This episode features Bill Poole, Finance Director for the State of Alabama, and Cynthia Crutchfield, CEO of Innovate Alabama. These two Alabama leaders discuss how the State and Innovate Alabama support entrepreneurs, businesses, and commercialization. They share about the history of the Innovation Commission that kicked off new resources for Alabama citizens, what the future looks like for Alabama businesses, and the opportunities for support that lay ahead. 

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In this episode, we sit down with Todd Greer, Executive Director of Innovation Portal, a nonprofit incubator and innovation hub accelerating startup growth in the Gulf Coast Region. We discuss how to support small businesses and what it takes to nurture economic growth and draw similarities between Mobile and the other major cities across Alabama.

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In this episode, we sit down to talk with Sean Powers, PhD, Angelia and Steven Stokes Endowed Professor in Environmental Resiliency and Director, Stokes School of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama. Over the course of this episode, we talk about his journey to Alabama and how Gulf Coast research and global fishery research inform conservation decisions and help our water systems thrive.

Dig into more information:

Dr. Sean Powers
https://www.southalabama.edu/colleges/artsandsci/marinesciences/drseanpowers.html

University of South Alabama
https://www.southalabama.edu/

Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences
https://www.southalabama.edu/colleges/artsandsci/marinesciences/

Coastal Fisheries Research
https://www.disl.edu/who-we-are/spowers/

Dauphin Island Sea Lab
https://www.disl.edu/

President Bonner, University of South Alabama
https://www.southalabama.edu/departments/presidentsoffice/

HudsonAlpha Educational Outreach (Neil Lamb, PhD & Kelly Easy, PhD)
https://www.hudsonalpha.org/education/

Mobile Tensaw Delta
https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/mobile-tensaw-delta/

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