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We’re putting our own spin on building an environment of innovation here in Oklahoma. Consider the story of CleanNG, a Tulsa-based company that makes liner-less carbon fiber fuel tanks for compressed natural gas.

Oklahoma City-based Otologic Pharmaceutics Inc. has received $4.1 million to help fund a treatment for noise-induced hearing loss.

Tulsa boasts the country’s first truly community supercomputer, a system that supports entrepreneurs, businesses, educational institutions and public entities with access to the power of supercomputing.

Crescendo Bioscience was founded in 2002 as Riley Genomics in Oklahoma City by Dr. Mike Centola, who was then a research scientist at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.

The Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup collegiate business plan competition teaches students what it’s really like to take an innovative idea and build a business plan.

The VentureSpur business accelerator has split into two distinct organizations to better serve the entrepreneurial markets in Oklahoma City and Dallas, Managing Director Kraettli Epperson said Thursday.

The Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan competition isn’t really about how many companies get started. It’s about applied education.

Scientific discovery is like a giant puzzle that is put together not by one scientist working alone, but by hundreds or thousands of scientific researchers worldwide.

4DSales, a Tulsa firm founded by executives who have lived and breathed sales throughout their careers, provides a mobile sales application that lets companies help their sales reps close more and larger sales.

The most difficult aspect of helping develop a winning business plan is to step back and let it fail, said assistant business professor Amber Hefner at Oklahoma State University.

Some top business plans helped propel teams from the University of Tulsa to first place in a couple of divisions in the 10th annual Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup competition for Oklahoma college students.

For the second consecutive year, a team from OSU-OKC won the Small Business Division of the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup, while University of Tulsa teams also swept first place in both High Growth Division categories.

Check out this great post in the Wired Innovation Insights blog by Melissa Megginson with Oklahoma City’s Tailwind. Melissa talks about what she’s learned from working at a startup.

An Oklahoma company and its new technology are disrupting the hospitality industry and enhancing guest experiences in 90 countries around the world.

Dr. Richard Kopke leaned across a conference table at Oklahoma City’s Hough Ear Institute to place a piece of paper in front of me. It was a line chart reflecting the hearing loss suffered by a 26-year-old U.S. Marine.

Tulsa-based 4DSales has received $500,000 in funding, including $250,000 from the StartOK Accelerator Fund managed by i2E.

Patent protection is essential for helping get research out of the laboratory at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, and eventually to patients battling cancer and other diseases.

A walk through history reveals the profound influence of innovation. From the Stone Age, to the Iron Age, to the Industrial Age, to the Information Age, it has been humankind’s innovations that propelled the world.

Diana Spencer of Tulsa Community College last week was named one of the recipients of the 2014 OK BioScience Awards.

Advantage Controls in Muskogee offers a complete line of equipment for industrial water treatment professional. The company is this week’s guest on the Oklahoma Innovations statewide radio show.