Another legislative session has come and gone. A session that began with a great challenge in the form of a historic $1.3 billion budget “hole” and a bold vision from Gov. Mary Fallin for how to close that hole while moving the state forward on several fronts, has ended in a lot of disappointment.
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Mills Machine was founded in 1908 by Chuck Mills’ grandfather, W.H. Homer Mills, as a repair shop in the central Oklahoma community that was a railway crossroads with a growing industrial base. W.H.’s son, David, acquired the company in the early 1970s, with Chuck purchasing it in the 1980s.
A promising career as a securities lawyer awaited Doug Branch when he graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1982. Oklahoma was the heart of a booming energy economy with lots of oil and gas firms that needed legal work as they raised capital and dealt with regulators.
The Legislature created OCAST, and when they did, as part of the enabling statue, they required OCAST to create something called the “commercialization center,” an entity required to be a private, not-for-profit company under the OCAST umbrella with the mission of providing commercialization services, attracting and retaining technology, and attracting capital to build high-growth companies in Oklahoma.
It’s a rare moment that the leaders and scientists of Oklahoma’s bioscience industry can come together to share the collaborative spirit that is such a part of who they are and what they are creating. The annual OKBIO Summit and BioScience Awards dinner is one of those moments.
i2E Venture Adviser James Lovely spoke at the Sand Springs Chamber of Commerce Open Forum Monday about the nonprofit, which seeks to teach and invest in entrepreneurs to build successful companies in Oklahoma.
Farrow is founder and CEO of a company called Compression Solutions Inc. that manufactures the Triple Play Pro and Triple Play VT devices for use by recovering surgical patients across the country. The devices also provide intermittent compression and cold therapy to prevent the development of blood clots in the lower leg.
An Emerging Tech Center: Oklahoma City For Entrepreneurs, Oklahoma City is, well, OK By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2016 | Innovation America Actually, it’s way better than OK, having developed into an impressive technology center from what was once not much. Oklahoma City was cloaked in a depressing vibe in the early 1990s. Downtown retailRead more
Innovations: Ardmore firm puts new light on sensor manufacturing process By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Company ARDMORE — One morning about five years ago I walked onto the laboratory floor at Ardmore’s Amethyst Research Inc. and stopped in my tracks. Directly in front of me was a giant ion beam accelerator. IRead more
As a lifelong Oklahoman, I have lived through a number of booms and busts driven by the price of oil and gas. In Oklahoma, when we hear that oil is at a 12-year low, that is not a good sign. Since our state is so dependent on the energy sector, low energy prices are particularly bad news for our economy and for our state budget. Not surprisingly, in times like this people start pointing fingers at state economic policy.
