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Technology Start-Up Boot Camp Sponsors and Supporting Organizations (2005)
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.
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo is a versatile law firm of more than 450 highly qualified and dedicated attorneys representing diverse international clients in many industries, who turn to them for a wide range of legal services and resources. Mintz's clients include major public corporations, privately held and family businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups and emerging growth companies, investors, underwriters, directors and officers, research scientists, medical and academic institutions, public agencies and industry associations. The firm's legal expertise is coupled with industry knowledge in a wide range of industries, including recognized leadership in a number of fields where the Mintz's long track record helping clients to succeed has firmly established it as a "go-to" firm: biotechnology and life sciences, communications and information technology, high technology, and health care. Attorneys at Mintz Levin are driven by an entrepreneurial zeal that is one of the firm's defining characteristics and which translates into the innovative, energetic representation of clients.
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.
The Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area is a powerful force for the advancement of higher education in and around the nation's capital. Comprised of twelve universities and two colleges, the Consortium provides 130,000 students with opportunities to benefit from the combined resources of its members. The Consortium's record of public service is augmented by its impressive history of working with the area's government, business, school and community leaders to improve educational opportunities for all.
As one of the first and leading entrepreneurial centers in the nation, the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship located at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland facilitates, supports and guides student enterprise growth. As a nationally recognized leader in entrepreneurship education, the Center uses its strategic position within the Smith School to leverage resources from the entire University to assist enterprises, thereby acting as a window to the substantial entrepreneurial resources at the University of Maryland.
The Greater Baltimore Technology Council is devoted to one goal: growing the region's tech community. The GBTC creates forums where organizations can meet, learn and do business. A nonprofit organization, the GBTC is possible because of grants from the Abell Foundation and the Maryland Department of Business an Economic Development.
MdBio, Inc. is a private, non-profit corporation that offers a variety of programs to advance the commercial development of bioscience in Maryland.
The Tech Council of Maryland's mission is to serve as the preeminent technology think-tank where executives discuss ideas, innovate, and solve technology issues that lead to bigger business. With more than 600 member companies representing more than 200,000 forward thinkers from biotechnology, advanced technology, government, academia and the service provider industry, the Tech Council creates an environment where technology companies meet, learn and collaborate.
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