Supplement: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Rowan University

A Region Defined

Bridging the Gap

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

First State Innovation

Keystone Innovation Zones

NJIT's Enterprise Development Center

The Science Center

For Thomas Pote, massaging his clients makes up more than a business tactic. At the age of 19, he studied massage at the Lourdes Institute of Wholistic Studies in Collingswood, NJ. At the same time he worked toward a degree in health promotion and fitness management at Rowan University. In October 2006 he combined those experiences to launch Mobile Massage. "We bring the luxury of a spa massage to our clients," Pote says.

At Rowan, Thomas Bryant, executive director of the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE), and his colleagues helped Pote along, even though he was not a student in the CIE credit program. Bryant says, "We took him out to some networking events, and coached him a bit." With a wide range of experience ...