Arizona State University Technopolis

Category: Collaborating Institutions

ASU's Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Affairs has initiated the ASU Technopolis program to help transform the metro area's knowledge economy.

Greater Phoenix ranks at the top of the charts nationally as the best place to start a new business, as an excellent home for fast-growing companies, and as a place of highly-concentrated technology clusters, especially in the areas of microelectronics and aerospace manufacturing. ASU Technopolis leverages these strengths as well as the broad expertise and resources of the University to spur innovation in Greater Phoenix.

We do this by developing and executing a series of in-depth, high-quality, rigorous programs that educate, coach and connect innovators and entrepreneurs. ASU Technopolis's program offerings include:

Launch Pad, a rigorous one-on-one coaching program leading to a refined articulation of the entrepreneur's business concept and strategy.

Launch Prep Entrepreneurship Course (formerly TLSE), an eight-week structured study of the major concepts of innovators and entrepreneurs.

In-depth workshops to help local entrepreneurs access federal funding programs that finance early stages of technology and life science product development (SBIR and STTR).

The Mentoring Program, a six-month program designed to provide companies with the counsel they need to build their ventures into successful enterprises.