Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub

The North Little Rock Public Library System is in negotiations to assume the management and operation of the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub from Winrock International. read more >

Scholarship recipients will participate in a community-based project in partnership with the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub. read more >

Little Rock true crime podcast producer Karen Tricot Steward and digital content developer Ti King have announced the creation of a nonprofit Arkansas Podcast Collaborative to offer support and resources to podcasters and people interested in the medium seeking advice on building audiences. read more >

The remodeled 22,000-SF building will include the first Best Buy Teen Tech Center in Arkansas and the first solar canopy in downtown North Little Rock. read more >

The funds will support training in cybersecurity, transportation, manufacturing and more. read more >

The new leader of the Arkansas Regional Innovation hub wants to help put the state at the forefront of entrepreneurship. read more >

She's worked for the nonprofit since it opened in 2014. read more >

The nonprofit sold its former headquarters in Little Rock for $5.4 million after the COVID-19 pandemic brought a reassessment of its real estate needs. read more >

Almost 50 years after Winthrop Rockefeller died, the three nonprofits seeded by his fortune are evolving their missions for doing good in Arkansas, the nation and the world read more >

Chris Jones, Ph.D., steps down as executive director of the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub in North Little Rock. read more >

Winrock International’s Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub in North Little Rock announces a multi-year partnership with Best Buy to open and operate the first Best Buy Teen Tech Center in the state. read more >

The Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub in North Little Rock says Gilead Sciences Inc. of Foster City, California, has awarded it an $800,000 grant. read more >

The Arkansas Community Foundation’s COVID-19 Relief Fund has awarded $1,000 rapid response grants to 678 nonprofits in 149 cities and towns across the state. read more >

Community banks lack the financial and human capital of their larger counterparts to invest in research and development, but they need new technologies all the same. Partnerships with financial technology startups are a practical way to address this need, four of the state’s community bankers told Arkansas Business. read more >

An audience of prospective investors and bankers gather in North Little Rock to mark the end of the inaugural ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator, sponsored by the Independent Community Bankers of America and hosted by the nonprofit Venture Center of Little Rock. read more >

Facebook is set to kick off a new national program called Career Connections with a Skills Summit at the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub at Winrock International on March 30 and 31. The Hub said Career Connections will connect emerging talent to training opportunities, local internships and Facebook mentors. read more >

Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola and Little Rock Regional Chamber CEO Jay Chesshir have binders full of statistics showing that economic development efforts are bearing fruit. Still, they acknowledge that Little Rock has a perception problem. read more >

Over a decade, Arkansas has fallen in line with the national trend of embracing and publicly funding a relatively new form of economic development: structured help for entrepreneurs. read more >

The Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub and its new executive director, Chris Jones, Ph.D., was profiled Wednesday by PBS' "NewsHour" show. read more >

Former employees, including the executive director who resigned in February, fear the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub is bound for financial failure two years after merging with Winrock International, but Winrock insists the doomsayers don’t know what they are talking about. read more >