Text of the 2008 State of the City address Delivered by Mayor Bob Coble Feb. 7, 2008 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center Office of Economic Development/Business in Motion
The City's Office of Economic Development received state and national awards for partnering with the University of South Carolina in establishing the USC Columbia Technology Incubator. The Incubator has assisted sixty-three companies and created five hundred and fifty-four new jobs, including one hundred and forty-two minority and female jobs. It is also home to three companies in our International Business Center. One company that graduated from the Incubator and will be in Innovista is Collexis. Collexis software searches and mines large amounts of data and information. Grant Jackson called Collexis "Google on steroids." Joining us tonight from Collexis is Larissa Kulcsar.