The South Dakota State University Innovation Campus provides a variety of services, amenities and benefits, such as:
- Reception and secretarial support
- Shared office equipment
- Business development and incubator services
- Information technology support
- Marketing
- Technology management and commercialization
- Risk management
- Web & graphic design
- Accounting and tax services
- Payroll and Human Resource benefit programs
- Regulatory compliance
- Shared facilities and equipment
- A menu of services provided by consulting firms arranged by the SDSU Innovation Campus Administration Office
Benefits:
- Located next door to the largest research university in South Dakota – South Dakota State University
- Sponsored research agreements between Innovation Campus companies and SDSU faculty
- Access to the best and brightest students (undergraduate and graduate)
- Dependable skilled and trained workforce ready to help your business grow and prosper
- South Dakota selected as the top entrepreneurial-friendly state in the nation
- Pre-seed and early stage equity investment funds operating gin South Dakota
- R&D friendly climate – South Dakota is the only state in the nation with no corporate income tax, no personal income tax, no personal property tax, no business inventory tax and no inheritance tax
- Financing incentives that make growing your business a reality (REDI Fund, Economic Development Finance Authority/EDFA, SBA 504, APEX, Value Added Ag Subfund, Microloan South Dakota, Workforce Development Training Grant & Dakota Seeds)
- Private & Public research initiatives
- Angel Investors & Venture Capital Firms
- Competitive workers compensation rates – best cost of doing business
- Lowest state per capita taxation
- Lowest average unemployment insurance rates
- Sixth best corporate business climate
- Eighth most business friendly legislature
- Seventh lowest unionization rate
- Right-to-work state
