{"id":77973,"date":"2025-01-10T15:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T20:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/psi\/?page_id=77973"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:41:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T20:41:56","slug":"entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/psi\/entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n

Catalyzing a Culture of Entrepreneurship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Through Seed2Grow Startup Program, N.C. PSI students, faculty and recent alumni build on NC State\u2019s entrepreneurial infrastructure to bring great ideas to market. We strive to grow entrepreneurs with grit and determination to improve the world through plant science innovation, accelerating new discoveries and technologies and launching new startups, all in the interest of advancing agriculture in North Carolina and beyond.

NC State\u2019s cutting-edge tools, investor networks<\/a> and institutional support \u2013 including a tech transfer office that\u2019s among the best in the nation and a Chancellor\u2019s Innovation Fund<\/a> that supports short-term commercially focused research \u2013 empower interdisciplinary teams to take big ideas and run with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Startups Get Their Start Here<\/h2>

The N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative\u2019s Seed2Grow Startup Program offers exciting new opportunities for researchers who want to turn their ideas into local and global solutions. Admission to the program, granted by our Commercialization Advisory Council, offers:

><\/strong> Access to the Plant Sciences Building’s specialized labs, core facilities, research and meeting spaces
><\/strong> Proximity to talent: leading faculty members, graduate students and undergrads
><\/strong> Mentoring with an Executive in Residence
><\/strong> Networking Opportunities
><\/strong> Assistance with Business Plan Development and Marketing<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Current Seed2Grow Startups<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Past Seed2Grow Startups<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Startup Spotlight:
Hoofprint Biome<\/h2>

Methane has proven to be one of the main drivers behind climate change, and cows emit this gas every time they burp. Hoofprint Biome, a startup led by Scott Collins and Kathryn Polkoff, is out to provide producers, and our climate, with a solution: a feed additive that eliminates the microbes that cause methane in a cow’s rumen. <\/p>\n

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Executives in Residence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Appointed by the advisory council, executives in residence provide guidance to startup companies, liaise between the companies and the council and serve as advocates for companies in identifying and overcoming hurdles.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Place to Incubate<\/h2>

The Incubator Hub is a 2,500-square-foot combined open office and wet lab space in NC State\u2019s Plant Sciences Building houses agricultural technology startup companies emerging from the university.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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For more information<\/p>

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Kathleen Denya, Ph.D.<\/p>

Director of Innovation Partnerships
<\/em>kmpitche@ncsu.edu or 919.513.2073<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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