Business Incubators

VIRGINIA INCUBATORS

Business Incubation Center
www.cbponline.org/incubator
The mission of the Business Incubation Center (BIC) at the Community Business Partnership is to provide an atmosphere where small businesses can grow and prosper. The BIC is able to do so by offering an array of business support resources and services developed by the BIC and its network of contacts. The incubator clients create jobs, revitalize neighborhoods and strengthen the local economy. BIC offers its services in the following ways:

-- Offering Office Space with unlimited counseling services from expert counselors including Small Business Development Center, Women's Business Center, Business Finance Center and Financial Education Center for Women Entrepreneurs
-- Virtual Office Facilities
-- Meeting Rooms and Training Rooms for rent

Fairfax County EDA
www.fairfaxbiotech.biz
The Fairfax County BioAccelerator, located in Springfield, can accommodate up to 12 early-stage bioscience, biomedical and bioinformatics companies.

Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce Incubator
www.restonchamber.org/INCspire/tabid/2240/Default.aspx
The Reston Chamber of Commerce offers extended services to selected entrepreneurs, such as 30 free hours of consulting, along with a Virtual Incubator, for those firms who need the support but not the office space.

The Mason Enterprise Center
www.masonenterprisecenter.org
The Mason Enterprise Center offers executive-suite office space in Fairfax City for technology firms on the rise.

Fairfax Innovation Center
www.fairfaxinnovationcenter.org/
The Fairfax Innovation Center, a business incubator located at the Mason Enterprise Center in Old Town Fairfax, provides furnished office space, telephone and receptionist service to start-up businesses. It is the largest, university-based business incubator in the Commonwealth of Virginia, featuring over 49 office spaces. Start-ups located here also have access to the business advisors, networking opportunities and the full range of quality educational programs offered by the Mason Enterprise Center.

Teqcorner
www.teqcorner.com
Teqcorner offers short-term, flexible leases to start-up, high growth technology firms.

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MARYLAND INCUBATORS

Chesapeake Innovation Center (CIC):
http://www.cic-tech.org/
The Chesapeake Innovation Center (CIC) is a business incubator that serves as a hub of technology commercialization. One of the focuses of the CIC is the development of firms specializing in homeland security technology, the first in the nation with this focus.

Human Vision Incubator
www.humanvision.com
The Human Vision Incubator is a privately run facility operated by a high tech entrepreneur. Acceptance into the incubator is by invitation only. The selected firms will receive business and technical assistance from the owner. Flexible office suites are available for 4 to 5 small high tech firms.

Maryland Technology Development Center (MTDC), Montgomery County, MD
www.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgtmpl.asp?url=/content/ded/incub/mtdc/index.asp
Currently under the management of Montgomery County, the state-of-the-art 55,000, square foot facility opened in 1999 and is consistently fully leased to over 30 start-up and early stage biotechnology and information technology companies.

NeoTech Incubator
www.hceda.org/CBTD/neotech.aspx
The Center for Business and Technology Development, part of the Howard County Economic Development Authority, is home to The NeoTech Incubator, created to assist start-up firms in the areas of computer hardware and software development, telecommunications hardware development, and Internet and Web development.

Prince George's County Technology Assistance Centre (TAC) Incubator
http://www.pgcedc.com/pages/hightech.tacincubator.html
The Prince George's County Technology Assistance Center (TAC) Incubator provides shared services, managerial and technical assistance and flexible office space for small technology firms.

The Technology Growth Center at University Town Center
www.universitytowncenter.net/business_incubator.html
The Technology Growth Center offers assistance with business plan development and financing, technical assistance and access to facilities at the U. of Md., and moderately priced facilities in a million-square foot office complex adjacent to a metro station and shopping mall

University of Maryland-Technology Advancement Program (TAP)
www.tap.umd.edu/
The Technology Advancement Program (TAP) is a business incubation program located on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. TAP focuses on providing technical and business support to start-up and early-stage companies that are developing and commercializing technology-based products and services.

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D.C. INCUBATORS

Affinity Lab LLC
www.affinitylab.com
Affinity Lab provides basic infrastructure and collective workspace for a variety of media production companies, freelancers and entrepreneurs of growing enterprises in Washington DC. They act as both an incubator and an executive office suite.

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INTERNATIONAL/FOREIGN INCUBATORS

Advase International
www.advanse.com
A spin off of Electricite de France (EDF), Advase operates as an independent, women-owned consulting firm, that provides incubation and consulting services for both US and international technology companies.

The Hungarian Incubator (HTEC)
http://usa.htec.hu/index.html
The Hungarian Technology Center was founded in October 2003 by the Hungarian Ministry of Informatics and Communications. The main task of the Center is to help Hungarian small and medium sized ventures to enter the American market. Apart from this it supports establishment of American companies in Hungary.

Incubator AMERICA!
www.incubatoramerica.com
Located in Arlington Va, Incubator AMERICA! Provides ready to use office space outfitted with state of the art technology for foreign firms.