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Small Business Assistance --
Query at PACE Workshop
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- At the PACE Workshop presentations on Saturday morning (and
again in the Issues Forum on Sunday morning) the question about
assistance for small businesses and entrepreneurs came up, but was
not answered.
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- There is an Association of Small Business Development Centers,
with a web site at https://www.asbdc-us.org/about.html
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- The Federal government's Small Business Administration
operates the Small Business Development Center Program, providing
counseling and training to existing and prospective small business
owners at some 1,000 locations around the country, as a
cooperative effort of the private sector, the educational
community, and government entities, from local to federal.
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- There is a web site at https://www.sba.gov/sbdc/
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- Today, I find an article about an initiative in that direction
by the University of Central Florida:
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- https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/nationworld/orl-cfbtech15041502apr15.story?coll=orl%2Dbusiness%2Dheadlines
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- TECHNOLOGY
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- Tech incubator heads downtown
- By Christopher Boyd
- Sentinel Staff Writer
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- April 15, 2002, 3:00 AM EDT
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- The University of Central Florida's Technology Incubator
launched what it hopes will be a major move into downtown Orlando
last week with the opening of the Downtown Center for
Entrepreneurship in the UCF building on West Pine Street.
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- The new center, which at this point is an office, could begin
growing as early as today. Technology Incubator Director Tom
O'Neal said he may sign an agreement to rent 3,200 square feet on
Pine Street near the UCF building, which would become office space
for new businesses.
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- "The space we are looking at is within walking distance of the
UCF building," O'Neal said. "Our hope is to get to the point where
we have 20,000 square feet of incubator space filled with 15 to 20
client companies."
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- The Technology Incubator is a public/private partnership
formed to encourage the launching of high-tech businesses. Until
now, its focus has been the research park area near the UCF campus
east of Orlando. But O'Neal said his group wants to begin aiding
Orlando's effort to attract tech companies to the central business
district.
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- "We want to attract more help from community associations and
law firms in helping us nourish new businesses, and downtown is
definitely the place for that," O'Neal said. "We expect that
downtown could become a new center for innovative technologies
companies."
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- Christopher Boyd can be reached at cboyd@orlandosentinel.com
or 407-420-5723.
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- Copyright © 2002, Orlando Sentinel
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- Contact information:
- Name: Tom O'Neal
- Title: Director
- Department: Research, Office Of
- E-mail: oneal@ucf.edu
- Building: Orl Tech Ctr/RP
- Office: 207
- Zip: 32826
- Office Phone: (407) 882-1120
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- George F. McClure
- g.mcclure@ieee.org
- Ph. 407-647-5092
- Fax 407-644-4076
- 1730 Shiloh Lane
- Winter Park, FL 32789
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- Updated 04/30/02