Students and the public alike are invited to participate in the IDEA Empowerment Series & Competition.
The IDEA Empowerment Series and Competition has gotten underway at the IDEA Bank in downtown Troy and is designed to support growth and business development.
The series brings with it a chance to compete for $10,000 in a pitch competition, that isn’t limited to just workshop participants. Both the workshops and the pitch competition are…
Troy University’s IDEA Bank has been named Pike County Chamber of Commerce’s 2025 Business of the Year.
Troy University’s IDEA Bank has been named Pike County Chamber of Commerce’s 2025 Business of the Year.
Reanna Thompson, program and marketing coordinator, and Lynne George, IDEA Bank Director, show off the Pike County Chamber of Commerce’s Business of the Year Award for 2025.
Winning the Chamber of Commerce’s award for Business of the Year was particularly meaningful…
The inventiveness of Wiregrass residents are shown through official patents.
The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling exhibition, SPARK! Places of Innovation, is touring Alabama in 2025-2026. Its recent visit to Dothan’s Landmark Park inspired this look at the inventiveness of Wiregrass residents as recorded by the US Patent Office.
Although the “basic search” function on the Patent Public Search website is ill-suited for geographical searches, I uncovered at least 370…
SBDC Director Juliana Bolivar addresses participants in the "New Start Up" entrepreneurship program.
A sense of celebration filled the air at the Pike County Jail as a group of women walked across a classroom space not usually known for applause. But on this day, they were recognized — not as inmates, but as aspiring business owners.
The event marked the culmination of “New Start Up,” a five-session entrepreneurship program led…
