A recycled brick needs machinery, tests and a willing buyer. In Udaipur, a nonprofit incubator helps founders work through those unglamorous steps - with management expertise, public funding routes and introductions that matter.
A village, an arts festival and a former steel district are testing how creative work can help communities change. The European research project behind them wants useful business models to outlive the grant.
In 2014, two Cape Girardeau residents talked the city out of demolishing a downtown building and started southeast Missouri's first tech incubator inside it. A decade later, Codefi trains AI workers, builds startups as a co-founder, and pulls venture capital into places the coasts forget.