{"id":38027,"date":"2015-07-24T13:45:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T20:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=38027"},"modified":"2015-07-24T13:50:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T20:50:18","slug":"accelerator-open-for-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/accelerator-open-for-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerator open for businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/accelerator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-38029\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/accelerator.jpg\" alt=\"Ribbon cutting ceremony\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" longdesc=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net?longdesc=38029&amp;referrer=38027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2015\/07\/accelerator.jpg 500w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2015\/07\/accelerator-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Entrepreneurs and scientists have access to a space within a new facility\u00a0to grow their startup business, create jobs\u00a0and keep their operations in Flagstaff.<\/p>\n<p>A ribbon-cutting event\u00a0marked the official opening of the business accelerator on innovation mesa, a product of the partnership between the city of Flagstaff, Northern Arizona University, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nacet.org\">Northern Arizona Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology<\/a>\u00a0and state and federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p>NAU President <strong>Rita Cheng<\/strong> joined the ceremony, alongside Flagstaff Mayor Jerry Nabours, NACET President Annette Zinky and representatives from the U.S.\u00a0Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration and Arizona Commerce Authority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than anything this space represents the best outcomes we could hope for in partnerships,\u201d Cheng said. \u201cAs a city, university and community, we are leveraging our resources to help entrepreneurs, scientists and innovators establish a solid footing with their businesses during the initial phase that is so critical. By investing in their success, we invest in our own success as a community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 28,000-square-foot facility features\u00a0six wet\/dry labs, 25 offices, three manufacturing spaces and a community\u00a0alternate emergency operations center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/accelerator-open-for-businesses\/\">Entrepreneurs and scientists have access to a space within a new facility\u00a0to grow their startup business, create jobs\u00a0and keep their operations in Flagstaff. A ribbon-cutting event\u00a0marked the official opening of the business accelerator on innovation mesa, a product of the partnership between the city of Flagstaff, Northern Arizona University, the Northern Arizona Center for Entrepreneurship&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":38029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}