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Causes: Science & Technology, Technology
Mission: Education and research
Programs: The regional innovation acceleration network (rian) is a project of ssti funded by the u. S. Economic development administration to establish and support a virtual nationwide network community of nonprofit venture development organizations (vdos). A vdo is a business-driven, public or nonprofit organization that promotes regional growth by providing a flexible portfolio of services, including: assisting in the creation of high-growth companies; providing expert business assistance to those companies; facilitating or making direct financial investments; and, speeding the commercialization of technology.
annual conference and dialogue serving over 300 participants, 90% of whom are from the public sector or quasi-governmental. Annual conference topic, tools for building tech-based economies ssti also conducts meetings with elected and appointed government officials to provide updates on the technology-based economic development field including best practices. As part of our federal eduction work, ssti seeks opportunities to bring federal, state, local, university and non-profit actors together to
manufacturing extension partnerships (mep) cooperative agreement to encourage and improve greater collaboration between states and the federally sponsored mep programs.
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