Small Business Administration Includes
information on starting, financing, or expanding your small business. Small Business Administration Includes
information on starting, financing, or expanding your small business.
Internet Business cards by state online -
searchable
Small Business Innovation Research
Grants and Awards for Alabama Previous Small Business Innovation Research
Awards (SBIR) to Alabama companies.
Small Business Innovation
Research Grants and Awards Many U.S. Government agencies award Small
Business Innovation Research Awards (SBIR) to small U.S. companies in an effort to promote
their growth and development. In effect, the SBIR program is the Federal Government's
venture capital investment program.
Alabama International Trade Contacts Export
assistance, trade contacts, state export assistance, state offices overseas, Alabama trade
associations, etc.
Export Promotion from the International Trade
Administration Includes trade information and service, marketing, export
assistance, "how to" information, information by industry sector, information by
region and country, trade show announcements, etc.
Minority Business Development Agency The
Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) of the United States Department of Commerce is
the only Federal agency specifically created to encourage the creation, growth, and
expansion of minority-owned businesses in the United States.
Government Contracts Center (Includes Commerce Business
Daily)
Business Leads and Procurement
Opportunities A service of Stat-USA including a version of Commerce
Business Daily searchable by service and supply codes.
Manufacturing Extension Project MEP is a
nationwide network of more than 70 not-for-profit Centers whose sole purpose is to provide
small and medium-sized manufacturers with the help they need to succeed. The Centers,
located in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, are linked together through the Department of
Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. That makes it possible for
even the smallest firms to have access to more than 2,000 knowledgeable manufacturing and
business specialists.
Manufacturing Extension Centers in
Alabama
Advanced Technology Program The ATP is a
unique partnership between government and private industry to accelerate the development
of high-risk technologies that promise significant commercial payoffs and widespread
benefits for the economy. The ATP encourages a change in how industry approaches R&D,
providing a mechanism for industry to extend its technological reach and push out the
envelope of what can be attempted.
USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office The
primary services of the USPTO include processing patents and trademarks and disseminating
patent and trademark information. Provides searching for patents and trademarks
1976-present.
Patent and Trademark Search online This
patent server lets you access over 26 years of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)
patent descriptions as well as the last 23 years of images. The first entries date back to
January 5, 1971. You can search, retrieve and study over two million patents.
Community of Science Patent Searching The
U.S. Patents database is a fully searchable bibliographic file containing all
of the approximately 1.7 million U.S. patents issued since 1975. The database is updated
weekly and permits subscribers to search all of the important "front page"
information about each patent: number, dates, assignee, inventor, title, abstract,
exemplary claims for recent years, and U.S. and international classifications. In
addition, the database tracks the "lineage" of each patent - how each patent
cites previous patents or is cited by subsequent ones.
U.S. Business Advisor Regulatory Assistance,
Selling to the Government, Labor, Trade, Domestic Commerce, etc.