Caza Innovations expanding opportunities for research and development in Bowling Green
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – With the ever growing expansion of Bowling Green in Warren County, opportunity is growing right alongside it.
Caza Innovations has recently announced that they have moved to Bowling Green, and with them has come the potential for even more growth of ideas and business opportunities for the area and its residents.
Kent Murphy, CEO and founder of Caza Innovations, said that with Bowling Green’s growth and promising future, moving here was an easy choice.
“It’s an exciting place. I think the the vision for Bowling Green from Ron and from, Dr. Caboni at WKU, really excited us just we’ve made many trips, visited lots of people. We took tours of the university. Other business folks within Bowling Green. And, just the whole experience has been very positive,” Murphy said.
Bowling Green has seen some incredible growth, especially among the businesses that call the city home, but time has now come to diversify and expand into new sectors of business. With Caza Innovation’s presence now in Bowling Green, opportunities for research and expansion into new tech will become a staple of Bowling Green.
“I feel again, Bowling Green has been very blessed through all the economic development success. And this opens up a whole new chapter for our community toward innovation and diversification and taking research and developing new products and new companies, everything from kitty litter to things that can help better cure cancer I mean, it’s to me, it’s just incredible,” said Ron Bunch, CEO of the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce.
Western Kentucky University is looking to benefit from Caza Innovations arrival as well. With WKU looking to become the state’s first R-2 research institution, Caza Innovations will allow students to work on groundbreaking projects earlier in the college experience than most universities. Boosting not only WKU search for R2 status but providing valuable experience to the students as well.
“We take knowledge and make it usable and useful for our students. And there’s no better way to do that than to engage in hands on research projects that are applied in nature and Caza Innovations does exactly that. They take ideas and they build products out of those ideas. What tremendous opportunity for young people to be involved in that from as soon as they’re ready. And that’s one of the things that differentiates WKU, from the larger research institutions in our state, because we focus on the undergraduate experience. Those young people get research opportunities as soon as they’re ready. Or in many other institutions, you might not even sniff a lab until you were a senior or a graduate student,” said Dr. Timothy Caboni, president of Western Kentucky University.
When WKU reaches R-2 research status, it will put them on the same pedestal as universities like Texas Christian University, Villanova University and Wake Forest University.
