WHO WE SERVE AND CONNECT
FEDERAL PARTNERS
THE STATE OF TEXAS
MAJOR CORPORATIONS
Small & Medium-Sized Businesses
RESEARCH COMMUNITY
VENTURE DEVELOPMENT AND TECH-TRANSFER
FEDERAL PARTNERS
How We Help Our Federal Partners
- Trusted and proactive advisory and support partner
- Support for strategic and tactical innovation missions
- Single-point bridge to all the innovation resources of Texas: regions, research, entrepreneurship, corporates large and small
- Knowledge and insights into Texas differentiation: capabilities, facilities, talent and partners
- Advisory Board with senior scientific, technical, industry and government agency knowledge and experience
- Fast and cost-efficient non-partisan non-profit
- Rapid identification and convening of best-of-breed resources to address federal innovation and scaling challenges: researchers, entrepreneurs and SMEs, corporate scaling partners, investors
- Integration with Texas business and political leadership efforts
- Support for developing technical, logistical and financial solutions, including co-funding activities
- National network extending into Silicon Valley, Boston, Washington DC Metro
- Partnership with large Texas Congressional delegation (CODEL)
THE STATE OF TEXAS
How We Help The State of Texas
- Statewide focus, unaligned with any specific region, institution or university system
- Mission to maximize Texas economic growth
- Proactive identification of major Texas opportunities originating in federal innovation funding: Commands, missions, labs and Centers of Excellence
- Rapid response to opportunities engaging statewide resources
- Insightful leverage of Texas industry and research networks
- Development of major regional/statewide economic opportunities and engines For Regions (Local government, EDCs and related entities)
- Create and respond to major new economic opportunities
- Politically neutral “honest broker” unaligned with other regions
- Resources and insight for leveraging region’s most differentiated assets
- Facilitated access to all of the state’s innovation resources
MAJOR CORPORATIONS
How We Help Major Corporations
- Insights into emerging priorities from federal agencies and political leadership
- Create, develop, or participate in major new federal opportunities
- Enhance or enlarge current opportunities
- Networking and introductions to key federal agency partners
- Access to multiple innovation pipelines, across TRLs 1-6+; curated research, commercialization, and entrepreneurship resources
- Development of strategic partnerships with innovation-intensive companies and institutions of all sizes
- Access to new customers
Small & Medium-Sized Businesses
How We Help Small & Medium-Sized Businesses/Enterprises (SMB)
- New customer acquisition and contracting opportunities with federal agencies and prime contractors
- Identification and access to strategic partners
- Access to funding resources for research and development or commercialization
- Identification and access to potential R&D partners
- Education for doing business with government
- Business development assistance through Small Business Development Centers and technology accelerators statewide
RESEARCH COMMUNITY
How We Help the Research Community
- Funding opportunities
- Corporate partnerships
- Participation in new or enlarged research collaboratives
- Insights into federal and corporate innovation priorities
- Resources to accelerate and facilitate research commercialization
VENTURE DEVELOPMENT AND TECH-TRANSFER
How We Help Venture Development & Tech-Transfer Office
- Funding for Technology Development and Commercialization
- Access to corporate partners for innovation ecosystem development and scaling client companies
- Insights into emerging innovation priorities from federal agencies and political leadership
- Participation in strategic initiatives and federal “problem-solving” network.
