Resources for Innovators or New Businesses

成人头条 Resources
  •  provides research to governments, businesses, and nonprofit agencies throughout Kansas.
  • Center for Entrepreneurship fosters and promotes entrepreneurial thinking through a wide range of academic and community programs.

  • Kansas Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) offers assistance to small businesses to help secure government contracts.
  •  offers free consultation services and affordable training to grow Kansas entrepreneurs. It also makes available an excellent guide to additional resources available to assist entrepreneurs wishing to start a business in south central Kansas.
  • The maintains a collection of resources necessary for preliminary patent and trademark research.
Patent & Trademark Resources
  •  covers the entire collection of granted patents and published patent applications from the USPTO, the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization

  •  maintains a collection of resources necessary for preliminary patent and trademark research.
  •  is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks.
SBIR/STTR
  • SBIR/STTR Funding Does your business need a boost? Get an introduction to America鈥檚 Largest Seed Fund: U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs.
Other Resources
  •  fosters and promotes the development and distribution of useful inventions and discoveries to the public.
  •  assists entrepreneurs and small businesses throughout the state of Kansas by providing a portal that connects entrepreneurs and small business owners with resources.
  •  helps grow startup, strengthen innovation culture and build support systems.  
  •  (SBA) provides small business loans and assistance programs and initiatives to aid and inform small businesses.
  •  brings connections and collisions to the entrepreneur, startup, and tech communities in 成人头条, Kansas.
  •  mentors provide entrepreneurs with in-depth industry specific business assistance to assist in evaluating ideas and business plans.

Resources for Industry

Research, Design, and Testing 
  • NIAR is known globally for our expertise in the most critical areas of aerospace R&D including composites and advanced materials, digital twin and advanced manufacturing technologies such as automated and additive manufacturing. We provide research, design, testing, certification and training to manufacturing industries and government agencies including the U.S. Department of Defense. 
Workforce
  • Shocker Career Accelerator is your gateway to a talented pool of exceptional WSU Shockers from GED to Ph.D. They possess the education, skills, and professional experience you need to take your organization into the future.
  • (PEAK, KIT, KIR, WOTC, Workforce AID, and Registered Apprenticeships)
  • (One Workforce, TAA, WIOA)
Capital Investment, Machinery & Equipment
  • (HPIP and other tax exemptions)