Innovation & Collaboration
The Gulf Blue Initiative
As part of the Gulf Blue initiative, we coordinate with scientists, engineers, educators, businesses, entrepreneurs, and visionaries across the Mississippi Gulf Coast to aid in the acceleration of both economic growth and innovation discovery.
The maritime infrastructure on the Mississippi Gulf Coast includes laboratories, a fabrication shop, research vessels, a 24-hour connected workspace for blue tech innovators in the Gulf & ship Island Building, and even a relocatable instrumented field site that can be used in littoral and deepwater testing, evaluating, and demonstrating uncrewed systems over a broad range of oceanographic, environmental, and acoustic channel propagation variabilities.
Spaces for Innovation
The Gulf & Ship Island Building is a collaborative workspace for blue tech innovation located in the Gulfport Blue Economy Innovation District. Entrepreneurs and startups come here to capitalize on…
The Thad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Center is the hub of the marine aquaculture program at The University of Southern Mississippi. The world-renowned center provides access to critical infrastructure and aquaculture…
The National Science Foundation selected the Gulf-Caribbean Oceanographic Consortium, cooperatively led by The University of Southern Mississippi and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, to operate the R/V Gilbert R. Mason…
USM’s Roger F. Wicker Center for Ocean Enterprise (opening 2023) is a research and development partnership program focused on uncrewed maritime systems and blue technology innovation. The facility hosts the…
The University of Southern Mississippi’s Marine Research Center features 18,000 square feet of classrooms, technology laboratories, a fabrication shop, and a deep test tank for university research in uncrewed maritime…
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The Gulf Blue Navigator program leverages the Mississippi Gulf Coast’s position as an innovation gateway to support late-stage startups, shorten their development timeline, and accelerate their time to revenue. Participating companies will gain market access while engaging with university, industry, state, and federal partners and potential customers. The Gulf Blue Navigator provides access to state-of-the art research facilities, wet labs, co-working space, networking, and year-round access to warm coastal waters.
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Gulf & Ship Island Building
2605 13th Street
Gulfport, MS 39501
228-896-2824
info@GulfBlue.org