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TECH HELP – Idaho Manufacturing Specialists Post Falls (located on UI Research Park Campus)

TECH HELP Manufacturing Specialists helps Idaho manufacturers, food processors, and inventor/entrepreneurs improve their competitiveness through continuous product and process innovation. TECH HELP services fall into three primary areas of practice that include: New Product and Market Development, Operational Excellence, and Food and Dairy Processing. TECH HELP assists with product design and prototyping; lean manufacturing; and

TECH HELP – Idaho Manufacturing Specialists (Headquarters & Southwest Idaho office)

TECH HELP Manufacturing Specialists helps Idaho manufacturers, food processors, and inventor/entrepreneurs improve their competitiveness through continuous product and process innovation. TECH HELP services fall into three primary areas of practice that include: New Product and Market Development, Operational Excellence, and Food and Dairy Processing. TECH HELP assists with product design and prototyping; lean manufacturing; and

UI – College of Law: Patent Pro Bono Program

The Patent Pro Bono Program, offered through the UI College of Law connects licensed patent attorneys with qualifying small businesses, as a way for the attorney to fulfill his/her ethical duty to provide pro bono (free of charge) legal services to the community. These services are limited in scope to the patent process.

UI – College of Law: Entrepreneurship Law Clinic

The Entrepreneurship Law Clinic (ELC) provides free legal services to entrepreneurs and small-business people throughout the State of Idaho. The services are performed by third-year law students who have limited licenses to practice law in Idaho and temporary registration numbers from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Salmon Valley Business and Innovation Center (SVBIC)

The Salmon Valley Business & Innovation Center (SVBIC) is a 15,000 sq ft business resource center in a park-like setting. The Center offers a range of facilities and is designed to support non-retail, new & emerging businesses. It features a Conference and Workshop Space, a Board Room, Computer Lab, Break and Kitchen areas, as well

Arco Butte Business Incubation Center

The Arco Butte Business Incubation Center’s primary mission is to help provide opportunities for new entrepreneurs to get their business off the ground in the Lost River Valley. The Center accepts applications from new businesses to be incubated; which may include subsidized rent, auxiliary business services, such as reception services, copying, fax, and periodic business

BSU – Venture College

The Venture College at Boise State University is designed to help students (and non-students) launch a business in just 15 weeks. This goal is accomplished through incredible amounts of personal growth with the help from staff and local mentors. With a business incubator, to weekend immersive innovation workshops, to learning how to code, the Venture

UI – Idaho Entrepreneurs

Idaho Entrepreneurs is a program offered through the University of Idaho College of Business and Economics, focused on developing aspiring entrepreneurs and social venturists with the skills, resources, and connections to move their innovation from classroom to lab.

Nampa Entrepreneurs Organized (NEO)

Nampa Entrepreneurs Organized (NEO) is a group made up of entrepreneurs, those aspiring to become an entrepreneur, or business owners wanting to take their business to the next step. NEO began through a partnership with the City of Nampa’s Economic Development Department and the Small Business Development Center Business Accelerator (Nampa location) with a goal