The RTDC’s goal is to stimulate commercialization of emerging technologies while creating full-time, year-round jobs that diversify the local economy. A panoply of services are being developed to offer individual scientists and engineers, emerging companies, and partner institutions, including, but not limited to:

1. Assistance with the commercialization of technologies developed at regional institutions or by individual scientists or engineers in the region.  

2. Assistance to company founders and/or early-stage leaders in recruiting, orienting and training management team members and other key employees, and members of Boards of Advisors and Directors, as well as legal counsel and accounting professionals.

3. Education and coaching for new executives about the process of raising capital, including development of business plans and investor presentations.

4. Assistance to company management team members in identifying and evaluating target markets, in developing strategies to penetrate appropriate markets and in identifying key customers to accelerate company expansion.

Assistance to individual scientists and engineers and to institutions in creating appropriate technology-transfer strategies and policies, in protecting intellectual property rights, in negotiating relationships with funding agencies, and other technology-transfer requirements.