UF Innovate | The Hub Celebrates 10 Years Since Groundbreaking
UF Innovate | The Hub is a place where entrepreneurs take a creative idea and make it into a legitimate business. In the past 10 years, 108 businesses began their journey there. “There wasn’t any real formal support for entrepreneurs and first-time startup founders in the Gainesville area. This was a real boom for providing […]
Experts Identify the Technology Driving Industry Advancement in 2020
As 2019 neared its end and experts around the world raced to predict which technology trends would shape the new decade, artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in accelerating automation was a common theme. Indeed, in its outlook on top technology trends for 2020, global research and advisory company Gartner listed hyperautomation as No. 1. […]
Incubation Business Expert Mark Long Keynote Speaker at TechFest Louisville
UF Innovate | The Hub Director Mark Long was the keynote speaker at TechFest 2019 Louisville, KY, a biennial summit designed to bring together technology professionals for learning and networking. With his talk titled “How to Build a Large-Scale Incubator/Accelerator Ecosystem: Lessons from UF Innovate,” Long shared success stories from University of Florida commercialization arm, […]
Editorial: Keep up Work to Retain Local Startups (Gainesville Sun)
Alachua County does a good job of nurturing start-up companies, but needs to get better at keeping them in the community as they grow. The University of Florida’s business incubator in Gainesville, now known as The Hub, opened a new wing in January that doubled the facility’s size. The wing is already about 70 percent […]