• University business schools that can help develop marketing and business plans;
• Contacts with State and private venture capital funds or other sources of funding;
• Intellectual property rights expertise; and
• Consultants who have experience writing ATP proposals.

If you think that you might need one or more of these resources, contact the programs offered in your State and ask them specifically for help accessing the resource(s) of interest. If your organization offers one or more of these types of resources, then make sure that the State programs know about you so that they can refer potential clients to you.

If your State cannot provide you with the kind of help you need, try accessing the resources you desire through programs run by other, nearby States. Contact information for relevant State programs is available through the State Science and Technology Institute's website (http://www.ssti.org/states.htm). In addition, programs in States which have seen relatively little ATP money are listed below.

Links to State Resources
Alaska Alaska Science and Technology Foundation www.astf.org ph: 907-272-4333 Hawaii Hawaii Technology Development Corporation www.htdc.org ph: 808-539-3600 Kansas Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation www.ktec.com ktec@ktec.com ph: 785-296-5272 Montana Montana Department of Commerce commerce.state.mt.us ph: 406-444-3814 Montana SBIR Initiative sbir.state.mt.us ph:406-444-7062	North Dakota Center for Innovation www.innovators.net steph@innovators.net ph: 701-777-3132 South Dakota Center of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing and Production www.sdsmt.edu/syseng/me/camp/index.html Manufacturing Extension Partnership ph:800-722-2166 Vermont Vermont Department of Economic Development www.thinkvermont.com tom@thinkvermont.com ph: 802-828-3224

Date created: November 1999
Last updated: April 11, 2005