The Harbor Entrepreneur Center will serve as the lead agent for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, one of the areas of focus of the One Region Roadmap. The Roadmap provides a broad platform for the community to address economic challenges heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as threats to our region’s prosperity and global competitiveness.
As the lead agent for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, the Harbor Entrepreneur Center will provide a collaborative space and environment that will facilitate and elevate entrepreneurial organizations, venture capital investment and innovation. The HEC will create an ecosystem for students, veterans, career changers and businesses to develop new enterprises and ideas to grow here in the Charleston region.
“Naming the Harbor Entrepreneur Center as the Lead Agent for Innovation & Entrepreneurship gives us an exciting opportunity to take the foundation the HEC has built over the past 10 years and create a permanent, high-impact resource for the region,” said HEC Executive Director Grady Johnson. “Entrepreneurs are primary drivers of innovation, job creation and prosperity, and the backing of the One Region initiative gives us the momentum to make entrepreneurial resources available to all members of our community.”
The Harbor Entrepreneur Center, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, serves to create Collision among the region’s entrepreneurial community. Connecting thinkers, doers and visionaries while partnering with local business partners to support the growth of new companies and attract private sector investments has been its mission since 2013.
The One Region Roadmap is the next evolution of the One Region Strategy launched in 2016. One Region is a Joint Venture partnership between the Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments (BCDCOG), the Charleston Regional Development Alliance (CRDA) and the Charleston Metro Chamber.
To learn more, visit harborec.com.
