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Indiana Water Governance Report

Ronnetta Spalding2025-03-26T22:58:41-04:00March 26, 2025|

For more than 25 years, the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) has brought together leaders from across the state to advance our mission of transforming the economy of Indiana in order to create a sustainable prosperity and quality of life for our citizens and future generations. To further our mission, CICP has largely focused on supporting the growth of Indiana’s advanced industries and the thousands of Hoosiers they employ. Indiana’s advanced industries—advanced manufacturing and logistics, agbiosciences, life sciences, and tech—have been the source of increased investment in recent years. As we look ahead to the future and a growing and changing economy, it is important that we take a refreshed look at what policies, tools and best practices might be necessary to ensure we have the resources we rely on to realize these opportunities. This is particularly so with [...]

AnalytiXIN creates new Indiana healthcare-based consortium to advance data-driven clinical research and improve health outcomes

Ronnetta Spalding2025-02-10T19:37:46-05:00January 21, 2025|

New shared platform will use consented health data to facilitate life sciences research, advance healthcare, and to engage patients via precision medicine INDIANAPOLIS – AnalytiXIN today announced the launch of a new consortium to help healthcare organizations across Indiana better identify and access comprehensive, consented clinical and genomic health data. It is a continued investment to improve patient outcomes and drive efficiencies to accelerate clinical research. Access to these diverse datasets will allow researchers to quickly develop and conduct more accurate and personalized studies, enabling more effective healthcare interventions, further establishing Indiana as a leader in health sciences data analytics. Several leading Indiana-based healthcare companies, including Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”), Indiana University (IU) Health, IU School of Medicine, and the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) have pledged unprecedented commitment to this collaboration. “We’re excited to work with our [...]

New EntreWorks report outlines opportunities to boost innovation and entrepreneurship in Indiana

Ronnetta Spalding2025-02-10T19:38:08-05:00December 17, 2024|

Indianapolis, IN – With a focus on expanding Indiana’s entrepreneurial environment, Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) and AgriNovus Indiana today unveiled their new report, Unlocking IP: Leveraging Indiana’s R&D Assets to Boost Entrepreneurship. In partnership with EntreWorks Consulting, the report outlines opportunities to increase support for startups, identify emerging programs and priorities, and create a base of home-grown tech talent and an expanded innovation network across the state. “Indiana is often cited as one of the best places to start a business, which is a great starting point,” said Melina Kennedy, CEO of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership. “The data released in this report confirms that while we have some great strengths to build up, we have more work to do to as we still lag behind our peers in number of actual new business start-ups per year. The [...]

With $138M grant from Lilly Endowment, IU launches initiative to accelerate bioscience innovation

Ronnetta Spalding2025-03-15T23:01:49-04:00December 12, 2024|

Read the IU News Press Release Funding will support IU LAB, a state-of-the-art facility at 16 Tech harnessing Indiana’s extensive resources to become national leader in bioscience discovery, commercialization, talent development INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana University will lead significant advances in human health and help make Indiana a global leader in bioscience innovation by establishing the IU Launch Accelerator for Biosciences, known as IU LAB, at the 16 Tech Innovation District in Indianapolis. The first-of-its-kind academic-industry initiative is supported by a $138 million Lilly Endowment Inc. grant to the IU Foundation — IU’s largest grant ever in support of research and development. In collaboration with some of the state’s key biosciences organizations — including IU, IU School of Medicine, 16 Tech, Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, BioCrossroads, Indiana Biosciences Research Institute, Regenstrief Institute and IU Health — IU LAB will drive [...]

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership announces senior leadership appointments across BioCrossroads, Conexus Indiana and TechPoint

Ronnetta Spalding2024-12-19T00:27:36-05:00December 12, 2024|

INDIANAPOLIS – The Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP), alongside its branded initiatives BioCrossroads, Conexus Indiana and TechPoint, today announces the appointment of three senior leaders who will play pivotal roles in shaping the future of Indiana’s life sciences, advanced manufacturing and logistics and technology sectors. Douglas Kiehl, Patrick “PJ” McGrew and Casey Osterkamp joined BioCrossroads, Conexus Indiana and TechPoint, respectively, in senior leadership roles on December 10. “As we ensure the strength of Indiana’s advanced industries, these strategic hires underscore our commitment to building a thriving, innovative economy,” said Melina Kennedy, CEO of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership. “Doug, PJ and Casey each bring a depth of expertise that will help us tackle workforce challenges, advance technological adoption and foster cross-sector collaboration. Together, they will elevate our efforts to position Indiana as a global leader in innovation and talent [...]

