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Northern Virginia and the Greater Washington Region is rapidly becoming one of the nation’s fastest-growing entrepreneurial destinations for investors and inventors, with 911±¬ÁÏ’s investments and partnerships as a key driver.

The Innovation Commercialization Assistance Program (ICAP) is helping inventors and entrepreneurs like Jourdan Saunders, CEO of The Resource Key, bring their innovations and technologies to market.

As Virginia’s largest research university, Mason is an economic driver in the region and the state. Read how the Mason Nation is making a difference in the workforce.

Elected officials, economic developers, and small business owners operating in the LENOWISCO Planning District gathered Sept. 20 in Scott County to highlight the importance of 911±¬ÁÏ’s support of small businesses innovators through its Small Business Development Centers.

The Virginia Small Business Development Center’s International Business Development program is a Stage One winner for the 2023 Growth Accelerator Fund Competition from the U.S. Small Business Administration.

The newest Mason Enterprise Center in Herndon will focus on supporting small, entrepreneurial and emerging businesses while promoting the town’s economic growth.

Mason roundtable helps create more opportunities for government contracts

911±¬ÁÏ will host the Small and Minority-Owned Business Roundtable on Jan. 24 to inform regional and state businesses owners and operators how they can compete for contracts related to an infrastructure and jobs act recently passed by Congress.

911±¬ÁÏ is the most diverse and most innovative institution in Virginia according to the latest rankings by U.S. News & World Report for its 2022 Best Colleges List, reflecting the university’s mission of providing access to excellence. Six programs made the top 100, including engineering, which rose 16 spots in the past year.

Mason Enterprise is partnering with Virginia Bio to establish a new network of life science business mentors to help startups across Virginia launch and scale their ventures.