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Promoting Innovation
These are provided as background material and as an overview of the service areas that Ask Graben! supports:
Information supporting Innovation!
Tech-Company Development
Starting or growing a technology-based business requires not only the vision and know-how to develop an innovative technology application (product, process and/or service), but also requires the business management skills to take it successfully to the marketplace. To learn more about technology development and its relationship as part of an overall business model for reaching the market as well as useful online tools and resources, including specific information on starting or growing a tech-based company in Mississippi, click here!
SBIR & STTR
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are two federal programs providing over $2.2 billion annually supporting research and development of innovative technologies. To learn more about these highly competitive programs and how to better compete in them click here!
Other Federal R&D Programs
The SBIR and STTR programs are less than 3% of the available federal funds supporting extramural (money spent outside a federal agency) R&D. To learn more about identifying other federally supported R&D opportunities click here!
Technology Transfer
With increasingly significant amounts of R&D being conducted in university and federal labs, many companies and communities are turning toward these institutions as a source of innovation. To learn more about working with these sources of innovation and the technology transfer processes and resources to capitalize upon them click here!
IBED
Innovation based economic development (IBED) has reached the forefront of many state and community economic development efforts. To learn more about IBED and resources supporting it, click here!
