Technology Accelerator
The IMSI Technology Accelerator
The IMSI Technology Accelerator was established to help entrepreneurial companies move from the middle stages of innovation to the later stages of production and commercialization—in critical areas such as sustainability, clean technology, energy efficiency, consumer electronics and health care.
The Accelerator provides pathways for entrepreneurs to fully develop concepts by strengthening relationships between organizations that have innovative ideas or prototypes and those that possess manufacturing assets, technical expertise and financing capabilities.
The Accelerator is best positioned to provide services to middle-stage innovative companies that have achieved one or more of the following milestones:
- Technical success in the form of experimental results or viable prototypes.
- Identified and defined market need with an innovation-enabled solution.
- A credible development plan (business, technical, market).
- A world-class technical and managerial team.
The Accelerator Provides:
Support to move projects from laboratory scale-up through full-scale manufacturing, addressing the significant challenges in quality, yield and process that such transitions require.
Valuable resources for entrepreneurial companies working in clean energy, biotechnology, chemicals, materials to films conversion (with roll-to-roll coating) and sustainable practices.
Support for business partners to achieve the highest level of technical success and market success.
IMSI Service Scope:
- Entrepreneurship development, networking
- Business planning and executive mentoring
- Research guidance (academic & industrial)
- Strategic marketing (development and support)
- Financial structure (venture capital)
- Grant training and support
- Government interactions
- Access to technical support