Accelerating
the Economy
Assistance for
West Virginia’s
Small Businesses
Personal, hands-on assistance for starting or growing a
business in the Mountain State is an invaluable tool now avail-
able through at least 23 incubators and accelerators across the
state. TechConnect West Virginia, an organization dedicated to
growing the state’s economy, is spreading the word of this vital
resource through its new comprehensive list of active business
incubators and accelerators.
While each facility is different, the types of services typical-
ly offered by incubators may include a combination of shared
space and equipment, idea and prototype development, coaching,
support for protection of intellectual property and other tech-
nical assistance. Accelerators generally offer an intense, com-
pressed learning experience in a cohort model that focuses on
education, mentoring and financing.
To download the list, visit www.techconnectwv.org.
ANNE BARTH
FAIRMONT
• Fairmont Business
Incubator LEWISBURG
• WV Hive Network
www.wvhive.com
• High Technology
Foundation
www.wvhtf.org MADISON
• Boone County Business
Development Center
www.boonecountywv.org
• The Excelerator
HUNTINGTON
• Huntington Industrial
Corporation Incubator, LLC
www.hadco.org
ATHENS
• Concord University
Small Business Incubator
BECKLEY
• WV Hive Network-
WVU LaunchLab
www.wvhive.com
BLUEFIELD
• Bluefield
Commercialization Station
www.mybluefield.org
• Bluefield State
College Research &
Development Incubator
www.bscrd.info
• Center for Applied
Research & Technology, Inc.
www.cartinc.com
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WEST VIRGINIA EXECUTIVE
BUCKHANNON
• Upshur County Business
Development Center
www.upshurda.com
CHARLESTON
• Charleston Area Alliance
Small Business Incubator
www.charlestonareaalliance.
org
• Ort Building
Business Incubator
ELKINS
• West Virginia Wood
Technology Center
www.wvwoodtech.com
• Marshall University
Environmental
Management Incubator
muwww-new.marshall.
edu/cegas/emi
• Marshall University
Institute for
Interdisciplinary Research
www.marshall.edu/miir
• Robert C. Byrd Institute
for Advanced Flexible
Manufacturing
www.rcbi.org
• Ten50 Business
Accelerator
www.ten50.io
• Unlimited Future, Inc.
www.unlimitedfuture.org
MORGANTOWN
• WVU Health Sciences
Innovation Center
• WVU LaunchLab
launch.wvu.edu
SHEPHERDSTOWN
• Shepherd University
Center for Regional
Innovation
www.shepherd.
edu/innovation
SOUTH CHARLESTON
• ChemCeption
www.chemception.com
SUMMERSVILLE
• WV Hive Network
www.wvhive.com
WARDENSVILLE
• Eastern West Virginia
Community & Technical
College New Biz Launchpad
www.easternwv.edu/
about-eastern/ireed/
eastern-s-entrepreneurship-
incubator.aspx