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The mission of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (MTECH), an initiative of the A. James Clark School of Engineering and Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology, is to enable technology commercialization, strengthen companies, and catalyze new ventures in Maryland. MTECH's services for Maryland companies and the University community include: research funding, a leading accelerator and business incubator, biotechnology services and training, entrepreneurship programs, and manufacturing consulting. (web site)

Fish & Richardson P.C. is a national law firm with 300 lawyers in eight offices: Boston, Dallas, Delaware, New York, San Diego, Silicon Valley, Twin Cities, and Washington, DC. The firm is one of the largest firms practicing intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law and the only firm with a truly national intellectual property practice. Founded in 1878, the firm represented Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and the Wright Brothers. For 125 years we have served great innovators, helping to protect countless ideas, nurture discoveries, and bring new concepts to market. The firm prosecuted and litigated many of the fundamental patents of an industrialized America, serving corporations creating the cutting-edge technologies of the day: the telephone, the air-brake, the steam turbine, the automobile, and the radio. Frederick Fish, the firm's founder, was for many years the acknowledged leader of the patent bar of the entire country at a time when patents were more important than they had ever been. Today, the firm continues to represent great innovators working in cutting-edge technologies. (company web site)

TEDCO The misison of the Technology Development corporation is to: facilitate the creation of businesses and foster their growth throughout all regions of the State through the development and transfer of technology; as well as to respond to the needs of the R&D community by establishing and managing programs that fill gaps in the innovation process, focusing on those critical areas where the organization can add unique value, operating in partnership with other organizations through a flexible, technically oriented professional staff. Today, the firm continues to represent great innovators working in cutting-edge technologies. TEDCO offeres access to capital, access to facilities, access to technology, and access to networks. (web site)

The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance fosters invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship in higher education as a way of creating innovative, commercially viable, and socially beneficial businesses and employment opportunities in the United States. The program was founded on the premise that invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship are essential components of the higher education curriculum and vital to the nation's economic future. The NCIIA works with colleges and universities to build collaborative experiential learning programs that help nurture a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs with strong technical and business skills and the tools and intention to make the world a better place. (web site)

The Greater Baltimore Technology Council is devoted to one goal: growing the region's tech community. We ask tech companies what they need to grow and provide it through innovative programs. We create forums where organizations can meet, learn and do business. And we celebrate the community's successes, spreading the word that technology businesses thrive here.

A nonprofit organization, the GBTC is possible because of grants from the Abell Foundation and the Maryland Department of Business an Economic Development. (web site)

Technology companies join the Technology Council of Maryland to grow their businesses, to gain and share knowledge, and to benefit from the collective force of the industry. To promote the success of the region's diverse technology businesses, TCM hosts informational and networking programs, encourages entrepreneurship as an economic engine, and advocates for a business environment in which technology companies can thrive. (web site)