BIC launches, grows high-tech, natural products companies

BOULDER – On its first anniversary, the Boulder Innovation Center is celebrating having launched three companies, created 13 jobs and brought in $400,000 of investment capital.

“We’re not a traditional business incubator,” explained Executive Director Doug Collier. “We are an entrepreneurial community at work.”

Unlike the traditional incubator, the BIC isn’t about inexpensive office space and pro bono legal help. The organization’s nine-member board charged Collier with launching and growing viable companies, and he developed two programs – Technology Transfer and Stage 2 – to do just that.

The BIC’s Technology Transfer program works closely with the Technology Transfer Office at the University…