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Volusia County breakfast spotlights startup growth, local patents and Innovation Challenge
Summary
At a Volusia County economic development breakfast on Valentine’s Day, county staff and two local entrepreneurs highlighted rising startup activity, roughly 1,400 local patent filings cited by staff, and invited the public to the county's Innovation Challenge on March 27.
At a Volusia County economic development quarterly breakfast on Valentine’s Day, a county economic development presenter told attendees that roughly 1,400 patents had been filed in the county since February and urged support for local startups and small businesses as engines of job growth.
The presenter said the county's commercial permitting and employment charts show modest growth in some sectors and a small dip in residential permitting tied to higher mortgage rates. He said several large employers ' including Amazon, AdventHealth, Boeing and French electric-aircraft firm Aura Aero ' have projects in the area that the presenter said are expected to add jobs. "We're going to see a trend going up again in employment," the economic development presenter said.
Why it matters: county staff argued…
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