The President Barack Obama administration announced Tuesday the start of the third round of the $26 million multi-agency “Advanced Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge” to foster innovation-fueled job creation through public-private partnerships.
The Puerto Rico office of the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Puerto Rico Professional College of Engineers and Land Surveyors will cosponsor on May 8, the Annual Business Matchmaking Event both organizations have conducted jointly for the past eight years.
The U.S. Small Business Administration approved 264 loans in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands during the first six months of fiscal year 2012, a 13 percent increase over loans approved during the same period the previous year, the agency said Thursday.
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