Category: Incubator
Now, more than ever, start-ups can use all the help they can get. The San Jose BioCenter will provide your biotech or cleantech company with support for fundraising, business development, legal, lab support, HR and payroll activities, as well as, provide you with access to our $15 million dollar state-of-the-art laboratory facilities and shared equipment.
“In just 5 years San Jose BioCenter companies have raised over $1 Billion in deals and financing.” -Melinda Richter, Executive Director, San Jose BioCenter
Our mission is to provide life science and cleantech companies with the infrastructure, resources, networks and expertise they need to develop and commercialize their technology. The San Jose BioCenter was awarded the National Business Incubator Association (NBIA) International Incubator of the year award for 2009 because of our exceptional resources, programs and client success rate. After 1.5 years at the San Jose BioCenter, Tacere Pharmaceuticals inked a $145m development deal with Pfizer for its preclinical hepatitis C drug:
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.
Ann Arbor, Michigan was recently listed as the healthiest city to live in by AARP Magazine. The city has actively been engaging with university and private businesses to speed economic development within the city and the state. Along with the numerous enhancements to university facilities to enable researchers, Ann Arbor SPARK has developed a number of programs to accelerate local, technology based and life science business success.1 As a result of this initiative a number of organizations have formed to incubate companies working with technology coming from the University of Michigan, including:
- Michigan Life Science Innovation Center
- Michigan Research Institute
- University of Michigan Medical Innovation Center
The new Biodesign Impact Accelerator is going to be opening up for its initial tenants soon at the Arizona State University (ASU) Biodesign Institute in Tempe, Arizona. This venture advances a new model for technology transfer in collaboration with regional initiatives to bring innovation to the global marketplace.
The new model for commercializing research at the Biodesign Institute includes Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE) and SkySong, the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center. The Impact Accelerator will act like a venture fund to support incubated companies with the inclusion of ASU Technopolis and local partners to continue along Arizona’s Bio Roadmap for building a bioscience infrastructure of international significance.1
The Rochester BioVenture Center became the first incubator in New York’s Finger Lakes region able to support life sciences companies with both wet labs and business services. The biotech incubator is operated by High Tech Rochester to further the organization's mission of economic development in the region.
The Rochester BioVenture Center is located in Henrietta, New York in the University of Rochester Medical Center. The 40K square foot building was transformed from the former Wyeth laboratory into the current business incubator in 2007. Lab and office space is available in sizes ranging from 200 to 1,000 square feet for early stage and mid-sized biotech companies so that they may develop within a community of similar enterprises and remain within the area. The incubator provides access to funding, business services and a number of regular events through High Tech Rochester in affiliation with network partners. The incubator cooperates with many different organizations to facilitate the goal of transforming research into economic development.1
Orange Coast Medical Ventures was the first incubator to come from the University of California, Irvine’s Orange County Business Incubation Network in 2007. The medical device incubator was formed from a university/industry collaboration to develop “flight-ready” technology to the point that it can become attractive to outside investment. The incubator network is fostering an innovation economy in an ecosystem of venture support. UC Irvine is actively working to translate technology to the commercial marketplace within the microcosm of Orange County; this effort involves multiple venture groups within the region and is attracting significant investment.1
The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) business incubator enables very early stage companies to survive the infamous valley of death that often plagues start – ups. M2D2 is part of a greater initiative to strengthen the Massachusetts Innovation Economy and life sciences cluster.
The Lowell based incubator has a network of integral partners that primarily function as multiple units in a collective apparatus to speed commercialization of medical devices. The cooperation of many organizations working together form a system designed to bring discoveries from the lab to market as they occur.
Ben Franklin TechVentures is raising young, early stage companies and developing businesses in a community charged with entrepreneurship and the spirit of economic development. The incubator/ post incubator facility has the hard to come by wet lab space young biotechs need to develop fully in a region centrally located within reach of New York, Philadelphia and New Jersey. In addition to BFTP of Northeastern Pennsylvania, TechVentures is located within Lehigh University’s Mountain Top Campus alongside local incentives and support; and with an expansion in the works, this is an attractive location for any young start up.
The Biotechnology Development Center of Greater Kansas City is a 6,000 square foot incubator adjacent to the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. The incubator was established several years ago and has since initiated a swelling of biotech investment in the region. The Biotechnology Development Center partners, the Kansas Bioscience Authority and KUMC have been developing additional incubator projects in Kansas City and Lawrence, Kansas.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Bioscience Authority’s Bioscience and Technology Business Center at the University of Kansas and the BioMedical Entrepreneurial Research Incubator (BMERI) planned at KUMC began with the initial goals set by the Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute (KCALSI) ten years ago to establish the area as a prominent hub of scientific research in the United States.
The Nidus Center for Scientific Enterprise focuses on incubating plant biotechnology and life science businesses in St. Louis, Missouri. Until this summer the Nidus Center had occupied 40,000 square feet on the campus of Monsanto Company’s world headquarters. Recently, the Nidus Center moved to the Danforth Plant Science Center campus's Bio-Research and Development growth Park (BRDG-Park) freeing the previously held offices and lab space for Monsanto to operate.
