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Mercer Innovation Center
physical space, programming, technology resources and tools, and access to talent that will help people with good ideas turn them into commercially successful businesses
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10,000-square-foot facility strategically located adjacent to Mercer's School of Engineering, School of Medicine and Willet Science Center. It is across the street from the site of Mercer's new $40 million undergraduate sciences building, scheduled for completion in 2017, and is steps away from the Stetson School of Business and Economics.
Macon-based Birch Communications is installing the latest telecommunications tools in the Center, including 1 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) broadband service.
Dr. Samantha Riley, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has work experience at Google, Yale and Penn State, has been hired as director of the Center, effective Jan. 1, 2016.
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Macon-Bibb County Industrial Authority, which is providing up to $75,000 annually for three years to help underwrite the salary for the Center's director and furnishing five additional co-working spaces in facilities it owns in downtown Macon.
Macon entrepreneur and neurosurgeon Dr. Hugh F. "Tripp" Smisson III has made a significant financial commitment to the Center, and additional funding is coming from local business leaders Bob and Robbo Hatcher, as well as from the Knight Fund at the Community Foundation of Central Georgia.
Advisory Board
A 14-member advisory board, e Mercer Innovation Center.
chaired by Macon entrepreneur Stewart Vernon,
The advisory board will assemble and manage a $2 million venture fund to invest in startups that come out of the center
Partners
Navicent Health's recently announced Center for Disruption and Innovation,
NewTown Macon's SCORE program,
and SparkMacon, a downtown makerspace.
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Mercer Innovation Fellowship,
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Each year, up to five fellowships will be awarded through a competition.
Recipients will get one year of housing, office space, interns, access to all Mercer facilities and $20,000 cash. Applications are due by Feb. 1, and winners will be announced by April 30.
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David Cummings
entrepreneur-in-residence for the Atlanta campus of Mercer's Stetson School of Business and Economics,
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