New entrepreneurship program looks to RTP for opportunities
It takes a special person to be an entrepreneur. The successful ones need to have just the right blend of creativity, energy and the courage to take a risk.

Commissioner: state economic
future bright, RTP serves as model
North Dakota's new Commerce Commissioner envisions a robust economy in the state's future. NDSU alumnus Shane Goettle, appointed by Gov. John Hoeven on Nov. 30 to head the Department of Commerce, is predicting great things.

State awards $3 million grant
to partner with private sector
A $3 million North Dakota Economic Development Centers of Excellence (COE-ED) grant has added a new dimension to how business is done in the NDSU Research and Technology Park.

Chrisey brings commercialization
skills to CNSE
Douglas B. Chrisey's resume reads like the outline of a sci-fi novel. As a scientist at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington D.C., he conducted research that a non-techie can barely comprehend: electronics that could withstand the radiation and cosmic rays of space, tissue sensors that could detect a single spore of a biological weapon, pen-like instruments that can "write" biomaterials.

Research and Technology Park named
finalist in National Economic
Development Competition
NDSU's Research and Technology Park was recently named a finalist in the EDA Excellence in Economic Development Awards competition. The program is sponsored by the Economic Development Administration within the U.S. Department of Commerce.

New Center for Technology Enterprise
will give Bobcat place to focus on research
Whether it's a garage, basement storeroom or ramshackle tool shed, every backyard inventor needs a place -- buffered from everyday life -- to create.

Do you know the way to ... North Dakota?
Try humming a few bars. You know that song made popular by Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick? It reappeared in a scene from the movie "My Best Friend's Wedding."

Director's message
It promises to be another exciting year here at the NDSU Research & Technology Park. Alien Technology® and the NDSU Candlewood Suites will begin operations this spring and on February 24, 2006, the Board of Directors of the Research & Technology Park approved the first bid package to begin construction of the technology incubator facility, called the Center for Technology Enterprise.

Aspiring entrepreneurs benefit from scholarships
David Alstadt, a freshman in electrical engineering, has dreams of working for a large company one day. He admits working for someone else is only to prepare for his ultimate goal, working for himself. Alstadt's strong interest in entrepreneurship was a key factor in being selected for an $8,000 scholarship awarded by the 5:01 Entrepreneur Society.