This is a new era in Oklahoma, one that embraces innovation, science and technology, and leverages on our state’s unique assets to make Oklahoma a Top Ten state for innovation.

Oklahoma is home to an expanding innovation ecosystem. There’s a confluence of forces within state leadership, industry, and the philanthropic community to grow Oklahoma’s innovation economy.

Oklahoma has a commitment to creating an environment that embraces and nurtures innovative thinking.

The Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) is the state's agency for technology-based economic development. We are a results-driven, high-performing organization that increases research activity and public/private partnerships leading to innovation in the core tech sectors most important to Oklahoma's economy, including Aerospace - Defense and Autonomous, Biotechnology and Life Sciences, and Energy Diversification. This results in new businesses, job growth, higher wages, and an improved quality of life for the citizens of Oklahoma.

The 2022 OCAST Impact Report highlights the agency's activities toward diversifying and growing Oklahoma's economy. With a history of proven success OCAST is now embarking on a bold new plan for the future – a future based on realizing opportunities in science, technology and innovation that will amplify Oklahoma's research strengths, its industrial and military complex and its legacy of natural resources.

OCAST is well positioned as a catalyst for exciting new opportunities in Oklahoma's high-growth areas – aerospace and autonomous systems; bioscience and biotechnology; and energy diversification.