Project Examples
Please refer to the program guidelines for information on the eligible focus areas for current RDG proposals.
Topics of successful Regional Development Grant proposals have included:
- Determining the feasibility of a marine incubator in Eastern North Carolina
- Bridging the gap between Western North Carolina farmers and biofuels production
- Analyzing the Northeast Region's potential for benefiting from biotechnology
- Developing strategy for creating an industry cluster in the Piedmont Triad
- Preparing to leverage opportunities created for the Charlotte area by the North Carolina Research Campus
- Asset inventory of biotechnology and biotechnology-related industries in the
Greater Charlotte region - Assessing niche market demand for North Carolina mariculture products
- Conducting an engineering study for a pilot extraction facility in Eastern North Carolina
- Equipping a new wet lab facility for start-up biotech companies in Piedmont North Carolina
- Equipping a GMP facility for use by medicinal herb businesses in Western North Carolina
- Establishing a pilot hatchery to support the growing mariculture industry in Southeastern North Carolina