Organization

Ohio Life Sciences is Ohio’s only statewide membership organization supporting the bioscience community. It represents nearly 300 members that employ over 100,000 Ohioans—from Ohio’s largest employers to emerging start-ups, schools and universities, research institutions, students, and individuals. Ohio Life Sciences is proud to support and salute the work of Ohio’s bioscience community.

Navy Medicine's research and development laboratories are engaged in a broad spectrum of activity from basic science in the laboratory to field studies at sites in remote areas of the world to operational environments. The capabilities and the geographical locations of the laboratories reflect the broad mission of Navy Medicine's Research and Development Enterprise.

University of Dayton is a top-tier Catholic university with offerings from the undergraduate to the doctoral levels.

Founded in 1964, Cleveland State University is a public research institution with nearly 16,000 students, 10 colleges and schools and more than 175 academic programs.

Bowling Green State University provides experiences that enhance lives. Students are prepared for lifelong career growth, lives of engaged citizenship and leadership in a global society. U.S. News and World Report names BGSU as one of the top public universities nationwide with a strong commitment to first-year programs that lead to success.

The Air Force recently launched Agility Prime, a non-traditional program seeking to accelerate the commercial market for advanced air mobility vehicles (i.e., "flying cars"). Leveraging unique testing resources and revenue generating government use cases for distributed logistics and disaster response, the government plans to mitigate current commercial market and regulatory risks. Agility Prime also aims to bring together industry, investor, and government communities to establish safety and security standards while accelerating commercialization of this revolutionary technology.

The Wright Brothers Institute (WBI) is a cutting-edge center for innovation and technology commercialization. WBI provides breakthrough solutions to US Air Force's most complex initiatives by leveraging resident experts, unique facilities, disruptive innovation processes and extensive networks.

Launch Dayton is a collaborative entrepreneurial support effort with programmatic roots dating back to 2015. Parallax’s Launch Dayton team supports Dayton Region entrepreneurs by cultivating an easily accessible resource environment, creating high-caliber programming and by building a network of champions, mentors and resource providers that help entrepreneurs succeed.

BRITE Energy Innovators – Ohio’s energy tech incubator – is dedicated to ensuring the success of startups driving innovation in energy tech. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, BRITE offers many in-kind & paid services. These services include consultation services for startups & small-and-medium-size enterprises, lab space and equipment for device testing and R&D and affordable office space and co-working memberships.

The Dayton Entrepreneur Center is the Miami Valley’s center for entrepreneurial excellence. EC drives meaningful connections and provides significant commercialization resources to our region’s small businesses, tech startups and research institutes.