VBIA MISSION

The Virginia Business Incubation Association (VBIA) promotes, encourages, and supports the successful establishment and operation of small business incubation programs to stimulate economic development activity in Virginia through the creation of new jobs, new investment and new business formation.

Virginia Conference on Economic Gardening

An Entrepreneurial Approach to Economic Development
Held at the Hotel Roanoke on October 24-25, 2011

The Virginia Conference on Economic Gardening was our most successful conference ever with over 100 attendees! Thanks again to our sponsors. Without them we could not put on the conference. And, thank you to the many speakers and moderators who provided highly useful information for the attendees and of course to the attendees. The Economic Gardening approach to economic development is being actively investigated in several Virginia communities and a pilot program is underway in Hampton Roads. We hope to track these programs and to report on them as they move forward. 

The conference presentations can be found at: http://www.vbia.org/Annual_Conference2011

2011 Donna Noble Award Winner - Offspring Solutions of Fairfax, Virginia 

The VBIA Board of Directors established the Donna Noble Incubator Client Award in 2001 in honor of one of its founding Board members, Donna Noble, who passed away in 2001, at the age of 36. Donna was a very energetic and enthusiastic person and was truly dedicated to the incubation industry and to promoting entrepreneurship. Donna was the marketing manager for Incubator AMERICA! in Arlington, Virginia, the sponsor of the award. The award is presented to a company chosen as the most outstanding incubator client from submittals from Virginia incubator programs.

Offspring Solutions was founded in 2003 as a provider of Enterprise Systems Lifecycle Support, Business Intelligence, Data Management and IT Service Management products and services.  Offspring has partnered with companies and government, both large and small, to bring about unique solutions to the most pressing problems in information technology.  The company is partnering with major medical schools to define clinical bioinformatics architectures to working with home health facilities to optimize care to managing multi-million dollar IT infrastructures.  Offspring has been particularly active in the care of our returning veterans and developed a working relationship with the Wounded Warrior project.  With the assistance of the Fairfax Innovation Center, Offspring has grown the company from three employees to fourteen and increased its revenue by over 300%.  Recently, Offspring was awarded a five-year Tactical Project Management Support Services contract with the Department of Veteran Affairs worth up to $62 million.  Visit: www.offspringsolutions.com.

Fairfax Innovation Center is a business accelerator program designed to help start-up businesses grow and achieve maximum success. Located in Old Town Fairfax, the Fairfax Innovation Center provides furnished office space, telephone and receptionist service, but unlike typical executive suites, we also offer access to business advisors, networking opportunities, and all of the quality educational programs offered at the Mason Enterprise Center.

As a partnership initiative between the George Mason School of Public Policy and the City of Fairfax Economic Development Authority (EDA), Fairfax Innovation Center is the largest, university-based business incubator in the Commonwealth of Virginia, featuring over 49 office spaces and approximately 29,000 square feet. In addition, the Center is home to Mason's International Business Accelerator – one of only three in the country. This USA Business Now service assists foreign businesses in establishing a U.S. subsidiary at the Center in order to introduce their products and services to the U.S. market. 

Fairfax Innovation Center
4031 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
(703) 277-7700