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Innovation Hubs OK Catalyst Programs Honored by U.S. Small Business Administration
January 14, 2021
The U.S. Small Business Administration is recognizing the Oklahoma Catalyst Programs (OK Catalyst), based at the University of Oklahoma’s Tom Love Innovation Hub (I-Hub), and Executive Director Tom Wavering with two prestigious 2020 Tibbetts Awards. OU is the first university in the nation to receive two Tibbetts Awards in the same year.
The Tibbetts Awards are presented annually to small businesses, organizations and individuals who exemplify the spirit and intent of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs (SBIR/STTR), which encourage domestic small businesses to engage in federal research and research and development with the potential for commercialization.
BARRIE, ONT. The year 2020 will go down in history as the year of a global pandemic that changed the way we live our everyday lives. Simple gestures like shaking hands were replaced with social distancing, residents of long-term care homes were isolated from their families, and businesses of all types were forced to close to the public. It s been a year that the average person could never have predicted with a highly contagious illness we all came to know as COVID-19. Still, 2020 wasn t all plague and pestilence. The dark shadow COVID-19 produced allowed us to see how resilient we can be.