Florida Business Incubation Association: Florida Incubators

Florida Business Incubation Association:

Business incubators are so very cool. Generally they bring together all the components a business will need to get started or to expand. This usually includes funding sources. But as important are the key services that every organization needs. Business advice (often tied in to the SBA's Small Business Development Centers -- SBDC)... Accounting, IT, Intellectual Property protection (patents, TM, C,...), secretarial services, etc. Lots of marking help are critical, web site, search engine optimization and more...  See the SBDC for Florida.

Frequently incubators are tied in to the science departments of universities so the inventions of the academic world can be transported into the business world.

An entrepreneur (or two) can't do everything within the startup business. The incubator helps coach them into giving up some of the jobs at the company so that they can focus on one (or two).

Often there are reduced costs for incubatees who are accepted into an incubator...

There always is a graduation process for the incubatee as he/she grows up to be an adult company!:-)

Incubators often have internal and external networks to help engage veterans and peers in their efforts.

Here's the place to go for Business Incubator info -- National Business Incubator Association: https://www.nbia.org/
* Find your incubator here based on region and or type of incubator.

Check out the incubators in your area:
* Florida ... or Florida Business Incubator Association...
* Georgia
* California

Business incubators are some times called accelerators, since they accelerate the process of a business moving forward.

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Intellectual Property @ IBM

Intellectual Property @ IBM:

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This IBM Blog article talks about US Innovation: alive and well.

IBM blasts it outta the park again in 2011 with the most patents issued by the USPTO. These are organized by the owner of the patents, the "assignee". See the top 50 list at IFIClaims.

IBM had 6,180 patents issued in the US, far more than the next inventor company.

The electronics companies from Japan and Korea were strong in the top 15.

Here are the top US companies. Note that Microsoft is in 6th place with 2,311 patents issued. Quite a change for a company that once relied mostly on copyright for it IP protection. GE at #11 with 1,448 patents. HP dropped to 14 as the company struggles.

The big automakers were generally in the middle of the pack with GM #18 with 1,095 patents. Apple at 39 with 676 patents (but then, not all patents are created equal). DuPont was #50 with 523 patents.

Rank	Grants	Company Name	Country
1	6180	International Business Machines Corp	United States
6	2311	Microsoft Corp	United States
11	1448	General Electric Co	United States
14	1308	Hewlett-Packard Development Co L P	United States
16	1244	Intel Corp	United States
17	1164	Broadcom Corp	United States
18	1095	GM Global Technology Operations LLC	United States
22	980	Cisco Technology Inc	United States
24	947	Micron Technology Inc	United States
26	923	Qualcomm Inc	United States
28	880	Xerox Corp	United States
32	794	Texas Instruments Inc	United States
33	780	Honeywell International Inc	United States
35	721	AT&T Intellectual Property I L P	United States
37	695	Boeing Co The	United States
39	676	Apple Inc	United States
50	523	Du Pont de Nemours, E I & Co	United States