Contact Information
Jake Halliday
306 Cornell Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
(573) 884-0787
jake@missouriinnovation.com
muincubator.com/index.html
Industry Served
Technology, growth oriented
General Description
The Life Science Business Incubator at Monsanto Place in Columbia provides wet lab, dry lab and engineering suites for growth oriented companies.
The Incubator facility is owned by the University of Missouri and the facility and incubation program are operated by the Missouri Innovation Center. The incubator is an organizational unit of the Office of Research of the University of Missouri, working closely with the Office of Technology Management and Industry Relations and the Office of Research and Economic Development. The business incubation program is integrated with the Crosby MBA Program of the Trulaske College of Business and MBA candidates are an important resource in the incubation program.
The Incubator Program is open to all start-up enterprises with a technology-based product or service. The incubator operator, the Missouri Innovation center has historically provided assistance to a 50 : 50 mix of entrepreneurs from the university and from the wider community.
Services Provided
Wet labs, dry labs, technology suites
Opportunity assessment (the technology, the market and the management team)
Planning, financing and accomplishing research and product development
Developing the business plan and securing startup funding* and growth capital
Incubating the ventures that result (mentoring and physically accommodating startup firms).