Embracing a Culture of Creativity: Indiana’s Overlooked Economic Engine

Ronnetta Spalding2024-12-02T11:50:17-05:00November 27, 2024|

Economic prosperity is driven by creativity in more ways than many people realize. The most successful communities are those that best leverage their creative talent and embrace art and culture to unlock their economic potential. Doing so requires an understanding of, and support for, the creative economy. The creative economy’s impact is extensive, with major implications for talent development, innovation and entrepreneurship, economic prosperity, and quality of life and place. The last century has seen extraordinary proliferation in brand new creative industries, from television and video games to animation, podcasting, music streaming, and augmented reality. Creative industries are often responsible for the creation of technical innovations. With technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, new creative industries are sure to emerge in the future as well. To outcompete its neighbors, Indiana must deepen its focus on the creative [...]

UNLOCKING IP: Leveraging Indiana’s R&D Assets to Boost Entrepreneurship

Ronnetta Spalding2024-12-02T11:53:45-05:00November 27, 2024|

In recent years, Indiana’s leaders have placed a renewed emphasis on encouraging innovation and Hoosier entrepreneurship. To further support these new efforts, leaders at the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) and AgriNovus Indiana—CICP’s branded initiative focused on growth of the state’s agbioscience industry—began investigating how to leverage Indiana’s existing R&D landscape and IP assets to further stimulate entrepreneurship and innovation across Indiana. Now is the time to scale up on all fronts: to invest more in innovation and entrepreneurship, to become more ambitious in our expectations for companies and support programs, and to do a better job of promoting Indiana as an innovation hot spot to Hoosiers and to others around the world. From universities to major corporate innovators to intermediaries and public sector investments, Indiana has many of the ingredients needed to leverage its R&D assets to boost [...]

Over $1 million in grants to start building new apprenticeship pathway

Ronnetta Spalding2025-01-07T11:48:01-05:00November 12, 2024|

Grants from the Fairbanks Foundation to fund formation of industry “talent associations” as critical step for new pathway’s goal of welcoming students as early as 2025-2026 school year INDIANAPOLIS – A new professional education and training pathway for Hoosiers rooted in a youth apprenticeship experience starting in high school is one step closer to reality. Today, the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation announced over $1 million in grants to fund the next steps of the CEMETS iLab Indiana strategic plan to build a new path that could welcome students in at least one occupation as early as the 2025-2026 school year. The Fairbanks Foundation is awarding grants to two Indiana organizations to launch industry “talent associations,” which are organizations that enable employers within their industry to speak with one voice when it comes to their talent needs. The talent associations will [...]

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership marks 25 years of contributing to prosperity for future generations and economic growth across Indiana

Raquel Bahamonde2024-06-13T08:42:10-04:00June 13, 2024|

WATCH the CICP 25th Anniversary Video Here. INDIANAPOLIS - The Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) started in 1999 with a bold vision to bring together corporations, foundations and educational institutions to transform the economy of Indiana, and through significant achievements, today is marking 25 years. “Indiana is a unique place where collaboration is central to what we do to drive the Indiana economy,” said Melina Kennedy, CEO, Central Indiana Corporate Partnership. “Throughout the past 25 years, CICP has brought together leaders from industry and educational institutions to take on big challenges and create opportunities to move our economy into the future. It is that kind of collaboration that has sustained Indiana and helped to create strong, emerging sectors that will lead us into the decades ahead.” To advance its mission, CICP sponsors five key talent and industry sector initiatives AgriNovus [...]

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership public education program helps young people explore careers and jobs in Indiana’s advanced industries

Raquel Bahamonde2024-06-10T10:00:06-04:00May 22, 2024|

INDIANAPOLIS - With a dedicated focus on our state’s economic future, the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) is showcasing See Yourself IN – a new public education program to help young people explore career and job opportunities within Indiana’s advanced industries. “Indiana is a leader in advanced industries that drive our economy’s prosperity,” said Melina Kennedy, CEO of Central Indiana Corporate Partnership. “However, many of our Gen Z population are not aware of the many career paths and opportunities in these industries so they can’t see themselves in the future and how they fit. We want to help inspire more young people to dream big and help them explore innovative companies, jobs and programs so they can see themselves in great jobs and a great life right here in Indiana.” Through See Yourself IN, Gen Z Hoosiers and those here [...]

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