With business incubators and organizations across the state helping entrepreneurs go from concept to production, as well as easy online access to licensing requirements, business plan templates, and start-up FAQs & guides, Oklahoma’s pro-entrepreneurship environment now ranks 4th in the nation.

Google Inc. has announced plans to invest $600 million to build a data center complex at MidAmerica Industrial Park in Pryor, Oklahoma. The announcement was made by Lloyd Taylor, Director of Global Operations for Google, and MidAmerica Industrial Park Administrator Sanders Mitchell at an event at MidAmerica, which included Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry.

The 2007 Inc. 5 000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the nation includes 46 Oklahoma companies. Three of those, Diamondback Energy Services, Oklahoma City, Select Engineering, Tulsa, and Perimeter Technology, Oklahoma City, also made the Inc. 500 list, which appears in the Inc. Magazine’s  issue.

During the past four decades, international trade has grown from a relatively insignificant slice to nearly a third of U.S. domestic economic activity. To cater to the global economy’s palate, U.S. manufacturers and service industries have specialized and become more efficient in producing goods and services that suit the international menu.

Oklahoma is becoming one of America’s most energetic and innovative regions for biosciences research and technology commercialization. Cutting-edge research, however, is only part of the reason for our success in the life sciences: Oklahoma is also one of the most livable, family-friendly states in the country.