Category: Research Park
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 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.
The University of South Carolina, Columbia Technology Incubator (USCCTI) is located in downtown Columbia and provides business assistance, access to funding, wet, labs and office space to local ventures within its 43K square foot facility.1, 2
USCCTI is situated within Innovista,3 the University's new research district in the city, designed to incorporate the surrounding community and complement Columbia's Congaree Vista, a vibrant section of the city that has recently undergone numerous redevelopment projects.4
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Technology Incubator was formed several decades ago with the intent to develop the region's high technology economy. The program was incredibly successful and soon the Research and Technology Park sprang up around the Baltimore incubator to house the graduating companies. All residents located on the research park are granted access to UMBC faculty and research facilities.1
Piedmont Triad Research Park's (PTRP) Wet Lab LaunchPad provides resources and amenities to growing high tech companies. According to the Park's website www.ptrp.com the LaunchPad provides the next step up from incubation in the commercialization process for companies in the Winston-Salem, NC region. PTRP's Wet Lab LaunchPad opened in 2007 to accelerate the growth of the research park and to stimulate the local economy with furnished lab and office space within the newly constructed 180K square foot Richard H. Dean Biomedical Research Building.
The Commercialization Center for Innovative Technologies (CCIT) is located in the Technology Centre of New Jersey in New Brunswick. CCIT is a 46,000 square foot incubator with wet labs and office space designed to accelerate small business growth. CCIT is a designated Soft Landings Incubator by the National Business Incubator Association and provides business and marketing services through the New Jersey Economic Development Association's (EDA) Strategic Partner Advantage Network (SPAN). The Incubator provides shared facilities that include conference rooms, office equipment and autoclaves.
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.
The Virginia BioTechnonolgy Research Park opened the state first life sciences business incubator in 1995 through a partnership between Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) the City of Richmond, and the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Virginia BioTechnology Research Park now houses more than a million square feet of research space in Downtown Richmond and is home to more than 60 companies.
The Virginia Bioscience Development Center (VBDC) assists small and early stage companies with developing technology based businesses through planning and strategizing business and marketing plans. The Research Park's website
www.vabiotech.com says that VBDC provides shared facilities at the 27,000 square foot as well as access to VCU MBA teams for consulting and direction.
The University of Central Florida operates the Business Incubator Program that has 8 business incubators including the recently built UCF Sanford Business Incubator which was completed in Sanford this past September. The UCF incubator program also provides access to business development assistance for high technology companies with the UCF Technology Incubator in Orlando. While laboratory space suitable for biological experiments is limited the Bennett Complex has space suitable for laboratory activities.
The University Research Park at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a 355 acre region that is expanding in a second phase to encompass an additional 2,000 acres. While 255 acres of the initial phase is developed including 1.5 million sqaure feet of office and research space the University Research Park comprises 34 buildings including an incubator, an urban innovation center and an accelerator scheduled to open this month. The Metro Innovation Center opened several years ago in downtown Madison to provide an urban setting for IT and medical device companies to grow and prosper.
