Welcome to The Center for Innovation-Based Enterprise (CIBE)!

The Center promotes the development and adoption of innovative solutions addressing problems in agriculture, the food industry, and the environment by providing research into entrepreneurship, finance, marketing, and risk management for innovation-based and start-up enterprises. Utilizing the extensive resources of the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, the Center supports entrepreneurs and start-up enterprises with essential economic analysis and helps research teams to move their inventions from the laboratory into the marketplace.