Proven TMAC services that support the innovation pipeline and accelerate technology commercialization:
National Innovation Marketplace:
-Lists >$3B of buying opportunities for new ideas, new research, or new products or processes.
-Provides national business to business exposure of a firm’s ideas, capabilities, services, or products.
-Merwyn Business Simulator provides quick assessments and high confidence market viability of an idea or technology.
Asset Inventory Management System offers rapid access to research, equipment, facilities, and researchers from ten Texas universities.
Innovation Engineering Management System increases innovation by 3-6X and reduces risk by 30-80%.
Innovation Labs Portal offers joint research or problem solving on technological or business process opportunities.
Technology Driven Market Intelligence to assess or validate the need and the opportunity for a technology.
Technology Scouting identifies complimentary, supplementary, or competing technologies.
Lean Product Development services assure lowest cost in sync with product requirements.
Supplier Scouting finds suppliers to produce the technology or product or its components.
Design for Manufacturability and Automation ensures proper design for automation or robotic production.
Prototyping services verify product design and feasibility of manufacturing.
Sustainability services to ensure the product, its processes, and the raw materials will be energy and environmentally friendly and sustainable.
Facilities design service to optimize production capacity and minimize cost.
Supply Chain Development to create a best practice supply chain.
Export-Tech services create and support a viable exporting strategy.
“Buy American” procurements to sell current products or develop new products for a future demand.
Links to Small Business Development Centers for assistance with business plan development and capital access.
Access to Angel Networks and Venture Funders to provide access to capital or financial counseling and feedback.
Review of ETF & SBIR/STTR grant funding applications to enhance the likelihood of obtaining funding.
Family Business Advisor program to protect and grow family/company assets during leadership transitions.