Category: Chicago
The Chicago Technology Park exists as part of the larger Illinois Medical District to provide a home to the many businesses generated or attracted by the research and care provided through the District. The Research Center is the Technology Park’s business incubator where young companies and their cohort of partners may build businesses around innovation. The biotech incubator supports entrepreneurs with a network of consortia to fund and direct growth for success.
The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago was recently awarded $4.5M for refurbishing an existing building in the IIT University Technology Park (UTP) to be used as a business incubator. The September 15, 2009 Daily Herald article explains that the federal funds for the renovation will come from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
In addition to the newly planned incubator, IIT operates a number of entrepreneurial and workforce training programs in cooperation with the IIT Office of Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property. The Interprofessional Projects Program (IPRO) pairs students with mentors to solve real world problems with an entrepreneurial focus. The Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center (KEP) assists high technology start-up formation and business planning for technology based ventures. These programs couple with the Incubator at IIT-UTP which just opened this year to provide research and development space as well as business assistance for early stage enterprises.
BioTech Circle (BTC) is a resource for people interested in staying current with biotech information.
The archives date back to 2003 and include scientific articles from primary literature, patents and other articles of a relevant nature. The BioTech Circle website is at www.techmanage.net, the site is organized by Joanne Gucwa and her partner Kazumi Lino. They developed the site in 2001 when they realized the amount of information being generated in the field of bioscience; they decided to make their solution available on the Internet. In addition to the resources already mentioned they offer a variety of professional services in the field of information technology.
