A legal review at DED and a new funding stream for the BIA was poorly communicated to new awardees under the program, who had ...

UNeMed held its annual award ceremony Wednesday, celebrating inventors, researchers and supporters of the local University of ...

The summit is Tech Nebraska’s first since spinning out from the Nebraska Chamber and becoming an independent organization in ...

Upstream Wind Energy has a number of wind turbines in Antelope County, including these near Neligh, Nebraska. Photo by Jerry L. Mennenga. Nebraska’s energy system faces a critical turning point, ...

Bridget Hadley, the economic development manager for the City of Omaha, speaks at the OIPA business breakfast on Feb. 19. Photo by Lev Gringauz/Silicon Prairie News Omaha Inland Port Authority leaders ...

The annual entrepreneurship conference took place on Sept. 30 at Creighton University’s Heider College of Business. The event ...

Drive Co-founder and CEO Quinn Small chats with a panel of local investors at The Investor’s Decision: Beyond the Pitch event on Oct. 6 during Silicon Prairie Startup Week 2025 in Lincoln. From left: ...

Carrick Detweiler and Chad Johnson speak during a Silicon Prairie Startup Week panel about federal funding for startups. Both Johnson’s Grain Weevil and Detweiler’s Drone Amplified received SBIR ...

Co-founders of the student organization PROTO pitching during the 38th annual New Venture Competition hosted by the Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship in April 2025. Photo by Ben Goeser/Silicon ...

The Pennycress Company is a Lincoln-based agricultural bioengineering startup. It uses bioengineered field pennycress to help farmers achieve another income source between cash crop harvests. The ...

The Prairie Portraits series features founders, funders and community builders from Nebraska’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. The Prairie Portraits series features founders, funders and ...

Three teams solving issues for Nebraska’s agriculture industry and local municipalities won this year’s JumpStart pitch competition, held as part of Silicon Prairie Startup Week. Each team will get ...