"A Community of Entrepreneurs Bringing Innovation to Market"

The Skalicky Tech Incubator, formerly Rural Technology Center, at The University of North Dakota is dedicated to supporting the growth of early stage technology-based ventures. The Skalicky Tech Incubator provides a supportive, creative, and entrepreneurial environment that fosters innovation, collaboration and teamwork.

It is a seedbed to help innovators and entrepreneurs flourish by providing value-added support and access to critical tools, information, advice, education, contacts, resources and capital that may be otherwise unaffordable, inaccessible or unknown.

Skalicky Tech Incubator features:

• Attractive, turn-key workstations and furnished office space
• Opportunities to be a "virtual tenant" as you start your venture and grow
• Start as a small single workstation for one-person venture
• Competitive rates and flexible terms, including short-term "test" periods
• Entrepreneur consulting & coaching services from the Center for Innovation
• Provides high speed Internet
• Small and large conference rooms
• Receptionists and waiting areas
• Fax, copiers, mail delivery services
• Access to Center's Advisory Board of successful entrepreneurs and advisors

Located on the west edge of the UND campus and anchoring the UND Tech Park, the Skalicky Tech Incubator offers entrepreneurs access to University talent, technology, training and technical assistance.

The staff of the Center for Innovation offers entrepreneur development assistance in marketing, management, access to capital, strategic planning and more. Staff also provides an extensive network of contacts that can help startups develop and test-market new products, technologies and ventures.

Norm Skalicky is President and C.E.O. of Stearns Bank in St. Cloud, Minnesota along with five other rural banks in Minnesota and one in Arizona. Skalicky is recognized as an innovator in the banking industry, and his company has been recognized as one of the top-performing independent banks in the nation. Norm was born on a farm near Brockett, ND and graduated from UND in 1955.

More than 80 tech ventures have been hosted in the Tech Incubator since it was opened in October 1996. For more information please contact the Director of the Center for Innovation, Bruce Gjovig.