By SANDY JONES
Director
Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce
New Mexico Small Business Assistance works with all industries and can be found at www.nmsbaprogram.org/.
What they do:
- Testing, evaluating, imaging, modeling.
Example:
- Determining cookie shelf life.
How they can help a new venture:
- After saying you have worked with NMSBA, a company is more attractive to potential funders.
Tech Readiness Initiative:
- Accelerates Licensed Intellectual Property.
There is a gap in funding and other resources when a business is maturing a technology from the laboratory research phase to commercial application. The TRGR Technology Readiness Initiative provides a powerful new mechanism for Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories to foster the successful transition of laboratory technologies to New Mexico companies enabling them to produce high value goods and services and become successful in New Mexico.
TRGR addresses the gap of knowledge transfer and technology advancement when a New Mexico business licenses a laboratory technology or engages in a research partnership. It gives these New Mexico businesses the ability to leverage research and technology development from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories to expedite product development.
NMSBA helps with Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) are formal research and development agreements between a Federal agency and one or more non-Federal parties to perform collaborative research and development in any area that is consistent with the Federal agency’s mission. They can help a business gain a better understanding of product, market and tech. The business needs to have a New Mexico Gross Receipt Tax (GRT) number.
Things they cannot do:
- Build or improve upon your prototype. They can build a 3-D virtual model and test it.
Application:
There is no application deadline. The application is available online. They need one point of contact and there will be a Primary Investigator at the Lab. They have a high acceptance rate.