Several resources are available through the UMass Lowell New Venture Initiative, which are meant to assist startups and technologies that are, and become, part of our pipeline.
- Development of a mentor team
- UMass Lowell inside mentoring
- Outside/Third party programs
- Market research and analysis
- In-house
- Contract-based
- Grant identification and application support working closely with the Vice Provost Research staff
- I-Corp
- SBIR/STTR
- Mentor Protégé
- UMass Translational and Commercialization Grant particularly for proof of concept and prototyping
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Business model, plan and pitch development
- Financing network introductions and facilitation
- Technical and prototype milestone and development work
- Clinical and regulatory path due diligence
- Underwriting UMass Lowell and UMass system-wide resources that can be better used by startups to achieve early milestones
- Core Research Facilities
- Design, prototyping and testing services