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Why coworking and entrepreneurship spaces are crucial to digital economic development
The second part of a three-part series on the infrastructure needed to build digital economy ecosystems in rural America.
Five startups that show rural innovation is way more than ag tech
Too often, we have conversations with people who believe that agriculture technology is the only innovation that could occur in rural America. But let's be clear: That notion is woefully incomplete.
Why broadband is essential to participate in the digital economy
The first part of a three-part series on the pieces of necessary infrastructure required to build digital economy ecosystems in rural America.
How the Vermont Community Foundation is trying to spark entrepreneurship in rural VT
As part of its efforts to support economic resilience, the Vermont Community Foundation invested $250,000 in a partnership with the Center on Rural Innovation to fund CORI's digital economic strategy services in five Vermont communities.
The Center on Rural Innovation announces fully-funded technical assistance program for rural communities of color
Four spaces available for fall 2021, with services valued at $30,000 per community
The Center on Rural Innovation inducts two new members into its Rural Innovation Network
National nonprofit organization expands its network and continues working to close the rural opportunity gap
Generation USA partners with Center on Rural Innovation to offer free access to online training programs
Partnership focuses on four rural areas to reach new segment of students ready for tech training.
How this rural North Carolina startup is helping car dealerships go ‘contactless’
Shyft Auto founders say they didn’t have a pandemic in mind when they originally developed a tech platform to help car dealerships go “contactless.” Then COVID-19 hit, just as they were launching, and it became even more relevant.
Rural startup qBraid aims to become 'the place' for quantum computing
With entrepreneurship assistance from the Black River Innovation Campus (BRIC) in Springfield, Vermont, Kanav Setia channeled his skills into an education and research platform called qBraid he hopes can accelerate the quantum computing revolution.