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Crisis and Disaster Innovation Engine

Innovating to navigate years of turbulence

It’s long been said that the only constant is change. In the last decade alone, the pace of climate change, technology-driven societal changes, and heightened racial tensions have combined to create complex challenges in areas such as crisis and disaster response, cybersecurity, entrepreneurship, and workforce development.

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Is your organization interested in being a Crisis and Disaster Innovation Engine collaborator? Let’s start the conversation.

We’re addressing these challenges through a unique collaboration with The Mill, Bloomington’s center for coworking and entrepreneurship, and cross-sector partners to create the Crisis and Disaster Innovation Engine, which will meet the growing national need for innovation in times of crisis.

Through this regional innovation engine, experts and entrepreneurs will integrate and scale our strengths and recent successes to transform the workforce of south-central Indiana and beyond. Our goal is to create a diverse talent pipeline that leads to an inclusive and globally competitive STEM workforce. We’re helping create infrastructure, partnerships, go-to-market strategies and developing entrepreneurial and thought leaders that will prepare the nation for challenges yet to come.