We help entrepreneurs begin to network with other entrepreneurs, potential investors, and professional service providers through referrals to New Jersey's entrepreneur and investor networking organizations. We also assist entrepreneurs in tying into the Federal Laboratory Consortium and their 700 plus member laboratories. Resource organizations are added to the network on an ongoing basis, in order to make it as comprehensive as possible and help foster a supportive business growth environment. The Help Desk publishes a centralized calendar of events . The calendar lists business and technical training programs, conferences, seminars and other activities and also provides news and information of interest to the technology business community.
Organizations are able to use the calendar to market their events.
The Help Desk maintains a centralized mailing list for distributing the calendar and sharing important information. SBIR requires Federal agencies with large external research budgets to earmark a percentage of these funds for competitive grants to small companies. The Help Desk assists companies in obtaining the solicitation schedule, as well as the individual solicitations of the sponsoring agencies. We are an authorized distribution agent of the Department of Defense solicitation. Because of the importance of SBIR and other research and development grants programs to New Jersey's entrepreneurs, the Help Desk also offers free Proposal-Writing Assistance.