The New Mexico Small Business Development Center (NMSBDC) is a non-profit organization that helps New Mexican entrepreneurs and small business owners succeed by offering a variety of programs and services, including business counseling, training, and access to capital. The NMSBDC's services are confidential and provided at no cost to New Mexicans.

The Women’s Economic Self-Sufficiency Team dba WESST is a statewide 501(c)(3) small business assistance organization committed to supporting individuals in New Mexico who want to start a business or improve the performance of an existing one.

The New Mexico SBDC: Technology Commercialization Accelerator (TCA) provides no-cost support and confidential counseling to entrepreneurs, inventors, and startups in New Mexico regarding intellectual property, technology commercialization, and moving ideas from concept to market.

The NM Bioscience Authority is an organization that supports the commercialization of technologies in the bioscience industry in New Mexico. They offer programs, resources, and incentives to inventors, entrepreneurs, and investors, and work with tech transfer offices to facilitate the transfer of technologies to the marketplace.

The New Mexico Veterans' Business Outreach Center (NM VBOC) offers training programs and resources for veterans interested in entrepreneurship and small business ownership, including the Boots to Business program, online courses, the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV), and Reboot Workshops. Their mission is to support and empower veterans in their entrepreneurial endeavors.

The New Mexico Tech Commercialization Accelerator is a program that supports entrepreneurs and inventors in New Mexico by providing counseling, resources, and learning opportunities on intellectual property to help individuals develop, protect, and monetize their ideas.

The New Mexico Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NM EPSCoR) is a state organization funded by the National Science Foundation to increase New Mexico's competitiveness for federal research grants. It focuses on building research capacity and workforce training, especially in areas like smart grid technology.

The New Mexico Minority Business Development Agency Business Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce, aims to bridge equity gaps in the small business community by elevating minority business enterprises to greater success.

UNM Rainforest Innovations is a University Center that supports and fosters entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of New Mexico and beyond through training programs, technical assistance, seminars, and site mentors.

UNM Health Sciences: Investigator Tools is a program that supports cancer researchers by providing training, funding, and access to shared resources. It aims to prepare trainees to conduct cancer research and encourages researchers to acknowledge the use of these resources in their publications.

The Chemical Analysis and Instrumentation Laboratory (CAIL) at New Mexico State University is a state-of-the-art facility providing mass spectrometry analyses and advanced research equipment to support leading-edge research in various disciplines. It houses cutting-edge instrumentation and offers services such as selective and sensitive methods for chemical detection and quantification, broad and qualitative methods for chemical identification, and bottom-up approaches for protein identification and characterization.

The Arrowhead Innovation Network: Enterprise Advisors program at New Mexico State University's Arrowhead Center aims to support innovation and entrepreneurship in New Mexico through mentorship and advice provided by their network of industry expert advisors.

Welcome to Arrowhead, the hub of innovation and entrepreneurship for southern New Mexico and our Borderlands region. Opportunities abound to partner with us in research, technology commercialization, and growing regional clusters in Life Sciences, Aerospace, Agri-Biz, Digital Media, and more. We have land and space available now to meet your business needs, and build-to-suit capability to help you grow. The Park also sits in a census tract that qualifies for the Opportunity Zone tax incentive, New Market Tax Credits, New Mexico LEDA incentives, and EB-5 financing, as well. We invite you to come and see how Arrowhead can make a difference for your business future!

Sutin, Thayer & Browne is a New Mexico-based law firm providing comprehensive legal services to businesses, individuals, and government agencies since 1946.

The mass spectrometry facility (MSF) at the University of New Mexico is equipped with over $800k of analytical instrumentation and supports investigators with separations and detection of compounds ranging from organic small molecules to large proteins. The MSF capabilities, instrumentation and rates are summarized in corresponding links on this page. Investigative and collaborative projects welcomed.

The New Mexico Veterans' Business Outreach Center (NMVBOC) is a valuable resource for veterans looking to start or grow a business. The center offers one-on-one counseling, business plan development, market research, and access to business plan software and industry market research reports to help veterans succeed in business.

The Santa Fe Business Incubator (SFBI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to helping entrepreneurs succeed by providing them with the resources they need to start and grow their businesses. Since 1997, SFBI has helped over 1,000 businesses create more than 2,000 jobs and generate over $100 million in revenue.

The New Mexico EPSCoR STEM Advancement Program engages undergraduate students from regional universities, community colleges, and tribal colleges in research funded by the New Mexico SMART Grid Center. Participants receive a stipend, housing, and meal allowance, and have opportunities to present at conferences and continue research activities with a faculty mentor. The program aims to advance STEM education and research in New Mexico and provide valuable experiences and opportunities for students.

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The NM Bioscience Authority's Community Readiness Program helps municipalities in New Mexico attract bioscience businesses by assisting with location identification and offering different levels of community readiness. Currently, the program is working with five communities: Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Las Cruces, Santa Fe, and Clovis.