North Carolina is replete with entrepreneurs and businesses large and small which have started on the path of developing high potential new products, but have not been able to find the time or the resources to take those great new ideas from concept to launch. To help address this challenge and to get more new innovations successfully supported and launched in Eastern North Carolina, Fayetteville State University is sponsoring an Innovation Pathways and Partnerships event on Friday, October 3rd on the FSU campus. This unique event is designed to connect those engaged in new product development with a broad ecosystem of resources in real time, ready to explore collaborations to accelerate progress in bringing new products to market.
Key participants are expected to include:
Co-Sponsored by NCInnovation, the Broadwell Gift Fund Endowment at FSU’s Broadwell College of Business and Economics, and FSU’s Center for Enterprise Resource Planning and Advanced Analytics (CERPAA), this event will be offered free of charge. However, to be assured of a seat pre-registration is strongly recommended at the link provided below. The agenda will include:
This upcoming October 3rd event represents the second installment of Innovation Pathways and Partnerships; the inaugural pilot event was held in April 2025. The first place winner of the Pitch Competition at that event was InfraTech, a start-up developing a device which cools high performance processors in computer servers. They are collaborating with FSU Materials Science faculty to explore the possibility of improving the performance through incorporation of unique nanomaterials. FSU has also already provided assistance to InfraTech in submitting a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant application to the National Science Foundation (NSF). The second place winner at that April event was a collaboration established at the event between two drone companies—Geranium Geospatial and Calective. Those two companies are working with faculty and students in FSU’s Geospatial Intelligence department and with faculty who have developed devices which support AI functionality ‘at the edge’, enabling autonomous functionality for the drones.
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