Ohio Third Frontier
Innovation Creating Opportunity

The Ohio Third Frontier represents an unprecedented and bipartisan commitment to expand Ohio's technological strengths and promote commercialization that leads to economic prosperity throughout Ohio. Designed to build world-class research programs, nurture early-stage companies, and foster technology development that makes existing industries more productive, Ohio Third Frontier creates opportunity through innovation.

"Ohio's $1.6 billion Third Frontier initiative is a comprehensive, professionally run effort to build world-class research capacity, promote interaction between research and industry, and commercialize R&D." - National Governor's Association and Pew Center for the States

Ohio Third Frontier targets its investments to support technology areas that represent Ohio's key competitive opportunities:

  • Advanced and Alternative Energy
  • Biomedical
  • Advanced Materials
  • Instruments - Controls - Electronics
  • Advanced Propulsion


 Ohio Third Frontier's Impact
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Ohio Third Frontier
Helping Ohioans Prosper

Shannon Swift was getting desperate. He was laid off from the General Motors DMAX plant in Moraine, Ohio, a place where he thought he would work for the rest of his life.

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