Learn how to access federal funding and resources to develop new products, create businesses and jobs, and build wealth.
The InVision Tour, sponsored by the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), informs minority innovators and industrialists on technology transfer and how to use the federal government’s 300+ laboratories and research centers to create new innovations.
Are you an innovator or an industrialist? Discover how tech transfer helps you imagine, invent, and incorporate your own products with federal resources, so you can build wealth for your company, community, and the country.
Google, Microsoft, and Nokia are just a few of the hundreds of companies that have been granted private licensing to utilize government-created GPS software.
USDA research after WWII developed the technology behind permanent press fabrics and saved the American cotton industry.
There are over 200 commercial products registered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that contain DEET, a federally developed insect repellent.
Volvo utilizes federally developed and licensed technology for its back up and parking assisted vehicles.
Proctor & Gamble gained a competitive business advantage with no-leak baby diapers when it used a fluid dynamics study developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory, a federal nuclear weaponry lab.
The memory foam technology used by brands such as Nectar, Casper, and Sleep Number was initially developed in a federal NASA lab.
See what attendees experienced at our initial stop in Atlanta.
Check Out the RecapAvailable Soon: See what attendees experienced at our last stop in Houston.
“Everything I learned from the conference was new to me. A few things I had heard about in reading or passing, but never explored or researched what they were. Left with more of an understanding about the programs, government opportunities, the success and failure of various companies, and which organizations are readily available to me and my company.”
— MBDA InVision Tour Atlanta Attendee