ICT in Moldova, Mongolia and Georgia For the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), IPI served on a team assessing the potential to fund ICT incubators in Moldova, Mongolia and Georgia. IPI team members did a brief feasibility analysis, evaluating local market demand, availability of capital and advisors, characterizing the entrepreneur community and determining […]
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It all started in the early 1990s when IPI assumed management of the New Jersey Entrepreneurs Forum, a program of the NJ Commission on Science and Technology that was originally modeled after the popular MIT Enterprise Forum. It was easy to see the value in connecting tech entrepreneurs with investors, and the Forum was a
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Imagine if you wanted to see some of the hottest local companies and had both limited time and budget. You could do it by attending a venture fair or a business plan competition. IPI was on the planning committee leading either the judging, or coaching committees of the annual New Jersey Venture Fair for about
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PortTechforum and PortTechEXPOs A forum is a place where ideas and views can be exchanged. The monthly PortTechforum, was created by IPI to connect PortTechLA clients with tech investors, advisors, business leaders and local service providers, key members of the local ecosystem. Entrepreneurs came together, discussed common business topics, received training unique to managing a technology
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Coaching Russian Entrepreneurs Russian Venture Fair IPI partnered with the Russian Venture Capital Association to organize and present the annual Russian Venture Fair. In its first five years, the event was responsible for $65 million in financing for promising Russian technology start-ups. The Venture Fair was the successful culmination of several years of discussions
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African Sustainable Incubator Model During 2007-2008, IPI was engaged by the World Bank’s Information for Development Program (infoDev) to develop a sustainable and replicable incubator model for Sub-Saharan Africa. The study included research on incubation models in Colombia, Chile, Armenia, Jordan, Tanzania and South Africa. The resulting model IPI formulated is outlined in “A Model
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The Port of Los Angeles contracted IPI to establish and manage PortTech Los Angeles, a technology incubator and commercialization center seeking clean technology products to help the businesses located in the Port meet their regulatory challenges. PortTechLA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, has been supported by the Port of Los Angeles, and two local chambers of
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In 2005, the US Department of Commerce announced a new bilateral organization being formed in concert with the Russian Federation Government to support entrepreneurship in the two countries and to advise their respective governments as to how to encourage entrepreneurial development. The organization is the Innovation Council on High Technology. Encouraged by dedicated public sector
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IPI got into the incubator industry to address a need for small business development in Southeast San Diego, an area poorly served by the local banks, lacking in business services, and limited options for employment. We partnered with a local California Assembly member, one of San Diego’s economic development corporations, the local community college and
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The story of SpeakEZ, Inc. shows how university technology transfer is supposed to work. A company founded on entrepreneurial spirit and academic endeavor called on IPI to lend the fledgling firm a hand in commercializing the technology (used to identify the speaker on a telephone). Working with the faculty entrepreneur, IPI transformed a great idea
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