Champions of Innovation

Through Champions of Innovation, you’ll learn first-hand about Collier’s most innovative companies. These open house events allow business and community leaders to visit their facilities in an effort to build an increased awareness of their innovative products, processes and services.

Champions of Innovation host locations included:

January 22, 2009 - 4What Interactive Did you know that Collier County is home to one of the most experienced and trusted interactive agencies in the marketplace, a company that has been providing innovative multi-media products and serveces for fortune 500 firms worldwide since 1995.

February 6, 2009 - Parker Hannifin Did you know that Collier County is home to the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies, providing systematic, preciscion-engineered solutions for a wide variety of commercial, mobile, industrial and aerospace markets?

March 26, 2009 - Air Technology, Inc. Did you know that Collier County is home to a company that is a leader in providing Turbine Engine MRO and helicopter parts and repair solutions?

April 23, 2009 - Airflyte, Inc. Did you know that Collier County is home to a leading manufacturer of slip ring assemblies for a wide variety of applications, which are built in a multitude of configurations from very small capsules to diameters as large as ten feet for military applications?

May 14, 2009 - Arthrex Did you know that Collier County has a surgical device manufacturing company with over 800 employees and is considered the global leader in arthroscopic surgery and sports medicine innovation with over 2,000 surgeons visiting annually to learn about new less invasive surgical techniques?

June 4, 2009 - Neighborhood America An Award-winning social software provider that recently announced a deal with Microsoft. A company that celebrates a decade of innovation this year and supports online communities for some of the Nation's biggest brands, including Kodak Gallery, Omni Hotels and Fox News.