Business Incubators

 

The STAR Center
Bloomington

The STAR Center helps innovative new companies grow by offering a customized program of business services. The STAR Center, Bloomington's Business Accelerator, is a place where ideas can become reality. The Center houses new companies with innovative manufacturing or knowledge-based business ideas. The Center also offers access to vital resources such as business planning services, financial sources and access to shared administrative services.



Columbus Enterprise Development Center
Columbus

Columbus Enterprise Development Center (CEDC), also known as the small business incubator, offers assistance to entrepreneurs by reducing the start-up costs and headaches associated with launching a new business venture.

A 30,000 square foot facility, CED Center offers low-cost floor space to manufacturing and service companies in addition to shared office services and on-site business counseling. Also, CED Center provides its clients with assistance in business planning, marketing, and help in locating business financing alternatives.

Incubator services (both free and fee-based) include:

  • manufacturing/ service space (500 to 3,500 square feet) and office space at low cost (all basic utilities included)
  • on-site business counseling & business management assistance
  • wireless 1.54 mb/sec internet connection
  • office equipment access (copier & facsimile)
    conference room and kitchen area
  • business library and computer lab
    secretarial services
  • recessed truck dock and overhead doors
  • Toyota forklift
  • 3-phase electrical service


CED Center is designed for business and is the ideal first home for the entrepreneur’s new venture.

 

Lexington Business Centre
Elkhart

The Lexington Business Centre is a full-service incubator facility dedicated to supporting small, entrepreneurial businesses. We provide affordable space in a prime location, office services and equipment, business plan development, management assistance, in short, everything a start up or expanding business needs to be competitive but until now, could not afford. Lexington Business Centre supplies your new or developing business with all the advantages and resources you need to succeed and to grow. And, survey after survey shows that businesses involved with incubators flourish where others fail. Our goal is your sucess.




A Business Center For Developing Enterprises, Inc
Evansville

A Business Center For Developing Enterprises, Inc. operates two small business incubators in the Evansville, Indiana area. One houses mostly service-based companies while the other is focused on businesses that are light industrial in nature. A home based program is also offered to small businesses for $50/month. A Business Center For Developing Enterprises, Inc. currently works with more than 55 businesses.



The Venture Out Business Center
Madison

The Venture Out Business Center is a small business incubator located in Madison, Indiana. With it's modern hotels, great restaurants, strong industry and business advisory groups, Madison is the ideal city to promote the growth of new business.
 
IF YOU ARE:
  • a new business
  • an expanding business
  • a retrievable at-risk business
  • a service organization needing office space
  • a light manufacturer or warehouser
WE OFFER: low-cost floor space to light manufacturing and service-oriented companies. Our tenants also have the use of shared office services.
 
On-site are the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) -- a program of the Madison Area Chamber of Commerce -- and the Service Corps of Retired Executives (S.C.O.R.E.). Both these entities provide no cost, confidential advice and counseling to entrepreneurs.