INNOVATION CENTER

Entrepreneur Ready Community Certification

The Rogers State University EDA University Center has launched an Entrepreneurl Ready Community certification program to create a corridor of certified entrepreneurial ready communities in northeast Oklahoma that will provide support services to small businesses and local entrepreneurs who need business assistance to become sustainable, successful, job creating entities.

The certification program's focus on supporting entrepreneurship is a economic development strategy based on economic gardening principles that offers balance to the traditional economic practice of business recruitment." Pioneered by Chris Gibbons in the City of Littleton, Colorado, economic gardening has emerged as a prototype for economic developers looking for additional ways to generate truly sustainable economic growth for their communities.

If your community is interested in becoming a certified community please visit www.entrepreneurready.com to learn more.  Our staff is available to give presentations at community events or discuss the certification program in more detail with city leaders.

Below are a list of communities that have become certified as Entrepreneur Ready via the RSU Innovation Center's program.

Entrepreneur Ready Certified Communities:

• Claremore, Oklahoma