Posted by: Contributing columnist, Clarion-Ledger, Business, January 26, 2016: The popularity of the ABC show “Shark Tank” has made it a lot easier for us to explain what we do at Innovate Mississippi. We can now half-jokingly tell people, “We’re a lot like a ‘Shark Tank’ for Mississippi, except our entrepreneurs…
By Ted Carter, Mississippi Business Journal, Feature Article, January 21, 2016. Ole Miss football isn’t the university’s only up-and-comer on the national stage. While Hugh Freeze and his coaching crew have instilled the kind of excellence that gave the football team victories in consecutive years over the likes of the…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, Clarion-Ledger, Business, January 20, 2016: I was at Gov. Phil Bryant’s inauguration last week and I listened with interest to his inaugural address when he went so far as to label Mississippi as “The Start-up State.” His exact line called for the audience to imagine “what I have…
In last week’s article I mentioned that Innovate Mississippi took a delegation of five companies to the International Consumer Electronics Show. I think all five companies made some good connections and I’ll talk more about those companies, their technologies and what they are up to in future articles. While it’s…
STARKVILLE, Miss.--HORNE Cyber Solutions is the latest business operation to locate in the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park, and Mississippi State officials are excited about the new investment. “We are pleased to welcome one of the nation’s top 50 accounting and business advisory firms to the Research…
Big data may hold the key to personalized healthcare Technology likes to show off. It's easy to notice when the latest innovation has arrived because when technology gets better, we notice. In education-tech, we heralded the arrival of the SMART Board and interactive learning. Government-tech showed off its ability with…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, Clarion-Ledger, Business, January 6, 2016: If you are following any technology news this week, you’ll be seeing lots of new product announcements and cool prototypes being displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. I’m proud to say that Innovate Mississippi is out here with a…
Tupelo, MS (Jan. 6, 2015) – BrainLinc, LLC, a joint venture between Tupelo-based Hyperion Technology Group, Inc. and Meridian-based Rush Sport Medical, Inc., will unveil the BrainLinc Collision Monitoring Athletic Mouthpiece at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week in a booth with Innovate Mississippi. This patented technology…
Posted by: Contributing Columnist, Mississippi Business Journal Feature, News, Opinion, Technology, January 4, 2016. As we close out 2015 and start thinking about the new and cool things 2016 will bring, I turn my attention to the utility of many of inventions around us. The old saying “necessity is the mother…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, Clarion-Ledger, Business, December 30, 2015: An event that was barely noticed a few years ago has grown to be a huge event for many Mississippi students — and it’s all centered on computer programming, or “coding.” If you haven’t heard of “Hour of Code,” I’m not that…