Welcome to the resource pages of our initiative.

This effort began as a research project to understand Missouri’s Capital Formation Needs, and we were a Steering Committee willing to advise it. But as the data was gathered and the analysis began to come in, we realized that we were going to end up with some action items as well.

We are all business professionals in finance, technology, investing or economic development (or more likely a combination of them). And we knew anecdotally that public-partnerships were being formed throughout our economy to prepare for and succeed in the knowledge-based “new economy”. To what extent these efforts have been successful, and to what extent does our state needed to improve & invest began to come into focus with the preliminary analysis done by the Bloch School’s Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

The Bloch School’s Study is now complete and is provided online. Our Steering Committee has since determined that we would take this information and initiate recommendations for improving the entrepreneurial climate for finance and growth here in Missouri.

We have a long history of innovation in Missouri, and it continues as we rank ninth among States in federal research and development funding. It is our hope that this initiative for entrepreneurial capital formation results in people knowing that Missouri is not only the Show Me State, but also, Missouri is the Grow Me State.