The nonprofit Business Innovation Center opened at Bowie State University in October, initially hosting four resident businesses.

More than five years in the making, the center will serve as an incubator for fledgling businesses, providing office space, equipment and receptionist services, coaching and mentoring, business plan support and other services with an eye to fostering strong companies that can provide jobs, revitalize neighborhoods and energize the local economy.

The center is the fruit of a partnership between the university and the city, which commissioned a feasibility study to determine how it could foster small business growth. read more…