Your Guide to Starting or Expanding a Business in South Central Kansas
The organizations and agencies included in this guide offer services to area residents interested in starting, developing or expanding a small business. Representatives meet routinely to connect and collaborate so that they can better serve you. These groups want to help you! Contact them to learn more about what they can do for you.
Download the resource guideOrganizations Listed in the Guide
- Center for Economic Development and Business Research at Wichita State University
- Center for Entrepreneurship at Wichita State University
- City of Derby
- City of Wichita
- Cowley County Economic Development Partnership (Cowley First)
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- InventKansas
- Kansas Center for Entrepreneurship (dba NetWork Kansas)
- Kansas Department of Commerce
- Kansas Department of Revenue
- Kansas Global Trade Services
- Kansas Small Business Development Center
- Kansas Manufacturing Solutions
- Kansas Small Business Development Center (Kansas SBDC) at Wichita State University
- Kansas State University Small Business Environmental Assistance Program (SBEAP)
- Mid-America Trade Adjustment Center
- Patent and Trademark Resource Center at Wichita State University Libraries
- Sedgwick County Economic Development/Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) #161
- Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE)
- South Central Kansas Economic Development District
- Sumner County Economic Development
- U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
- Wichita Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
- Wichita Independent Business Association (WIBA)
- Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce
- Wichita State University Strategic Initiatives
- Wichita Technology Corporation
- Wichita U.S. Export Assistance Center U.S. Commercial Service - USDOC
- Workforce Centers of South Central Kansas
Excellence & Innovation Award
The Wichita State University Kansas Small Business Development Center was named the 2011 Region VII Small Business Development Center Excellence & Innovation Award winner.
The award honors a Small Business Development Center for excellence in providing value to small businesses and advancing program delivery and management through innovation.
The Kansas Small Business Development Center at Wichita State University is funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.