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RESOURCES
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, INCORPORATION AND PATENT EXPERTS
Delaware’s deep landscape of experts in intellectual property, trademarks, patents, incorporation and other corporate services makes it a destination for companies of all sizes, as well as researchers working to bring their innovations to market.
CSC
www.cscglobal.com
Rod Ward
info@csc-usa.com
302-636-5400
CSC helps businesses with a range of compliance needs, including business licensing and trademark registration.
HARVARD BUSINESS SERVICES
www.delawareinc.com
Richard Bell rickbell@delawareinc.com 302-645-7400
Harvard Business Services has been helping companies incorporate in Delaware for 40 years.
INCNOW
www.incnow.com
John Williams
agents@incnow.com
302-575-0877
Run by two licensed Delaware attorneys, IncNow helps entrepreneurs, startups, law firms, incubators and businesses get started.
IP GROUP, INC.
www.ipgroup-inc.com
Michael Burychka
302-752-1055
An intellectual property commercialization company focused on evolving hard science, mainly from partner universities, into innovative businesses.
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC INNOVATION AND PARTNERSHIPS www.oeip.udel.edu oeip-info@udel.edu 302-831-7140
The office’s mission is to guide entrepreneurs from ideas to the marketplace, facilitating patent applications and other steps in setting up a business.
WORLDWIDE INCORPORATORS
www.worldwideincorporators.com
Jennifer Toscano-Goetz sales@worldwideinc.net
302-477-0500
Worldwide helps businesses navigate all aspects of incorporation, including filing a Certificate of Authority or forming an LLC in any of the 50 states.
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DELAWARE TECHNOLOGY PARK:
A Hand up for Early-Stage Companies www.deltechpark.org
Delaware Technology Park (DTP) is a leading East Coast nonprofit research park that provides development-stage companies with access to the resources and connections they need to succeed. DTP is a
partnership between the State of Delaware, the University of Delaware (UD) and the private sector.
The first company to set up shop at DTP
in 1992 was DuPont. Since then, the park has housed more than 100 companies, including
50 that have graduated. Graduates of DTP
have moved to commercial locations but main- tained operations in Delaware. As an example, Wilmington PharmaTech expanded to three sites, including purchasing a former DuPont facility in Glasgow. QPS Pharmaceutical Services has grown from a small lab to over 1,200 global employees and become the anchor tenant of DTP.
The Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI) and Fraunhofer Center for Molecular Biotechnology are two world-class
organizations in DTP conducting cutting-edge research in life sciences.
In 2017, DBI’s former director, KELVIN LEE, led a large national consortium
to win the largest grant UD ever received. The grant with match totaled
$250 million and resulted in the creation of the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL). A new building dedicated to NIIMBL programs and members opened in 2020 on UD’s STAR Campus. The Data Science Institute was formed in DBI and has grown to an international center also located at STAR Campus.
“We take pride in the many thriving innovative technology companies and research organizations creating jobs and helping to solve society’s issues in our state,” says MIKE BOWMAN, DTP’s president. Altogether, DTP has helped facilitate more than 16,000 jobs for Delaware’s economy, both within the park and around the area. The cumulative private investments and
academic and company research grants have exceeded $1 billion.
In 2016, DTP’s footprint expanded with DTP@Star, an incubator on
STAR Campus, for Delaware’s most promising young lab companies. The incubator offers access to world-renowned research facilities and faculty
as well as student interns. To date, 18 new companies have started there, with new technologies in chemistry, therapeutics, materials and software. “DTP@STAR represents a model of an academic, public and private partnership to further research and economic development through support of early-stage companies,” says Bowman.
In 2019 DTP, UD and Discover Bank announced plans for a 100,000-square-foot FinTech Building on STAR Campus. It is well underway and scheduled to open in late 2021. UD’s College of Engineering and Lerner College of Business & Economics will occupy half of the building and the other half will be for early-stage companies involved in financial services and the digital sciences, such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and predictive analytics for application across many markets such as health and environment. Conference and restaurant amenities will be included in the building.
MIKE BOWMAN
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