About Us

Established in 2006, The Missouri Rural Enterprise and Innovation Center is a non-profit innovation center located in Kirksville, Missouri.  The MREIC is dedicated to the needs of entrepreneurs in Northeast Missouri. Its primary focus is to enhance entrepreneurship by providing a supportive infrastructure for entrepreneurs allowing them to enhance their capabilities, broaden their network and successfully grow their companies.

MREIC’s location near Truman State University and A.T. Still University allows the center to focus on available University resources to generate new ventures; including innovations in healthy aging and information intensive technologies. MREIC currently is supporting the start-up of client ventures with products ranging from food innovations to construction components and from products with military applications to those for information-intensive security systems.

MREIC encourages regional economic growth based on commercialization of innovations in Northeast Missouri. We provide support to new and established entrepreneurs through both one-on-one advising as well as connections to workshops, funding resources and technology development solutions. We actively pursue a communications program that creates a broader understanding of the role of entrepreneurship in our economy. We are organizing a network for idea exchange opportunities among entrepreneurs--- contact us to join in.