Business Incubation Catalysts (BIC), LLC provides a broad array of strategic expertise and project management skills to organizations seeking innovative industry-driven solutions for sustainable economic growth. Integrated and comprehensive services are provided to universities, foundations, corporations, community non-profits, and government agencies.

BIC utilizes a network of specialists with expertise in both private-sector and public-sector settings. The BIC team is led by Lou Cooperhouse, the company’s President & CEO, who has over twenty years experience incubating new businesses. Lou has extensively studied and applied worldwide best practices in business incubation, and business models that result in entrepreneurship and leadership development, differentiated and globally competitive new products, and the creation of higher-paying jobs in value-added industries.

The BIC team has conducted a broad range of assignments for a wide variety of sponsor organizations throughout North America, and in Europe, Africa, and China. International projects have included, for example, the development a national strategy for rural revitalization in Nigeria, based on a “One Village One Product” program; the establishment of the first university-led business incubation program in Uganda; and the creation of the infrastructure for the first contract foodservice and fresh-cut produce operation established by a multinational corporation in China.

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