In order to facilitate increased collaboration and communication between WSU Ventures and the Center for Entrepreneurship, WSU Ventures will move to Devlin Hall Wednesday, April 22.

WSU Ventures will move six full-time staff to the second floor of Devlin Hall. They will be open for business in their new office on Thursday, April 23.

This is the second phase of a two-part plan that began with the moving of the Center for Economic Development and Business Research to the third floor of the National Institute for Aviation Research building last week.

“We realized early on that it would benefit us to work closely with the Center for Entrepreneurship,” said Cindy Claycomb, director of WSU Ventures. “We can do that much more efficiently if we’re in the same building.”

“We’ve developed a natural referral system between our organizations,” said Mark Torline, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship. “We’re not waiting for the ground to break on Innovation Campus. We’re implementing it now.”

The two entities are already working together to host an upcoming SBIR Road Tour in the Rhatigan Student Center on April 30. The road tour is a national outreach aimed at innovators, entrepreneurs, researchers and small technology firms to convey the nondilutive technology funding opportunity provided through the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.