The Innovation and Small Business Center, located in the Paducah Commerce Center provides the region with a one-stop resource for all small business development and offers targeted business tools for technology and knowledge-based businesses. Business Development Services provided include but are not limited to:

• Funding Assistance
• Financial Analysis and Review
• Business Plan Coaching and Assessment
• Business Valuation Review
• Business Start-Up Assistance
• Certification and Permitting Assistance
• Marketing Assistance
• Seminars and Workshop Offerings

The Innovation and Small Business Center works with Entrepreneurs in three ways:

1. Talent -- Without the right principles guiding your new buisness, your great ideas may never have a chance to succeed. Your local Innovation and Small Business Center uses an industry proven protocol to help guide your new business to grow....wildly!
2. Capital -- Investment capital is the fuel that powers business. Through public-funded investment programs and private investors in the Kentucky Capital Network, your local Innovation and Small Business Center has the financial connections you need to drive your new business.
3. Success -- By working with you to find the perfect mix of business talent and investment capital, your local Innovation and Small Business Center connects you to the resources you need to get your growth company going.

The Innovation and Small Business Center works with the community in three ways:

1. Innovation - To compete in our fast-paces, constantly changing world, we must rely on our greatest assets, the innovative minds of our people. Innovation drives job creation in the knowledge-based economy. Your Innovation and Small Business Center is supporting your community by putting local assets to work for local people.
2. Jobs -- Gone are the days when one large company was the only employer a community needed. A diverse modern economy requires diverse local strategies for economic growth. Your local Innovation and Small Business Center is leading your area's plan for entrepreneurs to create jobs in the knowledge-based economy.
3. Wealth -- by helping innovative, high-growth companies and enabling local venture capital investment, your Innovation and Small Business Center is creating and keeping more wealth in your community. Increased wealth means more ways to create jobs.