The West Virginia Makes Festival, the state largest maker fair, returns Nov. 4 to the Huntington campus of Marshall University. Join the Robert C. Byrd Institute's annual celebration of creativity and ingenuity in all forms. Show off your innovations, inventions or other creative endeavors and compete cash and other prizes!...
Bridging Innovation 2023 Announced! That's right! Bridging Innovation 2022 is coming to Wheeling next year! If you haven't heard of Bridging Innovation or were unable to make it last year, now is the time to get your event registered for 2023! Keep up to date with Bridging Innovation by checking in...
The Marshall University Technology Transfer Office (TTO) will present two free seminars on Wednesday, May 18. The first seminar, which will take place at the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing (RCBI) in Huntington from 1 to 2 p.m., will include discussions on 3-D printed designs and other manufactured...
One question we receive often here at The Robert C. Byrd Institute at Marshall University, known to most people simply as RCBI, is how to best manufacture a product while properly receiving the funding to continue developing your company. RCBI has multiple locations spread around West Virginia, all with teams...
An all too common WV story I never wanted to leave West Virginia in the first place, I just knew that I had thus far been unsuccessful in finding my place in the world and had wondered if it might lie somewhere else. When a college friend in a similar situation...
This series of events will bring together various meetings and competitions from across the state that are promoting and fostering entrepreneurship in West Virginia. These efforts will range from supporting elementary to college students and community members in their pursuit of becoming entrepreneurs to creating more opportunities in West Virginia...
A couple of months ago, I was telling someone that my job is to help people start businesses and she responded, “So basically you make dreams come true!” For some people, that is the case! Either the business itself is the dream or the business provides the means to help them...
