Montgomery County now has a one-stop center to help entrepreneurs and researchers turn their ideas and inventions into commercial products.
The Welcome Center for Federal and Academic Technology Transfer, housed at the Shady Grove Innovation Center in Rockville, features an interactive portal to access services and resources available locally. There are brochures and other materials on technology transfer from the county's 19 federal labs.
This week, the center kicked off a speaker series, coordinated by the county's Department of Economic Development, planned for the second Wednesday of each month. Ali Andalibi, a program director with the National Cancer Institute's Small Business Innovation Research Development Center, spoke Wednesday about NCI's latest efforts with the SBIR program.
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Author: Kevin James Shay
