On a sunny fall day, Brett Isaac and his team of workers screw solar panels onto a large array at the Tolani Lake Enterprises building on the Navajo Nation. Isaac is the project manager for the Shonto Economic Development Corporation, a solar company on the Navajo Nation. He also is part of a team of business experts that is launching a Navajo business incubator project at the Northern Arizona Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology in Flagstaff. The team will mentor Navajo … [Read more...] about Green Incubator Helping Navajo Startups
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NAU Grad’s Program Helping Sell Sun, Wind Power
In 2001, the Northern Arizona Center for Entrepreneurship and Technologies (NACET) – then known as the Northern Arizona Technology & Business Incubator (NATBI) – was founded to help develop small tech start-ups in the Flagstaff area. That same year, Brad Van Orden began studying mechanical engineering at NAU. Few could have foreseen that Van Orden would eventually go on to become one of NACET’s greatest success stories. Brad Van Orden, founder of the now-acquired SunWind Solutions … [Read more...] about NAU Grad’s Program Helping Sell Sun, Wind Power
NAU Monetizing Research
The word “incubator” brings to mind a bunch of fluffy, yellow baby chicks that are kept warm and nurtured until they are grown up enough to fend for themselves. Actually, it is not a far stretch to call the Northern Arizona Center for Emerging Technolo- gies an “incubator.” It too keeps new ideas and inventions and their creators under its wing until they are able to take care of themselves. In fact, NACET calls itself an “incubator program” that helps people … [Read more...] about NAU Monetizing Research
