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, evaluation, images, modeling.
Example:
- Determination of the shelf life of cookies.
How they can help a new company:
- After saying you have worked with NMSBA, a company is more attractive to potential funders.
Technology Readiness Initiative:
- Accelerate licensed intellectual property.
A gap in funding and other resources exists when a company 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 businesses, enabling them to produce high-value goods and services and have success in New Mexico.
TRGR addresses the gap in knowledge transfer and technological advancement when a New Mexico company licenses a laboratory technology or participates in a research partnership. It provides these New Mexico companies the ability to leverage research and technology development from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories to accelerate product development.
The NMSBA assists with Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA), which are formal research and development agreements between a federal agency and one or more non-federal parties to conduct collaborative research and development in any area that is consistent with the mission of the federal agency. They can help a company better understand the product, market, and technology. The business must have a New Mexico gross receipts tax (GRT) number.
Things they can’t do:
- Build or improve your prototype. They can build a three-dimensional virtual model and test it.
Application:
There is no application deadline. The application is available online. They need a point of contact and there will be a principal investigator in the lab. They have a high acceptance rate.