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April 05, 2020 | Tom Ballard

Kansas global engineering firm launches “IgniteX COVID-19 Response Accelerator”

An Overland Park, KS-based company hopes to combine its worldwide engineering expertise with ideas from innovators running start-ups to develop solutions to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

To achieve that goal, Black & Veatch has launched an incubator it calls the “IgniteX COVID-19 Response Accelerator.” The company has also set aside at least $250,000 in grants and staff time to foster the ideas of start-ups and help bring those ideas to market. Black & Veatch is asking entrepreneurs with ideas on topics such as telehealth, testing and screening for COVID-19, building temporary hospitals, and new ways to disinfect and reuse personal protective equipment to apply for the chance to collaborate with the engineering firm.

There’s more information available at this link.


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