The Incubator

Leaving the nest: Small businesses move from Zeal to their own offices

Graduation day has arrived for two small businesses that incubated their companies at the Zeal Center for Entrepreneurship.

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Embracing risk management: What to consider when starting a business

Get connected with South Dakota’s growing biotech industry while learning critical skills about a function key to all businesses: risk management.

5 years ago

Co-working space for women launches crowdfunding campaign

A new concept called The Kitchen aims to create a shared office space for women offering unique features such as child care.

5 years ago

Perfect match: Biology and business major helps support biotech association

She’s generated industry data for state leaders, built relationships with biotech businesses and helped represent South Dakota at an international bioscience event. And she’s still in college. Meet the young women already making a big impact on the biotech industry.

5 years ago

Madison Cyber Labs at DSU launches research partnership around energy management

Smart home technology is more than convenient — using devices to control everything from your dishwasher to your dryer also can be energy efficient. Take a look at how DSU is helping make it a (secure) reality.

5 years ago

Avera researcher named to federal research advisory council

An Avera researcher has become the first South Dakotan to be named to a board that works to advise the federal government on research regulations and topics associated with the protection of human subjects.

5 years ago

Bird Dog Equity Partners sells tech company to German manufacturer

Sioux Falls-based Bird Dog Equity Partners has sold a Texas technology company it owned to a Germany company that’s the world’s leading manufacturer of anatomical and biological education and simulation for science, health care and patient education.

5 years ago

Inspired to pursue STEM fields, these women at POET find mentors help them build careers

They took different paths to get to POET but these women all agree: Their STEM careers are helping them change the world in more ways than one.

5 years ago

Chiropractor, inventor, mother: Meet the woman behind the Zzz Pal pillow

After this Sioux Falls chiropractor became a mom, she became an inventor with a pillow to help her own sore neck. Less than two years later, her product is carried by many major retailers.

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Next generation of innovative scientists gets head start at DSU

“I’ve started to notice all the questions in the world that have yet to be answered.” Her research work is gaining international attention — and she’s still an undergraduate at DSU. Here’s how the school is preparing a new generation of scientists.

5 years ago

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