By TED CARTER, Mississippi Business Journal, November 12, 2015
Every so often someone walks into the Innovate Mississippi office certain he has devised a surefire perpetual motion machine.
Tony Jeff will probably be the one hearing the claim.
The market indeed needs a machine that outputs more energy than it takes in. But what the Ridgeland office of Innovate Mississippi wants to see today is a great idea with a good chance of taking in a lot more dollars than it puts out, said Jeff, who joined the non-profit economic development agency in 2001 and took over as its CEO in 2010.