donald W. Reynolds Governor's Cup business plan competition received a total of $104,000 in cash prizes.   // read more

Commercializing Our Innovations (Jerry Adams Commentary)

The challenge is to get the "commercializable" idea through an intense process from a fledgling business on to a healthy business employing more and more of our citizens, young and old.    // read more

UALR Students' Nano-Counterfeiting Start-up to Compete in Business Contest

Three University of Arkansas at Little Rock students will showcase their plan to use nanotechnology to detect counterfeit products in the Rice University Business Plan Competition - the largest and most profitable intercollegiate graduate-level competition of its kind.   // read more

SBA Lending Declines in Arkansas in 2007

2007 was a record-setting year for Small Business Administration-guaranteed loans nationally, but the same was not true in Arkansas.   // read more

SBDC and SBA Partner in Arkansas to Serve Veterans

The Arkansas Small Business Development Center (ASBDC) and the Arkansas District Office of the U. S. Small Business Administration are partnering to provide small business services to veterans in the state including mobilization planning guides, free training, and loan programs.    // read more
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