A little known provision in an economic stimulus package signed by Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland this summer calls for a $100 million fund to help attract biomedical business to the state. A group of economic development experts met in Cincinnati last week to start talking about how to get the most bang out of those bucks.
Moving to the heartland from India in the late '80s, Mahendra Vora became a one-person information technology hub, starting and successfully exiting about a half-dozen high-tech firms. His latest venture is his most expensive and ambitious yet, and he's done it all without ever once thinking about moving to Silicon Valley.
A hundred or so entrepreneurs, students, corporate refugees, budding entrepreneurs and the just plain curious came together in a big room Friday afternoon and were challenged to dream up, build and launch a new enterprise by Sunday night. They not only did it, they generated enough energy to keep the entrepreneurial buzz going for a long time.
What rapidly growing Cincinnati companies have what it takes to reshape the global marketplace in a positive way, improve lives and, in short, change the world? Soapbox produces the first list of three companies that have the power to do just that.
Cincinnati has emerged a center for advanced brand design, with companies ranging from Fortune 500 giants to small, independent studios creating the look, feel and emotion behind some of the world's best-known products. A gathering of influential leaders of the international brand design industry is confirmation of Cincinnati's place in this creative, growing business and an opportunity for the region to burnish its own brand.
A new study finds that the value of suburban homes is dropping fast, while urban home values are appreciating. One reason is because it’s such a long, expensive drive to work from the suburbs. The group CEOs for Cities, which advocates for revitalizing our core urban areas, just released a white paper that links plummeting suburban home values to the spike in gasoline prices. That, in turn, has made investment in a home in the city more attractive, the study says.
No history of Cincinnati is ever complete without a description of the role the Mill Creek Valley played in the city’s evolution.
In Cincinnati, a group of volunteers brainstormed how to help create a region that attracts the so-called creative class. Their decision: create a network of free wi-fi hotspots across the region. It had to be free and it had to be accessible to residents and visitors alike. That helped drive their decision to create Project Lily Pad, which has lit up parks and other public spaces.
The European-American Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati does a lot more than host happy hours -- it plays an important role in attracting business from Europe here and in building networks of European professionals in the heartland.
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