SC Innovation Challenge Notice of Funding Opportunity
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The South Carolina Department of Commerce Office of Innovation aims to help make South Carolina a top state in the nation to start and build a high-growth business. To do so, South Carolina must enable entrepreneurship and technology-based economic development successes, foster commercialization of technologies, support the increase of capital to home-grown companies and raise the profile of the state's innovation assets.
As part of achieving its mission, the Department of Commerce Office of Innovation is issuing a notice of funding opportunity, dubbed the South Carolina Innovation Challenge.
The South Carolina Innovation Challenge is open statewide, and offers up to $2 million competitive funding for projects that address the South Carolina Innovation Plan goals:
1) Develop a critical mass of high tech, high impact companies.
2) Grow a supportive, connected innovation community.
3) Support access to capital for companies at all stages of development.
4) Grow workforce talent equipped to work for high tech/high impact companies.