Assist, using years of entrepreneurial experience, with all phases of the business commercialization and launch process (discovery, licensing, business planning, team-building, fundraising, etc.).
Ensure your financial records are current and organized appropriately for review by potential lenders or investors.
Help you comply with grant and government reporting requirements.
Enable you to easily take advantage of relevant R&D, job creation, or other tax credits. Provide referrals to resources for professional liability and business owners’ insurance.
Assist you with applications for a SBIR award or other grant/loan funding.
Help you best share information about your research, commercialization plan with milestones, and other critical pieces so that they align with the expectations of the funding agency.
Host your business in one of two incubators: the Germantown Innovation Center (GIC) and the Rockville Innovation Center (RIC), managed by BHI, with features that include turn-key office space, wet lab space, shared kitchenette, flexible lease obligations, and access to the BHI team and its network of partners who hold office hours at the incubators.
Introduce you to additional resources throughout the region who can help you find the space you need to establish/expand your biohealth business, R&D, or manufacturing operations.
Provide international companies the perfect starting point to create or locate US-based subsidiaries. Provide outreach efforts that stretch into Europe, Asia, India and beyond. Provide soft landing companies access to BHI's extensive business resources, as listed herein.
Use tools provided through BHI partner, TEDCO, to refine your business plan with data on competition, related patent/regulatory findings, market opportunity (consultants excluded). Databases included at the GIC are: Frost & Sullivan, Global Data - Medical eTrack, Global Data - Pharma eTrack.