Socian has developed a drone that can help gather information from the scene before police arrive. The founder says he was convinced to move to Indiana after having a good experience at an Indianapolis business accelerator program.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, is looking for cities that can help design biomedical products, enhance clinical trials and bring new health products to market. Winning bidders would land hundreds of jobs.
The Lebanon Plan Commission voted unanimously Monday to approve Eli Lilly and Co.’s development plan for its two manufacturing facilities in Boone County.
The new event, called Rally, will take place at the Indiana Convention Center and feature a $5 million pitch competition, more than 200 speakers, and opportunities for entrepreneurs to demonstrate their innovations and meet individually with potential investors.
The quasi-government entity has secured roughly 9,000 acres of land in Boone County for its LEAP Lebanon Innovation and Research District.
So far, the public criticism of the land purchases is less about price and more about whether the state should be buying the land at all.
Indiana Secretary of Commerce Brad Chambers is set to lead a delegation next week on an economic development trip to Asia, where the team will promote Indiana’s growing battery, electric vehicle and semiconductor industries.
The program aims to award $7 billion to fund six to 10 hydrogen hub projects focused on the production, processing, delivery, storage and end use of clean hydrogen, with the goal of boosting the nation’s hydrogen economy.
The legislation would require the Indiana Economic Development Corp. to notify local officials before purchasing more than 100 acres of land for economic development that is intended to be used for an Innovation Development District.
The Indiana coalition, which received U.S. Department of Energy encouragement to submit a full proposal, is now deciding whether to join forces with other applicants for a better chance of securing a portion of $7 billion in federal funding.
White founded White Lodging in 1985 with a single hotel in Northwest Indiana and grew the company into one of the industry’s largest privately held development, ownership and management companies.
The company’s more detailed plans for the project reveal the 12 buildings would range in size from a 3,200-square-foot visitors center to a pair of three-story, 330,000-square-foot manufacturing facilities.
A group of elected officials, business leaders and community members in the Lafayette area are drafting a letter to the Indiana Economic Development Corp. seeking details about the state’s plans to draw water from the Wabash River aquifer.
The residents say the city of Lebanon failed to follow state zoning law when it annexed 5,200 acres of land for the planned LEAP district in Boone County.
Gov. Eric Holcomb stressed in his State of the State address that further investments are needed in K-12 schools and higher education, workforce training and public health if Indiana expects to meet the talent demands of high-wage employers.
The Indiana Economic Development Corp. said it hired Jillian Ochs to the new position of West Coast business expansion specialist with the goal of attracting high-tech investment from businesses and entrepreneurs in California.
The Indiana Economic Development Corp. is asking for $600 million over the next two years for a deal-closing fund, along with a one-time injection of $150 million for a revolving fund for land purchases. Democrats argue that Republicans already have given the agency a “blank check.”
The funding requests are part of the governor’s ambitious $3 billion “Next Level Agenda,” which calls on state lawmakers to approve historic investments in education, public health and state employee salaries.
The Indiana Department of Transportation released a study that includes five possible locations for the interchange northwest of Lebanon near the planned site of the LEAP Lebanon Innovation and Research District.
Soulbrain MI, a subsidiary of South Korea-based Soulbrain Holdings, announced Tuesday it will hire 75 employees for the 30,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Kokomo.
