Links to other related Centers

Center for Food and Agricultural Business, Purdue University
The Center for Food and Agricultural Business, a leader among educational providers in the food and agribusiness sector, has designed and delivered managerial education since 1986. Housed within the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, the Center's award-winning, diverse and experienced faculty and staff develop and execute unique and relevant programs that address the distinctly different needs of managing in today's volatile business environment.

Center for Innovative Food Technology (CIFT) at EISC Inc.
Since 1995, the Center for Innovative Food Technology has provided technical solutions to companies involved in some of Ohio’s largest and most economically significant industries – food production, processing, and packaging.

Cornell Center for Technology, Enterprise, and Commercialization (CCTEC), Cornell University
Through work with inventors, entrepreneurs, and companies, the Center fosters university-industry research collaborations, promotes innovation, and encourages entrepreneurship to advance the transfer of Cornell technology into the commercial market.

National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR), USDA
The National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research is the largest of the USDA-ARS major research centers. The multi-disciplinary staff at NCAUR focuses on metabolic engineering, fermentation, food safety, environmental quality, biomaterials and processing technologies.

Northeast Center for Food Entrepreneurship, Cornell University
Purpose of the Center is to provide comprehensive assistance to beginning and established food entrepreneurs, thus promoting sustainable economic development of rural communities.

Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship, Iowa State University
The Center has two primary objectives: to create a culture that encourages entrepreneurship and innovation, and to provide the tools necessary for building and improving Iowa's businesses.

Oklahoma Food and Agricultural Products Center, Oklahoma State University
Purpose of the Food and Agricultural Products Center is to help develop successful value-added enterprises in Oklahoma; to bring the products, the jobs, and the dollars back home. The Center will bridge the gap between academics and the private sector by offering large and small businesses, producers, and entrepreneurs access to faculty and staff with expertise in business and technical disciplines.

Rutgers Food Innovation Center, Rutgers University
The Center is an economic development outreach center of Rutgers University, and  provides critically needed business development and technology expertise from the vast resources that exist at all campuses of Rutgers University, in addition to strategic partners throughout the nation, to New Jersey’s agricultural and food industries.

MSU Product Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University
Purpose of the Center is to improve economic opportunities in the Michigan agriculture, food and natural resource sectors. The Product Center helps to develop and commercialize high value, consumer-responsive products and businesses in the agriculture and natural resource sectors.

The Food Innovation Center, Oregon State University
The Food Innovation Center offers one stop access to important services for food producers, processors, marketers, and entrepreneurs.

The Innovation Center, Ohio University
The Innovation Center provides business services, resources and flexible facilities, fostering entrepreneurship resulting in wildly successful companies and a dynamic prosperous region.

The National Non-Food Crop Centre, UK
Purpose of the Center is to provide a single, independent and authoritative source of information on the use and implementation of non-food crop products and technologies. The Center disseminates scientific and technical information on these issues as widely as possible in order to increase knowledge and understanding, to initiate and facilitate technology uptake and to meet the government's and society's wider objectives for sustainable development.

Office of Biorenewables Programs, Iowa State University
The Office of Biorenewables Programs (OBP) is an outgrowth of the Bioeconomy Initiative to investigate the use of biorenewable resources as sustainable feedstocks for producing chemicals, fuels, materials, and energy. The OBP has over 140 faculty affilated members who contribute to the Bioeconomy Initiative with over $37 million in cumulative sponsored research funding from industry and federal agencies ranging from the Department of Agriculture to the National Science Foundation. 

Center for Innovation-Based Enterprise, Agricultural, Environmental, & Development Economics
103 Agricultural Administration Building, 2120 Fyffe Road, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA