About 40 Advantage Greenville members met yesterday for lunch at the NEXT Innovation Center to learn more about NEXT and how the new facility fits into the economic development strategy of the community. For a great overview of the NEXT facility, check out this video on www.GreenvilleHD.com.
A major point made at the event - While the community needs to continue to recruit industry (e.g., branch plants) to the area, we also need to build our own companies that are headquartered in Greenville. With the latter, you keep more of the wealth in the community and the impact on quality of life is several factors higher than with branch plants. This is NOT to downplay the importance of branch plants to the region. We just need to grow more ScanSources, Datastreams and Hollingsworth-type companies.
With that said, the Innovation Center is already drawing attention on a regional and national level which will help us recruit more high-impact entrepreneurs to the region.
NEXT continues to build the regional entrepreneur eco-system. We hope Advantage Greenville members take some time to learn more about the programs offered as well as about the new facility. Take that information and help spread the word in the region as well as beyond when you are traveling. You never know where it might lead..
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