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May 3, 2022 Contact: Sarah Seagraves, Senior VP for Marketing (405) 813-2403 or email sseagraves@i2E.org Teams led by student innovators from Oklahoma State University, the University of Tulsa and East Central University claimed first place awards in the recent statewide Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup business plan competition. Team Titan Charts from Oklahoma State University won firstRead more

By Scott Meacham The Oklahoma entrepreneurial spirit is inspiring and contagious, no matter when or how it appears. The Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup continues to be a uniquely Oklahoma source of entrepreneurial inspiration. One of the best aspects of Love’s Cup is that the buzz carries on. Students who participate tell their friends. That’s how twoRead more

Contact: Sarah Seagraves, Senior VP for Marketing (405) 813-2403 sseagraves@i2E.org April 23, 2021 OKLAHOMA CITY – Student innovators from across Oklahoma pitched concepts in the 2021 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup that ranged from high tech futuristic solutions to answers for real world problems that are here and now. Teams from Oklahoma State University, the University ofRead more

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2018, The Oklahoman I’m always writing about the importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education on the future careers and aspirations of Oklahoma’s young people as I think we need more STEM to continue to diversify and build our economy of the future. There’s another area of educationRead more

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2018, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. At current course and speed, the U.S. is expected to need at least a million more STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) workers over the next decade than the current pipeline will produce. Focusing just on Oklahoma, recent statistics show that in our state, fromRead more

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Life teaches us many things if we take the time to listen. I have been privileged to serve on the Advisory Board for OU’s newly created Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, allowing me to be on the ground floor of building a new academic program.Read more

By Kathryn McNutt Copyright © 2018, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. NORMAN — The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents voted Wednesday to name entrepreneurship programs in the Price College of Business in honor of a $5 million gift from longtime university supporters Tom and Judy Love. “I can’t think of a name that constitutes whatRead more

By Kathryn McNutt Copyright © 2018, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. The recovery plan for the ailing Oklahoma Health Department includes a strong dose of good business practices. Failure to operate the agency as a sustainable business led to a financial crisis that was revealed last fall and required an emergency infusion of $30 million. TheRead more

By Paula Burkes Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. It was a tiny advertisement in the corner of a crowded bulletin board at Harvard College that fortuitously sent Paul DeAngelis, a professor and scientist at the University of Oklahoma, on his career path of studying sugar polymers — and the now real potential forRead more

If you are in a decision-making position in an Oklahoma company, is there any reason you wouldn’t want to consider doing business with a startup? You might think that there’s too much risk with a startup. Personally, I like optimism and passion. I favor businesses that stretch, that run lean, and that focus on cashflow. And I like to be part of helping a new business grow. I bet when you think about it, you do too.

If you are in a decision-making position in an Oklahoma company, is there any reason you wouldn’t want to consider doing business with a startup? You might think that there’s too much risk with a startup. Personally, I like optimism and passion. I favor businesses that stretch, that run lean, and that focus on cashflow. And I like to be part of helping a new business grow. I bet when you think about it, you do too.

A global pharmaceutical company will pay up to $665 million for an Oklahoma City research firm that recently completed a large trial of a drug that treats pain among those with sickle cell disease.

Team Owlpal Healthcare from the University of Tulsa won first place in the Undergraduate Division at the 2014 Donald W. Reynolds Tri-State competition in Las Vegas.

Blake Trippet had a very good year in 2010. Then a senior at the University of Oklahoma, Trippet was team leader for team UniPhi, which won the Undergraduate Division of the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup business plan competition.

Venture for America program immerses recent University of Oklahoma graduates into entrepreneurial situations in diverse locals around the U.S.

The Presbyterian Health Foundation Research Park has been sold to the University of Oklahoma for $85 million. The deal closed Tuesday.

Oklahoma City’s leading economic development and biosciences organizations are banding together to form a new coalition intended to take over the role of recruiting and growing bioscience companies.

Closing of the sale of the PHF Research Park to the University of Oklahoma has been delayed for three months, but when it closes reduced rents in the park will end.

Check out our Facebook photo album to relive the memories of Oklahoma’s awesome performance in last week’s Tri-State business plan competition.

Teams from the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University were named first-place winnersof the Donald W. Reynolds Tri-State collegiate business plan competition