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EDC Services & Programs

Accelerate the Pace of Growth - Business Retention and Expansion Program
Off the Shelf - Ingenuity Meets Enterprise

If your business is considering any of the following, you should contact the Eau Claire Area EDC:
  • Creating jobs
  • Expanding facility
  • Searching for new site or facility
  • Buying equipment or investing in new technology
  • Developing or implementing research on a new product

With the pace of change in today's global economy, all businesses are faced with a variety of challenges. The Eau Claire Area EDC is prepared to help you through these challenges by identifying business development programs and services that may assist in addressing your business challenges.

Accelerate the Pace of Growth -
Business Retention and Expansion Program

Purpose of the Program

  • To accelerate the pace of growth in the Eau Claire area
  • To identify immediate needs, future plans, and opportunities for the community to deliver programs and services identified through a business survey process
  • To identify training, financial, and technical assistance needs

Potential Activities to Assist Your Company

  • Facilitate loan/grant application process
  • Regulatory assistance
  • Expansion project facilitation
  • Innovation intermediary (assistance licensing technologies)

If your company wishes to meet with an experienced economic developer, please contact Gwen Schuppel at 715.834.0070 to set an appointment. There is no fee to participate in the Business Retention & Expansion program - it is a service that the EDC provides to businesses in the City of Eau Claire and Eau Claire County. Our funding is generated from annual public and private investments.

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Off the Shelf - Ingenuity Meets Enterprise

Off the Shelf is a free networking event for proven innovators in and around the Eau Claire area. It is held 3-4 times per year, and is a casual, social gathering designed for open networking and strategic partnership development. Participants can be as active or passive as they choose.

EDC Staff and Area Business Development committee members developed the event for the purpose of:

  • providing an exclusive opportunity for proven innovators and product-producing businesses to build awareness and develop strategic partnerships;
  • facilitating relationships that add real value to a business or new venture; and
  • making innovators and key businesses aware of emerging technologies.

If you have intellectual property or technology available for licensing and are interested in presenting at an Off the Shelf event, please contact EDC staff.

Off the Shelf - Who’s Who
In order to fulfill our goals and bring real value to new ventures and growing existing businesses, we have limited the scope of those involved to individuals with experience, expertise, and a high level of knowledge regarding innovation and business growth processes. We hope that by doing this, participants will gain valuable knowledge and make productive connections with others who can help their business move forward.

Those invited to this exclusive networking event include:

  • Experienced entrepreneurs
  • Researchers and developers
  • Investors and financial supporters
  • Patent holders in the Eau Claire area
  • Local owners/leaders from businesses that produce a product

If you feel that you fit these descriptions and would like to be notified of upcoming Off the Shelf events, please contact us.