{"id":186,"date":"2010-06-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/?p=186"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:34:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:34:34","slug":"insightgroundbreaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/insightgroundbreaking\/","title":{"rendered":"UM Breaks Ground on New Facility To Encourage Innovative Ideas, Economic Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD,  Miss. \u2013 Before turning ideas into innovations, the University of  Mississippi  Insight Park first must turn the ground. UM officials conducted a  groundbreaking  ceremony Wednesday (June 9) for the university&#8217;s Insight Park. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 8px; border: 1px solid #000000; float: left;\" alt=\"InsightPark\" src=\"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/wp-content\/uploads\/InsightPark.jpg\" height=\"194\" width=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Construction  on the first Insight Park building, which will be north of Highway 6  behind the Gillom Sports Center, is scheduled to be complete next  summer.  The state-of-the-art facility, which aims to help businesses benefit  from the intellectual environment of the university, includes a  12,000-square-foot  built-out incubator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The  university&#8217;s Insight Park is a place where the best thinkers in business   and the university will come together, work side-by-side and share ideas   and innovative thoughts on how to create unique technologies, valuable  services and new jobs in Mississippi,&#8221; said Syd Spain, executive  director for the new UM Research Park.<\/p>\n<p>The  university has been committed to the development of a world-class  research  park for more than a decade, and the investment in the state&#8217;s economic  future could not come at a more critical time, Spain said. Together  with the UM Innovation Center, the research park will help turn ideas  into innovations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jce_caption\" style=\"width: 300px; margin: 8px; padding: 6px; float: right; border: 1px solid #000000; display: inline-block;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; float: right;\" alt=\"InsightGroundbreaking\" src=\"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/wp-content\/uploads\/InsightGroundbreaking.jpg\" height=\"222\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 6px; color: #000000; clear: both;\"><strong>Max Hipp, president\/CEO of \u00a0the Economic Development Foundation watches as<\/strong> <strong>Morris Stocks, UM provost; Alice Clark, UM vice chancellor for research and sponsored programs; Syd Spain, Insight Park executive director; and Chancellor Dan Jones break ground on the Insight Park complex. William Nicholas, Insight Park assistant director, looks on.<\/strong> UM photo by Kevin Bain.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>To  better connect ideas and people who have the entrepreneurial drive and  resources to make things happen, the research park will capitalize on  four clusters of existing research expertise at UM: health care,  information  management, defense\/security and remote sensing technologies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The  purpose of Insight Park is to ensure research outcomes are put into  action \u2013 transforming what we know and how we do things,&#8221; said  Alice Clark, vice chancellor for research and sponsored programs.<\/p>\n<p>To  learn more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.olemiss.edu\/park\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.research.olemiss.<wbr><\/wbr>edu\/park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Before turning ideas into innovations, the University of Mississippi Insight Park first must turn the ground. 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