SBA Introduces Online Tutorials for Small Businesses Seeking Federal R&D...
Created on August 2, 2016 The U.S. Small Business Administration released its highly anticipated Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) online tutorials to help small businesses navigate the SBIR...
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Minority Entrepreneurs and the Innovation Ecosystem
Created on August 8, 2016 Cross post from Medium U.S. Demographics Are Key To Our Economic Destiny This year for the first time, the United States served as an official partner country of the world’s...
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Where’s the money? Getting funding from the SBA
The federal government has $2.5 billion that it can give to small business owners every year. Mark Walsh, the head of investment and innovation at the SBA, and Nina Tandon, the co-founder and CEO of...
View ArticleMBDA Sparking Innovation through New Outreach Initiative
It all starts with an idea. Sometimes it can be as simple as a “what-if” lodged in the back of our minds that can spark the next great invention. A simple idea, when coupled with ingenuity and...
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MBDA’s Inclusive Innovation in Action Event Draws Chicago’s Tech Community...
With the U.S. population poised to shift to ‘majority minority’ status during the next few decades, the topic of inclusive innovation in global high-growth industries took center stage at an MBDA event...
View ArticleWhy the future success of our economy depends on the expansion of U.S....
Any armchair economist will tell you that entrepreneurship is central to a healthy economy. What they probably won’t tell you is that the rate of entrepreneurship in the United States has...
View ArticleInnovation Can Help Narrow the Wealth Gap: MBEs Own Just as Many Patents as...
For the first time, the Census Bureau has collected information about ownership of intellectual property in its 2012 Survey of Business Owners (SBO). We now have data to verify what we’ve known for...
View ArticleSBA Launches 2017 InnovateHER Business Challenge for Innovations That Empower...
The U.S. Small Business Administration announced the launch of the 2017 InnovateHER: Innovating for Women Business Challenge, a nationwide business competition to drive attention and resources to...
View ArticleAtlanta Leads the Way with Regional Innovation Ecosystems
Among our Nation’s fastest growing cities, Atlanta has features that position it as a hub of the burgeoning inclusive innovation ecosystem in the United States. Chief among these features are several...
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Feb. 11 is National Inventor's Day: Eight Steps to Secure Your Patent
Saturday, Feb. 11 is National Inventor's Day according to www.nationalcalendarday.org - what better time to research what you need to get that brilliant idea patented and business started - here's how...
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Celebrating small business during National Consumer Protection Week
This week is National Consumer Protection Week, but what the FTC does to protect consumers is only part of the story. We also work hard to help small business get down to business. Here are just a few...
View ArticleNominations Sought for National Medal of Technology and Innovation
The Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is seeking nominations for the 2017 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. The medal is presented each year by the...
View ArticleSBA Expands its Emerging Leaders Initiative Helping Small Businesses to Thrive
Recruitment now underway to help increase small business development in underserved communities The U.S. Small Business Administration today announced the launch of the 2017 Emerging Leaders...
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Rutgers CUEED Pipeline to Inclusive Innovation Boot Camp Application
The Rutgers University Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development’s (CUEED) Pipeline to Inclusive Innovation Initiative aims to increase the number of under-represented inventors,...
View ArticleMBDA Participates in the First Ever “Inclusive Innovation House” at SXSW
Usable Tech Co. in partnership with the U.S. Department of Commerce, Minority Business Development Agency’s (MBDA) recently funded grant recipient Rutgers University Center for Urban Entrepreneurship...
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