Atlanta’s west side is getting a new kind of lab district. Science Square, an 18-acre mixed-use development next to Georgia Tech’s Midtown campus, is being marketed as a regional life sciences hub, with a purpose-built lab tower, residential high-rises and street-level retail clustered around new pedestrian links and a shared “home for discovery.” ​

The Business Resource Center at Valley Partners is offering free, monthly educational seminars designed to equip entrepreneurs and small business owners with the knowledge needed to start, sustain and grow successful businesses. The seminars focus on essential business topics, including bookkeeping basics, building and understanding business credit, navigating small business loans, grant writing, product pricing and services and strategies for scaling a business. ​

Recently, BRITE Energy Innovators and the Youngstown Business Incubator announced a formal partnership. It is an effort to spur entrepreneurship and increase the numbers of business start-ups throughout the Mahoning Valley. While new businesses have a ribbon-cutting ceremony, BRITE Energy Innovators and the Youngstown Business Incubator held a ribbon-tying event. It's was a symbolic union of a formal partnership between the two. ​

U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its redesigned esolution® esophageal deviation device, has begun its commercial launch starting in the United States. S4 has the first and only FDA approved device to prevent ablation-related esophageal injury using any catheter ablation modality. The company received an FDA De Novo grant in September 2023, but then optimized the device for manufacturability, improved workflow, and enhanced usability, which concluded in attainment of FDA 510(k) clearance in November 2024.

​XJet reports that Youngstown Business Incubator (YBI) has acquired a Carmel 1400M Metal additive manufacturing (AM) solution. The system will be housed at Humtown Products, a YBI partner and America Makes member. This latest acquisition builds on the capabilities of the XJet Carmel 1400C ceramic system installed in 2018, expanding YBI's metal production capabilities to serve industries including aerospace and defense, medical devices, and electronics in North America.