Projects in this category are creating connections and leveraging networks and expertise. These projects are establishing or expanding new businesses and supporting new entrepreneurial ideas.

Projects:

• K-State 105 Entrepreneurial Blueprint Initiative
• Connecting Entrepreneurial Communities conference
• Expanding small business development in western Kansas
• E-Navigator partnership with StartUp Hutch
• Fostering entrepreneurial ecosystem expansion with Douglas County CORE
• Collaboration with GO Topeka and the Plug and Play program
• Network Kansas partnership work
• Microfactory growth initiative and catalyzing economic development in northwest Kansas
• Northwest Kansas rural entrepreneurship development cohort
• Wildcat Consulting
• TDI small business consulting and advising
• Business Concierge Office
• NXTUS partnership work

Projects in this category focus on providing technical assistance and workforce development resources for businesses, entrepreneurs, communities and municipalities.

Projects:

• Rural Redevelopment Scanning Initiative
• Innovation funding and technical assistance
• Northwest Kansas business, technical and housing assistance
• Workforce development for careers in construction and design
• American Honey Institute: Workforce training and microcredential
• Workforce training for physician assistant students in women’s health
• Technical assistance and validation support with GO Topeka
• TDI product and technology development educational program series 
• TDI student internship program 
• Technology-Based Economic Development assistance

Projects in this category engage with Kansans in their home communities to co-create solutions and address areas that affect economic prosperity.

Projects:

• Rural Ag Health Community Health Worker project
• Digital Ambassador program
• Know Your Water project
• Food, agriculture and health care integration in northwest Kansas
• Community facilitators
• Digital health clinic and translational research hub
• Food as Medicine and Community Health Program
• Asset mapping with GO Topeka
• K-State Research and Extension eCommunity strategic planning

Projects in this category make the research, resources and expertise of higher education accessible to all Kansans. These projects illustrate how higher education can be a catalyst for economic prosperity.

Projects:

• All Things Kansas
• The University of Kansas Health System collaborative work
• Housing prototypes and solutions for revitalizing communities
• Affordable housing solutions: Building a net-zero carbon microhome
• Improving environmental systems for early care and education facilities
• Strengthening nonprofit board capacity through leadership development
• Regenerative ag for a circular bio-economy: Ecosystem Services Market Consortium