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InnovAid for Small & Midsize
Businesses
 According
to the Small Business Administration, “America's 25 million
small businesses employ more than 50 percent of the private work
force, generate more than half of the nation's gross domestic product,
and are the principal source of new jobs in the U.S. economy.”
And since they rely on competitive advantages and are less constrained
by bureaucratic inefficiencies, they are a fertile source of innovation:
new products, new ways of doing business, new ideas. But supporting
the innovation process is a difficult proposition for many small
business owners.
The Technological Divide
 The
demand for innovative technologies continues to fuel our economy
and small businesses, as a group, are rising to the challenge. Yet
many individual small companies require only short-term or periodic
support from specialized engineering and scientific resources to
achieve their innovation goals. Maintaining these part-time facilities
and personnel in-house is difficult, at best, for these entities.
This technological divide can affect a wide variety of smaller businesses
including:
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Marketing-oriented entrepreneurial ventures
with little desire for full-time technical support groups or
non-core overhead, but whose success relies on up-front or periodic
innovation;
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Established or midsize companies facing competitive
market pressures that dictate a lean, core-function staff; and
even
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High-tech startups with technically oriented
owners who have short-term needs for additional or specialized
facilities or complementary expertise.
If your business fits a similar profile, you have likely already
discovered that the options for filling this void are limited. While
there are plentiful external resources for supporting or outsourcing
your accounting, legal, bookkeeping, payroll, marketing, manufacturing
and administrative functions, equivalent technical resources are
harder to find or come with significant drawbacks. Some of these
options and potential shortcomings are:
- Engineering Temp Agencies (Job Shops) –
Lack creative senior-level or autonomous R&D personnel;
Turnover and retraining; No facilities or other resources
- Large Private Research Centers – Focused
on larger, longer-term programs for major corporations and government
agencies; Significant overhead expenses
- Government Agencies or Research Laboratories
– Support requires loss of some technology control; Lengthy
qualification/proposal process; Focused on larger basic research
projects
- Universities – University ownership
of intellectual property; Publication of potential trade secrets;
Focused on basic research; Rigid schedule
In general, these providers lack the programs needed
to address the challenges facing small businesses like yours. Clearly,
you need a better option for the external support of your innovation
programs.
Bridging the Gap
 At
InnovAid Engineering & Research, we understand small business.
We have been integral members of many small, midsize and startup
companies that offered engineered products or services. As a result,
our mission and business model have been tailored to bridge the
technological gap facing small & midsize businesses and inventors.
We provide the on-demand engineering
consulting, engineering
outsourcing and applied
research & development services that small business need
most, but without the typical drawbacks. Our services are:
- Available when you need them, but without the full-time expense;
- Customized to meet your needs, whether large or small;
- Comprehensive in scope, but without excessive overhead;
- Affordable, with a range of financial terms;
- Focused on meeting your goals and schedule, not ours or someone
else’s; and
- Completely confidential, requiring no loss of your control.
We believe that every business, regardless of size,
deserves adequate technical support for their innovation efforts.
By serving a number of individual small businesses, we are able
to provide each client with the high-quality, personalized and affordable
technical services they need to compete. Not just today, but next
month, next year and beyond. Our goal is to be your long-term innovation
partner. Think of us as your own corporate technology center, ready
to help you succeed when the need arises.
Getting Started
To learn more about what InnovAid can do for your
company, please review the following pages of our website.
What We Do
Working with InnovAid
And if you are looking for new technologies to
commercialize or are seeking the solution to a particular problem
you have identified, consider our technologies
available for license or our Invent-on-DemandSM
program.
Once you know what we do and how we do it, let
us know how we can help you. Submit
an inquiry for our review and a no-cost, no-obligation quotation
or contact us for further information.
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